blacksmith_tb

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by blacksmith_tb 5d ago
Different horses for different courses? I wouldn't open a 100MB logfile in VS Code, but ST or Zed handle that fine. I use all three, though my ST license was for a version or two back, so I have mostly switched to Zed for those giant-f
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by blacksmith_tb 9d ago
They played at my college freshman year (1989, cough, cough) and stayed in an empty room in my dorm, right next to mine. The show was great, though they were personally a little awkward (or just weren't sure what to make of a bunch of
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by blacksmith_tb 17d ago
I have had zero luck trying to get gMaps updated to remove an imaginary address they added for my garage. I might as well just put up extra address numbers and another mailbox.
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by blacksmith_tb 17d ago
I gather that for many people, their smartphone is their only computing device. Doesn't have much appeal for me, but if that was the case, I could see that nudging people towards bigger devices, even if it makes them less practical as
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by blacksmith_tb 23d ago
It's easy to see how it could simplify typesetting, I would think computers though have that mostly covered now. Making Arabic easier to read is interesting, it would help new learners potentially, but I am not surprised that existing
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by blacksmith_tb 25d ago
Or oleander [1], which people occasionally poison themselves with by burning its wood. 1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbio...
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by blacksmith_tb 1mo ago
Now DO has to plow those loss-leading Marketing dollars into paying for memory I expect...
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by blacksmith_tb 1mo ago
Except that the study is from France?
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by blacksmith_tb 1mo ago
I have a fair number of badly designed / implemented usb-c devices with this problem (not all from fly-by-night companies, my Philips water flosser is a glaring example). I have a couple of small metal-enclosed male C to female C adapt
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
It also charges like any other EV, leve1 1 or 2 at home, and they say they intended to support faster DC charging in their FAQ[1]. I would be fairly skeptical of the 46mi / 74km a day from the built-in solar, that sounds optimistic giv
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
The cynic in me says that the visible presence of people dying on the street is very much intended to send a message, "work hard or this will be your fate".
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
Not to pull on the tinfoil hat, but I would assume most commercially available home cleaning robots will be covered with cameras, mics, and other sensors, and connected to their manufacturer's cloud... I don't pay for housecleanin
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
Which of course means they should use heat pumps, since the copper lines don't need nearly as much room (I suppose you'd still have to put a drywall wall in front of one brick wall potentially). Even just putting a bunch of mini-s
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An AL mother killed herself to fulfill a ChatGPT prophecy, lawsuit alleges(sfgate.com)
8 points by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago|2 comments
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
When AI sycophancy kills - "We ride not into darkness – but into the brilliant unknown."
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
But the sense that it had "almost everything" was more a halo effect of the old dvd-by-mail business, I'd say? I do agree with the general idea that streaming is less satisfying than ever, I probably get more mileage out of m
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
NASA uses knots instead of cable ties, for example on the Mars rovers [1] so they remain with us (I use a half dozen regularly myself) 1: https://www.planetary.org/articles/20120905-knots-on-mars
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
Give it a generation, and readers will ask "what was a TV?" and/or "what is a channel?" For us though, it's an evocative phrase - right place, right time.
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
That background is useful, though it seems more like "how" than "why" - my instinct is James C. Scott-style rebellious hinterlands[1] but I haven't gotten a sense if the bandits are the product of social dislocation
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
Ah, sorry to have imputed sarcasm then - and I agree that helping hundreds of monster-truck owners to roll coal is more serious and polluting than the individual yahoos doing it, so more deserving of doing time (eventually, maybe).
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
Sarcasm, presumably, but unless they're caught rolling coal[1] again, they can't be re-arrested as they've been pardoned for the previous cases. It's a tacky crime, hardly the most serious, but that makes a presidential
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
Sagittarius A* is "merely" 26 thousand light years away (but we probably won't be imaging it, since there's a lot more in the way)
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
Africa isn't a country? There are 54 countries in Africa, and it has almost twice the area of all of North America, not just the USA [1] 1: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/continent-size-comparison/no...
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
The idea would be more like the car, not the human behind the wheel, would realize that if it right-hooked me that would be bad (read insurance-increasing, citeable offense, etc.) and wait, where the driver would just keep flipping through
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
As someone who commutes in traffic daily, this is not what I need or want. First up, it looks heavy and badly-ventilated, and then there's the potential for distracting info blocking my view of the actual road in front of me. Even if i
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
I have never heard that suggestion... if you can document it, the wiki entry would need an update[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring#History
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
Hmm, I wonder if a simpler room-temp alternative would be to fill a low-infill print with 2-part resin. In a way that would be a bit like casting, except you wouldn't ever remove "the mold".
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
I'm hoping we'll see most e-bikes at least use 240W usb-c pd charging (I figure I have about a decade until I will wish I had some assist and buy one, so probably by then, they'll have gotten there...) I also have assorted pr
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by blacksmith_tb 4mo ago
My personal fave RPi, the Zero W, is still $15 from Adafruit.
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by blacksmith_tb 4mo ago
I bike commute with an old Hero 8 on my handlebars, and I never bother controlling or setting it up or anything: just power on, press record (which dismisses the nag dialog to connect it to your phone). That does mean the timestamps are alw

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