pridkett

8 ms·

61.
by pridkett 2y ago
This is great and probably a nice complement if I can get it working with my Visidata[0] workflow for data files. If you’re looking just for spreadsheets, Travis Ormandy somehow managed to get Lotus 1-2-3 to run on Linux a few years ago[1].
62.
by pridkett 2y ago
Spousal privilege may not apply when both members of the couple are accused of committing the crime.
63.
by pridkett 2y ago
Three years ago I realized I had hit the same point. My .emacs file was about 500 lines long and many of the options dated back to 1997 when documentation of why you’d want to do something was sparse. I rewrote it all using org-babel and us
64.
by pridkett 2y ago
Another awesome fact about Tanenbaum is that he was the person behind electoral-vote.com. Prior to everyone having their own model and Nate Silver (err, should I say Poblano?) running the table in 2008, this was the place to go understand t
65.
by pridkett 2y ago
Driving home from Burlington, VT after the eclipse. Traffic was crawling. Cell data wasn’t working. FM seemed like all automated stations from far away. Yknow what did provide information on traffic and scaled to the huge influx of people i
66.
by pridkett 2y ago
This is what STIR/SHAKEN is supposed to do. Your phone and carrier in the US probably support it, but it’s not obvious. On iPhones there will be a little check mark under the number for inbound calls on your recent call list. This does
67.
by pridkett 2y ago
I’ve done something similar with my fuel oil tank, except I’ve got an ultrasonic sensor threaded into my inspection port. It’s connected to a PoE powered ESP32. And now you’ve got me really concerned that even though I’ve got two compartmen
68.
by pridkett 2y ago
For a while I had a GP who did his med school in the Caribbean. He was fine. I knew he did it there. During one exam he asked me where I did my grad school. I respond and reflexively ask him and his response was “Blah blah school of medicin
69.
by pridkett 3y ago
…and it’s almost all avoiding any duty on import. Their whole business model is predicated on the huge $800 exemption from import duties that the US has.
70.
by pridkett 3y ago
Thanks! I remembered the announcement but not the fine grained details. Mac was a very different world in the late 90s.
71.
by pridkett 3y ago
Some of us remember back in 1999 when Steve Jobs announced that Connectix, a PSX emulator was coming to Macs. Different times, man. Luckily, YouTube doesn’t forget. https://youtu.be/3OqMcqRI-xA?si=lC2tbRWS-2UGe_8G
72.
by pridkett 3y ago
I had something similar set up Fish and fzf. When I first did that, I thought it was magic. Atuin brought back more of the magic. It syncs across devices. I’ve got a number of raspberry pi devices I use and I never remember what command I u
73.
by pridkett 3y ago
That could be a feature of airlines in the future. “We guarantee that every influencer and faux-influencer will have a miserable flight. For everyone else, we promise a reasonable flight at a reasonable price and a minimal number of influen
74.
by pridkett 3y ago
There was a period back in December that this happened to me. I use a combination of ublock origin, no script, privacy badger, and Ghostery — along with PiHole and NextDNS. Yes, I know that’s probably a recipe for conflicting disaster, but
75.
by pridkett 3y ago
gab.com was kicked off GoDaddy, not AWS. https://www.thewrap.com/far-right-social-network-gab-back-on...
76.
by pridkett 3y ago
Yes, OpenAI can copy this, but they’ll still have less of a moat. That’s the problem with moats, once they’re gone even if you copy what others do, you don’t have a moat anymore. Think of it in a physical sense. OpenAI is a high walled cast
77.
by pridkett 3y ago
They’re air freighting the goods but doing so in bulk, so it ends up being far less than what the customs fees would be. If they were shipping them in bulk to a US warehouse without a designated customer, they’d have to pay customs. But rat
78.
by pridkett 3y ago
Yes, VLC works on Apple TV for Samba shares, but Infuse is nearly perfection for it.
79.
by pridkett 3y ago
In most workplaces that deal with LLMs you’ve got a few classes of people: 1. People who understand LLMs and know how to run them and have access to run them on the cloud. 2. People who understand LLMs well enough but don’t have access to c
80.
by pridkett 3y ago
No, it would not allow anyone to integrate directly with iMessage. Apple would ship a competent way to send RCS messages and keep on adding more spices to iMessage. RCS is better than text, but let’s not delude ourselves, it will likely nev
81.
by pridkett 3y ago
Are you telling me all those job opportunities in the back of IEEE Spectrum where they give 1 line job descriptions and tell you to mail your resume to some anonymous post office box aren’t actual job opportunities? I can’t believe it! In o
82.
by pridkett 3y ago
In my mind 2020 was still last year. Having both relative and absolute is a nice reminder.
83.
by pridkett 3y ago
Kids today will never know the awesomeness and terribleness of Swatch Internet Time. I remember when they gave a bunch of money to CNN and for a brief period the time listed on articles was Swatch Internet Time. Late 90s and early 2000s wer
84.
by pridkett 3y ago
It’s pretty obvious why: Country 1 has a law saying that incorrect maps are illegal and Area A is part of country 1. Country 2 has a law saying that incorrect maps are illegal and Area A is part of country 2. If you want to do business in b
85.
by pridkett 3y ago
You can still charge via USB-C and Thunderbolt. I already had a bunch of USB C chargers and see no reason to buy additional USB-C to MagSafe cables when most the time USB-C to USB-C works just fine. At my desk I plug into a thunderbolt 3 do
86.
by pridkett 3y ago
I’m disappointed that all of their examples of humans are “a pretty girl”. Yeah, I get that people use generative models for that, but there’s a lot more you can do.
87.
by pridkett 3y ago
Reading this article makes me want to set up an old school BBS with door games like BRE, Legend of the Red Dragon, and Trade Wars 2002.
88.
by pridkett 3y ago
> I also remember using Kermit for a BBS file transfer once. Once. Similar memory here. Wasn’t sure about the different protocols offered in Telix and I used Kermit once because the BBS offered it. Right after the sysop burst in on chat
89.
by pridkett 3y ago
This has a lot of similarities to the High Capacity Color Barcode[0] - of which Microsoft Tag was probably the best example. For a period in the early 2010s, which was a time when you also needed another app to read QR codes, they were mode
90.
by pridkett 3y ago
I live near another university with a puppetry degree (University of Connecticut), and while I’m well past undergraduate, having gotten my doctorate from a school that has a bagpiping major, the presence of a puppetry degree has made my and

More ›