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by mholm 3y ago
Content has always been region locked, but accounts could travel freely between regions. This allowed users in the USA to access media available in any country from a VPN, for instance.
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by mholm 3y ago
Projects on Github are more than git. Commits can move, but issues, pull requests, role mappings, wikis, and Actions, are all potentially impossible/difficult to migrate elsewhere.
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by mholm 3y ago
I've been skeptical of the Wirecutter for a few years now. It seems their reviews are starting to lean away from quality products, and start pointing towards companies with a bigger marketing budget. Example, their handvac recommendati
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by mholm 3y ago
Maybe the business model isn’t advertising, but instead doing checks on all the customers and sending a fine to anyone with an active GitHub.
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by mholm 3y ago
144.1 deaths per year. Presumably these studies lasted multiple years. Though I'll admit this was less than I expected, which would explain the differing results.
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by mholm 3y ago
That's what's confusing me: 105,000 participants in a study should have resulted in thousands of cancer deaths, a 12% drop should be pretty noticeable even with 10% of the data.
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by mholm 3y ago
On one hand, I entirely agree with you. The federal government was not made to perform these sorts of actions. But on the other hand, it's the only mediating organization outside the bucket of crabs that is our real estate market. Loca
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by mholm 3y ago
I had the exact same experience. I might even have some comments on an old HN account complaining about HA's disregard for upgrade stability. After another broken upgrade, I finally decided to just fix my install at a certain update in
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by mholm 4y ago
> I wouldn't be interested in paying a designer to just come up with ideas that I may not even like The benefit of having a designer is that you can have input at every stage of the process. Pick some swatches out, pick some styles,
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by mholm 4y ago
And soon, it'll be smeared out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity - Neal Stephenson
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by mholm 4y ago
The cost for truly bespoke pieces and the types of people not paying a designer to redecorate their space will nearly cancel each other out.
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by mholm 4y ago
In the vast majority of these cases, we're currently using up some of our light grey balls, while we've already drawn ten more slightly greyer balls, just sitting ready to be used. We can make batteries without cobalt. We can make
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by mholm 4y ago
> we really start feeling the crunch of nonrenewable resources This really just feels Malthusian. Many of the elements that are currently 'scarce' are not actually scarce, just not found in extremely high concentrations elsewhe
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by mholm 4y ago
Sticking it in your own private datacenter would imply that you can opt in or out of using your data to train the next generation. ChatGPT does not dynamically train itself in realtime.
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by mholm 4y ago
Yes, modern MacBooks have a sensor for detecting screen angle
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by mholm 4y ago
I'm not sure there's a director in the world who could have done the dinner scene justice. Some things just can't bridge mediums.
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by mholm 4y ago
If using Windows is death by a thousand cuts, using Linux is obliteration by ten thousand. Linux has completed 90% of the work, but the last 10% (usability) is a long way away.
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by mholm 4y ago
'European Delivery' should get you started, that's what BMW uses.
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by mholm 4y ago
How large is this kitchen? I had new quartz countertops put in for $4500 a few months ago, after labor. Kitchen is decently sized too.
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by mholm 4y ago
I'm wondering if this is going to be the start of a lower cost tier, or perhaps raising the price to watch without ads? I don't think Apple could get away with normal ads on Apple TV without an option to get rid of them, even if i
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by mholm 4y ago
The engineers are from cultures where loud noises are a part of life. More expensive appliances will (usually) have softer tones
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by mholm 4y ago
I’m of similar opinion. I keep seeing claims of smooth AI video at the level of existing image generation ‘coming soon’ but I haven’t seen any evidence that it’s even close. Few years? Sure.
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by mholm 4y ago
If I find an airtag among my things, I'm not going to believe there's a benign or legitimate use-case.
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by mholm 4y ago
Reels and YT Shorts are atrocious. This isn't necessarily an argument to keep it unbanned, but it's comparing the Lada to a Ferrari.
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by mholm 4y ago
Even Slack previously had shifts where people would be on-call or actively monitoring as necessary. PTO isn't closely tracked within the company (usually) so I'd wager there's nothing stopping this from happening as usual, un
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by mholm 4y ago
For exactly that reason. Sometimes people just want mindless action and fun setpieces, and John Wick movies respect that. Many action movies try and force in some inane plot, or add a romance subplot, or digress from the actual point of the
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by mholm 4y ago
Copilot seems to learn from elsewhere in my codebase, and is able to utilize patterns I've used elsewhere in the codebase when prompted in a different file. Isn't perfect, but it saves a ton of time. My primary usage is shell scri
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by mholm 4y ago
He hasn't directly, but he has just mentioned Twitter becoming a free speech platform: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657 "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, becaus
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by mholm 5y ago
Shops commonly use .19¢ and $.19 interchangably, when they are definitely not. The poster you're replying to also realized this.
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by mholm 5y ago
At least for my TV, which is some cheap Element Amazon TV from 2017, my Apple TV has full CEC. It will change input to Apple TV whenever I interact with it, and can turn the TV on directly. So it has to be how the TVs implement things. I&#x

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