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by patwolf 2y ago
I recently stumbled upon a bunch of repos which were clearly copied from popular projects but then renamed with a random Latin name and published to npm. I reported some of them as spam, but there were hundreds of them. I couldn't figu
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Lockheed is just about the only thing that's up this morning.
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I used legacybox. I was wary of shipping off something so irreplaceable, but it came back safe and sound.
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by patwolf 2y ago
I used a similar scanner from Amazon for some 8mm. It mostly worked, but I ultimately decided it was a better use of my time to have the film professionally digitized. I would still love to figure out a good process to clean and upscale the
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by patwolf 2y ago
I've heard before that there's no such thing as a sugar rush. I've been careful to observe my own children's reactions to sugar. My conclusion is that it doesn't affect their behavior much during the day. However, i
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by patwolf 2y ago
To be fair, they're using it to build Super Duty trucks, which are big trucks typically used for actual work with no suitable EV alternative. So it seems more a case of using their manufacturing capacities efficiently rather than them
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by patwolf 2y ago
I always come back to this review of Paul Fussell's "Class: A Guide Through The American Status System" when I'm trying to make sense of wealth. I don't know how well it really holds up, but it did get me thinking a
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by patwolf 2y ago
I have some farm land that I lease out to a farmer for hay. Part of me imagines retiring early and living on the land. However, I checked up on it recently while the farmer was out there baling hay. It was 95 degrees and dusty. He told me h
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by patwolf 2y ago
I too had one in college, but I mostly used it to play Sim City. I did have a laptop, but it was clunky and had terrible battery life, so I was much happier with the Psion.
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by patwolf 2y ago
This brought back memories of the D.A.R.E. officer coming to my elementary classroom to give us the "don't do drugs" speech. At the end of the speech with feigning hesitation he'd pull out the drug briefcase to the cheer
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by patwolf 2y ago
People mention the spam, but the decentralized nature also makes it plain harder to use than the web. It's like the difference between Mastodon and X. Your experience was largely dependent on the server and client you happened to use.
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I found a similar article from June of 2022 about the stripper index signaling a recession, so clearly it's not a very good indicator. A stripper is typically a short-term career, so it wouldn't make sense to rely on observations
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by patwolf 2y ago
Highcharts is nice. My only complaint is that the type declarations are absolutely huge--like 300k lines. It makes my IDE grind to a halt when using TypeScript. However, the typescript compiler is unfazed by it.
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On the section for gun violence, it says "And these are the kids who witnessed gun violence", but the title says "See someone shot with gun". I'm curious which it is since gun violence encompasses things other than
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by patwolf 2y ago
I haven't decided if twitter is actually more buggy or if bugs are more publicized because of the extra scrutiny since Musk took over. There used to be a bug that wreaked havoc for a short time where you could force anybody to follow y
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by patwolf 2y ago
Having lived in rural areas, suburban areas, and urban areas, I don't see there being much difference in walking between rural and suburban. My guess is that it's a combination of rural areas being poorer (less access to healthy f
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by patwolf 3y ago
Half the city is within 5 miles of the airport. I've lived in places much closer and never experienced the noise before. The difference was being in the flight path. I'll also add that my perception of the distance to the airport
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by patwolf 3y ago
I live about 5 miles from an airport. It never occurred to me when I bought the house that there'd be airplane noise, but we happen to be right in the flight path. They're infrequent enough that I didn't hear any while tourin
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by patwolf 3y ago
> By tightly controlling the user experience on iPhones and other devices, Apple has created what critics call an uneven playing field, where it grants its own products and services access to core features that it denies rivals. I once w
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by patwolf 3y ago
> Every Thursday, Jacques Baudrier, the Paris city councilor in charge of housing, scrolls through the list of properties being exchanged by sellers and buyers on the private market. With some exceptions, the city has the legal right to
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by patwolf 3y ago
Unfortunately another theme of Michael Crichton books is that because of human hubris and corporate greed, the disaster is inevitable. Regulation and scientific ethics don't matter because humans find a way. Although, maybe that's
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by patwolf 3y ago
Seems like a misleading title. I thought "alternative meat" was plant-based meat, but instead they're referring to cell-cultivated meat.
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by patwolf 3y ago
About 10 years ago I went shopping at Furnitureland South, mentioned in the article. The selection was a bit overwhelming, but we picked out a solid wood bedroom set from a manufacturer in Canada. It's held up great, as has my kids&#x2
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by patwolf 3y ago
The original Netflix streaming site used Silverlight, I'm guessing because browser DRM wasn't up to snuff at the time. That's about the only time I willingly used it.
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I had a prescription that I used to get updated at my annual physical. I would schedule my next physical when I'd leave the office, but then they started telling me that they couldn't schedule anything more than 6 months out. I wa
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by patwolf 3y ago
Back in the day they used to sell cheap CD-ROMs that claimed to have 1000 games. Most of the games were garbage, but I do remember Arcade Volleyball was one of the few gems.
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> Like IBM, React will one day lose its crown by virtue of its own mass and inability to innovate towards better solutions. I always thought one of the complaints of React was that they innovated too much. Things like Hooks and Server Co
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by patwolf 3y ago
I just tried out Gemini advanced to see if it was a viable replacement for ChatGPT. In general I've been trying to lessen my dependence on Google, so I was already on the fence about using this. It seemed fine for most of the coding pr
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by patwolf 3y ago
It does seem certainly seem atypical, and I'd be curious if anyone has ever encountered something like this in the real world. It seems unlikely because 1. It takes so long to create that many files in the first place. In this case 26
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by patwolf 3y ago
Sign up. See the default feed is full of posts celebrating the death of Toby Keith. Delete Account.

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