jakzurr

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1. 31.▲
   by jakzurr 2mo ago

   I get people want to protect their kids. But I don't agree with age verification. If people can't figure out parental controls, maybe they can buy a phone plan that has it already set up in advance. We don't need laws for thi
2. 32.▲
   by jakzurr 2mo ago

   Wow, that's gorgeous! I hope the other poster isn't right about violating ordinances.
3. 33.▲
   by jakzurr 2mo ago

   Thanks for the link. Well that's pretty sad.
4. 34.▲
   by jakzurr 2mo ago

   You import it illegally, you eat it.
5. 35.▲
   by jakzurr 2mo ago

   Yup, pretty sure I've seen the same sorts of things using Asian characters.
6. 36.▲
   by jakzurr 2mo ago

   (Speaking of menu/drop-downs with underlined characters for alt commands.) > This works poorly if you intend to localise your application. Great if you don't though. Sure that's true. But remember M$ allowed you to fairly
7. 37.▲
   by jakzurr 2mo ago

   "Just as it should be possible to perform every action with a pointing device, every action should also be possible with the keyboard." "It should be possible to move around and interact with every part of your user interface
8. 38.▲
   by jakzurr 2mo ago

   The painting "restoration" at the end of the article is hilarious! (OMG I hope it's just a joke.)
9. 39.▲
   by jakzurr 2mo ago

   That's absolutely my thought too. When watching the vids, I remembered talking (mostly text chat) in MMORPG's 20 years ago. Even when we started using Skype, etc., chatting was frequently short, slang, and quick info. Like, "
10. 40.▲
    by jakzurr 2mo ago

    OK, I agree. FYI, the pic is Royal Robbins ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Robbins ), who was kind of a hero to some of my climbing buddies back in the 70's.
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    by jakzurr 2mo ago

    Whew, absolutely! I love the line near the end of the article: "So in the end, I was down 10€ in domain fees, there was sadly no bug bounty (I thankfully didn't get my door kicked in at least)." Makes me cringe, imagining wha
12. 42.▲
    by jakzurr 2mo ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricut#Controversies Also, it's a very fun article to read.
13. 43.▲
    by jakzurr 2mo ago

    Does the title mean, "...turned into..."? That is, should it be "A joke domain purchase turned into geopolitical warfare" Anyway, fascinating reading.
14. 44.▲
    by jakzurr 2mo ago

    omg, thanks so much!
15. 45.▲
    by jakzurr 2mo ago

    Seriously? ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility. That's from a 10-year-old MB. Probably a few other examples.
16. 46.▲
    by jakzurr 2mo ago

    Indeed. From the article: "The past seven years have seen the rise and decline of at least a dozen elite competitors, ..." And it seems the time-line of OTS and long-covid are also similar. IIRC there was an article on how long-co
17. 47.▲
    by jakzurr 2mo ago

    Thanks for sharing this; I'm hoping your horrific experience will help some of my friends, who are afraid LLM's will take everyone's jobs.
18. 48.▲
    by jakzurr 2mo ago

    Over 60 years, here. The older you get, the harder the lessons, and the easier to learn from them, LOL. Most of my friends now help me remember to end phone calls by midnight. HN and Wikipedia are less forgiving, but I'm learning to ju
19. 49.▲
    by jakzurr 2mo ago

    2nd, the wikipedia article has some fun stuff in it
20. 50.▲
    by jakzurr 3mo ago

    Mmmmm, yeah. And there's nothing wrong with adding in the more traditional foods, and ending up with fish tacos. I'd give anything to run this past my long-gone granny. In fact, I can almost hear what she'd be saying right no
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    We asked an AI about the future(swissinfo.ch)

    3 points by jakzurr 3mo ago|1 comments
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    by jakzurr 3mo ago

    Full title: We asked an AI about the future – its answer might scare you. (Hope it's ok to chop part of it off.) In the last half of the "interview" (the scary part?) it seemed extremely "hand-wavy", to me anyway. I
23. 53.▲
    by jakzurr 3mo ago

    At the plastics plant I worked at in the 2010's, they had seismic emergency valves for the natural gas. At the time, I thought they were such a pain, as the vibration caused by a semi-trailer bumping a warehouse dock could cause them t
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    by jakzurr 3mo ago

    > Imagine if border guards seize money willy-nilly. This jogged my memory, though I couldn't find the example I was thinking of. But here's an item that is pretty similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tena
25. 55.▲
    by jakzurr 3mo ago

    Great, I've been day-dreaming about this for decades, and when it finally happens, I don't notice it. ;p
26. 56.▲
    by jakzurr 3mo ago

    Can't help it. I like em dashes in works of fiction (e.g., C.J. Cherryh); I also find em dashes improve technical writing (for me). Sometimes adding spaces around em dashes is not about preference, but helpful due to the font, or the d
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    by jakzurr 3mo ago

    Thanks - really got my attention. And, the video makes me sick. I'm still looking at my 10 year-old LG monitor with suspicion, now, but I'm thinking (hoping) it's just too old...
28. 58.▲
    by jakzurr 3mo ago

    Really nice article (& website). This goes into my scrapbook. Still use cursive after 60 years, though nowadays, less on paper, and more using Gboard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gboard ). (It reads my handwriting
29. 59.▲
    by jakzurr 3mo ago

    arggg, here comes my hardware lust again...
30. 60.▲
    by jakzurr 4mo ago

    Awesome, awesome. My old copy of "Beneath Apple DOS" is still sitting on a shelf across the room - this brings the memories flooding back.