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by acomjean 4y ago
Even my bog cheap hosting lists storage limits and, "inode" limits on its dashboard. We're doing fine on both but way worse on the number of files.
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by acomjean 4y ago
I guess because I haven't bought anything in a while so for me it was a "used to", not any perceived change. So poor wording on my part. I can't edit my post. Trusted reviews are hard to find, I would still trust Consu
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by acomjean 4y ago
That’s the current problem is knowing when a “Brand” which was a marker for quality cashes in. Consumer Reports tests a lot of consumer goods and used to be my go to for testing. They don’t take ad revenue so that helps. Though you have t
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by acomjean 4y ago
I think the language spec is where you would define things so you don't get "WATs". Getting a language that is intuitive and consistent is part of the tricky part. https://www.ecma-international.org/publicatio
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by acomjean 4y ago
Essentially this is what academic journals are doing. Every paper should be reviewed manually. Of course that costs some money (although the reviewers aren’t paid).
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by acomjean 4y ago
Agreed. RSS is very underutilized. Do browsers even read it anymore? I should get a feed reader... https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml https://feeds.arstechnica.com/a
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by acomjean 4y ago
>We believe this moment, when people are so dissatisfied with the platforms that have dominated for the past decade-and-a-half, presents a unique opportunity to build a digital public sphere where people and communities with different pr
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by acomjean 4y ago
I mean fortnite has had already had film festivals, and "concert" experiences you can experience with your friends. I've been through some, and its kinda fun. They seem to be wanting to build the tools, to build that. They
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by acomjean 4y ago
In my younger years I subscribed to the New Yorker and the Economist. Both full of interesting stuff, but a torrent. I had to unsubscribe as I kept on thinking, I'll finish that one later, but never did before the next one arrived.
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by acomjean 4y ago
I've never built or adjusted a wheel. My understanding its not for the faint of heart. The late husband of one my CS professors (Sheldon Brown) put together a solid bike resource on the web... He has some hints on wheel adjustment (a
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by acomjean 4y ago
I've seen a few of them in the city. The seem great, but I wonder how well they steer. They're low to the ground and seem less visible (I've seen them with flags). On a bike your center of gravity isn't much higher th
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by acomjean 4y ago
I remember someone trying to look up winning lottery numbers at work. The site came up "Blocked: Gambling". It was a little reminder that they're watching our web browsing at work..
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by acomjean 4y ago
Lamentably, these work on Linux. Nothing else seems to excepting a few using Java (jetbrains) and libre-office and the open source big ones: Gnu Image, Krita and Blender.
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by acomjean 4y ago
DIY electric chair magic fun. Don’t try this at home https://youtu.be/sIbropvPzTM
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by acomjean 4y ago
We have rights as individuals, which can’t be infringed by laws. The courts are there to prevent those laws. It’s what abortion and 2nd amendment lawsuits are all about. These right declarations aren’t super clear so the political leanin
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by acomjean 4y ago
Car talk is gone, with the death of Tom in 2014. That show is missed, kinda about cars, really funny. They still remix old ones but it’s not the same. The daily “Boston Public Radio” talk show is pretty fun, but more Boston based.
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by acomjean 4y ago
The local radio station played the PBS news hour even though it’s a tv show. It works that way too. My drive schedule changed so I’m not sure they do anymore. (WGBH Boston)
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by acomjean 4y ago
They did this a Chappelle show I went too in NYC. You could keep bring your phone into the show but it had to be locked I a thick neoprene pouch they gave you. When you left the show there were people there it open them (they were locked
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by acomjean 4y ago
There was a Roger Moore show "TV NATION" where he challenged CEOs to do things with their products. "Format a Floppy" was one. The only one who took him up was the ford CEO who did an oil change. [1] https://
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by acomjean 4y ago
I have linux a notebook with the AMD Ryzen 7 5700u and a Mat screen. Its pretty great on battery (6+ hrs). Even the built in gpu is good enough for general use. I think these newer AMD cpus are even better and worth the wait. My home l
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by acomjean 4y ago
It has some similarity to the weather overview graphs from weather.gov which are my daily driver. Its just stacked graphs of temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitations for 2 days. Shows sunrise/sunset. Its so not pretty, but quit
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by acomjean 4y ago
We use red hat / CentOS on our compute cluster (academia/genetics). But I use the poorly names “PopOS”(an Ubuntu variant) on my local machine. I don’t notice any difference. Red hat will sell support and know how. A long time a
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by acomjean 4y ago
Fred Miranda was a useful set of reviews of lenses from their members. Now it’s mostly forums Which makes sense. Once you have the gear… https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/index.php I used dpreview in the past. They h
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by acomjean 4y ago
Shame. It’s probably hard as digital cameras have been replaced quite a bit by phones. I used that sight for many point and shoot camera purchases. The reviews were good and it had a good summary of all the cameras that were out there. Th
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by acomjean 4y ago
I’ve been using MySQL. Is Postgres so different now that the SQL here won’t work? (It may be that it’s MYSQL that’s different) I know there are some differences in SQL syntax, but in my case we use pretty basic sql…
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by acomjean 4y ago
Lamentably adding their training set will make Adobe's value proposition much higher. Open source creative alternatives have a even harder time (Blender, inkscape, krita, Gnu Image Manipulation Program)... Since Adobe lack of Linux sup
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by acomjean 4y ago
Its kind of interesting. Ebikes being popular (I have one). What it is a reminder of to me is how many bike components are commodities now, and bike companies seem to just be integrators. The brakes, derailleurs, wheels tires are all usua
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by acomjean 4y ago
I did a fair amount of winter biking in Boston. Good clothes really help. For me wool socks really help. You do tend to warm up when riding a bike (pedal assist bikes might take longer). For me the issue is fingers, but with good gloves
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by acomjean 4y ago
Don't drink and ride. We a friend do this, they didn't hurt anyone but themselves, and not too badly. And they did hit their head when they fell off , but were wearing a helmet (thus becoming a advocate for helmets..). Still pr
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by acomjean 4y ago
i switched. I have the previous gen AMD powered (Ryzen 5700U) system 76 and the battery life is decent (6-7 hours). I have one 4 year old system 76 notebook with the NVIDIA gpu and that thing when running the 3d graphics mode is terrible

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