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by acomjean 1y ago
You aren’t kidding. Especially if it’s some bioinformatics software that is just hanging out there on GitHub older than a year…
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One of the interesting history of the PC was when Microsoft started selling their OS to clone makers. To hear Balmer tell it, it was frighting as IBM was making their PS2 machines more proprietary. They won and IBM os2 lost. I figured and
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by acomjean 1y ago
I think the general neagtivity might be from a $250 set of headphones that aren’t great in all situations. It’s not just an apple problem, but expensive tech just doesn’t seem to work well. generally apple were kinda the gold standard, now
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by acomjean 1y ago
My partners bought a house with a dishwasher. Apparently it was installed, then a new floor put in raising it about an inch effectively locking the dishwasher in place. Removing it involved removing the counter above (it needed replacing
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by acomjean 1y ago
The AMD chips I'm using with integrated graphics have 6+ hours of battery life (system76 pangolin) and the newer intel ultra chips are decent on battery too. +/- a bit depending on how hard you end up pushing them machine. Huge
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And when those classic tools need a little help: Awk and sed. I like the idea of new tools though. But knowing the building blocks is useful. The “Unix power tools” book was useful to get me up to speed.. there are so many of these useful
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by acomjean 1y ago
I’ll concur with Apple being way more aggressive about this as well. icloud and if you try to use music on you iPhone with your collection of music Apple Music is always being pitched. Though the windows default start menu is something to
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by acomjean 1y ago
Or 80s Merlin’s Magic square game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(console) Which was only 3x3. But red LEDs which were all the rage in handhelds in the 80s. When learning JavaScript I made a dupe of the Merlin
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by acomjean 1y ago
I know sometimes performance doesn’t matter, and python is certainly useful, but it’s not fast. It can be fast enough and they’ve put a lot of effort into making fast libraries (called in c). When doing bioinformatics we had someone update
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Manual. Great leather shift non with a Bon Jovi logo on the stick pattern.
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by acomjean 1y ago
Ah New Coke… Oddly I liked new coke better. My most 80s possession is a new coke can with max headroom on it. They had both new and “classic” for a while co existing.
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I rented a car in germany, they gave me the "bon jovi" limited edition golf, likely because I'm American. It was tasteful, but odd.
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by acomjean 1y ago
I can't provide a count but lawsuits are starting. There ha see been issues opening the doors after a crash. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/03/tesla-cal... "Tesla door handles
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by acomjean 1y ago
Ug. Apple is bad (I don’t really want Apple Music thanks..). Being using Linux lately and it’s great. I got a window machine and a month later “my computers config isn’t done” because I didn’t sign up for windows cloud and office 365 , oh
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by acomjean 1y ago
We’ve had a lot of scientist use R and the “tidyverse” collection of packages. Ggplot2 is fantastic for graphing. I thing a lot of them used “rstudio” to browse the data. https://www.tidyverse.org/
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by acomjean 1y ago
I mean there is a "photo release" or "Model Release" contract used often when taking pictures in any private place that grants the right for the photographer to use those photos. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by acomjean 1y ago
I can’t say much about fedora But pop os is not bleeding edge or glitzy. It’s kind of a workhorse distribution. I like Pop!os, despite its strange name. I’ve used it pre installed at work/ home and installed on a work machine to get
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by acomjean 1y ago
Try searching for chrome using ma edge. It basically intercepted said search and gave me an ad saying to keep using edge. Thinking back it seems unbeleivable so I searched. https://www.theverge.com/23935029/microsoft-ed
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by acomjean 1y ago
>Borosilicate glass also tends to be more dangerous when it breaks. people say that, but from side by side comparisons of breaking both kinds, it really didn't seem to make a difference. Its not like car window "glass" tha
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by acomjean 1y ago
Like the saying goes, the best time was years ago, the next best time is now. I hardly use LinkedIn, but it does show work history. As someone else said there was a flurry of “endorsements” but I haven’t seen many since.
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by acomjean 1y ago
I think, you mean Columbia and Brown. Harvard took the government to court won,though it will be appealled but they havent settled yet (that I know of.) I think the government is asking government 1 billion from UCLA .
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by acomjean 1y ago
I’m using windows again. By default windows has “power shell” which is not at all like bash and is (how do I say this diplomatically)… wanting. I mean it says something the developed the Linux Subsystem for Windows, but it’s an optional in
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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/something-eggstra/ Fwiw about the "adding egg" to the mix
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I wonder sometimes what is going on over there. WordPress had a great community , nice people, seemingly successful open source with a business attached. Maybe it wasn't enough? I know talking to some of the shops that use it that t
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Yeah. Though in the US flood insurance of last resort is oddly a government thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Pro...
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You have to take people’s concerns seriously, but “cities are so dangerous” has returned as a political thing and is hard to change as long as one group is making these claims for political reasons. I’ll point out that we had a postdoc in t
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by acomjean 1y ago
If I remember initially GitHub (before MS) was free for open source and pay for everyone else. It wasn’t an entirely new idea (source forge?) but it use git which was rising in popularity. I think GitHub added the “pull request” as a real
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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors(nytimes.com)
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The columns are the questions. The score is “total att/solved”, (attempted/ solved?) though that doesn’t help much. I’m guessing you need to get the answer within the time limit. https://worldfinals.icpc.global/s
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I think about music albums on cassette that I listened too in the car. I enjoyed some of those deeper tracks after repeated listening. Also Sony India is posting older movies on YouTube. I don’t know if there are gems in the rough there b

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