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by RulerOf 3y ago
> 2) the amount of time spent watching these videos is staggering. Like multiple lifetimes of time is spent watching an average video. If I make a junk video, I’ve just wasted an enormous amount of time. Being a good steward of this weig
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by RulerOf 3y ago
This was really frustrating when I had to be price sensitive shopping for paper towels. They'd list price per roll in the corner of the tag, but every package's rolls were significantly different cm^2 quantities.
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by RulerOf 3y ago
Chargebacks exist because the element of agency in payment is broken in the electronic money systems we've created. When using a card, you don't give merchants your money, you provide them with enough information to take your mone
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by RulerOf 3y ago
I'd prefer not to spend 5% to get 2% back.
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by RulerOf 3y ago
I'm not sure if I'd be surprised either way. Either they don't track bills because it costs too much money, or they do track bills because they've found a way to monetize the data. I scarcely use ATMs at this point becau
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by RulerOf 3y ago
>I heard it was actually a version of Windows Server that they put the XP GUI on top of In a way, yes. It used the kernel from Server 2003.[1] Server/client kernels were unified for Vista SP1 and Server 2008, and not sooner just bec
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by RulerOf 3y ago
I'm a little surprised by this. They're using an AWS Certificate which means the entire certificate lifecycle should be fully automated[1]. Assuming they use DNS validation, I speculate that somebody deleted the validation CNAME r
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by RulerOf 3y ago
If you ever worked in IT during the XP era, you got your hands on a private Volume License Key. XP VLKs bypassed activation, and they were the piracy tool of choice until Microsoft started blacklisting them[1]. 1: https://en.wiki
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by RulerOf 3y ago
I really enjoyed that blog post. Especially the comparisons that lay out how feasible it can actually be to do the stupid, simple thing of "grep the whole data set every time" up to a surprising point.
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by RulerOf 3y ago
I'll second this. I was really hoping there'd be a link at the end of the post.
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by RulerOf 3y ago
GPT output always reads like a short story or essay, but HN et al. have a distinctly conversational aspect that I don't get with ChatGPT. You're right about the high school writing style. I avoid writing like that whenever possibl
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by RulerOf 3y ago
I've adopted a similarly-inspired setup with a tradtional mouse on the right and a touchpad on the left. I initially added the touchpad to assist with vertical scrolling on Mac OS, but now I move between the two depending on the task a
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by RulerOf 3y ago
I've never seen a car from 2008 with a push-button start.
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by RulerOf 3y ago
>And enough systems no longer ship with CSMs that people aren't using FreeDOS for firmware updates any more - it's either Linux or a UEFI executable Is this only for OEM systems? I'm used to seeing these happen from inside
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by RulerOf 4y ago
I created a subdomain like local.example.com and pointed it at 127.0.0.1 in the DNS. I wanted to suggest using a .test domain but managing the hosts file is always really clunky, even with a slick tool like hostess[1]. 1: https:/&#x2F
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by RulerOf 4y ago
I spent a decade lowering my expectations, and they're still not low enough.
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by RulerOf 4y ago
Suggest starting on wikipedia and spidering your way around the references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting_process_of_Windows_NT_...
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by RulerOf 4y ago
FYI, after digging down a few links from there and winding up at the GitHub Next org page[1], seeing the verified email next@github.com and the official site link to https://githubnext.com was enough validation for me. Can'
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by RulerOf 4y ago
The domain name on that authorization prompt was more than enough to get me to decline. I wouldn't have hesitated at all if it were at next.github.com.
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by RulerOf 4y ago
>skipping ahead 30 seconds for two clicks (fast forward) on my AirPods Pro. Fast forwarding a very specific amount of time is one of the few tasks for which I regularly use Siri.
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by RulerOf 4y ago
Interesting story, but I've got to complain about the inset text boxes: > Someone out there is probably mentally screaming at me "you fool!" at this point. These are each clearly building up to "some explanation"
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by RulerOf 4y ago
I've often said that Airpods are the best bluetooth headphones I've ever bought, and they still suck.
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by RulerOf 4y ago
It's basically an airplay receiver with an HDMI output.
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by RulerOf 4y ago
AT&T in the US offers "trade in rebates" on phones. You trade in a phone and they rebate your phone bill by $800 or $1000 over a 24 month period when you buy a new phone on an installment loan. It's a 0% loan so I'm
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by RulerOf 4y ago
This made me chuckle. I'm "still rocking" an iPhone 12 because I'm still paying it off. If it were dated and obsolete I'd be angry I threw away my money buying Apple.
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by RulerOf 4y ago
>All modern touch screen phones are compatible with a stylus. Opinion here, but capacitive styluses suck. I wouldn't bother with a stylus unless it was something like Wacom or Apple Pencil tech.
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by RulerOf 4y ago
Apps' functionality is often simple, but the apps themselves aren't. Back in the ancient days, iOS used to refuse to download apps above a certain size via cellular connection. It was 10 or 25 MB. I don't think I have a singl
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by RulerOf 4y ago
>This is why I argue that one of the best things that the Free/Libre software developer community can start doing is optimizing for lower spec machines. But isn't the primary application for these machines going to be the web b
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by RulerOf 4y ago
Could I use this to put HL1 and its mods in the browser for a LAN party?
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by RulerOf 4y ago
>It's like buying a car from someone who doesn't have the keys for it or any paperwork. Sure, it's not quite common knowledge like buying a car yet, but it will be eventually. This is a really good point, but I'd like

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