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by jrmg 3y ago
Note that this was fixed in macOS 14.2 and iOS 17.2: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214036 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214035
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by jrmg 3y ago
See also e.g. YouTube advertisements for financial schemes, supplements, health devices - and all the products that just don’t do what they say they do. In a conversation online about this recently, someone said (paraphrasing) ‘Government s
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by jrmg 3y ago
Oh, man! Now that you say this I realize that I knew that you could write checks to ‘cash’, but it’s been _so long_ since I’ve even thought about this I forgot!
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by jrmg 3y ago
The UK planned, in 2009, to phase out cheques by 2018 - but backtracked in 2011: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/frequently-asked-question...
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by jrmg 3y ago
I have never considered tipping by check - and have occasionally stiffed people who deserved a tip because I didn’t have enough cash. Is using checks for this really a thing people do? When doing this do you name of the person you’re tippin
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by jrmg 3y ago
We’ve returned to the days of traveling medicine shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_show YouTube is just full of very obviously fraudulent tech and medical/health ads, especially if you’ve switched off
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by jrmg 3y ago
Yeah, that seems close to the kind of culture I was thinking of.
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by jrmg 3y ago
That’s a good point, there is more hardware like this - though those are more like ‘mass-market’ or ‘commercial’ art than the kind of ‘art and craft fair’ stuff I was thinking of (think custom woodworking, limited-run prints, local photogra
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by jrmg 3y ago
Whenever I go to an art or craft fair, I’m struck by the feeling that in a different world there would be a market for ‘artisanal software’ - with varying ratios of utility vs. aesthetics as the other arts and crafts have - and with indepen
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by jrmg 3y ago
Oh and also, this “This American Life” episode, “The Feather Heist,” where “A flute player breaks into a British museum and makes off with a million dollars worth of dead birds.” https://www.thisamericanlife.org/654/the
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by jrmg 3y ago
If you like this story, there’s a more modern cousin of it: in the 90s, a map ‘dealer’ named Gilbert Bland stole hundreds of centuries-old maps from museums before he was caught. The full story is in the book “The Island of Lost Maps”: htt
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by jrmg 3y ago
I don’t think this is a good comparison. For Google and Facebook, that’s still what the products are called.
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by jrmg 3y ago
The idea that we were ‘flattening the curve’ was extremely heavily publicized in most countries.
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by jrmg 3y ago
But of a tangent, but: every time I see a link to an X post, I’m finding it increasingly weird that the Twitter -> X rename happened with a big splash some time ago now, but the actual x.com domain is still redirecting to twitter.com rat
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by jrmg 3y ago
Did you try to return it? “doesn’t work as expected” Is one of the ‘template’ return reasons for the App Store. I haven’t requested a refund for apps many times, but when I have they’ve always been granted. The place to do it is https:&#x2
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by jrmg 3y ago
Would be interesting to see how all those jpegs fared if run though ECT ( https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool ). I’ve found it can save a surprising amount of space sometimes.
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Twitch exit from S. Korea is latest fallout from "sending-party-pays" model(arstechnica.com)
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by jrmg 3y ago
Wired’s been owned by Condé Nast since 1998, and wired.com since 2006.
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by jrmg 3y ago
Amongst all the random detritus from 70 years of local industry, there’s basically always still a seller with a bunch of CueCats at every Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market ( https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/ ).
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by jrmg 3y ago
I think the character was not in the first book. Maybe he appears in Green Mars? It’s been so long since it read them.
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by jrmg 3y ago
One of the protagonists of Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Mars’ trilogy (starting in ‘Blue Mars’ onwards IIRC) is a billionaire who made his billions by starting ‘dumpmines’, a landfill mining company.
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by jrmg 3y ago
‘Shareholders’ can’t do anything. Different classes of shares confer different voting rights, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin still own shares controlling over 50% of shareholder votes.
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by jrmg 3y ago
I think that part of this is that small web sites simply are not being indexed by Google at all any more. My ~15 year old blog has, according to Google Search Console, 15 indexed pages, and 174 ‘Discovered - currently not indexed’ pages. Th
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by jrmg 3y ago
Also a daily coffee drinker. I have a theory that humans like _complexity_. I’m pretty sure I didn’t originally like coffee (or e.g. scotch), but I do now because part of my brain really enjoys analyzing the flavor. It’s a different enjoyme
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by jrmg 3y ago
I can’t help but think that the example in that page has used ‘timing’ so much to deliberately show off texture healing - it’s a great example because the ‘m’ can expand in both directions and the ‘i’s end up looking the same. I suspect the
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by jrmg 3y ago
…and it’s available to buy on Xbox: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/perfect-dark/C0SWGV45...
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by jrmg 3y ago
Thank you! I guess I will have to admit I did not examine the figures…
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by jrmg 3y ago
Where are you finding the descriptions you’re quoting? I can’t find the words ‘pejorative’ or ‘label’ anywhere in the linked article.
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by jrmg 3y ago
I’ve been impressed with this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BS2ZS813?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_... The UI is a little confusing at first, but it seems to work well.
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by jrmg 3y ago
I’m not sure why people are downvoting you. I suspect they may be clicking the link and thinking ‘that’s not documentation it’s source code’, not realizing it actually _is_ documentation. The language it’s in is ‘mdoc’ - a markup format for

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