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by abruzzi 4y ago
thanks. I hadn't seen these--probably not in the US. I do like the idea of reducing waste.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I remember when a simiar thing was done with aluminum soda cans. Old soda cans the top pulled all the way off and people frequently threw them on the ground. To this day I still see old can tops on the ground. This isn't nearly as b
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by abruzzi 4y ago
My comment exactly. We've really defined "small" up! I'm still running my 1st get iPhone SE, because I've yet to see a phone that can replace it. With a 4 inch screen, I can just barely use it one-handed.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
Somewhat famously, Mad Max was dubbed into “American” for distribution in the USA. I have an old DVD that has both soundtracks and it can be fun to switch back and forth.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
Actually, I HATE youtube search. Any search engine that changes and reorders responses when I click back to it drives me up a wall. I infrequently use youtube (maybe 2-3 videos a month) and because the search sucks so badly, I never search
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by abruzzi 4y ago
same. I did in the past, but work has basically made me hate computers, so I've done everything I can to remove computers from my life outside work hours.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
10.6.8 was the absolute pinnacle for OSX for me, but I can't resonably use it daily anymore, so now Mojave is my stopping point. Too many of my necessary applications don't run on Catalina. I worry about the security of staying
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by abruzzi 4y ago
I like that--sell it for a dollar to someone you trust, with a written contract to the sale, have them press the ok button, then have them sell it back to you with a written contract for a dollar.
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by abruzzi 4y ago
before the OS vendors started ignoring their human interface guidelines, we had Kai's Power Tools, which some people loved--but I hated. I dont know if that was the beginning of custom UIs for every applications, or if it was just an
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by abruzzi 4y ago
or, if you're in the gui -- command-k, then type nfs://server/share
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by abruzzi 4y ago
> One of the most disappointing aspects of American College life is how incurious everybody seemed to be. This reflects the world as a whole. Most people aren't curious about things that don't directly affect them, so I'm
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by abruzzi 4y ago
the one feature it needs is the ability to add punched holes down one side, or optionally other binding techniques like spiral binding.
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by abruzzi 5y ago
914s had an engine and transmission from the VW Bus. Since the VW Bus had a rear engine setup the shift rod was straight into the very front of the transaxle. IIRC, when they reversed the transmission to put the engine in front of the tra
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I don't know anything about its data encoding, but Alesis had a system--ADAT--that stored 8 trackes of 24bit, 48khz audio on SVHS tapes. There was a period of time in which it was a pretty revolutionary product. It preceeded the time
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by abruzzi 5y ago
Velvia 100 is gone, but Velvia 50 is still available (though the large sizes aren't imported to the US). Then there's Fuji Provia, my favorite of Fuji's reversal films. In fact I just ordered 10 rolls of Provia in 120 film.
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by abruzzi 5y ago
the first story "How the World was Saved" in the Cyberiad is a super short story, what writers usually call "flash fiction". Maybe 4-5 pages, and perfectly sets the mood for the rest of the book. But is is very differen
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by abruzzi 5y ago
reminds me of my 1963 VW Bus. The throttle pedal pressed down on a 90 degree arm/bellcrank which pulled on the throttle cable that ran to the rear engine. Because the throttle cable was old it had more friction internally, and the un
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I'd never heard of "navy seal copypasta", so I googled it, and to my read, its very hard to see any >wink< >wink< in the text, which ends after a long screed, with threats of violence against the poster. So I thi
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by abruzzi 5y ago
agree or disagree with the list, is is very USA-centric. As a US citizen I can look to all the events he cites and agree at least to their impact, but aside from the internet and Ukraine, these are all things that happened to the US. I wo
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by abruzzi 5y ago
There are some universes where old software or hardware is still heavily used or valuable. One area where I dabble is electronic music. Sure there are lots of new things, but a 50 year old guitar is still a viable instrument, so why not a
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by abruzzi 5y ago
not me. I always read the article if it interests me, I sometimes read the comments on HN. While I appreciate the discussion, with the type of articles I read I want the reported info first before I read a bunch of opinions. Except if the
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I have never by choice used rar /or/ 7z. I'm not a heavy user of compression, just the occasional "compress for transport", so to me any savings in file size is an unnoticable rounding error, even 15 years ago. Fa
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by abruzzi 5y ago
What’s not clear to me from the article, initially what’s discussed are use land features, but with these changes are they also turning off access for dealer repair shops as well? Just so the don’t have to give access to third parties? Wo
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I can't speak for other people, but for me the size issue isn't about how big the phone is in my pocket, but the size in use, specifically whether my thumb can reach any point on the screen. So a compact phone that unfolds to a l
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by abruzzi 5y ago
The Palm phone comes close. I'm not sure if they're still current though.
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by abruzzi 5y ago
while I don't necessarily agree with the extreme negative view of crypto (though I definitely don't have a positive view), this is already a commonly practiced thing called Pigovian taxation: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by abruzzi 5y ago
this article seems to miss why I participate on forums. I'm not interacting with the software, I'm not creating some great post that will live on in history. I'm interacting with another person, who has asked a question. S
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by abruzzi 5y ago
If you take a creative writing class you’ll find it is very common to give characters agency beyond what the author wants (e.g. I was going to have her do this, but she disagreed and did that…) and part of that is building a larger world, c
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I have a job, and everything else I do I do for myself, and I have no expectations whatsoever for anyone else using it (and in most cases, no one else will ever see it because I don't make it public.)
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by abruzzi 5y ago
I'm still using a first gen SE as well, specifically because every phone available today doesn't have the one feature I'm looking for that the SE has--size. I'm considering keeping it in service, and just removing anythi

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