adolph

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by adolph 7mo ago
Any thoughts on the Ploopy? https://ploopy.co/headphones/
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by adolph 7mo ago
> In the end it looks like we are treading water, just like it was when computers got 1M times faster in a couple of decades, but we felt very little improvement in earnings or reduction in work. I think this is a very important point. T
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by adolph 7mo ago
That looks like a very cool option and effort. Like the Chinese balloons that overflew the US in the last (few?) years, it would likely be challenging to shoot down. Otoh, it might cause some diplomatic disagreements about overflight. T
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by adolph 7mo ago
I wonder if the new displays with A19 processors have better heat dissipation. (and if they can be modified to run full iOS instead of the displayOS variant) https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-apple-studio-displa.
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by adolph 7mo ago
Given it’s a table, one would be able to iterate over each, “be wrong on the Internet” about the character and wait for said niche communities to swoop in to make a correction.
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by adolph 7mo ago
Recall back when Apple had the attention to detail required to implement a Blackberry style thumbwheel as the volume control in the Quicktime Player. http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm
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by adolph 7mo ago
> Apple used to be good at cannibalizing its own product lines. Arguably only iPhone from iPod. Lisa to Mac wasn't an organization being "good" so much as corporate infighting ("after Steve Jobs was forced out of the
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by adolph 7mo ago
Something that repair enables is wealth in the sense that David Deutsch uses in "Beginning of Infinity:" the repertoire of physical transformations that they would be capable of causing
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by adolph 7mo ago
Shades of: Being strapped to the sponsons of an AH-64 is one wild, but potentially life-saving ride. https://www.twz.com/38435/this-is-all-the-survival-gear-that...
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by adolph 7mo ago
This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields. Its kinda weird to not see temporary workforce housing as some recent phenomena, especially given a recent TV show (I havn't watched it) abo
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by adolph 7mo ago
Between touch and watch for machine login and 1Password everywhere else, it is a rare day that I actually type in a password. On those rare occasions, I feel some gratitude to be forced to type it so that I don't forget it entirely.
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by adolph 7mo ago
Yes, Touch ID is faster to unlock in a desktop context. Watch auth works fast enough to unlock a Macbook by the time I open it in order to place a finger on Touch ID. Ymmv, this is me on reasonably updated and stock Air M1 and Pro M3 units.
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by adolph 7mo ago
The paper states it adjusts for "ENSO, volcanic eruptions, and solar variations" and not (afaict) the changes in shipping bunker fuel that reduced atmospheric SO2 (if that is what you mean by "reduced aerosols"). Below i
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by adolph 7mo ago
> if you have an Apple Watch then you don’t need Touch ID Yeah, the move to Watch auth reopened the Macbook to the good old PowerBook System 7 days as far as effortless use goes. Touch is still great for escalation, 1Password, etc, but b
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by adolph 7mo ago
The difference is in the number of GPU cores. One chip has an 8-core GPU, while the other has a 10-core GPU. I'm wondering why they would have a 2 GPU core option. Maybe the 6 GPU one is binned since it is only available with 1
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by adolph 7mo ago
Yep, they have been on a 12 month cadence each March for the last two years. The M1 (Nov '20) and M2 (Jul '22) lasted 20 months each. https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#MacBook_Air
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by adolph 8mo ago
Gotta love how their flight control board is the same size and mounted to the back of the ESP32 module. Edit: It references ELRS but I don't see one of the standard Lora tower antennas used in the smallest commercial modules. They also
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by adolph 8mo ago
Truely rail-fans are transportation equivalent to vegans in food or cross-fit in exercise. I've spent many an hour on the Isle of Sodor and appreciate how useful those engines are in so many contexts. Yet still, there are buses that mo
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by adolph 8mo ago
Please do stop and reconsider your epistemology. You have provided no information, only unsupported assertions. You also made a claim about taxes that was clearly untrue since they apply to much more than physical goods.
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by adolph 8mo ago
Why bother commenting if you don't have any data to back up your assertion? You can make claims about what "should" happen but that is just your fact-free opinion.
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by adolph 8mo ago
Houston is a net exporter of screw [0]. But in seriousness, Houston has domestic production of fasteners etc for oil and gas as well as NASA. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Screw
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by adolph 8mo ago
> 63% of the IRS' audits under the Biden admin targeted those earning sub-$200K. In 2022 92.3% of filers reported income of less than $200K [0]. An audit rate of 63% is lower than what one would expect if audit-attracting behavior w
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by adolph 8mo ago
Taxes also apply to services and information, not just goods. I just checked some invoices to double-check my recollection. You have made a claim that age gating some online services is an "arbitrary idea." I don't see how th
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by adolph 8mo ago
Yes, my spouse and I were very conscious of this. My kids are now at an age where some of the just-in-case tracking chafes and they ditch trackers and turn off location on their watch. Its a normal renegotiation that occurs as they pass thr
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by adolph 8mo ago
Yes, afaik authentication is performed by applications at L7 and as such flows via Internet protocols like anything else. All kinds of laws are applied to services provided via Internet. For example, once upon a time people said collecting
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by adolph 8mo ago
Plus zig! **Decision**: Use C for kernel interactions, Zig for pure logic only. https://github.com/narqo/freebsd-brcmfmac/blob/be9b49c1bf942...
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by adolph 8mo ago
When everything is turned off by default, iOS Screentime is very effective. It also has effective tools for to grant certain exceptions, facilitated by Messages. It also distinguishes between "daytime" and "downtime" for
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by adolph 8mo ago
> holding parents accountable for what their children consume There is a local dive bar down the street. I haven't expressly told my kids that entering and ordering an alcoholic drink is forbidden. In fact, that place has a hamburg
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by adolph 8mo ago
This is conceptually significant because the article links the mechanisms used in watercraft and aircraft.
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by adolph 8mo ago
It'd be interesting to get a patio11 perspective on what is or is not "standard KYC paperwork" in a trans-national transaction. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/kyc-and-aml-beyond-th...

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