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by philsnow 2y ago
I learned only much later, years after earning a B.A. in linguistics, that Chomsky was much more renowned for being a political pundit and philosopher than he was for conceiving of X-bar theory and so forth. I had thought at first that it w
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> The key to bring back the last window I looked at should not change depending on whether the app name happens to be different. This is a great formulation of an annoyance that I've had for 10 years but hadn't put into words.
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they "killed" Picasa Web Albums, does that count?
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Ah right, it would still take a long time to download. My use case is a have a local NAS that i use for backup but i also want things backed up offsite, so i mirror the backups to b2 (and soon to glacier). I would download and extract the t
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Have you pointed borgbackup or similar at it? i.e. extract the archive to a specific directory, let borg create an archive of it, and then a month later do the sage thing and see if the incremental size is egregiously large? I would expec
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Once upon a time within Google, there were people who were pushing for Takeout specifically for data portability. The thinking was, if they couldn't hold people's data hostage, they would be better incentivized to make their prod
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I've had similar thoughts, but how does that work for you in practice? If you book a flight that says it's an airbus plane and then you show up and the airline had to sub in a boeing plane, do you just cancel your trip? If you don
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by philsnow 2y ago
> The [dark kitchen] model is so powerful that Uber’s founder, Travis Kalanick, started one after he left Uber that was last valued at $15 billion. This sentence makes it sound like he just decided "you know, this $15B company is f
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In the show, the characters can’t swear (non-spoiler: because they’re in the Good Place, and nobody can swear there) so they say “fork” and “shirt” and so forth.
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(I haven’t watched the video yet) I completely agree about the market positioning and not keeping up with other platforms’ abilities being a non-starter. I just hope it will be clear how to keep my external brain (phone) from being scanned
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I should have put a disclaimer saying that I hadn’t had a chance to watch the video yet. Thanks for mentioning that it’s addressed, I’ll take a look later.
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~~This is not the direction I was hoping Apple would go with AI. With all the neural this and that bits baked into apple silicon, it has seemed [0] for a while that Apple wanted to run all these workloads locally, but this partnership seems
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> ` goes left. For every app you want to close, hit Q I didn't know about either of these, thanks. Also apparently, up or down brings up a view of all the windows for that app. A while ago I put together some hammerspoon lua for mak
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Is latency the same thing as duration? I think of latency as being more like a vector-with-starting-point (a “ray segment”?) than a scalar, it’s “rooted” to a point in time, so it doesn’t make sense to sum them.
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I guess I mean, the gist only motivates the use of globally-routable addresses for externally accessible services. If a particular service/device isn't going to be accessed externally, there's no need to give it one.
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Ah: > For your externally visible servers, use dyndns type service, and update it with the globally routable address. Residential internet will rotate the prefix over time (the prefix is dynamic), so this is the same as running a server
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How does this: > With IPv4, when your router connects to your ISP, you get one public address for the WAN, and you use a picked private address like 192.168.0.0/24 for your LAN. With IPv6, since you want a globally routable address
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To the latter point: yes, and each API page contains both the HTTP endpoint to curl and also the pvesh command to run
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I had a similar thought when looking at the Pricing FAQ section "Where is the differentiation between non-commercial and commercial systems?", which lists among other things Proxmox VE, which itself is open source and anybody is f
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Strategy 1: Stay for four years and vest your entire initial grant. Strategy 2: Stay 1-2 years and vest 25%-50% of your initial grant, and repeat 3x-1x. If all the companies you work for have similar likelihood of doing exceptionally wel
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When building a non-APU ryzen machine for homelab use, I ended up buying the very cheapest graphics card I could find that was compatible, a "GeForce GT 710" that was not a beefy card when it was released in 2014. It's.. fin
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I thought you were talking about the lecture theaters where there were 6-8 giant boards arranged on the wall with pulley systems so the lecturer can raise/lower them and access them independently, kind of like in [0]. Some of the setu
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Since you can reach the host, presumably it has some kind of access to system updates / packages. In that case, ideally you paste a command like "sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y mosh\n" or something. You can
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> local script [...] nohup [...] redirect output to a file mosh hostname -- screen -S philsnow I don't think I've had to use this over a truly terrible connection, but mosh worked a treat a ~decade ago while tunneling
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I'm not defending the idea of using two out-of-phase 110V circuits, but... this theoretical EVSE could detect its two inputs not being out-of-phase, blink its red "110V only" light, and only use one of the inputs to charge at
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> Coming back to see whether your crush had messaged you. Reminds me of personal experience of course but also the "Less Than Three" video [0], which in turn reminds me of the GUNSHIP Art3mis & Parzival music video [1]. I&
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At the very end of the article, > Upgrade to iTerm2 3.5.0 I had just gotten the upgrade notification for 3.5.0 a few minutes ago. I scrolled through the release notes a bit and got to the "AI" section and I would like very muc
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I about had a stroke when I got to 11m54s in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra_9zU-mnl8#t=11m54s ; I think this is the correct transcription of that sentence: > I did a whole episode on how more printers' printe
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I also reach for OpenSCAD first when designing something for a 3d print, for a couple reasons: 1. I also didn't really have any actual 3d "design" experience before using OpenSCAD, except for in the 90s/00s when I playe
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Given the abundance of desktop electron apps, it seems maybe irresponsible to publish this blog post (with an advertisement for Codean in the middle (which itself was at least tastefully done)) only 6 days after the fix was released and the

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