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by mingus88 1y ago
Insect populations are dying out and it’s a huge problem we don’t talk enough about. People are calling out fireflys because they are (were) very visible but it’s a problem for every species. We are replacing native plants with low pile out
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by mingus88 1y ago
Like other areas of electrification, centralizing the generation of power used to charge is a significant step in the right direction We are hopelessly addicted to petroleum but taking all of those little motors out of our neighborhoods is
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by mingus88 1y ago
I’ve seen this take and it just feels like it’s coming from an IC who resents their manager or doesn’t understand the role. Thing is there are plenty of useless managers. There are also useless ICs and useless C-suite execs. GenAI might rep
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by mingus88 1y ago
Dogs have all kinds of behaviors. Not all dogs can be trained to stay next to you. At least, not by all owners I have a husky mix whose prey drive means he will charge at other dogs, kids, usually playful but not always. Positive reinforcem
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by mingus88 1y ago
And care for it for the long term. A lot of people got dogs during the pandemic because they were at home 24/7 Now many of those dogs got sent to shelters because they weren’t properly socialized being isolated in the pandemic and the
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by mingus88 1y ago
I don’t think doing this on your own will be effective. I would only recommend these Mel bay books if you have a teacher to work with you on it And even then these Mel Bay style beginners books are probably good for 6mo at most before you s
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by mingus88 1y ago
Up until the part where people couldn’t cancel their subscriptions or got charged out of the blue
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by mingus88 1y ago
I had the opposite take, actually. I had to think about it for a sec and suddenly, “oh, right. Novo nordisk == Danish == Scandinavian design” cute. This style of writing is a welcome change from all the AI slop or self promoting blogs out t
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by mingus88 1y ago
Kids are not buying these for harm reduction. Neither are adults for that matter. I successfully weaned myself off of nicotine with a vape box. It involved months of slowly tapering the nicotine levels until it felt silly and pointless to s
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by mingus88 1y ago
> The media is reporting the world as it is Do you honestly believe this?
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by mingus88 1y ago
Goodreads was a useful tool to track the books I’d read to my kids every night. Nice to have a log book of what I’d already read backed by a real database of ISBNs Feels similar to calorie tracking apps now. Having a database of food UPCs w
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by mingus88 1y ago
For a long time, Amazon reviews could be somewhat useful if you ignored all the 5 and 1 star reviews and only looked at verified buyers. But Amazon allows sellers to swap different products in under an existing listing so you don’t even kno
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by mingus88 1y ago
Read up on private compute cloud, the transparency log and published binaries, the VRE, use of oHTTP proxies … And then come back and tell me that there is anyone else going through such hoops (at not charge) to make sure they know nothing
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by mingus88 1y ago
Serious answers? Vertical integration of hardware/firmware/OS/Software/services from a big tech firm that isn’t making their margins from selling my personal data and actually delivers industry leading privacy features P
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by mingus88 1y ago
Yeah I am very pro-privacy and don’t agree that this is a choice between requiring warrants at the border or no searches at all. From a practical standpoint it’s completely unworkable to require an actual judge to evaluate every person comi
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by mingus88 1y ago
It’s working as designed for the current owner Childish billionaires develop grudges against meany journalists who report on them. Welcome to the backlash.
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by mingus88 1y ago
Many modern OSes already randomize your MAC on untrusted WiFi But that has no substantive effect on if a site wants to block you. They’ll do that based on other indicators like geo-IP so committing a crime with an IP where you live is not a
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by mingus88 1y ago
Like any addiction, the addict needs to first _want_ to stop
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by mingus88 1y ago
Every Linux WM had an aqua theme. Apple delivered an OS that the “year of the Linux desktop” folk had been (and still are) trying to deliver for years. A mainstream Unix with all the usability for your grandmother supported by all big 3rd
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by mingus88 1y ago
It was social media without capitalism. Honestly, a utopia. We logged in daily because there was always new content to discover. A new fileshare with obscure content or a zine with cool ascii art. It’s a shame that everything is fed to us n
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by mingus88 1y ago
It makes sense to have everyone in 2026 running version 26. It’s also nice to announce 27 ahead of 2027 and people feel like they are on the bleeding edge getting it early It makes sense to have all the product families on the same versioni
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by mingus88 1y ago
Privacy here means Apple is not a data broker. Your inference requests are completely anonymous. Apple made their money when they sold an expensive bit of hardware. They even use some of these large margins to build out private compute clou
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by mingus88 1y ago
That’s where PCC comes in. But I still don’t understand how their device margins are going to fund all these AI data centers Especially now that their App Store revenue is collapsing
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by mingus88 1y ago
That’s it though. The iPhone set the paradigm for nearly 20 years. And up to that point nobody knew it was coming. It’s been done and every tech company wants to find the next game changing thing. I’m kinda rooting for Apple on this one. Gi
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by mingus88 1y ago
> Daseler is bringing in mostly nonnative plants that provide shade and are drought tolerant, like oak trees from northern Mexico and eucalyptus trees from Australia. Choice of tree matters. These areas are deserts and it just seems wron
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by mingus88 1y ago
IMO that would be a huge mistake. Why would they go head to head with MS in the corporate space? Rather, Apple played to their strengths and made corporate IT come to them. I was there in the early 2010s when they tried to force everyone to
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They will not bite the hand that feeds them. But I am glad they are pushing people toward other browsers because that is the biggest step. Once you have taken that step, installing the most popular extensions is trivial. Guess what the high
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by mingus88 1y ago
Yeah it sounds like maybe OP was too direct. “Uncooperative” is strong language for feedback I had a systems scenario recently where I was expected to troubleshoot a MySQL master that was trying to backup via rsync to a hung NFS mount. I su
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> If your party has an encumbent President, you run the President. No other candidate would have the same amount of power Of course both of us are speculating, but my view is that this is conventional wisdom in unconventional times The d
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The democrats were foolish to run Biden, 100% Biden ran in 2020 as a single term president. He did his job to prevent a second consecutive Trump term. At some point that changed, probably because Trump never gave up power. Again, the democr

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