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by giantrobot 4mo ago
This assume Claude's price doesn't change. Which isn't a great assumption considering inference providers are moving to usage based billing. Also the VC money isn't going to last indefinitely. Current inference providers
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by giantrobot 5mo ago
"e.g." == exempli gratia == to give an example "i.e." == id es == that is
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by giantrobot 5mo ago
SmartMedia was a pain in the ass because the 5v and 3.3v cards weren't immediately obvious. You could spend a lot of money on a card only to have it physically fit but not work in a device or reader. With CompactFlash and MMC (and SD)
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by giantrobot 5mo ago
You can try 'sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/microSDCardName' which will disable Spotlight indexing on it. While a Spotlight index of an empty disk shouldn't cause overheating...there's bugs somewhere in the chai
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by giantrobot 5mo ago
I've had similar issues with microSD in a variety of adapters. I think the core issue is most microSD cards just aren't built, in terms of thermals, for sustained writes. In most devices they're either read-heavy loads or bur
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by giantrobot 5mo ago
A multi-port USB-C hub is about ten dollars on Amazon. If a Neo owner really needs additional ports they're a few bucks. For a vast majority of Neo owners the lack of ports is a non-issue and for the others that occasionally need the
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by giantrobot 5mo ago
I appreciate the lack of a reverse proxy in front. While I love the various "website hosted on X" projects they end up in reality just served by CloudFlare. Which is fine since you don't want your C64 or vape pen or whateve
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by giantrobot 5mo ago
They lost money on every transaction but intended to make it up with volume.
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by giantrobot 5mo ago
In that case I'll have a rum and Coca-Cola.
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by giantrobot 5mo ago
> It is my preference to have user replaceable batteries, and my belief is that they were only removed to make phones become obselete quicker and cause higher turnover of purchased phones. My iPhone 12 is six years old. I replaced the ba
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by giantrobot 5mo ago
There's tons of MagSafe battery packs for iPhones. They charge the phone continuously. There's no need to let the phone drop to zero before attaching the battery pack. There's also cases with integral batteries. I assume ther
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by giantrobot 5mo ago
You'd be really interested to learn the difference between a rivet and a screw.
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
I only meant new as in someone currently owns a Time Capsule and has to replace it with something "new" that supports newer SMB versions.
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
Time Machine support is also dropping support over SMB1 so whatever new solution needs to support SMB2/3.
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
Ah but the solution was an X.500 directory where you just look up the recipient! So you never type the e-mail address, you just look up "Joe Smith" to send them an e-mail. Like looking them up in the phone book. Ignore the fact th
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
If you remember Nokia's batteries they were covered in a relatively thick ABS shell. They were also, compared to today, had laughably little storage. A Series 40 Nokia just did not draw that much power. The single GSM/PCS radio
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
The money laundering won't go away. It'll just move to administrations-approved money laundering vehicles like crypto. And needlessly disrupt or ruin the lives of millions. Neat.
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
The goal is to de-bank any opposition to the government. It starts with an easy out group like immigrants. Then more and more groups will get de-banked or otherwise disenfranchised.
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
> The most charitable interpretation is that most rich/powerful people are just as flawed as everyone else. I can't believe that. They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps at their private schools and then had to claw and f
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
Even with centrifugal "gravity" the toilets need to be designed for the worst case scenario (no "gravity"). Even if you could use a "regular" toilet the system needs to sequester and process the septic waste. T
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
Maybe they could vibe code some sort of, I don't know, a Web Service Description Language. That could describe how to interact with a service.
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
Inside of the cage it'll be fine. It just won't do great traversing the boundary. As long as there's a WAP/antenna inside the cage everything inside the cage will get a signal.
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
So...XForms[0] but involving AI. [0] https://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
Line simulators are fun. The ports can call each other and there's no need to set any custom init strings on the modem like you need with the 9 volt trick. For some old devices that's a necessity. You can also use an old VoIP ATA
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
The Space Shuttle and ISS (and Orion) had/have microgravity toilets. They have some active suction and spinning tines that push the material against the walls of the containment vessel. The ISS toilet has changeable waste containers th
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
The air filtration will actually help spread aerosols because air currents will carry them through the cabin before they're captured by a filter. A high power "eliminate aerosols" mode would be one of those infrastructure t
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
I gauge the seriousness of all manned space exploration proposals by the attention paid to the toilets. If the toilets are not a solved problem with many nines of reliability, you're just writing science function and are not at all ser
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by giantrobot 6mo ago
That's a transiting detection, there's other detection methods for exoplanets. Even a coarse grained survey with a ground based traditional telescope can find our solar system thanks to Jupiter's gravitational influence on th
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
First that's just star systems within 100 lightyears of Earth, systems with one of more gravitationally bound stars in them. There are thousands of stars within 100 light years of Earth. Most are red dwarfs but there's about a
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by giantrobot 7mo ago
They read the Three Body Problem but forgot that light exists. For aliens with interferometers looking at Earth there's little question there's some sort of interesting active chemistry (life) here. Theres no hiding that fact. If

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