onewheeltom

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by onewheeltom 4y ago
Colleges are looking for a more diverse faculty but cant keep them as they leave frustrated with the same old system that kept them out before. You cant just fix one piece and expect everything to resolve. Education is a stubborn profession
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by onewheeltom 4y ago
How much more of this work will ChatGPT continue to do? Clean training data is expensive. https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-kenyan-contract-worke...
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by onewheeltom 4y ago
My Macbook Pro running Ventura continuously cycles between audio devices until I unplug one of them. Plug it back in, the cycling restarts.
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by onewheeltom 4y ago
Good luck with unlocking an all in one Dell with a BIOS password
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The Economic Secret Hidden in a Tiny Discontinued Pasta(thebulwark.com)
15 points by onewheeltom 4y ago|4 comments
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by onewheeltom 4y ago
I thought we were discussing pathogens.
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by onewheeltom 4y ago
I thought this was about needing more electricians….
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by onewheeltom 4y ago
The Keurig that worked well for me was a institutional model from Staples with simpler controls. The model with manual water fill works fine also. When my partner was buying a countertop oven, I suggested the version that was $5 more expens
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by onewheeltom 4y ago
This has descended to an argument about maps. It’s actually about touchscreens vs buttons which covers much more ground than just maps. While I consider dedicated buttons safer than a screen for often used functions, a hybrid of a front fac
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by onewheeltom 4y ago
The best thing about USB-C is the connector. Everything else is a mess. I have a powered speaker with a USB-C port for “charging” that does not work with a USB-C to USB-C cable. Only USB-A to USB-C cables will charge the speaker.
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by onewheeltom 4y ago
I had a dishwasher installed by a "professional" that used an ordinary wire nut to connect the copper dishwasher wire to aluminum wire in my house. Which later resulted in smoke billowing from my dishwasher. Fortunately caught it
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by onewheeltom 4y ago
In my experience, similar devices fail in similar ways, so simple Internet searches turn up lots of information. That knowledge is something that you keep forever and can assist others in fixing their devices. Otherwise, its just more repai
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by onewheeltom 4y ago
Sometimes the item is thrown away before it breaks. I was handed a 24 inch smart tv and told “nothing wrong with it, still works”. I dont think it is worth fixing everything that breaks, but maybe 30% of broken items by my estimate are easi