kraussvonespy

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by kraussvonespy 15d ago
The gaming apps for many people are roughly equivalent to giving an opiate addict an app that dispenses heroin whenever they press a button.
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by kraussvonespy 1mo ago
Approximiately 60-70% of desktop / laptop users worldwide use Windows according to wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste... The big problem with shifting users from Windows is tra
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by kraussvonespy 2mo ago
That would look good as a title on a nice business card. Letterpress, maybe.
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by kraussvonespy 2mo ago
C'mon Apple. Ease off on the app store fees, let innovation blossom again, maybe use some of that momentum to encourage game developers to use the Mac platform for gaming. Consider throwing some extra GPU cores in future M<whatever&
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by kraussvonespy 2mo ago
Well said. Your last stanza is Orwellian.
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by kraussvonespy 2mo ago
It is. It's a good study of what happens when you combine complex systems in planes and helicopters with the complex systems of navigation and communication, and air traffic control. If you're looking for more Cloudberg, some of m
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by kraussvonespy 2mo ago
Note that this is a long article (~3 hour read). If you just want the executive summary of what happened, I might suggest skipping forward to chapter 7 first and then if you want more, go back and read the in-depth analysis of earlier chapt
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Reaping the Whirlwind: Inside the Potomac River Midair Collision(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
6 points by kraussvonespy 2mo ago|3 comments
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by kraussvonespy 4mo ago
Windows isn't getting any slimmer. Storage / RAM isn't getting any cheaper for the first time in the the last ~50 years. There's a storm brewing.
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by kraussvonespy 4mo ago
This started long ago. In the 1980s, pros used 60 minute Umatic cassettes because it was the standard and it was the highest quality format. Home users had VHS and Beta (and laserdisc and CED discs and...) The pro market was mostly short vi
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by kraussvonespy 4mo ago
Sometimes the journey is the reward.
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by kraussvonespy 4mo ago
lol We consult with a medium sized medical group that interfaces with all of the larger hospital groups and tons of smaller clinics around the area. They had me do an audit on their fax server because they were getting complaints that a l
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by kraussvonespy 4mo ago
You used the magic word "fax". I think you just told me you work in the medical industry without telling me you work in the medical industry.
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by kraussvonespy 4mo ago
Today in the US in 2026, if you're blindly trusting fully enshitified corporations to keep you alive, I assure you that you're not going to have to worry about broken insulin pumps for very long.
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by kraussvonespy 5mo ago
computer.rip has dozens of rabbit hole articles that seem to be tied together in an "old tech / weird tech" bundle. I'd love to find a book on similar subjects too.
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by kraussvonespy 7mo ago
Trump is basically a glorified realtor with the intellect of a single celled organism.
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by kraussvonespy 7mo ago
Laser pointers are to cats as sparkly objects are to Trump.
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by kraussvonespy 7mo ago
Yep, they're playing the always popular "bomber gap" card.
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by kraussvonespy 8mo ago
Or they could buy equipment with active room conditioning like Dirac. I have Dirac receivers in two rooms that are absolutely terrible listening areas, and running the full Dirac calibration on the room creates a soundstage where you don’t
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by kraussvonespy 8mo ago
I don’t question that audiophiles hear different things on expensive equipment, but I think it’s all placebo. “If I spend a stupid amount of money on this, my brain will gin up the sound to satisfy my expectations.”
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by kraussvonespy 10mo ago
There's probably also some "I don't want to get my pretty truck wet or dirty" involved there too.
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by kraussvonespy 10mo ago
I still bemoan selling the first couple of years of issues to someone on ebay. I needed to get the stuff out of the basement, but feels like I should have kept them just for the technology history lessons. I'm still looking for the ver
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by kraussvonespy 11mo ago
Yep. The low hanging fruit principle in action. You can’t make anything completely secure so you put up more obstacles than your neighbor so the attackers go visit the neighbor instead. Or in the case of targets with no neighbors like missi
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by kraussvonespy 1y ago
I'm still stunned by Captain Haynes's grace under pressure: Sioux City Approach: "United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven. You're cleared to land on any run
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by kraussvonespy 1y ago
Although there are a number of charging stations designed for IOS devices that have bright blue LEDs that you can't turn off. Some good number of these devices are going on someone's nightstand where a bright blue LED is exactly w
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by kraussvonespy 1y ago
It would be interesting to know the who and how of the fiber cut. We're a tiny company in the heartland and have seen two separate fiber cuts in different parts of the state. Both tickets indicated that they were believed to be malicio
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by kraussvonespy 1y ago
I put B612 on my kindles a few months ago and it's my favorite reading font. Very legible from tiny to huge, no serifs to slow things down. I'm not sure I'd use it for written documents, although the monospace version is a ve
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by kraussvonespy 1y ago
Mid 1980s, I worked at an record store that was also heavy into stereos and other audio / visual equipment. We were fortunate enough to have not only a huge 40" Sony set (which weighed about 300lbs) but also a 36" Fisher cons
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by kraussvonespy 1y ago
Oof. Things got awfully dusty in here thinking about The Great Silence. It's a very short piece with huge emotional impact.
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by kraussvonespy 2y ago
“Sorry, the commission budget is out of money for this budget year. You sold way too much which made the company a ton of extra money. Sadly that means it’s your fault we can’t pay you the commissions you were promised.”

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