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DOGE staffer is trying to reroute FEMA funds(dropsitenews.com)
185 points by jkestner 2y ago|285 comments
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by jkestner 2y ago
With a coop, it's a bit like a litter box. We put down hay, and change it out with the poop every couple of weeks, into a compost pile. Chickens are way easier than a dog or cat day-to-day, with distributed risk.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Most annoying thing about roosters is, if you have one, then you'll have a bunch. (Our hens go hide their clutches eventually.) But if you have a bunch, then you can have coq au vin.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Not sure the IIvx was ever the top of the line, more like the butt of jokes. The 68040s were out in Quadras already, and this was a hobbled IIci. I remember we got it when they were slashing prices near the EOL, which is what made it a dece
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by jkestner 2y ago
Yeah, it would divert the $20 billion in capital that Goole currently pays Apple to not be in the search engine business.
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by jkestner 2y ago
That’s great. You could map 3KB on, like, a sheet of paper. I learned Photoshop 2.5 on a 5MB RAM/40MB HDD Mac IIvx (512KB video RAM, hell yeah). Seems incredible now, but that capability after upgrading from a pre-Windows 286 felt incr
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It's not a crime if we do it with an app(pluralistic.net)
3 points by jkestner 2y ago|1 comments
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The Rise of Big Potato(levernews.com)
1 points by jkestner 2y ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 2y ago
Where do you find Herman Miller repair parts? I need an armrest for my Celle (20+ years, going strong except for a worn arm pad).
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QR code leads to two websites(hackaday.com)
1 points by jkestner 2y ago|1 comments
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by jkestner 2y ago
I internalized a long time ago when doing customer service that people don’t write you when they’re happy.
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by jkestner 2y ago
I know what you're saying; sometimes open source is presented as the answer to all the user-hostile decay that the platform owners introduce, but you must prove yourself worthy through study and sacrifice. If you want to build your own
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by jkestner 2y ago
Same! If I could convince myself that it would be a calm computing alternative or some other such nonsense to another device I phase out, maybe. Or I could foist the eMate on a kid who has a Chromebook at school, good luck. What holds me ba
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by jkestner 2y ago
Yes, and? Parenting is an active job. It can be done. Take a lesson from Steve Jobs and say "no" a lot.
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by jkestner 2y ago
"Echo chamber" is a tautology by this point. What's bad about a narrower focus? It's good to cross pollinate on occasion but you're not going to ever get to deep discussions when you have the same arguments over and
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by jkestner 2y ago
Pennies.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Yes. It will further abstract the owners’ responsibility to the users, and the product will get shittier faster.
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by jkestner 2y ago
True, but as the comment a few above mentions, “we demand growth long after everyone is satisfied.” Why even grow at all once you’ve achieved a great networked speaker? If the product is mature, everything after is gimmicks especially weigh
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by jkestner 2y ago
At what point in time were “kids today” into computers? If it wasn’t phones, it was video games or comic books or serial Dickens. It’s always been a subset who want to play with the tech beneath.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Eh, if your complaint comes 15 years after the site is launched, and then you wait an hour before following up with a legal notice, I’d be feeling petty too.
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Your first hardware product is a supply chain(blog.supermechanical.com)
4 points by jkestner 2y ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 2y ago
I'd do that but a smartphone is unfortunately a great pocket camera. The sweet spot for me would be something like a modern version of the Nokia N95 — great camera, unrestricted OS that lets me write apps in Python or whatever, and ter
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by jkestner 2y ago
“Wide and deep” is key here. Chinese manufacturing is hungry and way more competitive than in the US. Physical manufacturing in the US is geared toward the largest companies and the defense-industrial complex. If your products have any comp
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by jkestner 2y ago
What therapy did was give me a framework by which to debug myself.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Joining a group of rich tech executives on Signal and “learning how completely dysfunctional the government was” sounds like cult behavior.
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by jkestner 2y ago
See, what separates the special titans of startup industry from the rest of us is the creativity to burn those dollars at scale.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Cheaper than buying Twitter.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Let’s normalize offline web apps, then. Your examples at the end go back to needing technical chops, and in the end, everything gets bitrot. The biggest problem is with apps that show you content. Web sites give the user more control over
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by jkestner 2y ago
This is a snapshot of the decisions a small-scale hardware manufacturer has to make. AMA
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The small link at the end of the chain(blog.supermechanical.com)
2 points by jkestner 2y ago|1 comments

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