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by abruzzi 4y ago
My biggest issue with this would be that the Apple Music app only streams from the streaming service. Those of use happily chugging along with iTunes purchases and iTunes Match are out of luck.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
most of the online places I shop at allow account-less purchasing using PayPal. I know PayPal has some negatives as well, but those rarely impact buyers. Probably 95% of my online shopping passes through PayPal, though I do maintain accou
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I think there has already been people on this board admittedly using LLMs to generate comments. This theory predated this current AI explosion, but that potentially makes it harder to tell if you are arguing with a person or a bot.
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Spars Code(en.wikipedia.org)
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by abruzzi 4y ago
This is the same line that made me scratch my head. I'm a non-network guy who has been stuck migrating our phone system from PRI to SIP, and every time I think I get it done, I have to buy another license from Cisco--that our reseller
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by abruzzi 4y ago
that is pretty amazing. I love complex mechanical technology, and this seems to deal with spacing and constructing a note from the different parts of the glyph (I think thats what you'd call it.) I'd love to own one, though toda
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by abruzzi 4y ago
color has gotten more expensive, but its not that bad. Kodak recently released Gold 200 in 120 format (the type of film that the camera in the brochure uses.) A 5 pack costs USD$45,so $9 a roll. This camera shoot 15 shots per roll so 60
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I really only shoot B&W so its still pretty cheap. There are also relatively inexpensive C41 color negative films. Slide/Chrome films on the other hand are all expensive. As for convenience, sure, there are no more drive throu
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by abruzzi 4y ago
gotek is fine if your device uses FAT formatted floppies. If your device has a custom format, you need an HxC drive or HxC firmware fr a Gotek drive. Also, I have some devices that don't use standard 34 pin floppy connectors so I had
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by abruzzi 4y ago
in 1989 the aurora was visible in southern New Mexico (latitude about 32.2 degrees.) So it does get pretty far from the poles on rare occasion.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
my $10 Harbor Freight calipers are still on their original battery after 8 years. So I'm not sure about these claims about being constantly on and draining the battery. I think instead that you have to have them fully closed when you
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I have no idea, but I would assume the Dodos are just a good PR stunt.* There are many many many extinct animals, why Dodo? because they seem to be almost universally known. So i they are successful, it will help them move on to the next
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I tried having jobs that I was interested in when I was young, but making it my job made me hate it. So I've spent the last 20 years working in IT because I dislike computers, and always have, except a few years when I was 13-15. The
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by abruzzi 4y ago
How accurate are depth gauges? (I see them in submarine movies all the time, but I don’t really know anything about them.). But if your depth gauge says 100 ft, and the sonar says the ice is 80 ft above you, then you should be able to esti
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by abruzzi 4y ago
not a internet thing, but some Jenn Air ovens had (and maybe still have) a "sabbath mode". Observant Jews would prepare their Saturday dinner, place it in the oven before sundown on Friday, then the oven would turn iself on somet
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I haven't encountered anything that egregious but in the last year or so, a number of local resaurants have started charing the CC fee back to you, and in some cases, way more than the CC fee is likely to be (i.e. 5% or 7%). It seem t
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by abruzzi 4y ago
hmm, I get a splash screen then a mostly empty screen with a few icons around the edge, but nothing else. What is supposed to happen? If I click "Random" it just spins, and nothing else changes. (firefox, ublock origin)
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by abruzzi 4y ago
Camera size was great--I just wish they had old cameras, now that I don't shoot digital anymore. One of the most useful for me is https://cycle-ergo.com . The fit and riding position of a motocycle is very personal--sport
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by abruzzi 4y ago
my first "real" job was managing the public computer lab at college, and doing misc IT type tasks. Also part of my job was managing the workstudies that attended the lab and helped students. It was a pretty lightweight job and t
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by abruzzi 4y ago
both show the old design to me so seems more like some servers in a group have the new design elements and some have the old?
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by abruzzi 4y ago
well, to be fair, the article didn't say how you should interpret early life experiences. You state that looking at early experiences are "biased towards those people who got off the blocks quickly and easily" but when I rea
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I have lots of stuff that I have ripped from vinyl to digital because they never made the just to digital. I am not a purist, so keeping the vinyl and playing it from vinyl isn't my preference, just saving some of my favorite albums s
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by abruzzi 4y ago
i had a copy back in the early 80s. Made the mistake of lending it to somone and never got it back. It was notorious as a book that once borrowed, was never returned. I've hear from many other people who lent it then lost it. I won
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I actually prefer my pizza with less sauce, or preferably white pizza (I know, sacrilege) either the garlic butter variant or the ricotta variant. I've never had pizza in NYC, but favorites have always been Rizzo's and Roman Deli
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by abruzzi 4y ago
For me I think the issue is trust. Its not much different from what I feel sitting in the passenger seat of a car when anyone else is driving. I don't trust their driving so if it gets slightly trafficed, I start freaking out because
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by abruzzi 4y ago
Not interstellar, but I leave near Sunspot, New Mexico. Since lots of schools visit the sunspot observatory there they have a series of signs starting with Neptune at the beginning of the road (Highway 6563 for those interested) and ending
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I use exactly two approaches. First is I buy movies (and sometimes TV shows) on iTunes. Second, I do pirate. But for me, I only pirate when the movie I'm looking for is not available. The moment I can buy it on iTunes, I do, and di
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I don't know who actually believed it, or if it had any real impact on investors, but it seemed to be a common comment on self driving threads on HN ~5 years ago that instead of ownership, there would just be idle fleets of cars that y
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I read it as like a “police procedural”, which is a film that prioritizes the actual procedure of police work over big themes, character development, and action. In this case—-it delves into processes, artistic and bureaucratic. There are
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by abruzzi 4y ago
well, if you want to get pedantic, the image referenced by the html in the background window is a png file--png's I belive came out in the late 90's. And the image name clearly references "weyland" the linux windowing s

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