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by orev 8mo ago
Too many people jump on the health trend bandwagon to get attention, and all the slight misunderstandings add up to a confusing mess of information. It’s not that difficult: the closer the item is to its natural state, the more healthy it i
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by orev 8mo ago
These clocks are irritating because they show up in the results when searching for “radio atomic clock” and similar, and it can be very hard to figure out if they actually use the WWVB radio signal. I’ve concluded that none of them do, beca
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by orev 8mo ago
The original post that introduced this idea into general public: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ I’m sure others will chime in that they used hard links like this before then, however as noted
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by orev 8mo ago
I have a bright label on each saying “Do not dispose”. Hopefully it’s enough to at least get someone’s attention to read or ask further before throwing them out.
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by orev 8mo ago
> my PC runs on Linux so I don't feel threatened. Well, you should feel threatened. Where do you think the push towards TPM and secure boot is heading? Microsoft is insanely envious of how Apple and Google locked down their platfo
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by orev 8mo ago
The vast majority of the PC computing world still uses Windows, which doesn’t run on Macs, and Windows on ARM is still in its infancy. An Intel-based chip that’s on par with Apple Silicon is much desired by the marketplace.
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by orev 8mo ago
The point of going to school is to learn all the details of what goes into making things, so when you actually make a thing, you understand how it’s supposed to come together, including important details like correct design that can support
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by orev 8mo ago
It’s like weightlifting: sure you can use a forklift to do it, but if the goal is to build up your own strength, using the forklift isn’t going to get you there. This is the ultimate problem with AI in academia. We all inherently know that
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by orev 9mo ago
I dislike the idea of _comment because it’s something that is parsed and becomes part of the data structure in memory. Comments should be ignored and not parsed.
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by orev 9mo ago
Science creates the seeds, and what you’re citing are the fruits of seeds that were planted decades ago. Big tech only exists because of random science investments that were made long ago. The metric isn’t how much fruit you have now, but h
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by orev 9mo ago
Having mouse paste as an option doesn’t remove the fact that keyboard paste is also an option, so that’s really immaterial to the topic.
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by orev 9mo ago
The thing about giving advice is that some people will think it’s obvious, but those aren’t the people who need the advice, it’s the people to whom it wasn’t obvious. And I don’t see what country/location has to do with this, as I imag
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by orev 9mo ago
A few things: * Garbage bowl: allocate a mixing bowl on the counter to collect garbage and drop cuttings and other refuse in there. Saves you from having to go to the trash bin every time. * Preheat watery vegetables in the microwave. Thing
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by orev 9mo ago
Pretty much every home router, network firewall, and host-based firewall is set to deny all by default, so the effort is mostly needed to allow exposure to the Internet.
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by orev 10mo ago
They’re referring to the formula bar at the top of the screen (under the ribbon), not the cell itself (which are located within the grid).
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by orev 10mo ago
Once they convince you that you can’t do it yourself, you end up relying on them, but didn’t develop the skills you would need to migrate to another provider when they start raising prices. And they keep raising prices because by then you h
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by orev 10mo ago
In the days of jailbreaking, a popular tweak was to reduce the animation delay, so this is definitely a thing iOS does.
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by orev 10mo ago
It doesn’t matter. Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop, and they have no qualms using it to displace competing products. They did it with Teams, and they’ll keep doing it because they know there’s no appetite for anti-trust prosecution
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by orev 10mo ago
In many companies (especially in non-tech departments) there’s a culture where the first person to speak up is given credit for an idea as the “visionary”, even if they have no skills to actually implement it. In those environments, speakin
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by orev 10mo ago
No, that ship sailed long ago. “App” has universally been a synonym for “application”, “program”, etc. for quite a number of years now. Even Windows 10 called them “apps” in the settings screen.
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by orev 10mo ago
I suspect that could have also been accomplished without any kind of AI. Most processes are inefficient simply because nobody has taken the time to optimize them (and rightly so if they’re not used often enough to justify the time; prematur
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by orev 10mo ago
The human in the loop should be acting as an editor of the slop before it gets posted.
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by orev 10mo ago
No, it does not. Please stop responding with AI slop. A hardware kill switch always means a hardware (i.e. physical) mechanism. ALWAYS. You might have something interesting here, but arguing this point is burying anything else of value yo
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by orev 10mo ago
The half pane of glass is appropriate in warm parts of the world where you want the heat to be removed as quickly as possible. I suspect some hotel executive thought it looked cool in Miami, then made it the standard for the whole chain.
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by orev 11mo ago
Did you read the article? The opening statement points directly to this type of culture (not specifically at work, but in society in general), and your example of people joking about needing their first cup is part of the same. Other commen
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by orev 11mo ago
I stopped caffeine in large part because of the culture around it. So many people treat it like a competition: who needs more before they can get started in the morning. Like some kind of perverse contest over who’s more addicted, as if tha
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by orev 11mo ago
Python 2 was used for such a long time because many modules only worked on 2, which was a direct result of the compatibility being broken. There was a catch-22 for a long time that nobody would upgrade to 3 because nobody else would.
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by orev 11mo ago
The backwards incompatibility of Perl 6 absolutely killed Perl. There are many languages still in use today that have all kinds of warts and ugliness, but they remain in use because they still have momentum and lots of legacy things built i
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by orev 11mo ago
Don’t worry. New Outlook on Windows is rapidly reaching feature parity with the Mac version, and as soon as they remove Classic Outlook from support, all versions will be equal(ly missing half the features).
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by orev 11mo ago
Writing the code is like writing an essay—maybe you have some ideas in your head, but the act of writing them down forces you to interrogate and organize them into something cohesive. Without that process, those ideas remain an amorphous cl

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