acomjean

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by acomjean 3y ago
I had Mr. T yelling directions at me from my old TomTom. It really cut through any other noise in the car. I miss that The only downside mr T couldn't tell me street names (though with ai voice...)
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by acomjean 3y ago
Hybrids are great. There are downsides: extra weight of a gas engine, more mechanical complexity, and weird maintenance, especially if its an gas engine your not using very often. The person I know who has one went a couple months without
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by acomjean 3y ago
The organization and ideas should transcend an individual. The organization right now seems headed for irrelevance, when the ideas seem to be really more needed now that ever. Right now he’s and his camp are in charge, so if he and the grou
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by acomjean 3y ago
I too got the email and was confused. I thought all my photos went from Picasa to google photos… I actually thought the email might be someone trying phish me. Google seems to really need a change to management. I’m not sure what’s going
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by acomjean 3y ago
>false dichotomy Thats the best way to explain it. On the steam deck you have the option to leave the garden but you don't have too. On the Iphone (and I have one) you don't even get that option. I'd love to install an
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by acomjean 3y ago
I agree. Code that works well is a good thing even if not perfect and super optimized. I’m not an elegant coder. My code isn’t perfect. It does run however and is pretty efficient mostly bug free. It does it’s useful thing and I can be p
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by acomjean 3y ago
>motivated members to consolidate and publish some of the good ideas for posterity I think there were some sensitive documents dumped from Discord (where noone noticed them for a good while) to the public internet. So I'd say there
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by acomjean 3y ago
I went to the Preakness once while passing through Baltimore many years ago. That race also has the center of the track full of people. There was talk you could just haul your own cooler to the infield. (And the famous video of people ru
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by acomjean 3y ago
Its funny you mention that. I was helping with a windows laptop. I swear using edge to download chromium and firefox, the browser didn't stop me, but put a bar at the top saying how I should give "Edge" a try for my browsin
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by acomjean 3y ago
I always think about Fortnite, witch besides the game has concerts and film festivals. Fortnite creative I think is about building things on your island. You can make and share your own games and Now they have "unreal engine light&quo
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by acomjean 3y ago
>It was cute - even delightful I remember enjoying the animations for the different characters. I think you could click on the clips /dog/ globe and trigger an random animations. Maybe a slow day at work. I don’t recall clipp
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by acomjean 3y ago
> What makes someone more trustworthy than an LLM? I mean people can be terrible. But a teacher is a trusted profession and likely needs that paycheck and will avoid doing stupid things to loose that. I don’t think LLM care one way or a
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by acomjean 3y ago
I get that people want this. The issue is that these things go off the rails sometimes. Without any supervision and as an “educational” resource it will be unquestioned and in front of people who don’t know enough to question it.
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by acomjean 3y ago
When google glass came out, there was the question of if you want to talk to someone who has a camera running at all times, (recording?). Its weird how perspective shifts. Of course in some places if its recording all the time it might be
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by acomjean 3y ago
we need a sarcasm tag/symbol.. That would be super useful. I honestly can't tell tone anymore.
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by acomjean 3y ago
Isn't that what "Display Link" usb monitors kinda are (without the powerful gpu and large screen real estate) I've used a usb-> monitor adapter from time to time (with my own screen). The performance wasn't great
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by acomjean 3y ago
PCMCIA I remember those slightly larger than a credit card (and thicker). I had 2, and IBM one which had a eithernet and modem on it (and a really fun sparkly label). and a scsi one for a zip drive (they had parallel port zip drives... bu
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by acomjean 3y ago
Some states take DNA from anyone arrested. But they can search for family members (California approved this in 2010 I think). They caught the "Grim Sleeper" partially because his son got arrested for a Felony. https:/&#x2F
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by acomjean 3y ago
Because you leave DNA everywhere. I remember a case study where they found the accused with DNA, only to find out, while the match was good, the match had been dead for a couple years and couldn't have been the perpetrator. These &quot
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by acomjean 3y ago
They kinda are. Recently some lawyers got banned from Madison Square Garden because MSG corporate bans lawyers involved in cases against them from their venues. They found a lawyers image somewhere and fed it into the "banned from th
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by acomjean 3y ago
they edited "Charlie and the Chocolate factory". As the Umpa-Loompas where... something else. Of course that was done to the book before the movie was made. https://www.roalddahlfans.com/dahls-work/books&#x2
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by acomjean 3y ago
Its a system76 pangolin (2022) >Whenever I look for an AMD laptop, it has a low resolution (1080p) display, and/or an off-center keyboard/trackpad (or has some other obvious fatal flaw). yup it has both of those. But the scree
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by acomjean 3y ago
I worked at a large company with lots of patents. It was said some things they kept as "trade secrets" as to not alert the world to how they were doing things. Mostly I understood to have to do with the processes they were using
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by acomjean 3y ago
Sorry it didn't work for you. I would recommend anyone buying at notebook to get one with linux pre-installed. I did that because I want to use this thing, not futz with it. I'm assuming you're using Asahi Linux on your Ma
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by acomjean 3y ago
I have an AMD Linux laptop I’ve been using for work. It’s great. The battery life is great, it’s quite fast with a lot of cores, when I need to do my genetics runs (plugged in). Build quality isn’t bad, plus affordable and lots of ports.
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by acomjean 3y ago
Perhaps. Our outlook mail failed today. They said its back, but its still kind of flaky.
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by acomjean 3y ago
Anytime its on your face, you could be working. Front and center, your work. anytime, anywhere. depending on how its implemented you can't get away. Hope they include a power button. But 2 hours of battery life is a good amount of w
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by acomjean 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the patent office is funded by fees, so its in their interest to keep the applications coming. They also seem to avoid penalties even when their bad patents are overturned. "The USPTO is a demand-driven, fee funde
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by acomjean 3y ago
It’s more healthy not to be so “obsessive” and just do it because it’s a fun way to get outdoors. Though the obsessive ones get celebrated it seems like a kind of madness, I wonder if they even enjoy it. I do like photographing birds. So I
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by acomjean 3y ago
It’s not stactic. That’s the thing about ai, you ask it the same thing it gives you a different answer/different image every time.

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