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by leakycap 1y ago
Did you mistakenly respond to the wrong thread?
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by leakycap 1y ago
The calculator button is one of the "standardized" buttons, it isn't even as complex as macro as it turns out! And very handy
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by leakycap 1y ago
> And many other things. Understatement! > Does feel a lot like when companies sell hamstrung products just to force you to pay an “unlocking” fee for full functionality I agree a turn signal should have been included, but at these re
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by leakycap 1y ago
I really liked my prior-model Boox e-ink tablet until I audited the web traffic to see where analytics traffic was headed. I don't like my writing notebook constantly pinging other countries with data.
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by leakycap 1y ago
> I prefer not to be in the habit of pressing footguns given that I might occasionally be placed in front of a consumers windows laptop that no one cleaned. If you're this anxious about security, you might not want to be anywhere ne
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by leakycap 1y ago
Just read the page you linked. It is not confusing unless you don't know how statutes work. > § 102-34.110 Must Government motor vehicles use Government license plates? Yes, you must use Government license plates on Government motor
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by leakycap 1y ago
WOW! This is clean & I had fun making a little animation, which was easy to download as a GIF. Nice!
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by leakycap 1y ago
> I think it's more of the buttons perform specialized tricks to launch bloatware in Windows. The linked article is discussing play/pause buttons as well as a "mode-switch" button that allows the play/pause butto
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by leakycap 1y ago
Tesla uses pretty basic webcam-like devices for it's driving vision systems In the US, a yellow line vs. a white line on the roadway surface, along with signage directionality, is the only real indicator on whether the leftmost lane
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by leakycap 1y ago
I would never buy a Tesla, but $595 including installation for a new turn stalk, new steering wheel, different and steering wheel control module seems like a good price. This is far below typical dealer parts pricing for these items on even
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by leakycap 1y ago
> Enlighten me: what do people go to a library for these days? Go to a library and look around and ask librarians - this varies extremely by community. Libraries are very local, and your questions tell me you have not spent much time in
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by leakycap 1y ago
You're misunderstanding your source. You quote: > have an unlimited exemption from displaying U.S. Government license plates Yes ... but U.S. Gov't plates and state plates are not the same The very thing you linked explains f
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by leakycap 1y ago
> I think 100% compatibile [sic] working would be launching bloatware installed by the manufacturer. Making a physical button work requires bloatware in your understanding? > I'm happy not to have the pavlovian training that may
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by leakycap 1y ago
Bubble's pricing and performance are awful & unpredictable I launched a few small projects on Bubble many years ago, the pricing models have shifted so widely it wouldn't even be on my radar now. It's not remotely worth t
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by leakycap 1y ago
> Maybe you won't find an issue as simple as fixing a button, though. Every laptop I've used with linux has had a few non-functioning buttons and keys. I think you underestimate the widespread issue.
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by leakycap 1y ago
My understanding is that all federal vehicles that aren't assigned for use of the President or heads of executive departments must have a license plate when operating on state roads. Pulling over vehicles without plates seems like a re
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by leakycap 1y ago
> you can vibe code an MVP. But then let’s limit it at that I felt this way until I saw a person who had never seen an if/else or loop or variables ... program a game from nothing, including graphics, in the time most hand coders
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by leakycap 1y ago
> People were talking about making programming as basic as mathematics and English, but now vibing seems to be the norm. I think there were similar upsets in mathematics when the calculator and graphing calculator became the norm. For
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by leakycap 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45513485 has hundreds of interesting comments It doesn't seem clear to me this is permanent. The actual release says it's to allow more time for certified drives to be released
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by leakycap 1y ago
I went to the Roswell UFO festival in the 1990s and bought a digital virtual reality version of the crash scene on floppy disk that contained a single 20K VRML Sadly I never saw an impressive VRML demo or actual use case, they always seemed
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by leakycap 1y ago
> I just said that it was a valid choice for them to make Valid means well grounded - read this thread, it was not a well-grounded decision Valid means producing the desired outcome or effective - if this was the case, they would not be
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by leakycap 1y ago
The article says they reversed the ban, but the release notes seem to indicate a temporary change while more certified drives are brought into the market. This doesn't seem permanent.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Be aware it is extremely god-based in an unnerving way if you're not into religion. There are many alternatives if you don't want to go through a faith-based reboot.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Unless you're on a spectrum/have a diagnosis, using an AI to help text your significant other is a sign you don't care about them, not a sign you're bad at texting. Work on your relationship, not a program to text things
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by leakycap 1y ago
> Companies exist to make profit. They can only make a profit if people are willing to buy what they're selling > Their business is selling hard drives. Then either they or you are confused. They make the NAS, not the drives. The
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by leakycap 1y ago
What is to say they won't add a subscription feature to access your NAS box in future? Shocking that it took them this long to reverse course on this strongly negatively-received move. The leadership should go.
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by leakycap 1y ago
> the relationship between the agency and the company predates the Trump administration IMSI catchers/stingrays have been common practice in local law enforcement for decades, haven't they? How is this different? > Some cell
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by leakycap 1y ago
If you only had 1 year left to live, what would you do? Do that. If it gets old, switch gears immediately. As far as we all know, today could be the last for any of us. Less planning, more living/doing/going.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Unfortunately, most of the phones you describe are also from 2020. Do we expect Android app emulation to continue being feasible moving into 2027? It seems unlikely to me, so I don't know if these alternatives will take off.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Did you consider confusion with the Arc browser and still go with the name, or were you calling this Arc first and decided to just stick with it?

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