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by johnthuss 4y ago
Apple paused their Ads on Twitter after a shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado that caused multiple deaths. Did they also do this after other mass shootings? This seems like a unique occurrence.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Civilization 1 runs! I played this for SO many hours back then. I loved that game so much. This VM locked up after 100 turns or so, but man, this really brings me back.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
This is awesome! I still love the look of the Finder from this era, and I love that this has the Window Shade extension turned on too.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"ICAN crunched the numbers on its own and came up with some statistics that its lawyer says appear to be 'alarming.' According to ICAN, 7.7% of the v-safe users -- 782,913 people -- reported seeking medical attention via a te
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by johnthuss 4y ago
If you aren’t familiar with Yandex, Wired did a feature story about them earlier this year that was excellent. https://www.wired.com/story/yandex-arkady-volozh-russia-larg...
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by johnthuss 4y ago
The RCA suit was settled for $1 million in 1954. Assuming the other suits were completed around that time this would be $93 billion dollars today!
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San Francisco wants police robots to kill suspects(engadget.com)
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Amazon to spend $1B on movie theatre releases(cnbc.com)
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by johnthuss 4y ago
“He built an experimental station and 410-foot tower at a cost of $300,000 in Alpine, New Jersey.” Assuming this was done in 1938, this would cost the equivalent of $5.6 million today. And it was made obsolete by the frequency change just 7
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by johnthuss 4y ago
“They were used to push pro-Western narratives across the world… But they had also proven largely unsuccessful.” Given the uproar over Russian propaganda on Facebook during the 2016 election it seems rather hypocritical of the US government
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by johnthuss 4y ago
The comments mention a Safari extension called Vinegar, which fixes this and also provides Picture in Picture without YouTube premium. It is $2 in the App Store. https://apps.apple.com/au/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner&#
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I always prefer to switch to the native YouTube app instead of using Safari. Of course you can’t block the ads then.
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“ the use of a bomb disposal robot to kill a suspect is not without precedent. In July 2016, Dallas police officers did just that for what was believed to be the first time in U.S. history. “We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot
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by johnthuss 4y ago
I'm interested to know how many people are still using Ruby. I'm sure it has shrunk since the heyday of Ruby on Rails, but are people using it for new development? Or just maintaining existing software?
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Chrome extension that uses AI to summarize any article(bearly.ai)
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"Q: Have you seen more toxicity or other problems as more people have joined Mastodon? A: There’s a kind of self-selection going on where the people who join Mastodon are maybe more civil. But it should not be discounted that all the d
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by johnthuss 4y ago
In space they are all floaters.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Open source is certainly in need of greater funding, so if this can facilitate that I’m all for it.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Given what he’s said about preserving the public square this is not surprising. I’m only surprised it took this long.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
I don't think this is true. Apple provides a fairly substantial standard library along with the open source version of Swift, which they never did for Objective-C.
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Since it is open source and supports Linux and Windows too we all have it, not just Apple.
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"It’s unclear whether more reinstatements are imminent, particularly for the still-suspended former President Donald Trump, who recently launched his campaign to regain the presidency. Musk said the decision concerning Trump’s ban &#x2
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"Some have speculated the sheep’s behaviour could be caused by a bacterial disease called Listeriosis – also known as “circling disease”." Very weird.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Related story with more details about the new PDF features in Firefox 106: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/18/firefox_106_arrives/?...
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by johnthuss 4y ago
It’s like he bought a $44 billion yacht, set it on fire, and watched it burn.
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This is surely the fastest way to evaporate $44 billion that I have ever seen.
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by johnthuss 4y ago
There is so much variability in the kind of work people do it's hard to make a rule that fits everyone. For knowledge workers I think 40 hours is near the top of productive time you are able to wring from people. Certainly some individ
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by johnthuss 4y ago
"In short, this is what’s wrong with broadband in America. It’s expensive. Most people can’t choose their carrier. They add bogus charges." To this list I would add that lack of choice of speeds, whether you want a faster speed or
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by johnthuss 4y ago
Putting down a tarp to catch the snow and then pulling it away would only work with a very small amount of snow. Snow is HEAVY. If it was that small it would be almost just as easy to use a wide snow-pusher-style shovel to move it. The othe
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"the claim is that the trendy delivery company was using monkey labor in Thailand in which the animals were 'chained, whipped, beaten, and forced to spend long hours picking coconuts.'"

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