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by grvbck 7mo ago
> what exactly are you looking for? File management that doesn't suck, incl. better handling of external drives.
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by grvbck 7mo ago
My 2010 Macbook Pro with 8GB works still. Not a daily driver anymore, but Word, Excel, Lightroom, Garageband, MainStage etc work just fine. Youtube videos up to 1080p play without stuttering in Floorp. It's not quick, but it is useable
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by grvbck 7mo ago
> they do nothing to change corporate behavior. Well, they should. I've been on Mac since System 6.0.7. I've had a Mac Clone. I've been mocked by more Windows users for "using a toy computer" than I can remember.
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by grvbck 7mo ago
I think the narrative is more difficult now, as is visibility of goals. “Land a man on the Moon and return him safely” is a clear objective, while “decarbonize the global economy” or “make AI safe and useful” are fuzzier, and don’t give you
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by grvbck 7mo ago
> They're polluting They absolutely are, but per capita, USA is polluting 49.67 % more than China. Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/carbon-fo...
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by grvbck 8mo ago
> One thing I do know for sure. LLMs would have been impossible. We had ELIZA, and that was enough for people to anthropomorphize their teletype terminals.
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by grvbck 8mo ago
> So you could sell singles with one hit song, and this would propel the "B-side" into people's homes as well And that's also how Queen almost broke up in 1975. (Roger Taylor making just as much money from singles for
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by grvbck 9mo ago
(Also, for a frame of reference as to how large these numbers are: the entire gps network operates on 31 satellites.)
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by grvbck 9mo ago
From a technical standpoint: amazing achievement, and the tech nerd in me is in awe. But it feels like a lot of people don't understand (or care?) how much these companies are polluting the space. Before the "new wave", in 20
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by grvbck 9mo ago
Not pedantic enough, actually. European lawmakers don't suspend the deal, they suspend work on implementing the laws that are part of a multi‑step political and legal process that in the end makes the deal implemented in all member sta
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by grvbck 9mo ago
This was a few years before Sweden joined the EU, but yes, I think the lack of a physical connection was one of the main problems. From what I've read the test drivers also thought the car was too difficult to drive, with the joystick
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by grvbck 9mo ago
> I don't want a car with an "innovative" way of steering. 99.5 % agree, because I would love to try SAAB:s drive-by-wire concept from 1992: https://www.saabplanet.com/saab-9000-drive-by-wire-1992/
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by grvbck 9mo ago
> I encourage you to search (you can use LLMs) to figure out how to print the SSID you're connected to from the CLI. Yeah, the official Apple support forums are and have always been embarrassingly bad. I don't use the CLI on my
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by grvbck 9mo ago
Don't dismiss the yearning for space/new frontiers/adventure that a lot of us have. If you offered tickets to the moon today for the price of a cruise, you would probably have people standing in line from Cape Canaveral to Ta
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by grvbck 9mo ago
> MacOS/iOS/iPadOS were never for sale separately Mac OS was though. OS X 10.0/10.1 were sold for $129 as an upgrade for Mac OS 9 users. Apple continued to offer OS X as a paid software product up to 10.5 or 10.6 (though
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by grvbck 9mo ago
I miss the 90-115 min movie length standard from not that far ago. Those screenwriters knew how to make a script tight. Movies with a runtime over 3 hours really stood out.
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by grvbck 10mo ago
When I first started using Spotify, a lot of the tracks in my playlists had titles like "Pearl Jam - Even Flow_128_mp3_encoded_by_SHiLlaZZ". Always made me chuckle, it looked like they had copied half of their catalogue from the p
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by grvbck 10mo ago
TIL. Thanks!
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by grvbck 10mo ago
> Gizmodo reached out to Grok-developer xAI for comment, but they have only responded with the usual automated reply, “Legacy Media Lies.” European here, so perhaps not my place to have an opinion on domestic U.S. legal policies, and I d
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by grvbck 10mo ago
Yes! I have stories like that from every Japanese city or town I've been to. Easily the most hospitable, kindest locals I've ever encountered while traveling. Although, I am often surprised by how kind/helpful/generally
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by grvbck 10mo ago
For now. I can see a not-so-distant future where internet access is needed for "cloud AI" to enable full 8K resolution, or where Dolby Atmos/Eclipsa Audio/Amphi Hi-D has to be unlocked through an online account, or where
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by grvbck 10mo ago
> current vehicles traveling about 10x the speed of voyager As I understand it, not really. Parker Solar Probe is crazy fast, but only because it has that trajectory, and is unable to just change course and keep that speed in other direc
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by grvbck 11mo ago
> BBEdit will survive the heat death of the universe With GraphicConverter by its side.
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by grvbck 11mo ago
The distribution of four-leaf clovers is not uniform; they tend to cluster in certain areas. Many moons ago when I was a small kid, on my walk to school I had to walk a bit under high voltage power lines. Found tons of four-leaf clovers und
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by grvbck 11mo ago
You need ridiculous speeds for time dilation to really kick in though. Mathematically, it starts as soon as an object moves. But if a spaceship travels at 90 % of light speed (0.9 c), their local time moves just approximately at half speed
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by grvbck 11mo ago
> This is horrifically patronizing after someone's volunteer work was effectively destroyed This, 100 %. "Your bot just destroyed 20 years of my work." "Naaaw, sorry you feel that way! Let's hop on a quick call s
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by grvbck 2y ago
Yeah we don't do that here. Our culture was Pirate Bay and nation-wide torrenting until the government said it was stealing and people stopped because we are Honest Citizens. No revolutions, unless explicitly permitted by the governmen
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by grvbck 2y ago
Here in Sweden the answer from the general public often is "yes, I am honest and have nothing to hide". Unlike French media, Swedish media does not have a well-developed tradition of confronting those in power and/or demandin
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by grvbck 2y ago
But is that really how nations decide which plane to buy? Sure, technical capabilities are crucial, but don't political and economic factors significantly influence the adoption of the F-35? Factors like strengthening alliances, diplom
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by grvbck 2y ago
While this may not be a perfectly executed study, the "N=1 trial" part is not the problem. There have been numerous medical and scientific studies with N=1, known as N-of-1 trials. These trials are very useful in chronic condition

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