m463

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by m463 4d ago
> I think Apple's real problem is that they built machines that can last There has always been a healthy used apple market
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by m463 4d ago
Like all macos features you used to like/depend on... "privacy is a right" becomes privacy is a "defaults write <obscure-key>"
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by m463 5d ago
It (purposefully?) doesn't find everything. For instance (this is just sequoia, but same for ios) searching for "improve" finds: "improve assistive voice features" (I turned it off) and diagnostic & usage data
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by m463 5d ago
"standard adtech" I hate stuff like this. Sometimes euphemisms are kind, like "senior citizen" instead of "old person". But this is an attempt to normalize bad behavior that is really quite terrible for societ
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by m463 5d ago
> BTW 82% indoor humidity is really high I looked back at the article, thinking maybe it was an outlier datapoint (like measuring near bathroom after shower) but if average is 74% that IS really high. I wonder if this is in a coastal reg
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by m463 5d ago
> I see Claude being wrong often enough that I view it as a faulty narrator. I'm reminded of <insert-someone-in-your-life-that-generates-friction-here> "Often wrong, never in doubt"
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by m463 5d ago
I too thought the 2003 keyboard was the best design, but for ergonomic reasons. They did it right with respect to key shape. - the keys were scuplted. This eliminated touch-typing problems because your fingers would find the edges of keys
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by m463 6d ago
I think Abraham Lincoln
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by m463 8d ago
I'm reminded of the original matrix movie. It starts out with a lot of action, and then Trinity makes a phone call and disappears. At the time I thought "groan, unbelievable" until the idea of virtual reality fixed my suspen
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by m463 9d ago
interesting that the rotor sail principle can be used with planes too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect#In_aviation (can't help but think "tilt rotor" of a different kind)
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by m463 9d ago
I've given out jwz's link to several people: https://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html (maybe copy/paste this into browser instead of following link, since referrer from hn apparently does something)
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by m463 10d ago
I remember reading about star trek, and in particular uhura. "Uhura" comes from the Swahili word uhuru, meaning "freedom" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyota_Uhura On Star Trek, Nichols was one
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by m463 10d ago
I'll bet fire resistance and temperature stability are all good though. Don't know about noise - wonder if it is better or worse?
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by m463 10d ago
"That's what you say, but really you want a monetized phone game you can play while in the bathroom." - marketing and product planning
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by m463 10d ago
> What a 10 year old kid got out of the grain report? ocular pattern recognition, clumping of letters into words, then ideas. vocabulary. grammar. sentence structure. reading, especially early, leads to so many good things.
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by m463 10d ago
There are some businesses I don't want to contact anyone . when finding an emergency plumber or a tow truck, it seems all the companies you can contact are just scummy intermediaries that call a normal business and take a cut. I added
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by m463 10d ago
The next logical step is to use AI to influence US voters with "no data centers in space" outrage.
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by m463 23d ago
What's interesting is that the item you linked says "game key card" and "90 GB - Full game download via internet required" also interesting, in california vendors are required to say "you are buying a license&q
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by m463 23d ago
somehow I can't help but wonder what would be the response to bugs/feature requests...
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by m463 23d ago
I think "breakfast cereal" was invented and does not qualify as a good breakfast. I liked the book "the glucose revolution" which explained blood sugar and how it all works. hmm... the author has this page: https:/
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by m463 23d ago
Coca-Cola dismissed the allegations as "ridiculous," on the grounds that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking Vitaminwater was a healthy beverage" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ene
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by m463 23d ago
I kind of think the author is attempting to say - don't live your life governed by a script/external expectations. that said, it is ok to drive a non-boring car, or be dovahakiin.
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by m463 23d ago
But the point is, could the exported jobs be re-imported with easier automation.
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by m463 23d ago
But did you see the gorilla? EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness#Invisi...
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by m463 23d ago
I read zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance years ago and I still think "what IS quality?" edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirsig's_Metaphysics_of_Qualit... lol
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by m463 23d ago
In the united states, workers have traditionally been super expensive to the point that manual labor such as manufacturing has all been exported. could any of this be reversed?
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by m463 23d ago
Smart people not having kids was just a part of the movie. It also seemed to speak about america, where capitalism/corporations overwhelm common sense.
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by m463 23d ago
I like duckduckgo, I find the search assist to be useful, and afaict it doesn't harvest your data. Why can't the post-ai internet include personal agents that work for you or at least don't make you the product?
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by m463 24d ago
I know lots of folks (male and female) who would have retired fine, but for one word: divorce.
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GoPro Says It's Moving into Data Centers as Part of a $285M Merger(engadget.com)
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