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by drbig 2y ago
Lemme preempt: this is for US citizens only? I assume so. Funny how that whole globalization thing is asymmetric.
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by drbig 2y ago
On the notion of lack of durability, I have come across a substantial number of people for whom that is a feature: change your furniture every 2/5 years to "keep it fresh", where spending money on anything durable wouldn&#x27
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by drbig 2y ago
Don't remember the product names, sorry for that, but this story happened probably 8 if not more years ago: I was looking for a new work desk, planning to spend no more than 500 PLN - because IKEA is cheap... All desks within that pric
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by drbig 2y ago
Find me evapo-rust in EU for a not-a-business-buyer yes-2-litres-is-more-than-I'll-ever-need for a decent price and I'll buy you a decent beer or five :-D
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by drbig 2y ago
It's a classic. I was looking some time ago (a year or 3) how to de-rust stuff and found out that you do go over the thing with a wire brush, then some acetone, and then you pick up your industrial laser rust remover! Magic happens at
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by drbig 2y ago
I for one have a feeling we've reached the plateau of form and function some time ago already: a slab with a touchscreen on one side and some camera(s) on the other. In other words: smartphones got boring, which often goes with maturit
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by drbig 2y ago
Fair enough. So less about chat but more about async-first exchange. Sounds like e-mail?
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by drbig 2y ago
> The biggest complaint I have with IRC is its assumption of synchronous communication. But that's like complaining that the assumption of water is that it is wet. _Chat_ by definition is right here right now. It is not mail, pager,
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by drbig 2y ago
For those thinking about long-term data storage: first and foremost it's a process, not "a thing to get done". Think about both a) migrating and b) growing capacity needs at the same time vs your usage pattern. It may happen
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by drbig 2y ago
Simplicity at its best.
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by drbig 2y ago
> and I have no effective societal obligation to own Crayola crayons. Thanks for that insight. "Vote with your wallet" and similar responses seem to die under the actual, practical, reality of exclusion and/or lack of acce
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by drbig 2y ago
I wonder if this will end up being another circle/wave, where at some point "we have non-app features!" will be the selling point. Though in the long-term I envision more of a maturation: both in terms of apps being more reli
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by drbig 2y ago
> But whatever word you choose, you'd do well to remember that open source is first and foremost a method of collaboration between programmers who show up to do the work. Not an entitlement program for petulant users to get free stu
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by drbig 2y ago
Indeed, leaving out the environment... Perfectly spherical cows in a vacuum. And then the general feeling of "growth above anything and everything else". A rather simplistic viewpoint.
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by drbig 2y ago
Mhm, and the twist then is that the second flash seems to be in the center, even though it is to the right?
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by drbig 2y ago
There are two flashes in the gif specifically, because some people will apparently see a third one "in the middle" between the real two. Hence the "illusory rabbit". I only see two though, and it seems I'm not alone
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by drbig 2y ago
Ok, so this is a single person's (math PhD no less) Rust project that's just the kernel, that also happens to not support Linux. I have a feeling that getting from this to anything useful for mechanical engineering is a long, looo
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by drbig 2y ago
> poised for a future filled with innovation and success. > I look forward to watching Starbucks flourish and am excited for the new chapters that await us all. Amazed I sit here. Direct-to-blood-coffee, Copilot+++. Anyways, I'm
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by drbig 2y ago
Ergo Proxy.
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by drbig 2y ago
> - Not allowing the new team to talk to the KSP 1 developers Why... would anyone do that? <cynic>In case they ask how much monies the previous crew got out in the end?</cynic>
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by drbig 2y ago
Indeed!
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by drbig 2y ago
I wish that were this MUI: http://www.sasg.com/mui/ Oh, the nostalgia: http://www.sasg.com/mui/preview.gif
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by drbig 2y ago
Framework laptops? https://frame.work/ (I'm neither affiliated nor a user/client).
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by drbig 2y ago
It's amazing that as long as it isn't "easy to get on camera" corporations can do harm for decades with no penalty. Just imagine if instead your Teflon frying pan were to emit a cloud of yellow gas that makes your throat
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by drbig 2y ago
``` It also has no inherent knowledge about how to iterate over any particular structure: it doesn’t know how to iterate over lists, or ranges of numbers. Rather it knows that iterating has to answer two questions: is there more?
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by drbig 2y ago
Wow, thanks! You're right I have been mistaken. It's alive! ("On October 2019 Samsung announced that Linux on DeX will not be available for Android 10", I must have read it back then as discontinuing DeX altogether!)
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by drbig 2y ago
Not a user of Chrome OS, but DEX (R.I.P) and the main difference is multiple apps in their windows at once, so you can chat, watch a video and write an email at the same time just as you'd do on a desktop.
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by drbig 2y ago
> But, sadly, it doesn’t sound like this is something Google intends to launch anytime soon. Sadly indeed. Samsung's DEX was nice too... (but honestly, I loved the most _the option_ to do it like that; In reality used DEX for at mos
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by drbig 2y ago
And the fourth way is to "not stand in the way", which is the long-term best strategy. It's all fun and profit to support you top/mid/low creators until a controversy, which is inevitable long-term, and damage to re
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by drbig 2y ago
As someone who does YT videos as a challenge to self: YouTube is a casino, so its "top creators" are as ephemeral as a casino's patrons. Financially it is a very solid model, and it's stable: you don't have to even

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