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by pridkett 4y ago
Jon Stewart also famously went on Crossfire back in 2004 and delivered a viral takedown to Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala[0]. It doesn’t seem like he had much of a long term impact there either. [0]: https://youtu.be/aFQFB5Y
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by pridkett 4y ago
While peer review isn’t perfect - it’s helpful. Arxiv isn’t peer reviewed. Most things in ACM journals and conferences are. That process costs money because it takes people and time to do it well. Journal subscriptions are often not enough
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by pridkett 4y ago
Some of the earliest LTE devices did data over LTE and voice over 3G. Notably this applies to the iPhone 5s does not support voice over LTE - which you commonly see on Android devices as VoLTE. There’s a variety of other devices in the the
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by pridkett 4y ago
You should try Fidelity, it’s even worse. To authenticate over their phone you punch in the digits that correspond to the characters of your password. Special characters all get mapped to zero. This is TONS of fun when you use a password ma
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by pridkett 4y ago
Mozilla is very active on privacy advocacy and highlights Firefox’s privacy as a feature[0]. This makes some sense because the features of Firefox (cookie blocking, containers, first class ad blocking) all help preserve your privacy better
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by pridkett 4y ago
It’s nice to see articles that help confirm some of my anecdotes. I live in Connecticut, and in the last year I’ve seen both a bear and a moose in my yard. And, it’s not like I live somewhere crazy rural - I live on a 0.3 acre lot near UCON
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by pridkett 5y ago
That was incredibly touching - I saw a lot of myself in there. I’m a little older, and maybe didn’t get into my dream school first time around, but I still remember hand coding HTML and FTPing it up to GeoCities in search of other people li
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by pridkett 5y ago
SigBovik[0] is next Friday, he often drops something interesting and breaks the curve for whimsy there. [0]: http://sigbovik.org/
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by pridkett 5y ago
The field has gotten much much bigger since then. There were so many foundational contributions to the field of computer science that we’re still recognizing them today. There are subfields within subfields of computer science that attract
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by pridkett 5y ago
At this point, I feel like the “Apple TV remote is hard to use” is an outdated meme. The old remote with the touch surface at the top took some getting used to and is the source of most complaints. But that hasn’t been the standard remote f
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by pridkett 5y ago
I’m not quite sure if that’s accurate. The distinction is that Disney isn’t allowing the movies to have for-profit showings. The movies are still widely available on streaming services or to purchase through iTunes. Alien was brought up as
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by pridkett 5y ago
This is a good observation that I wish that more people understood around schooling and funding for the public good. I live in a small town with about 1000 children total in grades Pre-K through 12. Schools are funded through local property
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by pridkett 5y ago
This was the bane of my existence for a few months. Tried it on several different systems and the best I could ever do was getting a single TPU to show up. Eventually I just sold it, and back when you could buy them, picked up a couple more
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by pridkett 5y ago
Once I installed fzf.fish[0], my command line experience was radically changed for the better. The goodness of fish’s command line with search ability from fzf and seeing context from bat. Great for searching your history, commit hashes, va
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by pridkett 5y ago
It’s also baked into tar1090[1] which is a little more maintained of a package and pretty easy to get set up if you’ve got an SDR and 1090MHz antenna to track planes. It’s a fun little hobby - where I live there really isn’t much of a reaso
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by pridkett 5y ago
There’s an important note. Verizon (and other American carriers) have no plans on shutting down 4G LTE. Even with c-band and DSS there are still large swaths of the country without any sort of 5G. In addition, devices a as recent as the iPh
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by pridkett 5y ago
In the article you referenced they state that the baby was cleared after a trip to the embassy. The costs were because they needed to reschedule flights. But the baby was cleared to enter.
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by pridkett 5y ago
I worked on Chef Watson and was part of the team at SXSW. One of the most amusing parts was how much it loved bacon. This was because bacon could be sweet, savory, salty, and fatty - it all depended on how you cooked it. A big part of the w
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by pridkett 5y ago
A lot of it is just knowing how to read the ice and making sure it’s secure. About 10 days ago, the lake I live on was still open. A week ago, which had perfect ice, it was a little over 3” thick - which is borderline. People were out, but
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by pridkett 5y ago
Getting out on the ice is a true pleasure in the winter. There’s definitely more of a connection knowing that it could go wrong. But a little bit of prep goes a long way. I might have to try this this weekend. Just checked and the lakes by
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by pridkett 5y ago
That’s how I started out running Linux! Downloading a bunch of floppies from a BBS over a 16.8k USR HST modem. It was like a magical world when I first installed it. I also had a giant paper book that explained how to use it. For some reaso
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by pridkett 5y ago
It makes it easier for most cases of international travel. In a lot of contexts if you're vaccinated + boosted + recovered in the last 90 days, you can just travel and not worry about the result of the COVID test you need to return to
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by pridkett 5y ago
This would be so helpful. About a year ago I got the combination of FZF and bat working for my command line history. It’s wild how much better and easier that makes it to find complex commands from the past.
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by pridkett 5y ago
It’s fun to say that, and it may be partially true, but Lyme disease is very prevalent in the Northeast United States. If you spend time outside in Connecticut, you’ll eventually find a bite in you with the tell tale circle. Yes, uptake may
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by pridkett 5y ago
This is something that I’ve wondered about. I’ve got a trio of Powerwalls in my unfinished basement. My town seemed cool with that - for the most part the inspector was totally geeking out over the setup and how clean the installation was.
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by pridkett 5y ago
Pi-hole is wonderful for blocking ads, but It doesn’t do as much for protecting your privacy as some people think. For the most part, it passes your DNS requests over unencrypted UDP to upstream servers, which means that your ISP can, and d
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by pridkett 5y ago
Like many people in this thread, I used DESQview for BBSes and later DESQview/X, but there wasn’t much graphical that I could find for it. Eventually I moved to OS/2 because it was easier to program, but it still holds a fond plac
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by pridkett 5y ago
And what’s even worse is that the downloader is part of the game and puts load my GPU. It usually takes my 3090 from 30W at idle to 105W while downloading. That’s a not insignificant amount of heat and energy when the downloads are slow eno
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by pridkett 5y ago
The first part is true - almost every major American tech company has a development center in India. The second part, well, I’m not so sure about that. There’s tensions about different cultures including things like different holidays that
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by pridkett 5y ago
It’s flat out wrong to say vaccines do next to nothing against the delta variant. You can trivially examine this but have chosen not to. My state, Connecticut ,publishes weekly in depth reports that break down cases. Nearly 100% of infecti

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