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by acomjean 4y ago
South West needed to update its tech infrastructure. They know this. Apparently staff have to call in to schedule and when things aren't going well it goes south quickly. This business model is kinda what made southwest what it is tod
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by acomjean 4y ago
Isn’t the point of code to express what we want in a succinct and expressive way. If we’re needing all this software to help us, maybe we should look at the languages we’re using and make better more intuitive ones.
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by acomjean 4y ago
If I wanted to write a mobile app for an apple device I really can’t do a native one as I run Linux on my computers. Yeah there’s flutter or react for app development. But it’s just different. Samsung has a thing called “dex” that allows yo
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by acomjean 4y ago
>"NLQ" that's "near letter quality" and was accomplished by using overlapping dot-strikes to significantly improve the quality.0 We had a panasonic printer that had the NLQ switch. It worked, but would print each
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by acomjean 4y ago
Or they embed the ads in the programs as “product placement”. You see this on late night TV and I rewatched episodes of “silicon valley” and it seems all over that (Tesla, big gulp, Fage yogurt, burger king…)
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by acomjean 4y ago
Semaphore flags were for communication between ships. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_semaphore Or if your Monty python restaging whuthering heights
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by acomjean 4y ago
There is some overhead in collecting money. When you use a charge card a small percentage goes to the credit card and processing companies. There are some gas stations in Massachusetts that have a slightly lower cash price because they don’
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by acomjean 4y ago
Gothamist did a great interview with him 6 years ago. it’s 5 minutes and he talks about the origin of the foldin. https://youtu.be/pK6xE-9sdII (5 minutes) From the article: https://gothamist.com/arts-enterta
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by acomjean 4y ago
usually design documents are stamped by a "professional engineer" (PE) licensed by the state. They're names on the documents and they're supposed to check them. I used to be a civil engineer and for the earthworks the P
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by acomjean 4y ago
I'm running a last gen pangolin, (AMD 5700U). Pop OS. I don't do anything too crazy. I develop on JetBrains I did keep it awake for 3 days doing some genetics work I usually do on a cluster. Its fast, quiet and decent on batte
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by acomjean 4y ago
it "suspends" fine. I have 3 options, suspend, off and reboot. I usually suspend overnight. Sometimes I turn it off. It boots super fast anyway.
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Well if you are in the US.. but its pretty great.
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by acomjean 4y ago
I switched to linux. I like it and haven't really had any issues to speak of. Not with sound, video, wifi or any of the other things people complain about. My fan went, but likely it was a pet fur issue, and easy to fix... I'm
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by acomjean 4y ago
my partner is near tufts. The students in the neighborhood driving aMercedes and a few Lexuses now (as well as a bunch of "normal" cars). It used to be more average cars. They use them a lot considering its a short walk to th
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by acomjean 4y ago
I remember lst century learning that the "c" rocket engines although the same size go way way higher and watching the rocket and parachute drip over the trees never to be found again. That and "Hobby Wick" which ensured
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by acomjean 4y ago
Dahl (or his publisher) changed his own book , the initial back story of the oompa-loompas being problematic. This was 10 years after publishing when someone pointed out it wasn't a great depiction. https://www.roalddahlfan
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by acomjean 4y ago
It works pretty well, I use it but its not a great experience navigating and searching on the iphone. I like to shuffle, then jump to an artist album if I come across one I haven't heard in a while. You think clicking the artists name
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by acomjean 4y ago
I have 2 and the label gives a Clevo#. This number was useful when used to buy spare parts when my fan went . As a consumer we can't buy a machine from Clevo, only resellers can. I mean Clevo makes what system76 wants and there is n
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by acomjean 4y ago
I’ve used one a long time ago and I did like it. The fact that you don’t have to move your hands off the keyboard is it’s main selling point. Though I’ve adjusted to not having one. At one point my work mouse had a track point instead of a
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by acomjean 4y ago
Monster Cables. I thought they were the ones always threatening others when they use the term "Monster"
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by acomjean 4y ago
I was in Denver about 10 years ago and went through the human size "sniffing" machine. It was weird. I was the only one in line and they sent me through. You can keep shoes and belts on. Ushered into a telephone booth sized dev
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by acomjean 4y ago
I’ve been there too. Forgetting to take it off my keychain. For those not familiar it’s a keychain multi-tool. Mine had scissors. But it also has a really short blade. It’s sharp but really small. No worse than knitting needles.. http
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by acomjean 4y ago
That is disappointing. I have a last gen Pangolin and it’s been great in the almost year I’ve been using it for work. Pretty decent build quality too. I know mine is a Clevo made machine, and I read somewhere they’re using a new manufactur
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by acomjean 4y ago
My Honda did… I was pre signed up for my convenience. and apparently they gave XM my address too because I started getting regular mail when the trial ran out..
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by acomjean 4y ago
The system76 amd computers “pangolin” don’t have a separate gpu. Battery life is good to great, I’ve easily gotten 6 hours. New ones even better.
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by acomjean 4y ago
As someone who replaced a 2014 MacBook Pro with a system 76 oryx pro. The oryx does get warmer and has terrible battery life, but mine is currently 4 years and and working fine. It’s significantly faster than the mac (it’s newer) and can
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by acomjean 4y ago
I used the lime scotters in Paris 4 years ago, in the pre pandemic times. Oddly useful the few times I used them. Though some Vandal was drawing over the qr codes, make some of them unusable. I see them in Cambridge where Harvard student
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by acomjean 4y ago
These are "services" that happen to be powered by software. The software is run by a business. For example if an api starts returning copyrighted images, or worse, I think its going to be an issue. Specific carve outs in the law
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by acomjean 4y ago
This comes up in the discussion of if its worth attaching air-tags to bikes. You can locate it, but the police (typically) won't act and is it worth risking your life confronting the thieves. Going in armed when the new "owners&
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by acomjean 4y ago
AI will slow down significantly when a court finds a company liable for what its AI said or did. Until then it's the wild west.

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