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by dublin 7y ago
Just 160 years ago this month, after a period of unusually quiet sunspot activity (much as we are going through now), the largest solar flare of the industrial age lashed out at the Earth. It interfered with the still fairly small number
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The Sun's “Carrington Event” of 160 yrs ago would be devastating today(wattsupwiththat.com)
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NULL license plate not such a bright idea(knrs.iheart.com)
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by dublin 7y ago
One thing overlooked by the article is that portfolio management and other similar applications often involve "trade secret" proprietary analysis and evaluation methods. It's way easier to build, manage, and protect that sort
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by dublin 7y ago
Reasonable privacy should be a given. That's all Apple provides. The Chinese brands actually provide negative privacy - that is there's an expectation that they're spying on you. No one gives a damn about real user pri
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by dublin 7y ago
Sure - Just ignore as "inattentive" the input of the extremely aware and experienced 100-billion neuron processor with ultra-wideband sensors and untold years of experience dealing with actual human drivers in all kinds of conditi
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by dublin 7y ago
Bingo! Clearly, with FOUR USB ports the I/O strategy of the Pi family has been quite USB-biased since the beginning. I'm pretty sure that means the Pi designers expected people to use USB to fill in the interface gaps!
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Neil Armstrong's Missing “A”(atlasobscura.com)
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by dublin 7y ago
That's funny, I never see any Microsoft-pushed advertising (other than in the Windows Store, which is kinda its point). I right-clicked on CandyCrush, removed it, and have NEVER seen anything I didn't put in my start menu since
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by dublin 7y ago
What lots of people call "Bash on Windows" is technically the "Windows Subsystem for Linux", although that's a bit of a misnomer, since it's all the usual apps from a standard distro (several common distros can
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by dublin 7y ago
It's reasonable to expect any modern computer screen to support touch. By far the most annoying feature of my 4K desktop monitor is that it lacks touch. I will never buy another non-touch monitor. While you are clearly anchored to t
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by dublin 7y ago
If you've marked every network as metered, then Windows is doing exactly what you told it and NOT upgrading over those networks. Even a manual update request should fail, because you've already told it not to upgrade over a m
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by dublin 7y ago
Although it's a bit of a pig, Acrobat Reader DC is still the best thing out there. I bought and really love Drawboard, but since there's no reliable way to gracefully make it persist as the default PDF app for the OS (and consequ
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by dublin 7y ago
Yeah, this is a real problem for research into older things that have no need to change. Google seems to think that information has a half-life. That's really only true in the social space. Truth is eternal.
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by dublin 7y ago
Building something like this becomes much easier with Xanadu-style bidirectional links. Of course, building those is hard, but eliminating the gatekeeper-censors may finally be the incentive required to get bidi links built. It's al
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by dublin 7y ago
An interesting idea, but it's total wishcraft at this point. One significant thing the article misses is that if ( big if!) they can make this work, it could significantly increase the power output of the solar cells, since PV cell v
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by dublin 7y ago
EVERY time I'm aware of in the past that there were claims that O'Keefe and Veritas had swayed the story by editing, the unedited video has proven to be exactly what they claimed. I'm convinced they now do this two-stage rel
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by dublin 7y ago
There are very few, if any at all, large companies that are honest with their customers on this stuff. I did a contract a couple of years ago with an online home rental company. I strongly suspect the "only X left in this area"
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by dublin 7y ago
I truly wish for a current phone designed even half as well as the Palm Pre and Treo were a decade ago. (Slide-out keyboard, "Just Type", non-sucking contacts and calendar, etc.) Really, I just want an updated Pre with a state-of
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by dublin 7y ago
No, switches (even good ones), are cheaper than touchscreens that can handle automotive heat and vibration. It hardly matters which you use anymore, since pretty much all control heads are going to be networked onto a CAN bus or the like t
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by dublin 7y ago
That's especially true for automotive SW and interfaces, which raise dreck to a whole 'nother level. For a whole lot of reasons, I don't expect to ever buy a car much newer than about 2010 for the rest of my life. Avoiding
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by dublin 7y ago
As long as your Internet connection has decent upstream speed and latency, this is still a good option. A Raspberry Pi, for cryin' out loud, is roughly equivalent to a Cray 1/X-MP, so the need for huge "server iron" to
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by dublin 7y ago
Well, you can hand-craft HTML is you want, but there is a huge variety of tools out there designed to give you full control of building and managing blogs and other websites (list sites courtesy of the Netlify folks): https://
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by dublin 7y ago
One of the great losses since the late 20th century (probably ending at roughly 50s or early 60s) is that due to the limited selection of radio and TV programs, even large nations like the US pretty much shared a common musical heritage. I
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by dublin 7y ago
Once again, an article behind what is effectively a paywall. Medium is perhaps more objectionable than a true paywall, since you have to pay via agreeing to tracking...
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The hand-wringing is alarmist, and deliberately so. Mostly because Carbon Dioxide is simply not a pollutant. There, I said what you cannot say here. (Notice how the "solution" to these "crisis" problems always requires
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by dublin 7y ago
Or you can just do without healthcare. While there is some danger in that, it's considerably less dangerous than driving without seatbelts, which everyone used to do. I don't recommend no healthcare coverage, especially if you h
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by dublin 7y ago
It seems to be almost a secret (despite being right up there in the menubar), but VS Code has a great terminal tool built into it, which, until we get this new Windows Terminal in a few months, is by far the best terminal experience I&#x2
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by dublin 7y ago
Because even though you can do most things in cmd, it's just never been a very good tool? CMD is a bad tool that we learned to use b/c we had no choice (w/o loading an add-on scripting env of some kind). PowerShell has a
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by dublin 7y ago
Agreed - Since MS has open-sourced PowerShell, it really should get picked up and used by more folks in the Linux community - it seems like its mostly decades of bad blood preventing that, even though it's a clearly superior 21st centu

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