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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Ask them, not me.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
One needn’t spend every single waking hour with their family. Everyone needs some time to themselves.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
How? When? Every time I tried to use it I was prompted to log in to a Microsoft account. If it is in fact possible then you’ve done an excellent job hiding it.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
I have an Anova sous vide cooker that is also about 10 years old and has an app, but is fully functional without it. When I bought it the app was free, but then later became a subscription addon. However they grandfathered all original owne
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
World’s largest spy network? The FBI wouldn’t even be the largest spy network within the US.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Or for Chicago natives leaving Chicago.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
I distinctly remember gaming on CRTs and then LCD screens and it was night and day difference, in favor of LCD. Monitors have only gotten better and I certainly don’t miss CRTs, least of all how hot they were.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Yes, personal responsibility is important. That doesn't mean we need to allow companies to attempt to addict as many people as they can. The question we should be asking: are these technologies a net-positive to society?
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Meta is not blameless here. Responsibility can be shared when Meta (and others) are essentially preying on children. It’s an uphill battle for parents by Meta’s design.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Keep in mind that this case is about about a minor, not an adult. I don't think it's fair to ask children to resist social media through sheer willpower when there are legions of highly educated adults on the other side trying to
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
If prices of certain metals were high enough I bet people would stop throwing out TVs and dig up old ones from the dump.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Practically speaking, sure. It's obviously not cost-effective to extract it. But it's there if someone can get it. I don't expect anyone to be extracting gold from ocean water, but there are other source of other elements tha
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
I suppose they mean if you could harness Hawking radiation to do useful work, then you could use any matter as fuel.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Perhaps a pi is what they had on hand. It sounds as though this wasn’t a project that was planned in advance. Sometimes you just use what you have.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Even synthesizing helium is prohibitively expensive. Unless you want whatever heavy decay products we have from nuclear waste, synthesizing elements at industrial scale probably isn’t happening. Unless by “make from something” else you mean
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
That’s still not running out. It’s still there, just more effort to get.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
What would you have used ten years ago?
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
> Setting timers works well though This is Siri’s primary use case, at least I assume so based on my experience. As long as the timer isn’t for 50 minutes.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
If my money in the bank is stolen I have legal recourse.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
It's not "restricted", it's designed to serve a different purpose. A bicycle is not a "restricted" car.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
I will never disable mine. I think back to when malware was served from ads on nytimes.com. If you let your guard down, someone will mess up and let malware through. Adblockers are security.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Not really. There are infinite insignificant details that could be included that should not be included because they do neither in any meaningful way.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
That’s a good point, in the movie they only show the already “broken” Denethor.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
That’s pretty much what happened in the books. More accurately he lost all hope for the world after being fed visions by Sauron to manipulate him. Hey wait…
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
What is the purpose of the setting if not to reveal character or advance the plot? I don’t need to know the color of the walls if it does neither.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Paint is a tool to deposit pigment on a substrate. The tool does not make the artist.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
So the cold air spills out when you open it. However the thermal mass of the air inside the fridge can’t be much compared to the thermal mass of the contents of a normal fridge. And of course the more full your fridge, the less cold air the
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
Writing is a tool, a technology. Much like hammers or saws, which are also commodified. And even though anyone can go buy a saw, not everyone is a carpenter.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
If offering free support is too expensive, then they shouldn’t offer free support, instead of externalizing the costs by wasting the time of every customer who calls. Charge callers some small fee and refund it if it was a real issue.
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by nkrisc 7mo ago
> but you can't regulate a foreign business. Sure they can. It’s unlikely they can do anything about it though.

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