emmelaich

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by emmelaich 5d ago
Pretty sure they don't.
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by emmelaich 5d ago
And surely the DMV has far greater 'vicarious liability', as they're the ones that issue licenses.
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by emmelaich 5d ago
Top loaders are higher capacity and cost less. And open air drying is preferable to machine drying.
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by emmelaich 5d ago
That's a problem. That the Guardian doesn't mention the regulation and doesn't give us the wording of the advertisement.
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by emmelaich 5d ago
Exactly, I used desktop Sun machines and administered many very large Sun machines from 1997 through to 2010. I saw the end coming for Sun when I had a dx2/66 at home running Linux in the late 90s. It was brilliant.
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by emmelaich 5d ago
AEA leans strongly left. I wouldn't put much store in this.
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by emmelaich 6d ago
You can say "they are the doctors" -- but yeah it's a slightly different meaning. BTW in German, it's a fun distinction. The old "ich bin (ein) Berliner". (or hamburger or frankfurter...)
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by emmelaich 11d ago
That Pythagorean one with the ejection is cool. I wonder whether you could use it to accelerate a spacecraft.
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by emmelaich 11d ago
X should provide an option to make youor posts public. And govt reps should be required to use it.
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by emmelaich 12d ago
"How builders, lawmakers, and civil libertarians can prevent over-regulation and preserve its potential" -- by Greg Lukianoff and Adam Goldstein
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The librarian, the car keys, and AI(eternallyradicalidea.com)
3 points by emmelaich 12d ago|2 comments
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by emmelaich 13d ago
Buy a cast/apple tv anyway and then reset the LG screen to factory. Is that an option?
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by emmelaich 16d ago
Semi-related, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Times_at_the_El_Royale is a great movie.
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by emmelaich 16d ago
Mercator is fine. Or if you want something flat use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggs_eumorphic_projection . Or buy a globe FFS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections
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by emmelaich 16d ago
So weird, after visiting, my mouse icon disappears!
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by emmelaich 19d ago
Do you mean 'will be my last MacOS?'
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by emmelaich 20d ago
Are you sure you're referencing the correct quote? Are you familiar with original? Did you you use AI to write this comment?
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Chinese court freezes $300M of Nexperia assets in Wingtech case(reuters.com)
6 points by emmelaich 24d ago|0 comments
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by emmelaich 24d ago
They are correct!
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by emmelaich 24d ago
Are the wheels rotating in the wrong direction? I stared at it they seemed to reverse. Perhaps a bit of a optical illusion. Looking at the SVG, the direction is missing but the default is clockwise. So I'd say it's good!
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by emmelaich 26d ago
Exactly. I've referred to Ikea as the MacDonald's of furniture. Which is a little harsh and I do own a few pieces.
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by emmelaich 28d ago
I've heard of people 'walking' old hard drive cabinets by fine manipulation of the read/write heads.
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by emmelaich 1mo ago
(submitter here) I wonder whether this is related to Amok (also Malay origin). Also related (probably) is The Jumping Frenchmen and Tourette's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok_syndrome https://en.wik
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Latah(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by emmelaich 1mo ago|1 comments
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by emmelaich 1mo ago
There were plenty of conspiracy sites pre-2000. I think a lot of them shared mindspace with USA late night talk radio. Also, usenet.
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by emmelaich 1mo ago
You could run rsync with -b --backup-dir=something-$(date +%Y%m%d.%H%M%S) every few seconds. Or fired off with inotify.
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by emmelaich 1mo ago
It does (let you change history), but in a tamper evident way.
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by emmelaich 1mo ago
So put out feelers. Ask everyone if they know anyone.... At least triage it with your best effort.
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by emmelaich 1mo ago
"Don't come to me with problems, come to me with fixes." has always been a thing. You shouldn't take it too literally or personally. For "fixes" read alternatives or suggestions. e.g. hook in a senior engi
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by emmelaich 2mo ago
lutusp here on HN

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