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by astrostl 4y ago
Yes, Googlified - it was not resurrected and operated separately as-was, but immediately stuffed into Google Groups. I and many others considered Google Groups to be vastly worse than Deja News. I even found this subthread because my first
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by astrostl 4y ago
> I don't remember many people being upset about Google stepping in I don't remember any former/active usenet user not being upset! Specifically because Deja had a full archive and robust search, and it was expected that
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> You had to use a short VGA passthrough cable to some other 2D card And the lossy, double-clutched analog nature of this crushed 2D clarity IME. I could immediately tell the difference just looking at a desktop screen. It was by far my
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by astrostl 4y ago
To their great credit - I gave them feedback about it and it's already changed!
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by astrostl 4y ago
> Gpt is the equivalent of the calculator but for words. Calculators are deterministic and necessarily correct. GPT is probabilistic and not necessarily correct. Although I appreciate the comparison as it relates to the non-application o
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by astrostl 4y ago
> I'm going to guess you do not want exactly that and you'd be happier with a quality alg. I'm going to guess that it's possible, if not likely, for me to have higher engagement with an alg while being less happy .
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by astrostl 4y ago
> (this is why startups like Glean exist: https://www.glean.com/ ) https://www.glean.com/pricing is the worst ‘pricing’ page I’ve ever seen XD
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by astrostl 4y ago
ProRAW appears to not be as processed, but still processed: "Apple ProRAW combines the information of a standard RAW format along with iPhone image processing" [1] 1: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211965
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by astrostl 4y ago
I 'bought' a bunch of (cut) $2 bills from a bank ages ago to use for tips, and people do love it.
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by astrostl 4y ago
Alternatively, the state of digital cameras is so good these days that they can be used to digitize film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pnqF8G_wiM highlights a setup with a Panasonic G9 that features an 80MP in-camera hi
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by astrostl 4y ago
> Android and ChromiumOS are likely the most trustable computing platforms out there Sweet, so we can trust that our personal machine is only compromised by Google et al? XD
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by astrostl 4y ago
The positive replies in this thread have the biggest "bot army" vibe I think I've ever seen on HN. I could only give the cutesy, scroll-to-activate, Flash-like UX about 10 seconds until I gave up on the endeavor. Maybe it rea
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by astrostl 4y ago
"Multi-cloud from the outset" is probably the single-worst generic cloud advice that I think anyone could be given. In professional cloud consulting the rule of thumb is to do one cloud with excellence until you even think about a
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by astrostl 4y ago
I wonder if this would work on 32-bit systems? I had an old one and was surprised to see that Minecraft wouldn't run on it because of a video driver issue. It's odd to me to consider x86 hardware actual trash even when computation
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by astrostl 4y ago
> even the law does not tolerate screaming 'Fire!' in a crowded theater That is not and has never been the law of the land. The quote comes from the dicta (commentary), not holding (ruling), of a case that prevented people from
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by astrostl 4y ago
This makes me want to play Quake 1.
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by astrostl 4y ago
Interesting take. I'll be thinking about that. I wonder how much aggressive and active curation and validation might improve things.
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by astrostl 4y ago
I don't care. Despite any warts of the organization, site, and/or its editors I think Wikipedia is the closest thing to an ideal that the internet has on offer. I will continue to donate to them monthly until I am somehow persuade
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by astrostl 4y ago
"DVD and BD (read-only, such as a DVD or Blu-ray movie) 10 to 20 years" This is literally unbelievable to me. I have yet to encounter or hear about a single instance of a commercial disc failure, and that goes all the way back to
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by astrostl 4y ago
"lots of fruits" after selectively breeding and engineering them into sugar bombs is one of the most unpersuading leads possible to me for a balanced diet.
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by astrostl 4y ago
Even with all that as an assumption it still fairly leads to, "so why are they consuming more calories?" and macros and ingredients are easily implicated. Consider, for example, if you ate 10 boiled eggs before a meal at a Mexican
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by astrostl 4y ago
I know two major things about heat pumps: 1) their owners insist they are the greatest thing ever and 2) nobody in the midwest seems to sell them (at any price) I don't quite know how to reconcile those two things.
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by astrostl 4y ago
Is that tiny, illegible-in-dark-mode hello world the only example or am I missing something? For as much content as there is in the README I would hope that a syntax change would, well, show some more syntax comparisons.
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by astrostl 4y ago
Craigslist is the only thing I have ever needed to rent out our condo for more than a decade. Long may it live! I'll also plug ezLandlordForms for everything else, inc. applications and background checks and contracts and yada yada.
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by astrostl 4y ago
Also has a Patreon with nearly 1000 subscribers.
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Should this not be percentage-based instead of fixed-fee?
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Explicit references to a "compulsion loop" make me want to delete all my non-indie video games and take a shower.
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I'd expect a severe link to be apparent in its deployment, i.e., that regions with earlier and more significant uptake would experience earlier and more significant [problems]. The article and my reply refer to cancer, but I would ex
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I'm most directly referring to the implication in the article: cancer. It wouldn't surprise me if it tripled the odds of rare cancer, but even taking this claim at face value triple a tiny amount is still a tiny amount. And I do b
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It's been in global use for almost 50 years. I don't doubt that it may produce some negative effects, but it wouldn't concern me even a little bit to discover that some of it could be detected in my urine. If the impacts were

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