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by mbreese 1y ago
When the Quest 2 came out they shifted from using a specific Oculus account to requiring Facebook accounts. It was a dumb idea and my wife was questioning why I made a Facebook account for my 12 year old kid (who as a typical Gen Z will pr
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by mbreese 1y ago
I agree. I have a Creality Ender 3 V2. I wanted something cheap that I wasn’t going to worry about if it became a paperweight (due to lack of use). As I worked more with it, I upgraded it a ton, putting about as much money into it as it cos
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> breaking any then-known encryption (Also from fuzzy memory) Any then-known Western encryption. The chip was supposedly useless on Soviet/Russian encryption techniques, thus emphasizing who exactly the chip was meant to be used
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by mbreese 1y ago
Not the OP, but I have kept one of these in all of my cars for years. I keep mine in the armrest storage space. I’ve never needed it, but it always gets transferred from old car to new. And every time I get something out of the armrest, it
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by mbreese 1y ago
Ten years ago (I moved since), there was a ghost kitchen in the Bay Area that was great. I wish I could remember the name. But it produced meals that were extremely well packaged, but designed to be reheated at home (it took like 15 min max
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by mbreese 1y ago
I read that as “niche for Tesla”. It’s not what their primary product was supposed to be. But, with more EVs being compatible, it might end up being the most stable part of the company. It’s not as sexy as cars, robots, or robotaxis, but it
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by mbreese 1y ago
Before that was HyperCard. It was always amazing to me the types of applications that could be written with HyperCard. In a similar way, VBA was amazing in MS Office back in the day. If you ever saw someone who was good at Visual Basic in E
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by mbreese 1y ago
Think R1 research university or government lab level HPC clusters… These are almost always multi-tennant with differing levels of trust and experience between users. The data processed here can often have data access agreements or laws that
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by mbreese 1y ago
One of the major use cases was multi-user HPC systems. Because they can be complicated, it’s not uncommon for bioinformatics data analysis programs to be distributed as containers. Large HPC clusters are multi-tennant by nature, so running
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by mbreese 1y ago
EVs (or having a car in general) aren’t for everyone. Or aren’t for everyone yet. But you’re now talking about the lack of adequate charging infrastructure in an urban setting. That’s a different conversation. It’s a worthy conversation, bu
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by mbreese 1y ago
After dealing with Tesla service, I’d also put having a large and varied dealer network with potential third party service locations as a plus for the Leaf. The word potential is doing a lot of work here - having competitive service options
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by mbreese 1y ago
I like using my iPad better than my RM2 for similar reasons (I have both, but really only use the iPad anymore). The pickup is much better on the iPad, in my opinion. However, one thing that I think makes the biggest difference is adding a
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by mbreese 1y ago
I didn’t know about ink traps, but I did notice them right away in the sample images. I was guessing that it would help increase legibility when it was embossed or in raised printing on a physical button.
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by mbreese 1y ago
It’s even the first link on this page. In addition to Comic Sans, he’s also made a font ball for Papyrus! I can’t imagine using any of these (even when typewriters were king), but I love that they exist.
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by mbreese 1y ago
Amazingly, I think you’re right, but not for (negative) the reasons you state. I see the 3D printing scene a remix culture where you’re supposed to try new things. If you want something to work exactly for your situation, you might have to
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by mbreese 1y ago
That was what I immediately was thinking about. I wish I had had a tool like this when admining an LDAP server for a compute cluster. This would have made my life much easier, as opposed to using Apache Directory Studio through SSH tunnels.
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by mbreese 1y ago
I completely expect for that to be the case. My point is, there are already programs distributed with macOS that don’t put config in the ~/Library/Application Support folder. Knowing this, I don’t see a good argument for (especial
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by mbreese 1y ago
The firewall on that computer killed the battery (with repeated crashing). It also refused to work with a USB Ethernet adapter so I could only use wifi. It was clearly a product meant to check a security box, written by a company that knew
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by mbreese 1y ago
I wonder how much of that is crowdstrike. At $LASTJOB my Mac was constantly chugging due to some mandated security software. Battery life on that computer was always horrible compared to a personal MB w/o it.
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by mbreese 1y ago
And I’d also argue that the App Support folder doesn’t apply to CLI/TUI config files either. Apple doesn’t force CLI programs it distributes from storing files in App Support. If this were the case, wouldn’t you also expect the .ssh fo
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by mbreese 1y ago
I too use the mx 3. It’s a great mouse that can also travel easily in my laptop bag. I went to get a new one to keep at my office last year and noticed that the buttons had changed from clicky ones to silent ones. That drove me nuts and I r
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by mbreese 1y ago
It also inadvertently proves their point. The strength of Apple hardware is the OS integration. This level of integration and polish is only possible because of the limited components they have to support. Even if you have powerful componen
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by mbreese 1y ago
IIRC, Macs also do tricky networking things to make it faster to come back online from sleep. I'd be curious if the computer is actually sending packets vs. just keeping the address configured and waiting. (That may just be on iOS thou
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by mbreese 1y ago
As far as I have read, even with themselves as the primary customer, there is still enough excess capacity to make it unprofitable to use the most advanced processes. I see it as a strict cost issue — the new fab costs $X to run. Intel can
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by mbreese 1y ago
From: https://docs.openindiana.org/misc/openindiana/#what-is-the-o... > Why is it called OpenIndiana? > OpenIndiana obtains its name from Project Indiana, an open source effort by Sun Microsystems (now Or
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by mbreese 1y ago
Excel really doesn't care what users think. I mean, in biology, we've already had to change the names of genes to accommodate Excel's auto-date conversion routines. So, why would it care to have globally consistent CSV format
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I’m envisioning VSCode Vibe Server 2026 edition.
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I had something similar happen, but for a gas boiler (hot water radiators). Our was older, but not super old. It would intermittently turn off and we couldn’t figure it out. HVAC Contractor (who we had a maintenance contract with) thought t
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by mbreese 1y ago
Cryptography/security is a trust business. Without some kind of personal (or even project) history, I know nothing about you or the project. And if I can’t verify you, I can’t trust you. The rest doesn’t matter much to me. But maybe th
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I’d also add the language to the mix. I know you can write good code with TS/JS, but the dependency surface is just so large, I’m not comfortable with security code written in it yet (maybe at some point). Add that the repositories wer

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