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by n8cpdx 1y ago
I’m pretty close. If Android’s version of HealthKit was mature, and if focus modes were baked in, I’d probably have switched already.
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
> we're all issued voter IDs when we register as voters. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. I have never been issued a voter ID at the time of registration. > Mail-in voting allows other people to watch you as you
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
The US doesn’t have a national ID system, so your proposal doesn’t make sense. The closest thing is social security cards but those are not photo IDs. A signed affidavit or local ID should be fine to establish identity. That can be done whe
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
Under appreciated benefit of hand-counting paper ballots: it is an opportunity for participation in your democracy. I had the privilege of helping count votes in my small town 2012. Volunteers stayed up after voting ended and all of the bal
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
Source re:modem claims? Performance seems fine in general, modestly slower on very high end networks but using 25% less power. Performance claims: https://www.ookla.com/articles/iphone-c1-modem-performance-q... Energy
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
Perhaps we should try building solar panels and energy storage instead. New is good, known is better when you need to act with urgency to <fuel next generation AI/avert the climate crisis >.
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
My local family donut shop now sells them and reports that they are doing well. I have seen them attached to at least one backpack out and about.
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
This isn’t just an insightful comment. It’s profound. I’d like to delve into the crucial topic of whether AI generated slop is respectful to the innovative entrepreneurs of Hacker News. If they won’t assert the value of their time, who will
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
I hear all the time from people who have moved into management that their engineering skills atrophy. The only antidote is to continue doing IC work while managing.
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
Magnetically attachable external batteries exist. Apple basically came up with the concept (MagSafe).
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
Unfortunately, the only real comparison for iOS is past versions of iOS; until that changes I don’t see things getting better in any stable way. iOS 26 actually has a lot of great features and convergence with the rest of the ecosystem (e.g
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
That’s an important point. The collaboration model is more complex in GIS because it’s not just documents (maps and map projects) but the underlying data is coming from databases that are independently editable. The comparison still works i
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
LibreOffice vs Office 365/Google Drive is probably the more relevant comparison. I won’t comment on market share, but even if theoretically QGIS totally displaced ArcGIS Pro/ArcMap/ArcGIS on the desktop, the arena of competit
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
Has AI generation of chest hair finally been solved? I think this is the first time I’ve seen a remotely realistic looking result.
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
Edit: forgot which thread I’m on, yes the air looks much more like Pixel. Copying pixel would have been great. They copied AND made it worse. I wouldn’t in a million years buy a pixel, but their team deserves credit for making really beauti
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
I agree that #1 is correct, and I try to practice this; and always for anything security related (update your password, update your 2FA, etc). Still, I don’t understand how npmjs.help doesn’t immediately trigger red flags… it’s the perfect
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
When the M1 transition started, Intel and AMD devices simply were not competitive, even after factoring Rosetta losses ( https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/m1-chip-emulating-x86-b... ). That was the relevant
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
Delusional take. Rosetta is for maintaining compatibility during the transition. Efficiency is fine with Rosetta. But it doesn’t matter because the ARM transition is essentially already done. Not true, unfortunately, for Windows. Aside from
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
I would like to try it, but I don’t think it is available from shady internet doctors and insurance won’t cover it because I’m not diabetic. Shady internet ozempic passes the cost-benefit test (barely, considering I can successfully lose we
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
I tried it. I started down about 80 lbs from my heaviest, but a good 40 lbs from ideal/20 lb from healthy weight. The first time I tried it I followed dosing guidelines for ramp up; side effects were horrible, didn’t lose much weight,
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
It depends on your ideal balance. There are jobs that involve field work, thinking, and socializing, but there are always trade offs. I find that being indoors from dawn to dusk with a 30 minute walking commute and a hike once or twice a ye
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
I have many of these same issues. I actually think ublock is causing some of them; removing and reinstalling fixed some of the hangs for a while, but they eventually came back. I think I also switched from Firefox to chrome version or vice
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
I’ll never forget overhearing this quote from a fellow sophomore in the comp sci lab in college: “if I have to sit in front of a computer every day for the rest of my life I’ll kill myself.” Computer science is an interesting career choice
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
Yes, and that’s what windows does on touch screens going back a long while. iOS makes pretty heavy use of right click menus (e.g. on the Home Screen, in Mail). It used to be Force Touch/3D Touch, which is superior, but has more learnin
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
If you have quality news sources you hear about these things all the time (e.g. Economist). One reason Israel gets so much attention in the US is that US taxpayers are underwriting the war; both by selling arms and by defending attacks on I
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
The problem with paying ransoms is that even if it actually is the most cost effective solution in any one case, it just creates the incentive for more rapacious behavior. I think I'd be willing to pay $800 of my time to disincentivize
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
Article does not make the case for why you must keep up. AFAICT the best strategy would have been to completely tune out AI for the last ~3 years: - AI has not meaningfully improved productivity (unless you’re doing something super basic li
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
If you have such little regard for formatting that markdown suffices, you also don’t care about the difficult edge cases of docx.
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
I was wondering the other day about something like this for retro computing hardware, including game consoles. You can buy a device that looks perfectly good, but has rusty parts, leaking capacitors, shoddy/counterfeit replacement part
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by n8cpdx 1y ago
My doctor keeps prescribing it and the pharmacy keeps not filling it. I’m not really sure what’s going wrong, I haven’t taken the time to debug the situation. I shouldn’t need to, and I’ve never needed to with hims.

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