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by jrmg 11mo ago
It’s virtually impossible for them because they’re not considering hiring more people to do it. Dollar General stores often run with one overworked staff member doing everything in the store, from stocking to working the register (which is
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by jrmg 11mo ago
I don’t think this is true. Even if pricing in the shelves is accurate, in my experience Dollar General is typically a little more expensive than a normal mid-range supermarket (or e.g. Amazon) for most things.
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by jrmg 11mo ago
People are downvoting you because your story seems crazy, but you’re right (and wrong). In the early 2010s there were reports that the EU was set to ban 3kW kettles in the anti-EU tabloid press. The ‘plans’ were discussions, were general (a
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by jrmg 11mo ago
It’s not genuine. The fridge doesn’t show full-screen ads, the original Reddit post and image of the ‘Carol’ ad is staged. At best, this is a parable about the slippery slope our ad-ridden society is sliding down. https://9to5goo
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by jrmg 11mo ago
“World's smallest self-contained SSH server. Entirely AI slop” :-|
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by jrmg 11mo ago
Hardware and software are fungible. Do you demand circuit schematics? Hardware description language source code for all the ICs? Does it matter if it’s a FPGA vs a custom IC? What about CAD files for the industrial design - some of that is
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by jrmg 11mo ago
One thing unexpected I found when setting up an OpenBSD based router recently: the web isn’t riddled with low-quality and often wrong SEO and AI slop about OpenBSD like it is for Linux. I guess there just isn’t enough money to be made produ
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by jrmg 11mo ago
Replying to myself… From https://rightsback.org/faq/#What_kinds_of_agreements_cannot_... , works for hire are not covered, which includes most 1990s software (though I do still wonder about open source licenses): Unde
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by jrmg 11mo ago
I wish this were further up in the comments. Most people seem to be assuming that you get all the marbles back. Imagine the chaos if someone were able to say ‘whoops, all those books you bought are no longer sellable!’. Imagine if Alan Cox
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by jrmg 11mo ago
There seems to be a popular view nowadays that most old people grow to be senile (just look at any online discussion of old politicians for example). This is not the case!
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by jrmg 11mo ago
It’s in Pretoria, South Africa, so the context would’ve been immediately obvious to anyone reading at the time.
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by jrmg 11mo ago
In this and so many things now I fear that we’re discarding the idea that “it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”.
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by jrmg 11mo ago
There already are laws! They’re not being enforced (enforcement is an Executive Branch function...). The remedy for the Executive Branch breaking and/or not enforcing laws made by the Legislative Branch is supposed to be impeachment by
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by jrmg 11mo ago
I agree with you on that - that’s what my last paragraph was trying to convey. I don’t think pennies are necessary, and we are (were) wasting money making them. Nickels and dimes are probably in the same boat. But I was replying to your rep
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by jrmg 11mo ago
In other countries that have eliminated pennies, was it done with more planning and advice from the government? It strikes me as uniquely American (perhaps uniquely Trumpian) to just stop making them and let whatever happens happen with no
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by jrmg 11mo ago
A penny is reused over and over again, every time it changes hands. It’s not necessarily bad that it costs a few cents to make one if it has utility. It costs more to make a ceramic mug than it does to fill it with coffee. That doesn’t ma
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by jrmg 11mo ago
You’re right, people are plainly commenting based on the title. The goal has now mysteriously changed to a goal of $4000.
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by jrmg 11mo ago
This deserves to be somewhere other than at the bottom of the comments (where it is as I’m reading).
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by jrmg 11mo ago
Don’t think you deserve these downvotes. That was my reaction too. Perhaps they’re coming from people who believe that the money is to support running of time servers (which, to be fair, “Please donate to keep the Network Time Protocol up”
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by jrmg 1y ago
I’m buying his new heater that will heat my house in minutes with virtually no electricity usage! Home Depot doesn’t want me to know about it, but I saw the ad!
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by jrmg 1y ago
Statistical averages and confirmation bias.
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by jrmg 1y ago
ML, at least historically, has been considered a subset of AI, not a superset. Until the rise of LLMs recently using human-designed deterministic algorithms to perform ‘intelligent’ tasks (like image processing, and especially image recogni
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by jrmg 1y ago
I was fooled by the handbook! It sounded so official. I will add a footnote to the post.
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by jrmg 1y ago
Our house is in kind of a hollow despite being in a city, and I (and guests - all networks seem just as bad) get one bar basically all the time at home. Phone calls are hit-and miss without WiFi calling switched on.
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by jrmg 1y ago
I recently set up an OpenBSD based router in our home and, man, it felt like a breath of fresh air. I wrote about it here: https://www.blog.montgomerie.net/posts/2025-10-11-setting-up...
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by jrmg 1y ago
Yes! I actually bought one recently after staying in a hotel room that had a (recent - clearly a design choice) alarm clock with a big, dim, red LED display.
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by jrmg 1y ago
Can you actually install Debian on an Amiga - or other 68k system - now? I’ve been searching around the web and I haven’t found much evidence that you can. This is not intended to bash you or anyone else who’s working on it - I think it’s a
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by jrmg 1y ago
Here’s Debian’s “Supported Architectures”: https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures . These platforms are all in ‘unofficial’ status (like, they work, but are not officially supported by the core Debian project). Who i
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by jrmg 1y ago
I suspect my ability to sing ‘0181 811 81 81’ might mark be out as a Briton of a certain age…
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by jrmg 1y ago
Handbrake scares me and I’m a big nerd! I’ve been ripping old DVDs recently. I just want something that feels simple from Handbrake: a video file I can play on my Apple TV that has subtitles that work (not burned in!) with video and audio q

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