qingcharles

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by qingcharles 4d ago
Sam & Max is amazing. I think about it often. I should replay it.
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by qingcharles 6d ago
What happened to all that nutty looking "giant complex found under pyramids" stuff from last year that went mega-viral? https://www.egypttoursportal.com/egypt-tourism-news/study-fi...
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by qingcharles 7d ago
Huh. I never looked this stat up, but I assumed it was close to zero. The one time I had the house rattled in England with a 4.0 was a big surprise.
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by qingcharles 7d ago
The only two I trust are Bijan and simonw.
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by qingcharles 8d ago
Is Handy still the best option for local? Wispr lagged my PC to hell; plus, the cost. The quality was excellent, though.
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by qingcharles 8d ago
I know someone in the biz, so two other ways people are making money: 1) Buying land and getting it rezoned for storage and then selling it on -- it's getting harder to get permits to build storage as people get sick of them, so there
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by qingcharles 8d ago
There was a study done in Los Angeles and found that 80% of garages are used for storage with the car parked outside.
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by qingcharles 8d ago
They are excellent, especially the latest models. That said , (a) I wouldn't feel safe filing something without a real lawyer looking at it; (b) it can't (easily? legally?) do oral arguments for you; and (c) a lot can happen in t
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by qingcharles 8d ago
There is none, not for statutes and definitely not for case law; even at the appellate level where you have multiple federal circuits, then 50 states, then territories, military, tribal and a whole host of other niche courts. And the appell
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by qingcharles 9d ago
It still exists, it's still a bit quirky because of the way you need to match CPU to binary (e.g. some opcode extensions only existing on some CPUs)
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by qingcharles 9d ago
The software has to start clipping the audio above "100%", but I use it regularly in say, VLC, because I might want the volume slightly higher without increasing my whole system volume just to hear a quiet section. I rarely notice
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by qingcharles 9d ago
I can't even remember the last time I used MSSQL with .NET. I'm embarrassed that I worked on projects now that were paying huge sums for licenses when .NET works so absolutely well with every other DB. These days I just use EF wit
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by qingcharles 10d ago
My primary beef with smart home (having tried it) is that every person that visits your home ends up confused about some element of it. A light switch that goes up and down is universally understood.
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by qingcharles 10d ago
That really helped figuring out what this thing does, thank you.
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by qingcharles 10d ago
I've used Antigravity as my main coding agent on one of my biggest projects for about a year. It's been great for me. (and I use Claude, Codex, Grok and Muse for all the other projects)
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by qingcharles 10d ago
Games from a couple of years ago are insanely cheap on Steam. You can buy AAA titles regularly for $2-3 each. I don't have a very new GPU, so I stick great games in my wishlist and wait till they are essentially free.
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by qingcharles 10d ago
I feel like the author would appreciate Milton Keynes, which is an entire city of 180 roundabouts on a grid system: https://lostcolonials.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/milton-keynes... Fun for drifting late at nig
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by qingcharles 10d ago
You almost missed it!
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by qingcharles 10d ago
Eh, I learn a ton from just watching Claude tear a piece of code to pieces and working through all the problems and debugging with it. Sure, I could do it myself the long way (beast mode?), but I don't have time to spend an entire day
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by qingcharles 11d ago
Haha, I didn't recognize your username, but now I look at your blog it was your work I was thinking of :) Well, that screws my idea then. Best to just 3D scan the cars and model them in 3D with no perspective then!
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by qingcharles 11d ago
Illinois makes it a state crime to violate terms of service. Sec. 17-51. Computer tampering. (a) A person commits computer tampering when he or she knowingly and without the authorization of a computer's owner or in excess of the a
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by qingcharles 11d ago
Interesting point. They need to photograph them with slit-scan photography.
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by qingcharles 11d ago
Asterix taught me the word menhir .
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by qingcharles 12d ago
This is a golden age of finally being able to fix all the niggling little bugs in these bits of hardware. So many of them are wide open, the friction of trying to figure out how to get the firmware cracked open, creating a build environment
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by qingcharles 13d ago
That's interesting. It's not just left-handed people, you're right. It's whole countries with LtR or right-bound standard for book opening, e.g. Middle-East, Asia etc.
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by qingcharles 13d ago
It is if you hold it half-open like a book -- you can't get your finger into the middle. Apple has added some sort of support for this scenario in iOS that they were demoing for the Duo.
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by qingcharles 14d ago
It's literally the quickest way to burn money. Making PPC ads work is an enormous skill and some small business deciding to throw their keywords into Google Ad Manager is a sure fire way to lose your shirt. It is very, very, very har
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by qingcharles 14d ago
They're not deliberately misreading it, they are simply just not reading it and just assuming they know what it says.
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by qingcharles 14d ago
Wild that I put my street address in some of my posts. Those were different times indeed.
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by qingcharles 14d ago
Design is so personal. I love Material 3 Expressive personally. Each to their own :)

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