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by glxxyz 1y ago
The same Prosumers who need AirPods Pro. I'm the same, thousands and thousands of casual photos of people, animals, flowers, landscapes with a 15 Pro Max. My DSLR sits unused in a case. It has to be the 17 Pro but I'm debating reg
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by glxxyz 1y ago
"Do you want me to use ChatGPT to answer that?"
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by glxxyz 1y ago
5% more volume than a mini. Lame.
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by glxxyz 1y ago
I switched to Dvorak about 27 years ago. And I switched back to Qwerty about 26.75 years ago. I got to the point where I could comfortably touch-type in Dvorak to about the same speed as I could Qwerty. While Dvorak was a slightly better la
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by glxxyz 1y ago
Yes the advice in TFA was brought to you by the sort of people who never finish anything because they're always wasting time thinking about potential future use cases that will never happen. Make it simple and extensible and make it sa
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by glxxyz 1y ago
Not necessarily a waste in all languages. A c++ `std::vector<bool>` efficiently packs bits for example, although it does have its own 'issues'.
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by glxxyz 1y ago
I bookmark pages in Chrome just so autocomplete will find them. I almost never look back at the actual bookmarks any more.
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by glxxyz 1y ago
"no the other one, down a bit, no the one above, no go back..."
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by glxxyz 1y ago
https://archive.is/eiZHj
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by glxxyz 1y ago
Find a neighbour with an active dog and offer to take them for regular runs.
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by glxxyz 1y ago
> Wouldn't Gen X responses on those threads also be inherently biased toward Gen X people who are chronically online and deep into social media? Maybe now, yes, but not 20+ years ago when they were younger and going out and partying
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by glxxyz 1y ago
I wish the recordings could be edited, it would be nice to record for several minutes and just pull out the actual bird calls.
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by glxxyz 1y ago
I almost ran one over turning in a car park in Edmonton. Backed up and it was still standing on the pigeon glaring at me. I drove around.
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by glxxyz 1y ago
Nothing, 'retirement age' is typically when people qualify for a state pension. Sometimes it's used for mandatory retirement when that exists.
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by glxxyz 1y ago
Haha, sorry if it's been an obvious thing to point out. You should see how upset I get at 'retro' games with inconsistent pixel sizes or pixel rotation. I like the idea of designing sprites etc. right on the system, reminds m
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by glxxyz 1y ago
Wouldn't 320x180 resolution be more like the early to mid '80s?
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by glxxyz 2y ago
"If you're into it, you already pay through the nose for those" I believe pirating is seen an alternative to paying through the nose? I pay through the nose for most live sports I watch.
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by glxxyz 2y ago
"if you pirate why would you stream when you can download and watch at your convenience?" Live events, e.g. sports? "why would you donate your bandwidth to them?" I don't know but people donate bandwidth for torrent
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by glxxyz 2y ago
I'm pretty sure it's this Einhell Wet/Dry Vacuum Cleaner: https://www.einhell.nl/en/p/2342370-tc-vc-1812-s/ this guy in England seemed quite happy with his: https://www.youtube.com&#
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by glxxyz 2y ago
I never really liked Twitter but I feel oddly nostalgic for the logo now.
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by glxxyz 2y ago
'Antiwork' - every hour they work uses up more than an hour of other engineers' time in questions, meetings, and later fixes.
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by glxxyz 2y ago
My parents used to take me to Stanford Hall occasionally where there was an exhibit about Percy Pilcher, I suppose it was free to get in. I always found looking up at the waxwork's face slightly disturbing: https://stanfordh
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by glxxyz 2y ago
In summer the ground is much cooler than the air, so it outperforms an air source heatpump for cooling the house too.
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by glxxyz 2y ago
The manufacturers of ground source heat pumps use the term 'geothermal' in English: https://www.waterfurnace.com/residential/products/geothermal... https://enertechusa.com/geothermal-prod
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by glxxyz 2y ago
I installed a ground sourced heat pump a couple of years ago, and my heat pump manufacturer refers to it as geothermal: https://www.waterfurnace.com/switch . Most people don't think of this as 'geothermal' ho
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by glxxyz 2y ago
The BBC filmed a few artists trying it out in 1987, which was probably how a lot of the public first heard of it: https://youtu.be/ZI8RbdPe4ro
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by glxxyz 2y ago
BBC BASIC from Acorn in 1982 supported integers and reals. From page 65 of the user guide [ https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/download/file.php?id=91666 ] Three main types of variables are supported in this ve
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by glxxyz 2y ago
When I brought an early autostereogram in to school in the early '90s my high school Physics teacher refused to try it as he thought it sounded impossible. He thought we were all in on it as we 'got it' one after another.
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by glxxyz 2y ago
It looks like there was no pause in 2015: https://www.lg.com/us/tv-audio-video-accessories/lg-AN-MR650... Play and pause were there in 2016: https://www.lg.com/us/tv-audio-video-accessories&#x
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by glxxyz 2y ago
Sol is the Roman sun god and the latin for 'sun' so is sometimes used.

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