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by jkestner 2y ago
And I’m saying she was already deemed worthy to replace Biden by the voters.
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That's literally what her elected job is.
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That's the thing. When individual issues are polled without party labels, the Democratic Party's positions are largely popular. Just like these issues, if you were to put a Republican on the Democratic ticket, that candidate will
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Brown people love carrying around citizenship papers so that some Americans can be extremely welcoming.
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by jkestner 2y ago
I just visited the Johnson Space Center, and boy, was there a lot of PR for SLS and Mars on exhibit. I shouldn't have felt weird about it given the artists' depictions of planetary probes and spacecraft concepts I grew up with, bu
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by jkestner 2y ago
4 figures. You can get P20 molds, good for 20k cycles, <$5,000 in China. And of course, you can get family molds that make more than one part at a time, though most of the savings is in per-part cost.
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Sure, but you still need to reach the critical mass of developer support. No one downmarket is any more likely to buy one if there aren’t any apps.
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Yes. The FCC has a list of accredited testing labs here: https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/TestFirmSearch.cfm Many are in China and have reasonable prices.
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It may be a saving grace that little will get done when all the people with institutional knowledge are fired.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Waiting to see what the real response to the ransomware pandemic will be. After Solarwinds, I don't think people will feel comfortable with just buying the industry packages. Seems impossible to train everyone to avoid the scams. More
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Debugging hardware is hard(blog.supermechanical.com)
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Would love to tear down an outdoor-rated device with a radio cased in die-cast zinc—please let me know when you find one.
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I see a lot of people despairing from the consumer side. Let me mention the producer side. Making an outdoor-rated device with a radio, plastic is a hard material to ignore. Given that there’s little else that has the right characteristics
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by jkestner 2y ago
Cardboard is great for packaging. Molded paper pulp is also good with a nice experience if you need one. The problem is, as sibling comment says, that packaging is advertising. So we wrap avocados to make them feel more valuable.
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Yes! And you can do a lot more about those local issues. The small-scale but impactful to _you_ actions are a more satisfying way to exercise democracy and a good way to build that muscle.
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Full screen is a mode that takes away the ability to move windows, and removes their chrome. You can have two windows in this mode, and they will just take up the whole screen between them. I get a bunch of ui issues doing full screen, and
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by jkestner 2y ago
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cwandt/55-66-88-by-cwan... My buddies have some good horror stories trying to get metal parts tumbled and anodized. You do have to nail down quality standards beforehand, and
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Dogcow the Bounty Hunter
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For everyone who’s curious about the screen tech like me, you’re getting tripped up on the marketing term “epaper”. From Daylight’s own comments here, it appears to be an LCD display. Hence good refresh rate (where the limitation may be in
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by jkestner 2y ago
I can't help but reply every time this thread comes up. I'd still probably be using my 2010 if it wasn't for a series mechanical failures. Paid to replace the keyboard once (85 screws, didn't need to do that to myself),
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by jkestner 2y ago
These may be captchas, filtering for humans now and training AIs to ethically drop bombs later.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Before you retort with "Musk lies", this is a very specific claim and not a prediction, and would land him in legal trouble as said by an CEO of a public company. Nevertheless, Musk lies.
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Might want to narrow the interests a bit or I'll get caught in a conversation about Elixir or something. I used to be a part of the Austin Hardware Startup meetup before it got enshittified but I've wanted to start something up ag
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by jkestner 2y ago
I still need some functional alerts, but not the upsells. And when I opt out of notifications, some apps (ahem, Substack) then regularly pop up a modal asking me to turn notifications on. I know what I said the first time, and the 10th, MF
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I first read this as unwanted alert tracking. Like, I’d love to have my phone intelligently track and block unwanted alerts, from the apps and OS makers that spam me.
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It’s simply control. Can’t put that genie back in the Mac bottle
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Also in Austin. We have almost all native species, so no maintenance in theory but it's getting harder. We're focusing on drought resistance. I can do my best to cover the ones in danger of freezing on those few days, but harder t
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I just discovered they are from this series: https://www.spiralbound.design/learning-store/
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Oh yeah, overall, I don't think 3D printers are useful for this in the real world, not at this point. Just playing to the crowd, for those HNers determined to make use of 3D printing. Nothing beats simply designing to repair, or at lea
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I lead a makerspace at my kids' elementary school. We do no coding or modern making, or whatever it is adult nerds like to play with. Mostly because this age group can't manage it, especially in 40 minute session, and I'm com

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