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by hakfoo 2y ago
I find it weird if a distribution doesn't have it. At the end of the day, a big selling point for FOSS products is always going to be the free-beer aspect. Bits are free, take as many as you want. But there's also the appeal of c
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Aren't some of those platforms more-or-less official outlets of the manufacturer for some brands already? While it's entirely possible some of the storefronts are just flashing "official widgetco shop" as a credibility-e
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I had always assumed the problem was "the page flashes for 0.3 seconds when we navigate from View #1 to View #2 as we reload the header and sidebar"
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by hakfoo 2y ago
My first LCD monitor. A couple months later I was at the local surplus goods shop and they had gorgeous Sun 21" CRTs for $75 each. I broke down and passed the virtually new $350 LCD to other family members. It ended up Capacitor Plagu
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The idea is solid, I suspect it just needs some tweaks to the language. "It's not a sale, it's a license", ironically reminds me of sovereign-citizen "I'm not driving, I'm travelling and don't need a
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by hakfoo 2y ago
You're always going to have graft and waste. But you can optimize for the types of graft you want. Do you want them paying 20 labourers to do the work of 10? Or inserting a mountain of consultants and converting cash into PowerPoints
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by hakfoo 2y ago
One of the big benefits of print debugging is that it's useful for the initial "bifurcate the code" process. If you add a bunch of print statements every few lines, it's easier to run the code and see you got to the chec
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The SDR is fun on its own (I've browsed the local airports' signals and decoded APRS signals with DireWolf, using a nothing-special TV-style dipole antenna that comes in the box, and you can always use it as a decent FM reciever o
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by hakfoo 2y ago
At my first job, I largely used Notepad++ and grep, and the result tended away from object-oriented code and code paths tended to be not much more than `require_once("common.php");` The second job introduced PHPStorm, and a single
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by hakfoo 2y ago
We can and should have satellites, but we can certainly be thrifty with how we use them. The megaconstellation concept isn't necessary for most of the "cool stuff you can do with satellites." You might need a handful of weat
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Used CDs are dirt cheap. Local thrift stores here tend to price them at $1-$1.50 each. Of course, the dedicated "record" stores tend to be closer to $6-10, but they're more likely to have things other than thousands of coun
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I suspect that right now it's still very difficult to sell a laptop with unupgradeable RAM. Even if you never buy the upgrade, it was a reassurance factor: this machine may last five years, and at some point in that window, 16Gb is go
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by hakfoo 2y ago
It might in a few years, but fabs aren't really interchangeable widgets. Their contract-fab business has been a sporadic joke up to now. Until there's an established toolchain and pipeline, and a history of reliable delivery, wil
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Conrail might be a better alternative model. It really did succeed well enough to re-float and become a competitive endeavour. The state probably did a better job than a private takeover could have because: - They had effectively infinite
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by hakfoo 2y ago
A few years ago, I bought a kit for a network-controlled self-synching clock, mostly as an excuse to practice SMD soldering. It came from a Chinese vendor, and China has only the single time zone, so the firmware was not designed with any
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by hakfoo 2y ago
But did you see the stick insects?
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by hakfoo 2y ago
> Rich people's improvement outpacing poor people's is not necessarily an issue. That's like saying "the fact there's a black hole in the centre of the galaxy is not an issue." Extreme wealth distorts the un
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I think the case for AMD over nVidia is that it's somewhat less bubble-driven. A lot of the crypto boom is over. If the AI boom fizzles, and nVidia goes back to selling GPUs for gamers, an admittedly niche market, that's going
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The roles and capabilities of the state and federal government have evolved since the 1700s. The state level of government feels more and more like a historic novelty carried over as "we always did it this way" and "it would
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by hakfoo 2y ago
They've lost the narrative bad here. Any technical merit it might have has been blasted by the poor messaging and uninspiring initial experiences. My work gave me a Win11 machine. It works well enough (for a 16Gb machine trying to ju
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I'd be worried about blisters/rashes/rubbing if the weights slide around. I use an exercise-bike like device and realised I was getting a blister on my hands from the constant motion of the grip.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I think I saw a CRT with a little credit-card remote to make geometry changes. There used to be desks where the monitor was sunk in somewhat in and maybe the knobs were unreachable.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I'd argue the problem is that nobody enforced a strong peripheral API. We could have had a system like Commodore's intelligent peripherals-- a defined set of commands issued on predictable ports-- and it shouldn't technically
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by hakfoo 2y ago
A practical drawback to premade cables is the need for a larger hole to accommodate the pre-attached connector. There's also a larger gap that needs to be plugged around the cable to prevent leaks into he wall. My ordinary home-centre
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Isn't the expensive part more the assembly aspect? For Cat 6 the plugs and keystone jacks add up to a few dollars per port, and the crimper is like $20. I understand building your own fibre cables-- if you don't want to thread t
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I think due to the "nobody would run it without subsidy" nature of the Essential Air Service subsidies, the airlines themselves often pawn it off to a regional carrier wearing their skin under license (American Eagle, Delta Expres
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by hakfoo 2y ago
We're still looking for "that is useful". The stuff they've been trying to sell AI to the public with is increasingly looking as absurd as every 1978 "you'll store your recipes on the home computer" argume
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The "new hotness?" Xeriscape has been promoted at least back to the 1990s. Palo Verdes can get pretty damn big with significant shade factor, but they tend to blow a coat of a billion tiny yellow flowers in season and make a huge
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Or email them the actual tracking number. I don't need to go to your website to read the same information as usps.com but in a different header.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
There's two problems with currencies: 1. So many languages don't have a native "decimal" type to build off of, so somewhere in the data's lifecycle, a "1.75" turns into "1.7499999999997". 2. Th

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