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901.
by ansible 7y ago
> Now the 2G patents are expiring, so it could be cheap and ubiquitous, built into everything. But instead the 2G networks are getting shut down... The frequency bands these older technologies run on are very, very valuable. The price
902.
by ansible 7y ago
Yup, I made my alignment tool from a floppy disk sleeve. Made it easy to mark the location with a pencil, and then go in with the hole-punch to get it exactly right.
903.
by ansible 7y ago
Two months rent for a converted closet in SF will get you some decent PC hardware. Not decent Mac hardware though.
904.
by ansible 7y ago
I don't disagree. But sometimes you have to do what you have to do to keep the organization moving forward.
905.
by ansible 7y ago
It is bribery, yes. It doesn't seem too expensive as far as marketing costs go.
906.
by ansible 7y ago
Yes, exactly. A lot of people don't do a good job communicating this sort of thing. It helps to have someone else ask you what's blocking your progress.
907.
by ansible 7y ago
When starting my GNU Screen journey 10-ish years ago, I immediately switched the meta key to Ctrl-K, which I had never used for anything in any app up to that point.
908.
by ansible 7y ago
I don't know about the compost toilet, but I climbed up and down a loft bed during college for years, it didn't bother me in the slightest. Of course, that was decades ago...
909.
by ansible 7y ago
I can understand that Overstock might claim that the market manipulation issue has been resolved by getting rid of the trade restriction. But I don't understand why anyone else would think so too.
910.
by ansible 7y ago
I'd expect the definition of a powered aircraft to include the ability to maintain some given flight altitude and speed for some appreciable amount of time. It is possible to do something sort of like this in a space capsule returning
911.
by ansible 7y ago
You can ask for a blood test that measures your lead level in your blood.
912.
by ansible 7y ago
OMG, yes! Had a cracked windshield recently, sooooo expensive
913.
by ansible 7y ago
That's not at all how battery charging works. Whatever the voltage output of the solar panel is, you can always step that up or down. The batteries go up in voltage slightly when they are charging, but not much relatively. For a typica
914.
by ansible 7y ago
Wow, that's neat. This might just be my next phone. It's a little more expensive than I'd like, but not bad, really.
915.
by ansible 7y ago
You're trading registrar trustworthiness for email provider trustworthiness. I'm not sure what is better. I suppose I should start actually paying for email, and go with protonmail or somebody like that. If they have decent and c
916.
by ansible 7y ago
And because we've tied health care to employment directly. If only we wanted to have affordable health care for everyone...
917.
by ansible 7y ago
> And if you're working full-time for somebody, don't you deserve the benefits everybody else gets? I'd argue that if you deserve benefits like everyone else. Especially ridiculous is the situation some people I know of
918.
by ansible 7y ago
> Sadly many who deny climate change use “shapeshifter” arguments (it doesn’t exist; it exists but it wasn’t us; it exists and it’s good for us; it exists and it’s bad for us but we’ll adapt) to support their case. It is amusing /
919.
by ansible 7y ago
The new Leaf has improved in the looks department. The previous version was rather... I don't know what words to use, but "meh" comes to mind.
920.
by ansible 7y ago
That SCP entry was not far off from the experience at the Oak Creek store: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/store/oak_creek/indexPage Unlike some others I've been to, it is designed as one long twisty maz
921.
by ansible 7y ago
Overall the aftcra.com site seems nice, though the selection is very limited. Then I ran across this for Adobe Acrobat XI Pro: http://www.aftcra.com/fullstop/listing/308980/adobe-acrobat-... WTF?
922.
by ansible 7y ago
Is there an alternative to Etsy for actual hand-crafted goods? For a version 2.0, I'm thinking each seller would be required to post a 5-minute video on their production, showing where they do the work, and showing actual people workin
923.
by ansible 7y ago
Your clock as a guy actually isn't as different as you might think compared to women. Yes, biologically speaking, having kids later in life is more doable for men than women. But you don't really want to put it off much. Kids re
924.
by ansible 7y ago
Easier example: toys for kids. They'll usually use slightly older kids in a toy advertisement than the actual target demographic they're trying to sell to. Part of that is that kids generally don't want to be seen as playing
925.
by ansible 7y ago
> The phone originally sold for $400. Is that really not enough money to fund software development for 4 years or more? No, not really. First comes the reality of retail pricing. The "leaving the factory door with everything amor
926.
by ansible 7y ago
Yes and no. If you're not getting updates from the chip vendor, you're going to have a hard time moving to later version of Linux, for example. It would cost a lot of money to port new software to the platform, and then the quest
927.
by ansible 7y ago
Ah, the good old XAP processor. For a while you guys were marketing a BC03 or BC04 era chip as a general-purpose microcontroller with digital audio functions.
928.
by ansible 7y ago
There are actually RISC-V extensions designed for numerical computation, though I don't recall if you could actually do a shader core or something like that based on RISC-V. At any rate, I hadn't heard about anyone trying to make
929.
by ansible 7y ago
I thought Java was pretty cool at the time of its announcement. I even started working on Java applets for an educational website. The idea was to teach algebra / calculus concepts, and use a Java applet to interactively plot graphs a
930.
by ansible 7y ago
I'm certainly guilty of thinking that. I don't think I've actually been pushing the "rewrite all the things in Go" thing though. I'm also guilty of thinking language X is the next big thing, and that I should

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