StrictDabbler

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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
One thing that isn't being discussed much is the bubble of shame that has been building up around Reddit. For years, Redditors have been accused of being homophobic, misogynistic, incels, pedantic, predatory, etc because the Reddit adm
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
Isaac Asimov prefigured prompt engineering for visuals in his short story "Gold", about a science fiction author paying a CGI company to adapt one of his novels. The process is presented as a performance... the voice actors act, a
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
"You'll enjoy raising the kids unless you have some kind of personality disorder" is one of the most unpleasant, exclusionary and normative things I've read in a long time. You are talking about 20% of the population. Mo
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
Requiring a video cover letter probably isn't even legal. It certainly opens you way up to allegations of discrimination and is therefore unwise. I would assume that the employee acquisition middleware provider added "video cover
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
Suggesting that slashdot has a similar level of conversation to Reddit is deeply depressing regardless of how accurate it might be. My slashdot ID is six digits. I check in about thrice a year and leave sad. For me it's like going to a
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
14 years on reddit as a user, 16 years reading it... Lobste.rs looks exactly like Reddit did in 2006 or so. I'd love to be back in a space like that.
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
CO detectors are life-safety equipment. The regulatory burden for laboratory certification and approval is much higher for them. If you put an air-quality detector into your device and it's reading 30% lower than reality it's no b
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
This is very useful for large-format technical printouts like blueprints, for a drafting table, or for a table where various users can interact with multiple documents. The old Microsoft Surface Coffee Table project was something like that
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
Yeah, I said this about videophones in 2002 or so. I was sure I was right. Videophones had been reinvented five times over. You could only use it at home, sitting on the couch, giving it your full attention. Who would want to have regular c
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
I have a set of 2nd Gen Pros right here with me. Under Find My for the device I am offered "Play Sound" and "Directions". "Directions" offers route me to my home on Apple Maps. Under Find My for the Airtag I am
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
I feel as though I am being personally attacked because your description resonates with aspects of my self-image with which I am uncomfortable. However, I understand that you do not know me and that you are describing a hypothetical person
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
I used to play around with Langton's Ant a lot. The longer patterns remind me of the climbable game assets in "Below the Root" and "The Jungle Book", early games by Dale Disharoon/DeSharone that I played on an
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
Even the 2nd Gen pros are not very good at reporting correct location. I have a third-party sleeve for mine with a pocket for an AirTag. The sleeve is glued to the charger and the AirTag with RTV. The AirTag reports its position within a fo
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
You answered your own question. They allow this because often members of a group want to share their headphones without fully setting up a "Family Sharing" account. You can only make changes to your "Family Sharing" acco
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
The content doesn't match the request, though. I click on it and search for the keywords I gave and they aren't in the result. Put the search in quotes. Nope. Add +, -, whatever. Uh-uh. Inspect the source. Search for the keyword i
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
I recently googled something like "modal fabric weave diagram". On my phone I was given five places to buy modal clothing and a message that "x other similar results have been omitted". I persisted, I rephrased. I was as
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
I had always imagined that word to be spelled "jouerge", a variation on the French verb "jouer: to play" mixed with some element of "bourgeois: in the manner of the middle class". My etymology makes sense. You
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
I have never tried to spell the phrase "flip a youey" before. It might be the only word I use that I have never considered spelling, so I am grateful that you included it your comment. That said, I think you are wrong and it shoul
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
On the original iPhone the location switch was basically real. Location services burned a ton of battery and law enforcement's ping capability was rudimentary. Back then turning the switch off made a smartphone as difficult to locate a
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
"Until the advent of automated ticket machines, many garages were controlled by the mafia. Grabar takes us on a tour of parking’s underbelly, including the Philadelphia airport where attendants collected between $3 million and $7 milli
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
This has been a problem people have with every filfre post lately. The Digital Antiquarian is a blog but realistically it's actually a very long book. The first entry was published in 2011. It treats the entire history of interactive g
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
If somebody made a post talking about a "home-made floppy disk" and I clicked on it only to discover it was a flash drive, I'd be a little annoyed, sure. If a post said "hobbyist makes a land-line phone using modern comp
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
When I see something described as a "film camera" I infer that it uses film. This appears to be a "film-quality, cinematic camera" that does not use film. I had to read the whole article, carefully, to be certain that th
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
The correct way to assemble Ikea furniture is to apply wood glue (PVA or polyurethane) along every joint, in every screw hole, on every dowel, and along the edges of every backing board. For extra points you can wipe polyurethane along any
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
Piracy has been used to describe mass copyright violation for profit since about 1603, for a breach of a Royal Charter granting monopoly of publication to the Stationer's Company. You might as well just say "acht-oo-ally, a geek b
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
Late reply, but no, legally you cannot buy or sell a CPAP machine without a prescription. It so obviously should be OTC that there's a thriving gray-market.
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
This is one of the most insightful books about the nature of thought ever written. It's particularly interesting now, of course, as AI models are starting to solve some of the problems Hofstadter discusses but completely failing at oth
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
Yes, absolutely. It is worth practicing medicine when the treatment is inherently harmless and going through the medical system has been bottlenecked. Nobody is killed (or really harmed) by trying a CPAP and the waiting list for sleep clini
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by StrictDabbler 3y ago
"The exception proves the rule" refers to a logical/legal situation where a rule has been posted with specific exceptions. A sign that says "no parking on Sundays" logically implies that parking is allowed all other
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by StrictDabbler 4y ago
You probably haven't been reading The Digital Antiquarian over the past five years. The site is an enormous dissertation on the art of interactivity. You could call it an attempt to put every major development in narrative gaming into

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