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by mcphage 3mo ago
Several places on that page link to "the napkin", which starts: > If you are reading this, you have probably discovered a capsule from the early 21st century - a long list of numbers, maybe etched onto a titanium cylinder. That
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by mcphage 3mo ago
The thing about the TI powerbook was, it didn't have to be plugged in to hot swap the battery. You could do it when running on battery power . (It had a tiny internal battery, that could run it for like 20-30 seconds, so long as the
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> The fact that you "do not miss" a better world, does not mean it is not better. In the abstract, yeah, it's better. But the extra battery cost me a lot of money, and I did not feel it was money well spent.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> Amazes me they don't just sell it like that everywhere because it sounds a lot like a product improvement... I'm not so sure. The first laptop I bought, a Titanium Powerbook, had replaceable batteries. And even better than
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> You have to accept that your pricing model sucks to a group of people (who are likely experiencing subscription fatigue) and decide if it’s worth losing or never getting their money. I think the article was very clear that they had alr
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> a bat (if you're fit) Or if it has rabies.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
This is from 2017. Which isn’t to say it’s not real, because I’m sure you could, but it hasn’t really manifested as a civilian problem.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
Um, has the author not been paying attention to what's going on with traditional media?
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> the digg/reddit comment tree format is a clear improvement in the sense that it makes it easier to find and track interesting discussions. But very difficult to have those conversations.
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> only ever to be fulfilled if you happen to get another lead on a cheap supply of that same part I've also heard that's how McDonalds does McRib sandwiches—they only offer it when pork futures are cheap enough.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
Stockholders seem concerned that Nintendo isn't throwing away enough of their seed corn, like all the other major game publishers are.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> Off topic: what are you enjoying lately? I've poured tons of hours into Blue Prince, which is a great puzzle game. Pokopia is fun and charming if you like Pokemon or Minecraft. I've recently been playing Öoo which is a shor
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by mcphage 3mo ago
> when people start to scream it's not fair Or LLMs, as we have seen.
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> To the outside world, however, not much other than theatrics, has changed. On the inside, it’s very different.
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by mcphage 3mo ago
It's hard to feel proud of your country while it's being robbed blind and burned to the ground by a collection of cartoon villains. And knowing that a large chunk of the country either chose this deliberately, or ignored everyone
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by mcphage 3mo ago
Yeah, it seems strange to get this "working", because fundamentally there is no correct answer. Our calendar isn't well defined in any consistent fashion back to then.
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by mcphage 4mo ago
I don’t mind Apple’s walled garden in the abstract, but the fact is they’ve been a terrible steward of their App Store. If you search for an app to do something small but useful, instead you’re presented with an ocean of identical apps that
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by mcphage 4mo ago
The ol' Q-tip defense.
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by mcphage 4mo ago
Locomotive, by the similarly named Brian Floca, is also a masterpiece of detail and charm.
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by mcphage 4mo ago
> AI or human, does it really matter? Yeah, it really does.
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by mcphage 4mo ago
> multiple people can scan a QR code simultaneously If it's large enough, and posted in a place where people sitting around a table can all see it clearly.
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by mcphage 4mo ago
> Switch 2 went further and had games that shipped as a pure license key with no data storage. Those at least are able to be resold, which is a large step above a one-time-use license key.
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by mcphage 4mo ago
Yeah, that’s definitely true. But the world is filled with sinners.
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by mcphage 4mo ago
> was involved in evidence tampering in a case that involved the shooting of a police officer Did the zines shoot the police officer? Or was the police officer shot with the zines?
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by mcphage 4mo ago
> I'd quickly realised that a set of words which covered most of the alphabet (20 words, leaving b, g, j, q, v, and z excluded) allowed solving virtually all Wordle puzzles. The game quickly lost any challenge. You can even go furth
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by mcphage 4mo ago
It’s not exactly a… subtle point, it’s making.
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That a significant cause of death in the UK, then?
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> If America had instead been grown by importing people from India or Africa, the American Empire would not exist. Oh man, wait until you learn about American history and where we imported people from—it is going to blow your mind .
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> It is not going to build you an empire today. Maybe, but lack of it will definitely lose you one.
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by mcphage 4mo ago
Where do they get the bespoke training data from? And how much? I don’t really know anything about this.

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