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by plorg 1y ago
Publisher's Clearing House went through bankruptcy and stopped paying "lifetime" annuities from before reorganization. https://apnews.com/article/publishers-clearing-house-bankrup...
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by plorg 1y ago
Yeah, I don't understand how that update got pushed by anyone who actually used the product. Like, they broke some of the most used functions.
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by plorg 1y ago
I think it's Android 16 QPR1 (the September update), it changed the font on a bunch of UI text to something rounded and perhaps cartoonish.
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by plorg 1y ago
The biggest function I'm missing is the keystone transformation, but magic eraser is now a cloud-only function that is much worse, they have rearranged the controls so in a way that separated some of the color corrections, and the resi
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by plorg 1y ago
Meanwhile they nuked a bunch of actually useful conventional and device-local editing functionality in the same app.
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by plorg 1y ago
It wouldn't cover half of the deficit he's added just this year.
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by plorg 1y ago
You probably even have a bag somewhere that has a laptop sleeve. I have two that I was given by my current employer.
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by plorg 1y ago
This is definitely not unique to software engineering. Just out of grad school, 15 years ago, I applied for a position with a local electrical engineering company for an open position. I was passed over and later the person I got a recommen
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by plorg 1y ago
I believe this is the primary case being currently contested: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69848942/united-states-... This appears to be the earlier filing, but I'm not savvy enough to pull the underl
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by plorg 1y ago
I'm assuming this came up in reference to this post from yesterday: https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2025/08/mac-history-echoes-i... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819962
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by plorg 1y ago
I encountered this when setting up a Time Machine volume for my wife. In samba shares you can set that value in smb.conf by adding fruit:model=ModelX,Y MacOS will accept plenty of device names that perhaps don't make sense for f
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by plorg 1y ago
How is that true? The FBI can, has, and does seize crypto assets with no more or less proof than in this case.
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by plorg 1y ago
And immediately got sexually harassed by it.
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by plorg 1y ago
It's unfounded conspiracy to bang on about how "they are clearly hiding something". Read the report. Power systems are complicated and not as easy as just "build another nuclear plant". It was (by regulation) conven
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by plorg 1y ago
It's also just unfounded conspiracism and factually incorrect.
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by plorg 1y ago
Sure, if you can site it.
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by plorg 1y ago
If you read the report there was a significant amount of solar being produced at low prices and being pumped for storage. Further, the pumped hydro is the first load to be disconnected to balance demand on their system.
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by plorg 1y ago
Inshallah
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by plorg 1y ago
Sam Altman wants to make Her real, I assume has only seen the trailer.
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by plorg 1y ago
No? The meme relies on Jesus having lived and spoken in a way that a large group claiming to be his followers today would deride as "Socialism", whether or not it resembles your own, Karl Marx's, or Maduro's "Social
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by plorg 1y ago
The person you are responding to is making a point that many Christians have made in the past and present. Hell, the entire story of Jesus in the Bible is one of conflict with existing religious and government institutions and authoritie
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by plorg 1y ago
>Yes you, presumably someone who is not a christian and has never read the bible... > I'm not religious, but this is a bad take. ???
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by plorg 1y ago
Huh. I suppose that bus contract probably does make up a sizeable amount of their business. I last saw them at a trade show where they had their class 5 and 6 cab over truck chasses. There was a huge push for EV package delivery, for which
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by plorg 1y ago
Huh. Maybe it's because I haven't installed Office since the 2010 version, I assumed OSA was still a thing. My work computer has O365 managed by IT and I could swear I've seen resident daemons (besides, say, Teams) running in
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by plorg 1y ago
I'm part of a listserve for power systems engineers (more from academia than from industry) and the consensus seems to be that a couple of trips in short succession caused wild swings in powerflows, resulting in a cascading failure - t
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by plorg 1y ago
It's a term for anyone from a centrist liberal to a Greenpeace activist, with the implication that having left-of-median politics and understanding race and demography as anything other than biological essentialism makes you an utter l
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by plorg 1y ago
The range figure is determined by a test regulated by the EPA and actually does account for a variety of driving conditions, specifically including highway driving. The graphic you linked to actually shows that the advertised range is very
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by plorg 1y ago
I think the biggest issue with using Signal in these cases is not the risk of leaks from a compromised network (although obviously sloppy opsec has already led to unauthorized parties being added to these conversations), it's that it b
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by plorg 1y ago
I spend a lot of time using proprietary CAD package A to redraw things from Who Knows What, but that's mostly because the proprietary CAD data my vendor would send me is trapped behind an NDA for which getting legal approval would tak
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by plorg 1y ago
Maybe it means investors think it will happen, maybe it means investors simply think it will be profitable. It could even be investors seeking a market that has juice long after ZIRP dried up.

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