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by nfoz 6y ago
Insidious marketing drums up demand for an artificially forbidden fruit. Sounds like an origin story ;)
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by nfoz 6y ago
So you can switch between different inputs such as multiple game consoles, DVD-player, Apple-tv/Roku/whatnot, computer/chromecast, etc. You can get splitters but that's still not as convenient as just being able to switc
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by nfoz 6y ago
Actually, mine was a bit cheaper! It's 55" 4k but no HDR. It was ~$850 CAD. At the time, LG's equivalent (spec-wise, as far as I could tell) "consumer" smart-tv was ~$1000. The model I linked here, is $1000 CAD o
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by nfoz 6y ago
LG sells them as some of their "Business" tvs, intended e.g. for hotels. In Canada some of them are branded as "Commercial Lite". Here's an LG 65" 4k HDR dumb TV: https://www.lg.com/ca_en/
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by nfoz 6y ago
LG still makes them, if you carefully navigate to their Business "Commercial Lite" or digital-signage options. I love my 55" 4k dumb TV. But you might not get some high-end features like HDR.
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by nfoz 6y ago
I'd love to try a keyboard where the keys are a bit wider and with a bit more space between them than normal. Probably bad but still, I'd like to try.
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by nfoz 6y ago
I can agree that .com is cluttered (with non-companies, even), and that a wider and semantic namespace could be a good thing. But in my example -- I can't imagine a site that belongs under exactly one of these TLDs. So any site that f
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by nfoz 6y ago
ICANN sold out the internet. The namespace is all but ruined. .PHOTO, .PHOTOGRAPHY, .PHOTOS, .PICS, .PICTURES This should offend everyone.
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by nfoz 6y ago
I think this is borrowing a convention from Perl, where the variable $_ is often given an implicit value of "the thing I'm talking about" when you didn't bother to give a real variable name for it. http://www.
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by nfoz 6y ago
I played a bunch of Populous on Amiga as a young child, thinking a lot about ideas of God and civilization. It was a very unique experience for me to play that game; an awesome and terrifying feeling. It didn't explain anything. You
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by nfoz 6y ago
I think the argument is that mail is an essential service (e.g. for voting) that the government has a mandate to provide to communities that the private sector would not bother to service because it would not be profitable for them to do so
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by nfoz 6y ago
> 1. Are you suggesting masks as a cultural norm for all eternity? I hope not. Well in some Asian cultures it was already normalized to wear a mask when you have any kind of symptoms of anything contagious. I was hoping that convention
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by nfoz 6y ago
I suspect that Facebook is powerful enough to choose election winners whose policies will favour them. Much moreso, and with much less visibility, than regular media companies.
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by nfoz 6y ago
This will sound weird, but I have no idea why anyone cares about the abstract "survival of human species". I care very deeply about the lives of people actually living here right now. But if Earth is wiped out, what does it matt
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by nfoz 6y ago
What were the problems with this transition?
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by nfoz 6y ago
Your comment isn't helpful unless you're willing to point out what isn't true and can only be observed from within America?
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by nfoz 6y ago
I don't like that they define microservices as components communicating via RPC, because this precludes other models like pub-sub.
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by nfoz 6y ago
It's done phenomenal good in all the countries that have done it properly, and have nearly gotten rid of this thing. I can't believe, after all the available data all over the world, that anyone still thinks "no lockdown&quot
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by nfoz 6y ago
? My problem is not with Unicode here. Unicode has angle-brackets. But SGML (which tbf predates Unicode by a lot) doesn't use them.... It uses less-than/greater-than signs and pretends that they're angle-brackets. They&
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by nfoz 6y ago
That's cool! But it's also somehow even worse, by being so complicated.
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by nfoz 6y ago
> — How about the left angle bracket "<"? Is that at least a "bracket"? > No. > — Why not? > Because it's a LESS-THAN SIGN. It's petty, and there are bigger problems, but this is one of my main g
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by nfoz 6y ago
What advantages do people like from Gitlab as opposed to just using git? I'm not too familiar with gitlab/github, so I'm sure it's a naive question, but I'm wondering what the main value-add that's missing fro
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by nfoz 6y ago
oh, I didn't know that. thanks!!
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by nfoz 6y ago
> "Adding ISPs in the TRR program paves the way for providing customers with the security of trusted DNS resolution, while also offering the benefits of a resolver provided by their ISP such as parental control services and better o
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by nfoz 6y ago
I....... have to disagree, though I'm not sure why, but that old one looks much better to me. Like it's simpler and more clear.
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by nfoz 6y ago
Big Cats was way better IMO. I was surprised they switched to landmarks, and I'm more surprised that they haven't changed to something else entirely yet.
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by nfoz 6y ago
I absolutely love the all-glass skyscraper aesthetic. I consider it breathtaking. Calming and magnificent. I never understand why so many people say they love the look of old buildings. I know it's not "cool", but I&#x27
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by nfoz 6y ago
> But without moderation, it trends towards mud-slinging, vitriol where arguments become so divided that it's no longer discourse. I think of it as performance art of insane babble, satire, potty-humour. Should "proper discour
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by nfoz 6y ago
Yeah people get too caught up in the marketing-hype of AI as if it's a magical thinking lifeform. So far, it is not. It's a device, a tool. Devices don't own things.
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by nfoz 6y ago
I'm pretty hype to try the Keychron K1: https://www.keychron.com/ I think the "tenkeyless" layout is great: it's "full keyboard" size including the separated arrows block and correctly spaced F

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