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by bsimpson 1y ago
It makes sense since the cost of computing has come down, but it's funny to see the cyclical nature of it all. The web was run on beefy SPARC and NeXT workstations until Google came along and sharded it out onto cheap off-the-shelf har
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by bsimpson 1y ago
The Verge just wrote a love letter to the new Framework Desktop, running SteamOS on the thing as a gaming PC.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I keep a Legion Go in my media center. There's a USB-C hub connected to power, HDMI, and peripherals when I want to play docked. Or I can unplug one cable and play handheld. The kickstand means it takes up very little space in a cabi
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Doesn't GNU/Linux also have this problem with e.g. Netflix? If you don't pass their spyware, you get shitty streams from video apps and no access to financial accounts.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
You're on a tangent of a tangent, but: Old school helmets use the philosophy that in a crash, you want your head to be harder than its opponent. New school helmet use the philosophy that a helmet should absorb or deflect as much energy
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I bought a pair of motorcycle boots this way. It was a brand that isn't routinely imported into the US. The seller was a dealership near the Canadian border. It was something like they stocked them in London, Ontario and sold them f
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by bsimpson 1y ago
If motorcyclists had the power to demand common sense policy improvements, filtering would be legal everywhere, and cities would start adding PTW (powered two-wheels: motorbikes and e-bikes) lanes alongside the current acoustic bike lanes.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Two things are happening at the same time. On the one hand, government is broken writ large. It's been dominated by politicians who care more about power than improvement for as long as I've been alive. The problem becomes worse
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by bsimpson 1y ago
MIPS is actually pretty rare in motorcycles helmets. I know Bell makes a helmet with it, but the premium helmets tend to come up with their own solutions to the same problem. ECE 22.06 is the standard to look for for rotational protection i
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by bsimpson 1y ago
There was chatter about this in one of the NYC subreddits over the weekend. Apparently ending the de minimus exemption is closing the grey market for e.g. sunscreen; places that used to sell Japanese sunscreens on American shelves no longer
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Damn. I thought I had another week to order stuff before this nonsense started.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I wanted the 20s understanding of this. The article says too much FTL1 may decay cognitive ability, so I asked Gemini about the link between that and blood sugar. High blood sugar increases the amount of iron your body stores, and FTL1 is
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I didn't say testing was stupid. I said permitting only 8 vehicles for human testing from the leader in self-driving cars, years after they've been fully autonomous in other dense cities, isn't the flex he thinks it is.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
They're already learning how to handle this in SF. (I don't live there anymore, so I can't give specific examples.) Waymo markets itself as an automated driver - same reason they're using off-the-shelf cars and not the
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by bsimpson 1y ago
It's insane that they need permits for 8 cars that have humans driving them in 2025, when they're already fully automated in SF. > We’re a tech-friendly administration Clearly not.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
YT recently recommended his explanation of how pre-computer pinball machines worked to me - a series of 3, hour-long videos. Gave me something to look forward to on my commute. I shared it with everyone I know, and now I'm sharing it
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Executive Order Establishing US Chief Design Officer(whitehouse.gov)
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by bsimpson 1y ago
When Francisco Tolmasky launched Objective J, he wrote a really interesting article that still impacts how I think about this stuff more than a decade later. Francisco was working on an in-browser slideshow tool like Google Slides, but in t
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by bsimpson 1y ago
For context, Observable is the startup from the original author of d3.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
He seems like a genuinely nice person too.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
> a spare sitting on a shelf Does that work for batteries? I feel like unused batteries tend to become unusable batteries.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I switched to Android when Google gave me an HTC EVO at that year's Google I/O. The deciding factors were: - The large, high-res screen was way prettier. - It had access to the whole internet, including Flash. - The kickstand was
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by bsimpson 1y ago
meta: It's getting to the point where I need to pay for The Verge or stop reading it. Every one of their Pixel articles is behind a paywall.
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I thought TS abandoned stuff that can't just be stripped. Besides enum, what do you use that isn't strippable?
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by bsimpson 1y ago
"They say money can't buy happiness. It buys a Sea-Doo. You ever seen a sad person on a Sea-Doo?" - Daniel Tosh
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by bsimpson 1y ago
I've seen so much strongly relatable ADHD content over my life, and had so many close friends get diagnosed, that I've often wondered if I'm in the population, or if it's pathologizing the regular experience of modern hu
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Epic is scummy as hell. They try to play folk hero when it suits them, but someone who actually cared about individual well-being wouldn't lock Linux players out of their flagship games, or use dark patterns like artificial scarcity to
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by bsimpson 1y ago
Language is complex and nuanced. Identity theft is an interesting edge case - your identity is an intangible, but it's also not something that someone else can use without harming you. They're effectively stealing your reputatio
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by bsimpson 1y ago
So you could have a TV widget on your phone that lists Alice, Bob, and Charlie, and when you pick Bob, his account is signed in on the gaming PC?
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by bsimpson 1y ago
At the bottom of the page, it looks like this is a giveaway for August, and that there were OP-1 giveaways in June and July. The OP-1 is their flagship synthesizer. Makes me wonder if this is starting a press cycle for something they'

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