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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> I've got over 50 Philips Hue Color bulbs running with no failures since 2016 Those are $40 light bulbs. 99.999% of people do not have $2000 to spend on light bulbs, or laugh at the ludicrousness of such a thought, possibly both. T
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Really getting sick and tired of the gaslighting around how awesome LED bulbs supposedly are. Over the last 5 years I've probably chucked more LED bulbs into the bin than I have incandescents. They flicker. They buzz. I've had an
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> which adjusts the input voltage to the bulb This isn't exactly true; no one has used a rheostat for dimming in like 50 years since that just wastes power. Most incandescent dimmers implement cycle chopping where they clip the begi
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
The "ultra rich" likely have a different perspective into how tax dollars are continually squandered and abused, which tempers their desire to give it away to some of the most inefficient and corrupt organizations on the planet. I
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> They theorize that a conniving player could pretend to drop something, go under the table where the Deckmate lies, and plug a device into the USB port. [...] > Tartaro and his team admit they haven't tested in a real casino. Of
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Musk-Zuck Roman gladiator battle to be livestreamed by X and Meta(twitter.com)
4 points by housemusicfan 3y ago|1 comments
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CFCN/CTV News bit on OpenBSD (2002) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by housemusicfan 3y ago|0 comments
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Do you think the guy wearing his underwear outside his pants and muttering to himself is a candidate for "sweat equity"?
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
"People experiencing homelessness" is a dog whistle used by the homeless industrial complex [1] to distract from the reality and root causes of the situation. In Seattle, warring groups of vagrants are bombing each others' ca
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Your chief complaints (eco friendly everything in new construction, AC restrictions) are likely due to compliance with local laws. I would suggest to choose wisely when electing your political leaders. In fact California has a requirement f
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
It reads like an Onion headline. "Gen Z learns their badges can be used to track their movements. Said one employee: 'This is not OK!'"
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Down on your luck? Are you sleeping on a subway grate and your kids eating ramen noodles 3 meals a day? No? People make bad career choices like this every day. I started reading this thinking you took a dump in your boss' wastebasket o
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
This reads like another Arsvertisement.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Lighten up, Francis.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Judging by the reactions, including the many HN threads on the topic, many are outraged. No doubt because this could spell longer lines at the $17 grilled cheese food truck during lunch.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> Personally I found the shuffles with the API a huge pain. Why is it when Apple does this nearly every year right on schedule, they're lauded as stewards of progress?
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
For consumers maybe? But for official government dissemination of information? This is the topic of discussion. Try doing anything remotely "official" in Japan without fax or a paper process with half a dozen ink stamps. It can&#x
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
RSS is a great, albeit forgotten, technology. The problem is the social media-obsessed NPCs of the world don't know how to use it. It didn't help that all the major browser vendors removed the technology and you need a standalone
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
I'm surprised a country still thoroughly obsessed with fax machines is posting anything on X.
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The historical significance of the Burgermaster (2020)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by housemusicfan 3y ago|0 comments
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
The tracking part is more telemetry for their delivery optimization algorithm. (Think the classic traveling salesman problem.) For example, UPS drivers are generally prohibited from making left turns because it's considered less effici
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> Everyone bitches about the problems they have when they get shipments from herky jerky companies like Laser Let's not forget OnTrac, where I've had them show up at nearly 11 PM and chuck a package out the driver's side w
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> What is "that's it" supposed to mean here? It means he thinks people should be paid more than UPS drivers to sit in a fabric box all day developing fart apps for iPhone. Or WFH whilst waiting for said delivery man to sho
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
> These freedoms include running as many instances you'd like for whatever purpose Where does it say in the GPL, that you would be entitled to perpetual updates for every copy? Remember, Stallman founded the GNU project because he w
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
You've pretty well debunked this, but I took a stroll through the git repos; the commit logs tell the truth. Python: the latest commit was from a Microsoft employee. Not to mention the creator of Python works for Microsoft now. GCC: Th
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Oddly, the hordes tripping over each other predicting imminent rueage for Twitter, have all fallen silent.
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
The Chrome Omnibox is one of the worst UI/UX devices ever invented. It continues to break web paradigms set in stone 30 years ago, with its protocol trimming, TLD guessing games, ditching the lock for a squiggly new icon which makes no
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by housemusicfan 3y ago
Put that in context when you consider all the "essential" employees he fired couldn't even muster that in the last 5 years. Which begs the question: what did these people do all day?
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National Ice Cream Sandwich Day(nationaltoday.com)
1 points by housemusicfan 3y ago|0 comments
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Why are people drinking borax cleaning powder on TikTok?(ktla.com)
2 points by housemusicfan 3y ago|2 comments

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