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by dublin 3y ago
It's just amazes me that so many people are in a lather over the "dangers" of AI, when the dangers of biotech are literally several orders of magnitude greater. Bill Joy was right - biotech is by far the most dangerous tec
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by dublin 3y ago
A bit surprised no one's mentioned Amazon Silk. Though it was for mostly different reasons, the Silk Browser more or less works this way. It's not using VNC (AFAIK), but it does do server-side rendering and then blast some kind
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by dublin 3y ago
I once built a system on laptops for use in critical on-site oil spill response operations (so billions plus environmental damage at stake if it doesn't work.) We used laptops because we needed the portability, so even the critical se
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by dublin 3y ago
TiddlyWiki! - One of the best and most underrated apps anywhere - seriously, check it out - I promise you'll be impressed even if it's not ultimately the best choice for you. I'm in the process of migrating OneNote over to TW
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by dublin 3y ago
Lua Rocks. (Yeah, I know...) One-based indexing is more natural, far, less error-prone, reflects real world relationships better (people starting at one, not zero) than zero-based indexing, which has become some kind of purity test for the
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by dublin 3y ago
I drooled over the DG/One and the Kaypro 2000 - two of the very first true "laptop" computers. (No, the GriD doesn't count - it had to be plugged in!) Way out of my budget, so I settled for a surplus, but new Commodore
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by dublin 3y ago
There was a 2 decade gap between Computer Shopper's desire to go digital (they did create a fairly useless CD version later) and the ability of networks and browsers to even poorly render digital content. Even flipping pages today at
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by dublin 3y ago
This is a perfect example of how our technologies have let us down - Computer Shopper and the like (including newspapers) were useful precisely because they could be quickly browsed and flipped through. That's not really possible w
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by dublin 3y ago
The excitement of those old days is still very much alive in the Raspberry Pi community. I just configured a new PiBox server to do some fairly serious work, including serving as the archive NAS for two ne startups. (It's more than c
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by dublin 3y ago
Not even close - sweet onions (like Texas 1015s, Vidalias, or Mauis) may be whitish, but they have noticeably more sugar embedded into the structure/tissues of the onion itself. Sweet onions are not white (or yellow) onions, or vice
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by dublin 3y ago
I've found you really do need to use sweet Onions like Texas 1015s or Vidalias if you want good, quick(er) carmelized onions. Adding sugar is not the same thing at all as having the sugar grown into the onion itself! Adding water earl
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by dublin 3y ago
IMO, Sun's open source release of OpenWindows was the kick in the butt that allowed Linux to become a "serious" alternative to the Unixes. (It made Linux boxes as X terminals pretty viable, saving tons of money on Hummingbir
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by dublin 3y ago
The batteries in my wife's 12c have only been replaced two or three times since she bought it in college in 1984! She worked as a commercial real estate appraiser for many years, using it daily. A few years back, she started a new jo
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by dublin 3y ago
FWIW, the best RPN caclulator app I've seen (no Android, just iPhone, sadly...) is the MathU RPN from CreativeCreek. Not only does it successfully combine the scientific, digital, and financial capabilities of the HP 10-series (12c, 1
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by dublin 3y ago
Pro-grade stuff, yes, but you can build decently nice cabinetry out of the affordable Alder or other whitewood boards at Lowes or Home Depot, especially if you're going for paint, not stain. Also, nice birch plywood has come back down
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by dublin 3y ago
In the early days of Unix (before rcp was a given), tar pipelines were a common way of moving ) from one machine to another on the network. It was a little nicer than FTP, not only because it didn't need an admin to set up the FT serv
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by dublin 3y ago
While it's nice to use a version of Kermit or Zmodem that has SSH built into it, it's not necessary. The plain vanilla versions from decades ago will work just fine in any terminal connection you establish: Telnet, SSH, rsh, what
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by dublin 4y ago
GOTO no longer considered unsafe! (Actually, it never really was all that unsafe, anyway, the function guys just established themselves as the new programming hipsters...)
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by dublin 4y ago
Another thing to look at in new TVs, both smart and dumb, is egregious boot times. Instead of the expected instant-on, many new TVs take a Looooooong time to start up - the Sceptre 4K TV I bought for the office last year takes 20 seconds t
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by dublin 4y ago
You've clearly never done the math. Renewables have a HUGE negative effect on grid stability - it's actually cheaper to pay to NOT have renewable power on the grid once you get to about 30% renewables. (See Dr. Eleanor Denny&#x2
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by dublin 4y ago
The NG-fired plants will still be completely useful in 40-50 years. Modern batteries will be worn out in 10-15 years at best, and quite possibly considerably less...
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by dublin 4y ago
Though there are several things that drive it, the real problem is that today's "modern" architects have no vision and imagination - they produce soul-crushing dreck that incorporates all the worst features you'd expect
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by dublin 4y ago
Funny how Europeans and others aren't constantly "hydrating" (in fact, they tell me they think Americans are silly for carrying water bottles around), yet they never suffer any effects of dehydration. (Most European meals ar
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by dublin 4y ago
^^^^THIS!^^^^ There is early evidence that most BPA and pthlalate replacements may be considerably worse for you than the things they are replacing. (At least, worse in the sense that they are possibly more dangerous as endocrine disrupt
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by dublin 4y ago
The inertness of glass not only makes it always the first choice for food contact, it's also the most cleanly recycled material on the planet, when it does break. Unlike plastics (which for all practical purposes can't really be
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by dublin 4y ago
Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!
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by dublin 4y ago
Fortunately, this planet has abundant land and sea life that will absorb and fix that carbon dioxide for you, liberating highly reactive oxygen in the process. No problem - the amount of carbon used is proportional to the amount of carbon
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by dublin 4y ago
Let me know when I can reliably specify my security requirements in plain English to the embedded ChatGPT-like and have it generate and install a secure configuration. The Internet has been public for over 30 years now, and security is a
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by dublin 4y ago
Yes, that's been obvious from the beginning, and the rebranding as Meta. It is almost never wise to trust any company that rebrands itself. The only exception might be if GM rebranded itself as Government Motors.. Next question?
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by dublin 4y ago
It's perfectly possible, just not with the common media-mogul owned and propagated video encoding formats. There are applications where you need a compressed video stream that does not have keyframes, so that you are not blind until t

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