dharmab

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   by dharmab 3y ago

   Even a basic NAS can hold enough drives to store enough content for you and your family to enjoy for multiple lifetimes. My media PC is literally some 10 year old case I had lying in the closet and it can hold around 8-10 drives depending o
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   by dharmab 3y ago

   I don't understand? If you're asking about prices, those vary by country, so use a site like PCPartPicker to find current prices.
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   by dharmab 3y ago

   I've also had SSDs become unreadable through normal means in as little as 3 months without power. Spinning disk is still the way to go for offline consumer archival.
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   by dharmab 3y ago

   Optimal price per GB is somewhere in the 14-20TB range these days.
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   by dharmab 3y ago

   These days I keep a bin in my trunk, transfer my groceries from the cart into the bin, and then I carry the entire bin into my kitchen.
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   by dharmab 3y ago

   Nah, Orion for iOS works great with built-in ad blocking and Firefox+Chrome extensions support, and the satellite SOS helps my family with peace of mind (I had to be helicoptered out of Nevada a few years ago). It's is way less bulky a
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   by dharmab 3y ago

   1. Networking, multiplayer and multimedia are built in. 2. The social component is fun. Students can easily show their work to each other. Don't underestimate the power of memes. 3. The Discord server provides shared history/some
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   by dharmab 3y ago

   Technology doesn't need to be "special" to be useful.
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   by dharmab 3y ago

   I mean, entire generations of programmers started out writing terminal programs, a chat bot is basically a multiplayer CLI program
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    Firefox on iOS is pretty lame. No ad blocker and no extensions.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    Without YouTube Music you get ads and the apps will pause if you turn off the screen. There are ways around this (eg Orion on iOS) but if you're getting premium anyway you get Music bundled.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    Not all of Europe! It's about 3 USD in Ukraine, for example.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    Can confirm LinearMouse makes this easy to set up.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    ISO created the country codes in 1974, prior to the invention of DNS.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    Python in Excel currently requires a separate cloud server to run Python formulas. Imagine this could run in the Excel web view instead.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    Molokai is the name of a place.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    > Whilst it seems to originate with Godzilla -- which honestly also doesn't seem to associate with a particular company but instead I would say it's a now traditional monster name in stories, like Dracula This is a really weird
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    The AD applies to all 737s using that same engine: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/08/10/2023-17... However, the MAX 8 and MAX 9 had already been certified and delivered before this AD was
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    Monokai was the name of the blog where the colorscheme was originally posted to: https://web.archive.org/web/20161107090516/http://www.monoka... At some point, the original author decided Monokai was a g
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    Revzilla and Partzilla also had a long legal conflict over the *zilla name.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    Last I checked a report is being prepared for presentation to the legislature. The conference talk is at https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_tra...
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    In California, ballot propositions are a form of direct democracy, and changes often require a referendum. Who has the time or money to campaign to convince voters to remove cancer warnings?
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    Wikipedia says a lot of things. Many of them are wrong. Ask anyone who works professionally with machines and they'll tell you WD-40 is a temporary lubricant at best.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    I take it you're not familar with Prop 65? In California, you'll see that everywhere thanks to a well-intended but counterproductive ballot measure that introduced steep liability for anything that could possibly cause cancer at a
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    You compare it to the cost of developing and certifying a new safety critical system. I recommend the recent talk from the team that investigated the Polish train corruption scandal. It goes into the hardware and software on these older tra
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    > So a sunken-cost phallacy. Is it a fallacy if the cost is specific and enumerable?
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    The change is now it takes about 5 seconds and a nice-ish computer instead of hours of skilled work.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    This makes a lot more sense in German than it does in English- it was likely translated directly.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    IIRC, Dan's original design had an an internal channel, but the pasta die manufacturer said it wasn't feasible to manufacture, so the design was adapted into the trough.
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    by dharmab 3y ago

    I completely shattered my wrist some years back in an extreme circumstance. The GShock on that wrist was fine, and still works. I did have to replace the strap and a bent spring bar.