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by fencepost 1y ago
She was immediately upset that they were talking back to her and asked if she was going to have to "call the police and get your parents in trouble." This obviously scared the children, and they began to walk home, in tears. Mean
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by fencepost 1y ago
At least IKEA has a specific way to handle that, including IIRC a dedicated area at their stores. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/customer-service/spare-parts/
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by fencepost 1y ago
Keeping in sync isn't as much of a problem as you might think, it simply requires that everything able to feed into the grid has to accept the grid as authoritative for syncing. Relevant are some of Chris Boden's videos about brin
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by fencepost 1y ago
Coming to this a day late, but what immediately jumped to mind was David Seah's "Task Order Up" https://davidseah.com/node/the-task-order-up/ system. My biggest concern (besides "following thro
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by fencepost 1y ago
So, it's a stationary alternative to the "van life" trend that floats around sometimes. Massena's about the size of the town we moved my parents from after my father had a stroke, though it's a lot poorer (in 2013 n
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by fencepost 1y ago
Given the occasional articles that crop up showing the sheer volume of badly-behaved (presumably) AI scraper bots this makes all kinds of sense. I can't find it now, but sometime in the past week or so I saw something that (IIRC) relat
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by fencepost 1y ago
Ah, but will there be any actual financial penalties against Apple to address the revenue they received as a result of this? Or would developers have to start their own cases to attempt to recover anything?
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by fencepost 1y ago
The problem is the chaos. No competently run company is going to invest in more-expensive domestic production based on what the administration is doing because there can't be any expectation that policies will remain in place until pro
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by fencepost 1y ago
... Presumably by being someone with a family history of dementia and hopes for effective preventive measures and treatments which would presumably be taken orally, injected or infused?
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by fencepost 1y ago
I'd also call it a publicity stunt because DOJ leadership would have to prove themselves [even more?] utterly idiotic to let this go to a jury trial. I can't imagine this ending in any way other than dropped charges, though they m
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by fencepost 2y ago
There wouldn't be a single factor driving it but a combination of many factors. Loss of coastline (and cities built along it) including greater susceptibility to storms for unaffected areas will obviously have economic costs, highly in
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by fencepost 2y ago
Correct, and a great example of this is "Greenspan's Bait and Switch" back in the Reagan years - basically a bunch of measures put in place to increase how much was being paid into FICA (which notably has a cap on how much in
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by fencepost 2y ago
How is the sleep monitoring on the base model being done without a heart rate sensor, just with stillness as measured by the accelerometer?
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by fencepost 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that both Android and iOS stores continue to lack a good "paid upgrades" mechanism and it's been a developer complaint for well over a decade. I've used a few apps that came out with upgrades/re
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by fencepost 2y ago
No, they get arrested for conduct that would be criminal no matter where they did it. Facebook (2x) and Twitter (2x) were the (virtual) venues where the crimes were committed, but the crimes were attempting to organize a mob to burn down a
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by fencepost 2y ago
You say there are grants available, but given the current environment actually relying on those seems risky - even if you were actually to get the money up front it seems like it might get clawed back.
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by fencepost 2y ago
Probably wouldn't be that difficult to organize down the y axis based on drive capacity, and the amount of pointless jostling around of small nodes makes it noticeably bog down as the years go by. Interesting visualization though.
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by fencepost 2y ago
Looking in the Play Store at "Top Paid" seems like a bunch of one-time purchases listed. I think a lot of it may be a difference between Android and iOS - Apple software seems to have a lot more subscriptions, but that's just
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by fencepost 2y ago
I still have the APK for one called "Backitude" and have kept migrating it for years since the disappearance of the developer. It's nothing special, just a location tracker that logs to a file every so often based on time and
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by fencepost 2y ago
Musk and Trump are like a new team owner in professional sports who decides to save money by firing their entire minor league system, except with way more pettiness and spite. But hey, Musk gets to keep eliminating everyone who might exerci
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by fencepost 2y ago
I wonder how much each company spends internally on damage control/mitigation re: Musk. I don't think he's as much of a chaos monkey as Trump, but I try not to pay attention to him so I could be missing things.
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by fencepost 2y ago
Might not be enough data for good statistical significance yet, but IIRC the "die in a fire" probability in a Tesla Refrigerator is something like 17x the Ford Pinto based on current numbers.
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by fencepost 2y ago
Good tools for translations, etc? Sure! Good historians? Ehhhhhhh. The problem is one of trust, and it's very difficult to trust the output of LLMs to be correct/true vs "truthy" without extensive verification that may b
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by fencepost 2y ago
It's entirely believable that this showed up because of a bug, but it also seems likely that the bug was in setting it to full blocking vs some kind of deprioritization.
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by fencepost 2y ago
So they're moving to a video site named "Red" plus a four-letter word? TikTok, you've changed! But maybe not that much.
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by fencepost 2y ago
It means you can resell Microsoft products with some reasonable level of margin. To be a Silver or Gold partner direct with Microsoft (vs 'indirect' partners through a distributor like Ingram) you're probably collecting that
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by fencepost 2y ago
M365 Personal or Family can actually have a place as cost-effective cloud storage that 'just works' for consumers that don't care to go down the self hosting rabbit hole. It happens to include an office apps suite, but even w
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by fencepost 2y ago
I have zero difficulty believing this based on my experiences with frozen hash browns for home in the past few years. What I used to get for ~$2.50-3 a bag (occasionally on sale down to $1.67) is now routinely $4 or higher. When I looked a
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by fencepost 2y ago
Samsung at some point a few years ago added the ability to cap charging below the maximum (was 85% until an update this year dropped it to 80%). Settings, Battery, Battery Protection. I believe this roughly corresponded to their extension o
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by fencepost 2y ago
I have great faith in the ability of ahem some individuals to harm themselves out of spite or inability to recognize inbound leopards, but I'm pretty sure that even those would find the new vehicles to be an improvement even if they&

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