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by hakfoo 3y ago
I was expecting to see them say "it runs Rockbox." I put it on my Sandisk E200 back in the day; 2Gb and then I stuck in another 2Gb card. It was so responsive, and the scroll-wheel UI was so convenient. The wheel seized up (stil
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It was a ridiculous experience when I tried one recently. I wanted a bag of ice, since they sell them cheaper than the Kwik-e-mart and I had some perishables I didn't want going bad on the way home. Do I want to log in? No. Am I sure
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by hakfoo 3y ago
With cards, merchants can theoretically pass additional data to identify a purchase order number, or even distinct line items (30 red widgets at $6.34 each), but it's only offered for corporate cards. I'm surprised there's no
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The longer the AI bubble runs, the closer we get to defining where it's actually viable. There are definitely some tricks it does well enough. I'm thinking of the old bit about the art students who make a better living than senio
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Part of the problem is that even if you know this is what you want, it's a classic hiring problem. You're typically doing this once every what-- 20 years-- so you don't have a "default guy" and odds are you're
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I did this and had durability problems; it broke twice in about eight years. I am attempting to find a contractor to run cables through the walls/attic, which seems to be a frustrating "send in a quote inquiry, then when I get no
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by hakfoo 3y ago
This happened to me with Dell of all places a few years ago. Back when everyone was making Windows 8 tablets with a quad-core Atom and a $350 price tag, I ordered one of theirs. It got good reviews in the Maximum PC comparo of the time, an
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by hakfoo 3y ago
DR-DOS was a viable product for many years. It first appeared as a product to compete with MS/PC-DOS 3.x releases in the late 1980s. XT-class machines were still on the market, and Windows was far from unchallenged dominance. If you
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I never understood why, as much as they both eventually succumbed to cheap CD-Rs and later flash drives, the Zip drive was more successful than the SuperDisk. Did Iomega get some important OEM wins? I seem to recall more retail PCs adverti
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I prefer the variant where nobody owns land-- the local government can lease it out on a term basis. Homes might be leased on a long term-- 10-20-100 years, but commercial land should be on 5 years or less. This gives the local government
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by hakfoo 3y ago
IME, username + password along with an occasional and random "we don't recognize your machine" where they send a 2FA code over SMS. Entertainingly, they seem to sniff user-agents in some way. Firefox on Linux works fine, but
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Another place you see this is turntables. People boxed it up and tossed the cord on top, then piled a bunch of stuff on it for 25 years, and there are the terrible dents. Since the dustcover is usually plastic, it takes the damage. This w
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Well, I identify with Mamoru, and would expect most of us to do so. [Spoiler] When he gets to travel back in time, rather than looking at the media, or the currency, or asking people repeatedly, he runs to a computer shop to see "Okay,
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It's interesting that the vehicles that cemented Tesla's legitmacy-- the Roadster and Model S-- were intentionally unobtrusive, almost to the point of looking like the generic non-licensed cars you see in video games. You could p
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Cases in the traditional "desktop" flat style have vertical GPU mounts for free. It's interesting that there's very little activity in that sector now, for fullsize motherboard support, especially since we've decid
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by hakfoo 3y ago
If the fear is high-speed chases, maybe we need to also be considering when and how the police choose to give chase. Are the criminals being pursued "active threats to life and limb?"-- someone in the middle of a spree killing dec
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by hakfoo 3y ago
There's an obvious market for "wildly unbalanced" microcontrollers. The actual "elevator controller" or "e-scooter controller" or whatever would run fine on a Z80, but it has to pull something from the clo
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The bajillion-jurisdictions problem can be solved on an aggregate basis. Charge everyone $100 inclusive-of-taxes. Keep $93.50 of that from a customer in Phoenix, $92.75 from a customer in Los Angeles, and all $100 from a customer in Oregon
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I've heard the Commodore mechanism has a signal processing model that's pretty different from an audio deck, even if the tape transport and heads are comparable. I suspect this is a combination of "saving a nickel" and
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by hakfoo 3y ago
CDs seem to be pretty resilient compared to tapes, from my experience buying used media. A small percentage of CDs will be unrippable, but a fair number of tapes are torn or self-destruct, and the players can have tape-destroying failure m
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The answer is mandatory licensing. Maybe permit some limited ability to offer a very narrow window of exclusivity (weeks, not years) in exchange for getting a lower rate later (because we should treat attempts to wall off parts of shared c
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Wouldn't it make sense to use something like Google Maps, filter to the lowest one or two price categories, and go from there? I'd figure Google Maps, being less explicitly targeted to tourists, would be likely to include reviews
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The problem isn't a lack of expiration, so much as it is relying on commercial middlemen. Nationalize the real-estate and you create a monopsony for housing credits. Open up state-run distribution centres that accept the food vouchers
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Note that there's a phase even beyond that where the notes are completely unredeemable. At a numismatics fair, I saw a 10 CHF note in a stack priced at 4 USD, and thought "Woo! Free money!" However, it was a 5th series note,
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I've had to work with VS for the first time in my career recently. I love how they don't have a scrollable tab bar (like the Jetbrains IDEs or even bloody Notepad++), but you can have it spawn row after row of tabs and crowd out
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by hakfoo 3y ago
FWIW, I think the card industry itself is having to rethink a lot of stuff for EVs. Petrol pumps with card readers are their own little universe of rules and compliance standards within the credit card industry (the formal term is 'Aut
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The latter one is more business people driving the operation. They want to assume the user is an idiot, because idiots are often the desired customer: * Broader market. For every N people who'd buy AutoCAD, there's probably 10N p
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by hakfoo 3y ago
> The pre-loonie Canadian $1 coins obviously never gained any collector value. I got a sheet of a whole bunch of different years at a garage sale for face value! I'll do you one better: I like the classic Voyageur design, so when I
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The reason is that the US dollar was originally based on the Spanish coins of the time. This meant that they had a lot of 8-real coins in circulation that could pass for $1, and 2-real coins that passed for 25c. People got used to that mo
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I was somewhat surprised to find that when I got my driver's licence at 39, it was the same number as the non-driving ID card I got issued at 18. So at least Arizona doesn't seem to be eager to hand out new numbers.

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