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by jandrese 2y ago
I think it was more hampered by the default viewer program operating like EMACS, which if you're a regular EMACS user is great if you're not it is not terribly ergonomic. What was the command to find the next search item? Ctrl-X
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by jandrese 2y ago
Here is the abstract if you can't load the page normally: A recent meta-analysis in this journal (Taylor et al 2025) produced ostensible evidence of a negative correlation between fluoride exposure and intelligence in children, which g
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by jandrese 2y ago
Basic Ubuntu 24.04 install: man --html man man: can't resolve man7/groff_man.7 man: command exited with status 3: (cd /tmp/hman6rTowJ && /usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim) | (cd &#x2F
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by jandrese 2y ago
As noted there are already HTML versions of the manpages that work without apparent issue. It makes me think about having the documentation converted to html and then have a thin script that invokes w3m on the correct file. Then again GNU
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by jandrese 2y ago
The scriptwriters aren't managing the network flows across the backend of their infrastructure. Netflix's trouble with scripts doesn't affect their ability to move bits around.
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by jandrese 2y ago
When a measure becomes a target it is no longer a good measure. These ML benchmarks were never going to last very long. There is far too much pressure to game them, even unintentionally.
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by jandrese 2y ago
You still get guide data if you hook up an Ethernet jack and let it download data online. You need a USB Ethernet adapter, but even a cheap one is fine. I remember there was even a slot (I think it was PCI electrically?) on the gen 1 TiVos
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by jandrese 2y ago
One of the few upsides of Crypto is that it provides a constant reminder of why we have banking regulations. Anytime says regulations are onerous or slow down the process and are outdated you can point to our current day poorly regulated c
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by jandrese 2y ago
I bet it would be outrageously expensive to replace. Escalators aren't cheap to begin with and this one is no doubt built to its own standard so anything you replace it with would have to be heavily customized to fit.
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by jandrese 2y ago
They should have called these Salarymon cards.
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by jandrese 2y ago
Which might tell a story in itself. This might have been a small detachment that was ambushed and utterly wiped out, leaving nobody alive on the Roman side to perform the traditional funeral rites. Instead the attackers were left to bury
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by jandrese 2y ago
What an exciting time for the industry. Most of the companies are run by 20 or 30 somethings. Nobody has a plan for success. Everything is poised to explode once someone, anyone, figures out how to deliver product at scale. This also ma
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by jandrese 2y ago
The argument is basically that because the deportees had no due process to be deported that no due process can bring them back. The Trump administration claims that they are gang members, but provided no evidence to support this claim, and
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by jandrese 2y ago
The passport is only easier if you already have a driver's license. Otherwise the requirements are just as onerous.
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by jandrese 2y ago
I think the idea is that nobody is going to be fooled by a B&W $20 bill, so they don't have to print the dots.
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by jandrese 2y ago
No, but in practice it was Win98SE3. Also, it was obsolete before it was even released. There was basically no reason to run WinME instead of WinXP, especially on a new machine.
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by jandrese 2y ago
One thing that helps this is that most of that really buggy hardware has fallen into the wastebin of history and everything attached to a "modern" W98 machine should be plug and play compatible. PCI solved most of these issues.
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by jandrese 2y ago
There was a brief period during the late 90s/early 2000s before WiFi became ubiquitous that laptops came with IR transmitters/receivers for streaming data. It was always touchy, slow, required an unbroken line of sight, and poorly
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by jandrese 2y ago
I bet that worked pretty well considering an Atari 2600 cart is 4kb. Even over a 300 baud modem with all of the encoding overhead that's about 20 seconds to download the whole thing.
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by jandrese 2y ago
Yep. But of course security was not a concern with the machines of the era. At all. There wasn't even the concept beyond locking the entire computer away in a cabinet. For the most part a virus couldn't hurt your machine or su
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by jandrese 2y ago
At least the 5 1/4 disks did. 3 1/2 disks did not like it at all. As long as you didn't crease anything the 5 1/4s would usually still work. The data wasn't especially dense on those (if you could see magnetic fi
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by jandrese 2y ago
I got a nice texture when I tried it, but it make the cheese too salty.
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by jandrese 2y ago
MAME emulates a ridiculous number of systems now. For example, check out a list of just the ones that require some additional setup steps: https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php?title=System-Specific_Set...
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by jandrese 2y ago
Maybe better phrased as: "Humans evolved in small communities for thousands of years, but those communities had to be larger than a single family unit in order to survive, so there is an instinctive urge for humans to be in communities
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by jandrese 2y ago
My understanding is that the solar roofs are basically dead. They're more of a vanity project than a real product. The total production of the tiles is enough to cover like 10-20 houses a week and the full system price is around 5 ti
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by jandrese 2y ago
I managed to explode a 9x13 by placing the cooled dish on the stovetop to free up counter space. This wasn't initially a problem, the problem came when I turned on what I thought was the front burner to start cooking, but was actually
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by jandrese 2y ago
At least the author worked for Google. It's another layer of fun to go through the work of tracking down a bug like that as a third party and then trying to somehow contact a person at the company who can fix it, especially when it is
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by jandrese 2y ago
I wouldn't feel too bad about blindly scrubbing those characters out of inputs unlike commas, tabs, and quotes.
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by jandrese 2y ago
I'd say it is more necessary than ever given how quickly AIs tend to forget what they've previously written once you get past homework length use cases.
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by jandrese 2y ago
I usually have the opposite problem. There's even a joke about it: How is Excel like an Incel? Both of them think everything is a date.

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