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by jimt1234 1y ago
Exactly ^^^ This situation reminds me of the 90s with the PC market, where PCs were changing so fast, and getting cheaper every day - I think Weird Al put it best: "My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks / But it was obso
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by jimt1234 1y ago
I'm old enough to remember when Silicon Valley and politics were, for the most part, two separate worlds. The only thing I remember back in the 90's were the arguments about encryption strengths and export controls.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Wasn't OANN started by AT&T as a way to push propaganda favoring the corporation-friendly tax package in Trump's first term?
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Exactly ^^^ I taught myself assembly on my Commodore 64. However, I only used it for certain tasks that were suboptimal with Commodore's BASIC and 64K of RAM.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Feels like Milton from Office Space: I was told there would be a manufacturing boom.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
This is interesting to me. I never heard of "store mode". Is that common for "smart TVs" these days? My interest here is for my elderly mother who tries to watch TV, but her current LG is constantly bombarding her with n
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by jimt1234 1y ago
> Flightcontrol gives our team the power to manage bare metal AWS ... "bare metal"? Hmmm. I think we have different definitions of that phrase.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Sorta related: I feel instant replay challenges have sucked the life out of the game. Arguing with the ump over bad calls has never accomplished anything, but it's entertaining, it gets the blood flowing; it always made me feel more co
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by jimt1234 1y ago
This is great! Thanks! Years ago, I wrote something based on this same premise, mostly just to experiment with Golang: https://github.com/jimt1234/mlbcli
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by jimt1234 1y ago
I like the approach Slate has taken - basically, bring your own device, then connect to the vehicle with our app. I'm not super confident that Slate will last as a company, and leaving subscription money on the table might be one reaso
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Exactly. And this is what curation has always been about - not giving you (the customer/user) what you want, rather, giving you what we want.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5529055-republicans-grija...
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Broadcom (VMware) dumps 13 buildings near Stanford in office deal(sfgate.com)
2 points by jimt1234 1y ago|0 comments
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Reminds me of when I was a teenager and Denny's banned me and my other hungry, teenage friends from eating at their "All you can eat" buffet. The manager was at least transparent about it, telling us we were literally eating
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YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes(arstechnica.com)
28 points by jimt1234 1y ago|8 comments
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Exactly. I'm not concerned with the size of government. However, I would like to see better ROI - that is, a government that is more effective at delivery services. The "burn it all down" mentality never takes into account
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by jimt1234 1y ago
> ...bureaucratic overhead extracts a few more percent. Respectfully, my perception contradicts this. My GF has been a psychologist for 25 years. For the first half of her career, funding for her work was provided exclusively by a state
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by jimt1234 1y ago
You might like this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c4CEVtUx1fg
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by jimt1234 1y ago
And Kevin Mitnick had the ability to start a nuclear war from a payphone! LOLOLOL
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by jimt1234 1y ago
So, once women stop taking Tylenol during pregnancy, I suppose 5 to 10 years later we'll see autism rates in children drop off. Unlikely.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
The ghost of Herman Cain has entered the chat.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
No way. We've got them now. Heads are gonna roll this time. ... Just kidding. Nothing's gonna happen.
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by jimt1234 1y ago
There needs to be a standard way for customers to authenticate employees representing companies , sorta like a reverse-text-message-code. Maybe, as a customer of a website, I can login to the site (authenticate myself), then generate a c
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by jimt1234 1y ago
> ... near transit hubs. I don't understand this narrative that California has been pushing the last few years - basically, "There's a bus stop in the neighborhood, therefore we can add a bunch of new housing without doing
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Many parents I talk to have this notion that idle-time/free-time for their children is unproductive, a waste of time, and thus bad for their children. And that's why they feel the need to micromanage their kids' time - &quot
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35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028(arstechnica.com)
19 points by jimt1234 1y ago|0 comments
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Forgot about this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PO9yyS367p4
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Pedantic, but...why is this an assassination and not just a murder? Because he was more than likely targeted? Tupac was targeted (for some street-level bullshit), but I don't think anyone would call his demise an "assassination&qu
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by jimt1234 1y ago
> History books can tell you facts that happened, but they can never truly tell you how it feels. Great quote. I feel the same way about 9/11 - the feeling of confusion, like "wtf is going on?!" IMHO, only those who lived
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by jimt1234 1y ago
Wow! I should've heeded your NSFW warning. That was very disturbing.

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