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by giobox 11mo ago
Old enough to remember when work place mandated Windows machines were common place - now it feels like things have flipped in software dev, and macOS has become the "workOS". While no fan of Windows, I now find in my older age I a
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by giobox 11mo ago
The inventor of markdown, John Gruber (yes that John Gruber of daringfireball fame) has always distanced himself from any efforts to make it a "standard" too, in part why we ended up with the name "CommonMark" for that p
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by giobox 11mo ago
I had to go and read the docs to confirm this was true, I'm really surprised this has been removed (since Raspian Bookworm apparently). It was a ridiculously common way to configure wifi on RPis over the last decade! It's the litt
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by giobox 11mo ago
I'm already assuming we will see a creepy AI service emerge that will take the contents of a recently deceased person's cellphone and let you carry on texting them as if they were still alive, if it hasn't already (I haven&#x
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by giobox 11mo ago
Barely... the iPadOS brand was introduced in 2019, the European Commission proposed the DMA in 2020, and even prior to this there were obvious noises being made in Europe with regards to future regulation. Maybe its coincidence, but the tim
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by giobox 11mo ago
Everyone I know who is into tinkering with microcontrollers moved onto ESP32 a long time ago now. I actually thought this headline was going to link to an article about ESP32's popularity. VSCode with the PlatformIO extension has been
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by giobox 11mo ago
Sure, if you completely disregard the legendary straight sixes from Toyota and Nissan (RB, JZ...). I agree 4 bangers are huge historically in JDM sports cars, but so too is the straight six - the classic Z cars, Supras, GT-Rs...
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by giobox 11mo ago
Given the US bent to this website, surprised more people aren't complaining about lifted trucks... Lifting a truck by a 6-12 inches does awful things to the unajusted beam pattern of the headlamps in many instances, with even the dippe
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by giobox 11mo ago
All Teslas can do this too, as can a huge range of modern cars with so called "auto dipping headlights". Virtually all cars with this option allow you to turn it off though... The quality of the auto-dip implementation varies enor
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by giobox 11mo ago
I mostly agree, with the caveat the Bazzite is also a good option for PCs that spend their life permanently connected to a TV as a gaming box. It makes for a great big screen sofa experience too vs using typical Linux distro desktop UIs or
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by giobox 11mo ago
The risk surely exists if you decide to run their gate service: "After you activate the VPN Gate Service, anyone can connect a VPN connection to your computer, and access to any hosts on the Internet via your computer" "When
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by giobox 11mo ago
I did this for years during the early 2010s, but given the IP ranges of most the major VPS players are widely known, many sites and services now just block them outright. It got to the stage I had to stop doing it. I suspect it has only got
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by giobox 11mo ago
Rejoining the EU can absolutely be done, but I think it's unlikely the UK could join on the terms it had before, I can't see that being accepted in the current political climate in Europe. In theory, any new country joining the EU
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by giobox 11mo ago
> Most people aren't going to consume more than 10 mg THC worth of gummies in one sitting (at least if they're getting something government-sactioned) In CA, WA and CO, almost every single individual gummie is 10mg (up to 100mg
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by giobox 11mo ago
I'm not sure most of us do anymore - see my 1080p/24 inch example. No one who has bought almost any MacBook in the last 10 years or so has had PPD this low either. One can get by with almost anything in a pinch, it doesn't me
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by giobox 11mo ago
Even the vision pro at 35ppd simply isn't close to the PPD you can get from a good desktop monitor (we can calculate PPD for desktop monitors too, using size and viewing distance). Apple's "retina" HiDPI monitors typical
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by giobox 11mo ago
While it's a dealbraker for me too, locking the spec is how Valve can make a stable hardware target for devs with the "Steam Deck Verified" program, which they've also announced is coming to this box. This is one of the
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by giobox 11mo ago
The title of this blog post is deliberately provocative. If it was titled "Unexpected things that have legal personhood" it would be much less catchy. No one is actually arguing these things are human beings. > https:/&#x
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by giobox 11mo ago
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
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by giobox 11mo ago
Considering how much treasure has been poured into building recommendation engines for just about everything online, books have always been very difficult for me to find recommendations that work. Interested to try it!
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by giobox 11mo ago
Speaking for myself, the "blast radius" of my email address is some 600+ accounts... (just looking in my password manager). The chances of me sitting down and closing every single one are non-existent. Many won't even have th
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by giobox 11mo ago
One of the drawbacks of using a custom domain for personal email is you essentially have to pay for it for life, otherwise anyone can just buy your old email address if the domain expires and start receiving mail, resetting accounts... I th
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by giobox 11mo ago
It seems Apple have added support for shipping alternate browser engines in the EU, and could in theory be sold using Apple's own store there, as well as third party ones: https://developer.apple.com/support/altern
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by giobox 11mo ago
That "deltic" engine just for the water pumping is incredible, I'd never seen that cylinder layout before. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Deltic
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by giobox 1y ago
If you just want to get something running locally as fast as possible to play with (the 2080ti typically had 11gb of VRAM which will be one of the main limiting factors), the ollama app will run most of these models locally with minimum use
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by giobox 1y ago
I'm slightly confused here; the EU Directive you are listing has absolutely no bearing on this discussion or the case at all? https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2011/92/oj/eng Article 5.2 concer
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by giobox 1y ago
A lot of electronic parking brakes do have a service mode. For most modern Fords, there is a procedure, as one example of many: > https://www.brakeandfrontend.com/quick-answer-electronic-par... You typically need the pis
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by giobox 1y ago
Sure, everything you say was true for many folks 40 years ago too though! My point is, the processes haven't really changed for the common maintenance tasks over this period, people's perception of the difficulty certainly appears
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by giobox 1y ago
> cars have become more complicated and require more diagnostic equipment For the consumable stuff every car owner has to deal with, nothing has really changed in 40 years, honestly! A brake service is still done the exact same way, same
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by giobox 1y ago
Duplicate discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761445

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