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by macintux 1y ago
There's also the problem of rural opposition to solar farms. Not unusual to see a "no solar farms" sign every few hundred feet in some parts of Indiana where I wander (often in the same areas where the cars have bumper sticke
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by macintux 1y ago
Ask the U.S. lately just how binding those laws are.
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by macintux 1y ago
Perhaps because migrating from Vercel is a hot topic lately.
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by macintux 1y ago
My personal favorite in this genre was the commenter who said that the heart-rate monitoring features of an Apple Watch were irrelevant because they could always check their own. Scale & automation matter.
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by macintux 1y ago
You raise an excellent point, and the truth is that I don't know. That doesn't change the consumer perspective: I'm paying more for a worse product.
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by macintux 1y ago
It was done at roughly the same time that the company switched to a subscription model and their focus switched from consumer to business.
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by macintux 1y ago
Personally, I use it as much for other secrets as for browser passwords. Social security numbers, software licenses (not so much anymore), password reset questions, passwords I can't paste (for work), etc. I don't use a plugin. Ne
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by macintux 1y ago
1Password used to be an excellent native app. It's not surprising that many users (myself included) resent the enshittification.
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by macintux 1y ago
"and when we drain the planet dry of easily-accessible fossil fuels we’ve deprived any successor civilization of its opportunity to escape the planet." Successor. Whoever comes along after we've done ourselves in.
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by macintux 1y ago
The key phrase was "successor civilization".
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by macintux 1y ago
None of which are, I assume, as easy/efficient/effective to integrate into a new civilization's tech tree as coal & oil.
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by macintux 1y ago
My pessimistic side says that the conditions for intelligent life are so implausible that we’re unique, and when we drain the planet dry of easily-accessible fossil fuels we’ve deprived any successor civilization of its opportunity to escap
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by macintux 1y ago
Discussed yesterday (same story, different source): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45406090
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by macintux 1y ago
That's dubious. Unit tests make future development easier.
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by macintux 1y ago
What drive me crazy when using Windows for work is the abysmal copy/paste support. Just 2 minutes ago I started an email, was composing a numbered list of steps, saw that a co-worker sent another email to the same thread, so I copied t
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by macintux 1y ago
I understand, and I don't care. I charge my watch overnight, and if I don't have a charger, I can power it off overnight and still have juice for the next day. It's simply not a big deal for me.
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by macintux 1y ago
I never had any interest in wearing a watch to bed. Still don’t, although theoretically I could charge it for a few minutes in the evening to make that possible. The Watch has helped me lose 30 pounds, has significantly helped motivate me t
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by macintux 1y ago
I thought the general point is that you can't "force" an LLM to stay within certain boundaries without placing it in an environment where it literally has no other choice. (Having said that, I'm just a kibitzer.)
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by macintux 1y ago
When you have an openly, brazenly corrupt president who ignores the law, every government decision is suspicious.
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by macintux 1y ago
Indiana is seriously considering annexing much of central/southern Illinois. It’s amazing just how aggressively divisive politics have become in the last 20 years.
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by macintux 1y ago
Not exactly next door, but 2.5 hours away is the Museum of Radio & Technology near the Ohio/WV/Kentucky border. https://www.mrtwv.org/ I tried to visit it a few years back, but it didn't happen to be open
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by macintux 1y ago
What concerns me the most is that a bridge, or road, or building has a limited number of environmental changes that can impact its stability. Software feels like it has an infinite number of dependencies (explicit and implicit) that are con
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by macintux 1y ago
> The advocacy group, founded in 1979, has long worked to protect and restore the Chicago River, for example pushing for discharge from water treatment plants to be disinfected before being released into the river, Frisbie said. 46 years
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by macintux 1y ago
> The only reasonable argument for any immigration is if it equally enriches all us citizens. Name any economic policy that will equally enrich all citizens. That seems like a ridiculous bar to meet. Immigration obviously dates back far,
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by macintux 1y ago
> Trump is a monster who would throw his own children into a furnace if it made him richer. While I agree in broad details, his kids seem to be the only people to whom he has any sense of loyalty. Everyone else is expendable.
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by macintux 1y ago
I believe that's also why Apple has been conservative with the amount of RAM in their phones.
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by macintux 1y ago
Years ago I held out hope Apple could make something work. I'd be happy to pay for content on the web, if I didn't have to have 50 or 500 different subscriptions.
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by macintux 1y ago
One man had the chance to make the Jan 6th impeachment stick. If McConnell had maintained his integrity, I have no idea who would be president now, but it wouldn’t be Trump.
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by macintux 1y ago
(2016)
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by macintux 1y ago
Or losing access to your phone for a day or two can range from a mild inconvenience to job–threatening.

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