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by jonhohle 10mo ago
If Diet Coke has a bitter taste to you (like it does to me) you may have a genetic mutation that allows aspartame to bind to both sweet and bitter taste receptors (as I understand it). For most people it only binds to sweet receptors.
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
The difference between the two is not that subtle. If I order a Coke at a restaurant and they bring out a Pepsi, I can tell immediate and usually send it back for something else. I don’t have trained taste buds, but something in Pepsi is of
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
The sugar sweetened Coke’s are unique, but I think McDonald’s consistently has the best Coke you can get. Unlike most restaurants, they store syrup in stainless steal containers instead of plastic bags and they use a higher syrup to soda ra
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
Any fulfilled can use FBA (fulfilled by Amazon) for their own inventory and their own retail front end. Amazon charges storage and shipping fees and the items do not need to be for sale on Amazon.com. https://sell.amazon.com&#x2F
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
The first sale doctrine allows for public of owned works for the purpose of sale. Otherwise eBay, used book store, and flea markets would all be massively violating copyright.
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
Are these business upset when Google lists their products in search results? What if Amazon placed a retail order for x00 units, would they not be fulfilled? Couldn’t they just resell them on Amazon under first sale doctrine?
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
I know jokes are typically frowned upon, but in this case I think it’s appropriate: Ash woke up on his first morning on the Nostromo and was rummaging through the refrigerator. Dallas came into the kitchen and asked what he was up to. Ash s
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
Projects like ollee Watch seem to be able to stash it behind the front crystal or underneath the LCD.
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
The other thing is that TVs are nearly trapezoidal prisms, but the boxes are nearly cubes. There’s a lot of dead space to fill with some structure, especially if the boxes need to be stackable.
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
The 13” Trinitron was a TV. Believe it or not, it’s not easy to find the retail package dimensions for CRTs anymore (maybe Crutchfield pages on the Wayback machine have them). My 25” Trinitron is a TV. It’s no bigger than any other 25” TV o
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
Again, I’m going to disagree. Boxes for CRTs were massive. I had to RMA my 19” CRT in college and it was heavy, but worse was how wide and tall the box was. I had no car so had to painfully lug it a few blocks to the post office. I can’t qu
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
The largest CRT had a 43” viewable screen and had a volume of 0.75m³. A 43” LCD TV has a volume around 0.025m³. I’m not saying you could fit 30 packaged LCD TVs in the space of one CRT, but the volume is completely different. If you don’t t
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
Not only that, but NTSC and VGA (and higher) CRTs. I had a 1600x1200 CRT on my desk in 1999. HD CRTs existed, but were basically always out of reach for most people. PVMs fo broadcast and medical were different still. Now LCDs are used at e
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
As someone paying for a family on a marketplace bronze plan, that’s a bargain! I think our premiums will exceed $20K this year. With all of the medical group consolidation, all of the wait time woes our Canadian friends always complained ab
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
NULL is a valid return for malloc. Wouldn’t that case already be handled?
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
I was doing web dev or related from 2000 to 2016. IE6 was far worse than anything Safari has done.
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
I hear this a lot, but have used Safari as my since it was launch in 2003.Performance has always been great. UI has always been minimalist, out of the way, and has never upsold me on anything. There are times where it lags and times where i
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
That’s not the mediums fault. I’m sure during the 70s and 80s there were equally horrible vinyl masterings.
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
That’s interesting. I wonder when that changed. Maybe FreeBSD supports multi arg shebangs now, too
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
Yeah, but you need curl, sudo, and bash…
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
That shebang will work on GNU link based systems, but might not work elsewhere. I know that’s the most popular target, but not working on macOS, BSDs, or even busybox.
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
It’s really sad it wasn’t open sourced. In the early 2000s I was triple booting Windows 98, BeOS, and QNX. BeOS was my favorite, but QNX Neutrino was great as well.
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
Hertzfeld dismisses the idea, but I think it’s something more devs should take to heart. Could someone build a tea timer app in React and save some time? How much impact to humanity does the GBs of RAM and untold CPU cycles the app now requ
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
You might think, but here we are at the end of 2025 and this is still a WIP. I don’t think it’s a bad move, but it also seems like they were getting by with patches and tarballs.
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
Blizzard runs several popular games where you need to buy their currency before you can buy anything. I don’t know if it’s the case anymore, but Microsoft used to require Xbox Gold to purchase games. Usually this requires locking more up
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
I’m shocked that this hasn’t been a thing from the start. That seems like table stakes for automating repetitive tasks.
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
Also the plot of El Mariachi https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0104815/ and its sequel, Desperado.
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
A rose by any other name…
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by jonhohle 10mo ago
Good! In the US ads were added after telling Prime members they’d get ad free content as part of their membership. I complained about this during a meeting (I worked on Prime during the Prime Video launch), but was shot down because the ads
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by jonhohle 11mo ago
Beautiful. I miss the late 90s aesthetic of these window managers. KDE 2 was particularly nice. Motif was ugly, but I look at it fondly now. This looks a little too Windows 95, but the dock is a nice reminder that it’s X Windows.

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