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by jrmg 2y ago
There was a flurry of news reports last year about self checkouts being removed by some chains. For example: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna160234 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7188556
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by jrmg 2y ago
Reminds me of Apple’s CoreFoundation.
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Yeah, it should not be hard! Cheap hardware is orders of magnitude faster than it was in the 2000s, and we could run dynamic forums written in janky inefficient Perl on it, and serve thousand's of requests a second.
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by jrmg 2y ago
It does feel like a rubicon has been crossed recently, where most things I like are going behind paywalls, and many smaller outfits are heavily pushing Patreon or the like. Anecdotally, I’m paying subscriptions for news sites (mainstream an
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by jrmg 2y ago
It’s anecdotally definitely one reason people work in co-working spaces, or even coffee shops and the like. Some people think these are just used by people who have no quiet space, or no comfortable space, at home - but that’s not the case.
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by jrmg 2y ago
The age you picked here makes your argument obviously right. But what age _should_ people get a phone and be able to use it unsupervised? I don’t think it’s reasonable that it be 21 or 18, even 16 feels quite puritanical.
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by jrmg 2y ago
EVs are going to be SO MASSIVELY CHEAPER than ICE cars Why?
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Most of these features have been available, for years, if not decades.
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by jrmg 2y ago
YMMV, but I’ve found that at least for my display, this: > When Macbook Air M1 is sleeping, external screens connected via USB-C keep waking up every few minutes and then go straight to sleep again. is fixed in Sonoma (yay!)
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by jrmg 2y ago
Was going to post this too. It was a popular technique for getting ‘more colors’ out of lower bit depth panels. Weirdly hard to find out with a web search if his was done on the iMac G4 (your comment is already one of the top results for me
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by jrmg 2y ago
I can just about do it, but it messes up my ability to focus normally for ages afterwards. Doesn’t feel like it’s good for my eyes…
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by jrmg 2y ago
Oh man, I hate to break it to you, but Americans can choose to eat bugs too! https://www.amazon.com/cricket-flour/s?k=cricket+flour
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by jrmg 2y ago
Replying because I remembered coffee too, and had to look it up. ‘Good’(?) news is that it was decided in 2019(!) that coffee does not require a Prop 65 warning. https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/fact-sheets/coffee-and-p
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by jrmg 2y ago
From my reading the nose is stationary - I wonder if just sitting a cut-out nose shape directly in front of the display would help some people?
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by jrmg 2y ago
All these people in this thread listing great recent shows, and no love yet for Fargo?!
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by jrmg 2y ago
Seems like not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle I can do this too. The article mentions it being “rare”, but it sounds like it hasn’t really been studied so might actually be common. From casual dis
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PicoROM Turns Raspberry Pi RP2040 into Tool for Rapid Vintage ROM Development(hackster.io)
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by jrmg 2y ago
This is all a bit hyperbolic. The price is still over twice what it was a year ago, and the same price as in October, three months ago.
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by jrmg 2y ago
Right - and I’m all for paying a living wage for all jobs. Being a full time professor should pay well. And what we pay teachers in most places in the USA is ridiculously little. What I’m saying is that we generally don’t expect that part-t
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by jrmg 2y ago
The simplest explanation for this would be that spammers are not targeting Mastodon.
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by jrmg 2y ago
Maybe I missed this in my skimming of the article, but; the obvious question is ‘what fraction of their time do these instructors spend on Udemy work’. I doubt most people teaching a course or two at a traditional learning institution get p
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by jrmg 2y ago
It seems clear in all your replies here that you see ‘alpha’ as a synonym for ‘leader’, and as a somewhat relative term (like, my boss is an alpha to me, and a beta to their boss). Given your definition, of course it’s obvious that it apple
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by jrmg 2y ago
I was just today trying to fix some errors in an old Linux kernel version 3.x.x .dts file for some old hardware, so that I could get a modern kernel to use it. ChatGPT seemed very helpful at first - and I was super impressed. I thought it
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by jrmg 2y ago
Yes! I’ve dabbled in digital electronics and never managed to form an intuitive understanding on ‘impedance’ in signal wires despite reading quite a few ‘basics’ texts about it. I’d ended up accepting that I wouldn’t really understand its b
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by jrmg 2y ago
Surely he would also be in conflict about building codes? How was this not stopped? Or is it all actually permitted? To be clear, I like that this castle exists (although I also like that building and planning codes exist, so I guess I’m co
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by jrmg 2y ago
As I understand it, the low life expectancy back then is, if not a myth, at least misleading. The average adult lived to what we’d still consider old age - the average life expectancy of all humans was ‘just’ low because child mortality w
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by jrmg 2y ago
Companies are more likely to reward engineers than scold them for pulling in that new “shiny library” that solves the problem they never actually had. Perhaps I’m sheltered: is this really true in people’s experience?
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by jrmg 2y ago
Much of his bikeshedding is obviously self-deprecating humor to me. It’s simultaneously both genuine and ironic. I think that people sometimes don’t (can’t?) quite ‘get’ that wry-but-also-sincere style that much of British humor exhibits.
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by jrmg 2y ago
Some good advice at the end of that: 1) Don't state something as fact when you haven't researched it fully. 2) Remember that when you do state something because you believe it's fact, it could be based on incomplete informat
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by jrmg 2y ago
Wow, glibc now keep[s] older versions around and adopt[s] an exponential resizing policy. This results in an amortized constant space leak per active environment variable, but there already is such a leak for the variable itself

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