dadzilla

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Show HN: Macsomnia – close your MacBook lid while keeping long jobs alive(github.com)
3 points by dadzilla 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dadzilla 1y ago
Heh, that's my daughter - mostly self-taught with just enough misdirection from me to keep her guessing. The essay was from 1995, but was just in a listserv. The webpage was done in the early 2000s.
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by dadzilla 1y ago
My dad, John Perry, wrote this essay and followed it up with a book - The Art of Procrastination. I love to see the essay rediscovered & will share this thread with him.
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by dadzilla 3y ago
From Groq using Llama 2 70b: To calculate the volume of space required to contain the world's population, we need to first convert the area calculated earlier to square feet. Area (square feet) = 600 square miles × 5,280 square feet&#x
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by dadzilla 3y ago
If it is a USB iPad, you can plug it into an external display. USB-C to USB-C monitor, or get a USB-C to HDMI or DVI adapter. You can also use a USB or Bluetooth mouse if the digitizer is broken.
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by dadzilla 3y ago
Volume is more like a tenth of that, I think? Maybe interior dimensions 2 meters diameter and 5 meters length gives around 16 cubic meters if my math is sane (Religion major, so go easy on me if not).
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by dadzilla 3y ago
I love these stations. SomaFM carries this and others (or maybe they are just similar mash-ups). I have tinnitus 100% of the time, and silence is the enemy. This kind of sound - indistinct, with variety and high frequencies, is the most hel
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by dadzilla 4y ago
Faster way to disable FaceTime is to hold power and volume-up for a few seconds to bring up the power-down interface. You don't need to power down or do anything - once that interface loads, the iPhone will disable FaceTime login.
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by dadzilla 5y ago
a^2 (9) + b^2 (16) = c^2 (25)
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by dadzilla 6y ago
And you are qualified to express this view how?
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by dadzilla 6y ago
That would be politically inconvenient.
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by dadzilla 6y ago
Why is the Porsche referred to as a turbo if it is electric?
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by dadzilla 6y ago
Which is on purpose. We are a representative republic based on democratic principles, explicitly structured to avoid the “mob rule” tendencies of direct democracies. Which doesn’t make the Electoral College any more sensible, but here we ar
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by dadzilla 6y ago
There is a book: The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging, and Postponing https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0091YL5KK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ul... Full disclosure, author is my dad.
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by dadzilla 16y ago
Oh yes. What I did is put a 128gb in my 13" MBP (current generation) and then get a kit to replace the DVD drive with a 2.5" laptop drive. Everything runs very fast, time machine backs up my boot drive every 20 minutes transparently, and I