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by btgeekboy 3y ago
Hopefully someday we can re-add Living Computers in Seattle, WA USA to the list. https://www.livingcomputers.org Paul Allen's death, and then the COVID pandemic, effectively put the museum in stasis. At least two of Allen&#
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by btgeekboy 3y ago
That's kinda why I like living in the suburbs now. My commute into the city is ~30 by transit. But I have a garage to tinker in (recently added a 3d printer to the workbench), and I store my car there for driving beyond the reach of th
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by btgeekboy 3y ago
Agree; I'd actually theorize that the parent's comment has cause and effect backwards - when church is something you're compelled to attend, you overcome the heavy lift of having to load the family up into the car, drive, fin
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
I tried to do something similar recently with my 2015 12" MacBook, but the hardware support just isn't there. (I've tried both the latest Ubuntu and Fedora; both have issues with the keyboard and trackpad not being usable aft
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
I doubt the recruiter would have known anything different. A lot of these sudden RTO initiatives appear to be top-down things, not something recruiters would have known about a year in advance.
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
I’ve seen a few twists on that idea, such as this one: https://www.printables.com/model/416934-framework-as-a-serve...
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
Didn’t applications used to be able to show their titles in the taskbar under W11 if you change the taskbar settings? Did that go away, or am I imagining that ability?
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
I don't drive a Tesla, and clearly don't have their insurance, but have had my rates affected by driving between 12a and 4a. My insurer (not a cut-rate one) did give me a discount for using, for 90 days, one of their OBDII dongles
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
Do you have a citation for the debunking? The WA state legislature is trying to push through a bunch of unfunded mandates of dubious effectiveness on airports based on this study.
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
The idea behind dropping a Synology off would be that you could sync to it remotely, so you don’t have to be lazy about refreshing it. Though online backups have their own risks (ransomware).
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
Correct. If I talk to service A and I see an address that’s in the same /64 as service B, it’s unlikely there’s a firewall between the two. Two different /56 or /48? Probably a different site.
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
One of those stores was only accessible by badged Amazon employees, too. It was basically just a grab and go cafeteria for them.
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
I had the latter kind growing up. Moved away, and went to a dentist with a fancy name and close to my office. Huge mistake. I’ve lost track of how many they drilled. My mouth hasn’t been the same since. I have a new dentist now who’s much l
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
If I have a business and I use a company like sendgrid, I have credentials to use that service. If some employee has access to that account (such as to send newsletters), and that employee’s credentials were lost or stolen, that doesn’t see
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
It boils down to your dentist, too. Some will leap to drilling and filling every little speck they can find (and charge you for it), while others will monitor them and see if they progress. Having been to both types, I’d say I strongly pref
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
Yeah, my Ryzen 3700x is a 3.5 year old CPU now. I might try to move to an AM5 build later this year, but it’s still a very decent PC.
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34746870
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Building IoT Wireless Connectivity Devices – Blues Wireless(blues.io)
1 points by btgeekboy 4y ago|1 comments
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
I have no relation to the company, just found these devices to be pretty slick and reasonably priced (for what you get) for the average tinkering engineer.
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
Ask the A&Ps is a podcast that’s a pretty similar concept but for general aviation.
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
TFNs require registration now too, as of sometime last year.
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
While this is interesting, what took me a minute to realize is that while the line about US gasoline being produced in the US is (presumably) true, it doesn’t explain why global oil prices tend to affect our gas prices. That line is about t
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
I just got an invoice from a company that came out yesterday and resealed all of the gaps/protrusions/etc on my roof. $475 plus tax. Little high considering the effort, but it's a tall townhome, so no way in hell I'm get
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
I once spent far, far too much time debugging my “broken” laptop to realize a book was touching the corner of my external trackpad that I wasn’t actively using.
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
It really bugs me about Edge that it's actually a decent browser (well, Chromium under the hood is, but I also like the built-in vertical tabs), but Microsoft keeps going crazy w/ the shenanigans. Example: I typically use Firefox
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
Unlike some of my sibling replies, I see(quel) what you did there.
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
The article mentions that the Echo does something similar locally, so the cloud-side part is an additional layer.
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
Also funny how you’d know the difference if you heard someone say it :)
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
Knowing little about how ChatGPT actually works, is there perhaps a variable that could be exposed, something that would represent the model's confidence in the solution provided?
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by btgeekboy 4y ago
At this point, you're more likely to find an off-lease laptop running Linux. Bonus - for roughly the same price (assuming you buy a MicroSD card, power supply, case, etc), you'll get a screen/keyboard/trackpad, battery b

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