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by eichin 1y ago
How many of those are actually (New England) zip codes? (and of the ones that are years, how many of them are "kragen is at it again" :-) Seriously, I've never noticed a thread on these and not found a kragen post as a trigge
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by eichin 1y ago
Our failure at "corporate alignment" makes it pretty clear that we're also going to fail at any version of "AI alignment"...
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by eichin 1y ago
Heh, I used to work for Nokia's Ovi - basically, gsuite for nokia phones (my group did map search) - the official explanation was "Ovi is Finnish for Door", the internal joke was "Ovi is Hungarian for Kindergarten".
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by eichin 1y ago
I remember a scratch-and-sniff version, rather than just scented (in western CT, in the 1970s - they must have bulk sent them, noone in the neighborhood actually had gas service so it wasn't in with gas bills.) That's enough to
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by eichin 1y ago
Never heard of pagespeed before (yeah, lucky 10k etc, but also I'm just not a web dev) and this pointed up some huge easy wins on my image heavy homelab site, so thanks for that (setting `Cache-control` at all, and forcing `img loading
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by eichin 1y ago
Confirmed that it now works for me. Thanks! (I'm sort of using it as a "what can PWA's do" study guide for My First Android PWA, so the section organization is almost as big a deal as the "does it even work" i
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by eichin 1y ago
The MDN links in the first section are failing for me - for example, Start URL takes me to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/html/manifest/s... which says "Sorry, the page ⁨/en-
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by eichin 1y ago
Flashbacks to the Okidata Microline 80 dot matrix printer I used in high school (early 1980s) - it had a 7-wire print head, so no descenders and lower case "g" was particularly bad (basically to get the detail in 7 lines it had a
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by eichin 1y ago
So... what's the flaw in the data gathering that leads analytics people to believe this? I got a ludicrous amount of real estate advertising over the first year after I bought my house which was when my "whew, glad I never have
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by eichin 1y ago
But mosh doesn't actually do any of what ssh does, let alone do it faster - it wins by changing the problem, to the vastly narrower one of "getting characters in front of human eyeballs". (Which is amazing if that's wha
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by eichin 1y ago
There are also cheap ($200-$400 range) usb-c thermal cameras specifically for phone use (they're cheap because they're just a sensor, the app on the phone is the "screen" and controls.) Great for narrowing down overhea
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by eichin 1y ago
The joke (10 years ago) was that "big data" means "doesn't fit on my Mac". Kind of still works...
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by eichin 1y ago
Aspirin is kind of a special case - while it had become generic in the usual way, the actual loss of trademark status was part of the Treaty of Versailles as a punishment for world war 1. (So while there are various trademark-protection st
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by eichin 1y ago
*Panasonic Toughbook (There were generations of these with handles, but at least in the early ones, the handle didn't dominate the dimensions - things like "removable drives encased in impact gel" did.)
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by eichin 1y ago
Also the eMate 300! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300 (from 1997) (And if you go much farther back, the TRS-80 Model 4p - but "sewing machine class" portables kind of had to.)
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by eichin 1y ago
... and tyvek (no idea if that wins on weight, but they're disproportionately durable)
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by eichin 1y ago
A south-up map article that doesn't mention the classic (pre-internet even) Theory of Continental Drip? (basically that you can overlay "teardrop" shapes on south america, africa, mexico, and a bunch of other places depending
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by eichin 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpF5B_jHZrw (Adam Ragusea, "How to give brownies a smooth, glossy top") which is where I remembered this from turns out to have been primarily about the appearance of the top - as p
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by eichin 1y ago
(for media files, the linux tool of choice is PhotoRec, sometimes packaged as part of testdisk)
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by eichin 1y ago
mmm, it was better than the "closed as duplicate" (of an internal bug that you can't access) path that used to be the big complaint about radar...
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by eichin 1y ago
According to some (youtube) experiments, commercial brownie mix produces some aspects of brownies more consistently because it's ground finer (and mixed more uniformly) than the ingredients you can usually source. So it's not qui
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by eichin 1y ago
The archive has info-cpm mailing list content as well as code; a surprising amount of the mailing list traffic is complaining about the mailing list, if you thought that sort of thing had changed in the last 40 years. (The archive itself i
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by eichin 1y ago
Ah! the reddit user description hoverbox for u/trampolinebears says "Fonts: stormgold.itch.io" so that connects the dots.
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by eichin 1y ago
Hmm, is coffee a problem? (some of the extraction depends on temperature, but if water boils before reaching that temperature then the extraction wouldn't work...)
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by eichin 1y ago
and https://stormgold.itch.io/two-slice - are these the same authors or what?
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by eichin 1y ago
Err, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlewood_Lake was completed in 1928 (for electrical demand regulation.) Much older than nuclear...
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by eichin 1y ago
Than 1024 SPARC cores? ... actually, looks like phones beat the 130 GFLOPS score mentioned on wikipedia at least 5 years back, so it looks like yeah, even if your problem is widely parallel a modern high end phone will still do better. Woa
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by eichin 1y ago
Oh, not that CM5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
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by eichin 1y ago
Hmm, I kind of want a Boox Palma with a stylus, and this is almost that, but not quite...
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by eichin 1y ago
Yeah - the best time to do automated renewal was ~5 years ago, the second best time is now - I just get email once a week with the list of cert renewals (which is how I learned, to my surprise, that sometimes the letsencrypt renewals do fai

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