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by jrmg 5mo ago
In a town near me a paper plant recently closed (to much anger), then people protested the potential use of the land for a data center, citing concerns about noise, water use, power use, and traffic.
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And the ‘wall of opposition’ was ‘we won’t vote right now because if we do we might vote to stop this!’. But we need to believe that the USA can come back. The spoils system was eliminated once before. Slavery was eliminated. The USA ‘cam
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From the article: Currently the country with the highest marginal income tax rate is Denmark, at 60.5%. The top US federal tax rate is 37%, and the median state income tax rate is Oklahoma's, which is 4.75%. So in the median case, a s
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If you run it in the winter the electricity is “free” because it’s replacing a portion of whatever else heats your house.
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People will argue that Sharman was a cosmonaut because she went into space with the Soviet Union. The distinction is Cold War propaganda that has never made any sense to me. We have two English words to describe the same thing, but one is
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by jrmg 5mo ago
Restaurants charge for tap water where you are?
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I feel like the whole internet is recipe sites now sometimes.
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the reviewer rejected it because Sign in with Apple was enabled but still prompted for a user’s name When Sign in with Apple was new, I thought this - not needing to give any personal information to services using it - was one of its sell
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by jrmg 5mo ago
Search engines don’t do that any more - they just give you a bunch of SEO spam sites, now mostly filled with plausible slop. Answers from search are _less_ reliable than answers from an LLM now. I worry that the LLMs are just the equivalent
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no idea what they were getting themselves into and did not plan accordingly That is the modus operandi of this administration. All tactics, no strategy.
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You actually own something when you buy stock.
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Surely there’s a middle ground where a roof is made of something big and panel-sized, rather than a conventional roof with panels as another layer on top?
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Love how many people here are thinking this is about (or just taking it as an opportunity to talk about) the under-appreciated TV show!
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That feels entirely realistic for the time to me. It would certainly’ve been realistic to my formative years in the industry (a little later - turn of the century). I still can’t ‘properly’ touch-type.
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Huh. I haven’t rewatched the show, but when I saw it originally - admittedly shortly after watching Mad Men - I thought “this is trying to be Mad Men, but it’s the '80s and in the computer industry” and interpreted Lee Pace as a launde
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by jrmg 5mo ago
If you don’t strip the Project Gutenberg license from the book text (leaving only the book text, which no-one disputes is public domain and freely distributable), you are required to give “pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you d
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by jrmg 5mo ago
Neither CarPlay nor regular Bluetooth connections allow this. It’s not a thing. (There is the ability to set up a Bluetooth hotspot on a phone and allow Internet sharing over Bluetooth, but that’s a different thing entirely and you have to
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by jrmg 5mo ago
Actually you don’t. Why are you lying about this? It’s enough to show that they’re wrong - and if you guess wrong that they are lying, and they were just wrong in good faith, you’re much more likely to convince them (and others). And, from
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You don’t need to accuse someone of lying when correcting them.
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It looks like it just moved to Mac earlier this year(!?)
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It has no graphics acceleration, right? Doesn’t windowing feel sluggish?
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All the comments here seem to be assuming this is a Google product, but it’s not - it’s not even a single thing. It’s a class of laptops. Or, really, an operating system for laptops , not a new device from Google. “We’re working with Ace
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There are a bunch of these I’m my local makerspace and they generally work great, and are often easily used by members on the more ‘craft’ side of things who’d never hang out here. Was surprised not to see them mentioned more in the discuss
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Techies like us get caught up in mechanism all the time in discussions like this. But, though there are some explicit laws where that’s how it works, that’s not generally how the legal system works. If I have a private server, and I don
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by jrmg 5mo ago
I was extremely surprised when, out of solder recently, I just bought some Draper lead free solder from my local Home Depot(!), and it flowed so much better than my previous roll of fancy lead-free solder from a decade ago. Basically indist
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In the third paragraph: Prior to that, many people across different continents and cultures followed a biphasic sleep schedule. They went to bed in the evening and slept for a few hours, waking up around midnight. Then, they would stay up
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Not commercial, but “Engineer Bo” on YouTube has an interesting series about building his own very professional looking scroll knob: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYK5tmZIBWtHYt4w8Y6P6ba-I...
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I often wake up at 2-4 AM long enough to look at a clock - then fall back asleep. I’ve never even considered that it could be something in my environment waking me up!
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Man, I miss photo articles like this that I can read at my leisure, without sound. Nowadays this would likely be a (probably frantic) video.
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There’d’ve been be no cases if we just hadn’t done testing.

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