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by nocoiner 3y ago
Might you be thinking about Falcon 4.0? That came out in the late ‘90s and struggled on the best available hardware at that time (as well as the best available hardware for the next decade or so).
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Beeper CEO, from the article: "If there's enough pressure on Apple, they will have to quit messing with us." "Us," he clarified, meant both Apple's customers using iMessage and Android users trying to chat secu
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Is it somehow known that CCC hasn’t been co-opted by Amazon? Frankly I figured Amazon would have bought them out a decade ago, but maybe the CCC founders have a stronger ethical compass than I do.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I suspect there’s no good reason to upgrade from M2 to M3. Nonetheless, I did it, and if anyone else is in the same boat I was, I encourage you to look at the trade-in values that Apple is offering for M2 MBPs. They offered something like 9
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I see different color temperature casts in each of my eyes. So, depending on the eye, my red isn’t even my own red! Seems like a perfectly valid question given the complexity of the human vision system.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I dunno. It seems to me like high school math is a pretty decent foundation for understanding many important aspects of the world (derivatives, integrals, etc.). And I think that one can clearly and substantively “get” and intuitively under
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I did something fairly out of character for myself and replaced a six-month-old M2 MBP with a brand new MBP with an M3 Max. I attribute it to three factors: 1. I went with 16 GB of RAM on the M2 and sort of regretted it from day one. I have
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by nocoiner 3y ago
At first I was deeply annoyed that this was presented as a video (why don’t you just tell me what it’s about?!), and then after about five seconds I was enthralled. Great watch. Like another poster said: brilliant.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Jeez, if he’s not careful, he’s going to wind up doing an unregistered securities offering before this is all over.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Crawford, you magnificent bastard. This article seems to explain a half-dozen features of my company’s phone system that never made sense to me before. I assumed that everything but the extensions would have been swept away in last decade’s
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Centrex(computer.rip)
3 points by nocoiner 3y ago|1 comments
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Gosh, I cannot imagine what would be unappealing about the opportunity for a tradesman to devalue the price of their labor and experience the small-but-inherent risk of catastrophic injury any time a ladder is involved in exchange for the c
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Wow, you’re not kidding. That really is a delight.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I sort of wonder how the Times would have ascertained that the acquisition had been completed in June. I’m wondering if the deal signed in June and closed in September. Maybe they found a merger sub formation doc for “Japan Crate Acquisitio
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I like it, very reminiscent of retro SDI (Reagan’s “Star Wars”) concept art.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Apparently a developer is releasing an F-104 module for DCS. I cannot imagine that taking off, flying in a straight line and crashing somewhere in Germany could be in any way “fun” (even accounting for possibly distorted DCS definitions of
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I doubt they’re trying to end deadheading as a whole (no idea about putting deadheaders in jump seats - though I assume not since those are non-revenue seats). If the airlines think there’s a pilot shortage now, just wait until they can onl
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Sounds like a very cool experience. Is it safe? My naive impression is that northern Mexico and perhaps parts of Central America could be dicey, but I also suppose in Mexico at least the cartels are rational enough to generally avoid target
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by nocoiner 3y ago
There’s absolutely nothing to this article except the author’s vague impressions based on the number of blue checks and ads he sees in his feed and a heavy dose of wishful thinking.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Congrats on your admission to Princeton!
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Wasn’t Crypto AG - the Swiss company that was, oops, secretly owned by the CIA and West German intelligence - established by a Swede?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The California Franchise Tax Board would probably be delighted with that arrangement as well. They have an office next to my dentist. I live in Texas!
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I first read that back in high school and it is legitimately one of my favorite books - I re-read it every few years. I think in my area it was pretty broadly assigned reading at the time - lots of other high schools in the US assigned it -
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I dunno. Try watching it. It’s one of the few movies I’ve seen that I’d call literally “life changing” and certainly convinced me that nuclear war is the most immoral act our species is (currently) capable of undertaking.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I can’t believe you were of working age (or close to it) at the tail end of Enron and this pattern doesn’t seem familiar to you.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I get an involuntary shudder of PTSD at seeing “Threads” and “BBC” in the same sentence.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
What a bizarre article (probably needs (2014), by the way). It seems to go out of its way to minimize the contribution of the non-Soviet allies to the war. This post, linked in the article, is I think a far more reasonable assessment of the
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I actually don’t hate realtors. In my jurisdiction, seller pays, so it kind of only feels like 3% to me. I have no idea if that’s economically valid, but when I’ve sold a house, I felt like I got my money’s worth on market knowledge and adv
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Thank you, I appreciate the information and additional context. I hope my comments didn’t sound like I was naysaying MB - I’m glad people are putting hard work into a hard problem. I just didn’t see at first how it was different from curren
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The BMW system is fully hands-free on freeways, under 40 mph, legible road markings, etc. It does indeed monitor the driver’s attention to the road and will deactivate if you aren’t looking for a while, but even with the assumption of liabi

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