gorfian_robot

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Thoughts on the Commodore 8020 smart flip phone?(wired.com)
3 points by gorfian_robot 4mo ago|7 comments
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by gorfian_robot 4mo ago
I kinda like it!
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by gorfian_robot 4mo ago
I think all of their metro areas are like this. I'm sure they did some math on the duty cycle of the cars to help draw the boundaries.
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by gorfian_robot 4mo ago
Waymo Supreme comes with cheese
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by gorfian_robot 4mo ago
or maybe they grew up in NYC or London and never drove in their life. then moved to PHX.
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by gorfian_robot 4mo ago
I forgot about ZipCar. The downside in a place like SF is having to deal with parking it. I seem to recall dedicated ZipCar spots in the distant past ....
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by gorfian_robot 4mo ago
Ultra Plus™ benefits includes Trauma Team Premium™ service in case of accident or civil unrest.
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by gorfian_robot 4mo ago
hmm. I have always seen it to be more expensive (10-20%).
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by gorfian_robot 4mo ago
sane people
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by gorfian_robot 4mo ago
Acquired has an excellent episode on Costco: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco
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by gorfian_robot 5mo ago
his full nomenclature is "Dark Angel of the Playa"
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by gorfian_robot 5mo ago
the moop map used to be a analog creation with pics of it uploaded every day of the resto(ration) process. some years ago they switched to digital tools and now they don't release it for several months after the event. huh.
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
like many other places, there is a airport bus in Melbourne as I recall. there is (or was) a train from Melbourne to Canberra too (with a short bus transfer on the Canberra side). it was very difficult to figure out how to buy a ticket fo
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
didn't NZ have a decent inter-city train service in the past but no longer does bc cars won out in the end?
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
didn't work? try this: https://archive.fo/20260412163711/https://www.wsj.com/tech/u...
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
I wish it had all the small aircraft not just commercial flights
47.
by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
uh oh! "This version of Talks.cam will be replaced by 1 July 2026,"
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
this and the recent banksy 'umasking' by major news outlets is sad in our era of huge US governmental crimes and coverups.
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
it is still a cool house and I enjoy the tour. but I lag back and ignore the guide.
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
as an aside the lore about the "Winchester Mystery House" is all made up hogwash. here is one place where it is debunked: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/08/the-truth-about-sallie...
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
Here are a couple others I know about: https://www.showcaves.com/english/index.html https://www.hmdb.org/
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I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?
31 points by gorfian_robot 6mo ago|48 comments
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
yeah +12 if it had an rss feed
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
a consumer phone usually would only have an FM receiver
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
def a niche consumer item these days. but pretty easy to make your own.
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
regular AM/FM stations are not broadcasting on shortwave bands
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
oh come on. NASA would never ignore or cover up critical flight safety issues! /s
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
does it though? my experience is that it still hot garbage.
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
my win11 disk shit the bed and I had the local PC guys put in a new one (wiping all my data). they gave me the the machine back with a local 'user1' admin account. so that's me now. user1. hi.
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by gorfian_robot 6mo ago
I reported this to 99pi as an Article of Interest

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