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by peatmoss 5y ago
Yikes, I think I would want ABS well ahead of 70 mph. I’ve done some traction training on a motorcycle and it has made me 100% a believer in ABS if the statistics hadn’t already.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I looked up the specs, and was surprised that this bike has no ABS, which is a requirement for all bikes sold in the EU. So, this is German bike that isn’t even legal in Europe? Odd.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
You’re much better off getting a headlight modulator. Pipes point the wrong way. Also wear high viz.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
The term “ride sharing” feels like an Orwellian anachronism as applied to current Uber/Lyft. Matching people who had to go from approximately the same place to approximately the same place had a lot of promise both to expand mobility,
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Would be great to specify that this covers specifically OpenBSD. First sentence of the article: > The way OpenBSD authenticates users is quite different from other Unix-like operating systems. Most other systems like AIX, Solaris, Linux,
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by peatmoss 5y ago
This looks incredible! Scheme syntax, ability to manipulate graphically, Scheme code updates dynamically? Very cool. I’ll have to try this for my next woodworking project.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I believe Apple tries to use mostly recyclable components. And they do have a fairly comprehensive set of recycling / trade-in programs around the globe: https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/ That
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Interesting that WindowMaker adopted the window style from the unreleased NeXTSTEP 4.0. I always thought that the window and close buttons were original design changes made in WindowMaker.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Oh, yes, certainly my comment about selling out to the man was made tongue-in-cheek, poking fun at my younger self and how very serious I was about these things in the past. I am happy to see OSS earn some money for their efforts, even if m
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I remember using the OSS drivers and even paying for the commercial version at one point. The experience was great, and I hated it because it was a repudiation of Open Source, which was a big part of my identity back then. I had sold out to
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Article mentions this—he clearly must have been a person of importance to get this kind of treatment. Reading this kind of story makes me immensely grateful to be a nobody alive at this time and place. Hopefully future generations will simi
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Thank you for the tip! Maybe I’m making too many assumptions about how much Apple pays news sources when someone reads a news article. I’d have thought there’d be an alignment of financial interest in sources like LA Times to facilitating s
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by peatmoss 5y ago
OT: I wonder why sites like the LA Times don’t offer a redirect to Apple News when the content is hosted there. I do subscribe to Apple News+ along with additional iCloud storage, Music, etc. I assume Apple gives LA Times something when I r
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I’ve been increasingly coming around to the opinion that computers have gotten kind of boring. I miss how weird and different computers used to be, both in terms of hardware and software. For lisps, I think Racket and Clojure feel the most
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by peatmoss 5y ago
My career experience is along the data science / civic technology / transportation engineering & planning / open data. I’d posit that customers of “high-end project management financial reporting software sold to very lar
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Chromebooks and gmail have eaten the education sector, so if indeed you’re right that GSuite adoption outside the tech sector and education sectors, then this will be short lived.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
It’s a shrinking niche that uses Excel for data things. I’d argue google docs is fine for people who want to make a shopping list at the low end. And the low barriers to using R or Python with Pandas have been siphoning off the high-end of
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I can’t agree with this in 2021, but not for the reasons one might think. I agree that native app development never became a cohesive or predictable thing. But then most apps that people use these days aren’t native. Business apps: Google D
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by peatmoss 5y ago
There have been a few discussions / articles here on HN about how Covid-19 may also have some role in the formation of Lewy bodies. To me, this is one of the more scary potential pathways for this observed cognitive deficit. Will other
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I disagree. NeXT / macOS has been a pretty stable target for a very, very long time. If you’re going to clean room implement anything, a stable thing is a great target. macOS has, however, been making superficial changes that people do
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Yes, we had a CoCo2 as well. What I mostly remember was the cassette recorder disk drive, which was kind of like recorded modem sounds. There were a handful of games that plugged in via a cartridge on the side (like an NES, but usually with
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by peatmoss 5y ago
WindowMaker was never a clone of NeXT—it was more of a cool window manager that just happened to superficially look like NeXT. If you want to play with a real attempt to recreate a “deep down” NeXT clone you want this: https://gi
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by peatmoss 5y ago
I feel like Apple has generally done a good job containing churn to the superficial parts of the OS. That said, I wish the Linux/BSD mindshare had chosen to invest its desktop efforts into creating a rock solid OpenStep implementation.
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Perhaps, but I think that’s speculation based in cynicism. By the same reasoning, wouldn’t a military person look down and say, “I want to subjugate the others by force?” I’m more inclined to believe that there is something intrinsically pr
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by peatmoss 5y ago
It is indeed a phenomenon that others have experienced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
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by peatmoss 5y ago
Related: Some time ago I remember reading that Plotly sent the data back to plotly’s servers. Is that old news / is there fully-local plotting now?
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by peatmoss 5y ago
As a once aspiring trombonist, synth trombone is a uniquely grating sound for me. :-) Trombone is a really unique instrument, as humorously explained in this video: https://youtu.be/IuS_brJYimY I’d say the closest thing I’v
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by peatmoss 5y ago
In addition to the privacy benefits, you could potentially build a controller that actually turns on Really Fast. Modern smart TVs just feel slow in every way.
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by peatmoss 6y ago
If I had infinite time, I’d build a firmware that was optimized for stupid use. Like OpenWRT.
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by peatmoss 6y ago
Now I’m dreaming of a recreational dirigible. Imagine drifting from town to town at low altitudes, relative quiet, and with a comparably low fuel consumption. This sounds like heaven.

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