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by radley 4y ago
They're reasonably priced if you consider that toner doesn't dry up like ink does. If you only need to print a few times per year, it's far cheaper to buy a laser w/ toner. With inkjet, you'll have to buy (and wait
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The Hidden Economy of Spam(integrityinstitute.org)
3 points by radley 4y ago|0 comments
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by radley 4y ago
It's made clear both parents were naturally difficult too, which is part of the point. This panel probably had to be expressly stated since Mom doesn't encourage Calvin's (over) imagination like his father does.
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by radley 4y ago
It was only ~$250 per day, but still entertaining and worth watching. Thank you!
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by radley 4y ago
Or the most insidious of all, Dihydrogen Monoxide aka H2O. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dihydrogen-monoxide-hoax
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by radley 4y ago
The generation who grew up during the Great Depression and WWII were very entitled???
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by radley 4y ago
10am would mean less time for instruction or after-school programs.
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by radley 4y ago
Uphill... both ways.
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by radley 4y ago
FWIW, Boomers were a very entitled generation. They have the post-war benefits of their previous generation and ran up a huge deficit for the following generations to pay back.
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by radley 4y ago
Same here. M1 Mac Mini with an MX Master 3.
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by radley 4y ago
> Republicans won almost 1.5 million more total votes in 2016 for the House, the country's primary law-making body Cherry-picked stats are banal. Democrats won almost 5 million more votes in the CURRENT election, which is more than
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by radley 4y ago
Huh? The Congress that created the EPA granted that authority, which is why the EPA has had the court's full support for decades. It took an extremely partisan SCOTUS to invent an excuse to say the opposite.
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by radley 4y ago
> The purpose of SCOTUS isn’t to rule based on what the desired outcome is, it’s to rule based on what the law explicitly does say and is permitted to say per the Constitution. That's a farcical excuse to achieve the desired outcome
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by radley 4y ago
> The gist of that doctrine is that an agency can't stretch some pre-existing grant of Congressional authority to create sweeping regulations addressing a major new problem. But it's not a major new problem. The Congress that e
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by radley 4y ago
64 year old man focused on 80-year old music can't see the rest of the tail. There's more music out there than just Jazz.
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by radley 4y ago
> I'm a firm believer that a "ghost in the machine" doesn't exist, will never exist, and is impossible to create. We're literally souls locked in created machines. We're just made of goo instead of bits. Wha
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by radley 4y ago
The Apple TV menu only shows preview cards for apps in the top row. Most apps show what you're currently watching, but other apps (Prime Video, ATV+, Twitch) will show promos instead. Best to move these apps to the right end of the top
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by radley 4y ago
That's because the Vice article talks about the WSJ article. Often, HN moderators will point to the original source, particularly when the following article tends to be click-baity.
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Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others(wsj.com)
2 points by radley 4y ago|0 comments
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by radley 4y ago
In theory this could be used to fake an emergency message to get out of a presentation... The text fields are fully customizable and it's probably not too hard to swap avatars.
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by radley 5y ago
The Bjango team posted a chart for best monitors based on resolution: https://bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays2/
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by radley 5y ago
The LG 5K has all the benefits of Retina 5K and most likely is the exact same panel. The biggest downside is the slower USB-C ports (5GB vs 10GB). The camera isn't technically as good as Apple's, but it also doesn't rely on A
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by radley 5y ago
A 24" 4K screen has the same DPI as a 27" 5K screen. So a 4K screen will natively provide a smaller desktop layout regardless of screen size, particularly on macOS.
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by radley 5y ago
Obligatory link to previous attempt (1973) to make DST permanent: https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/31/archives/schools-ask-end-... TLDR: schools asked to reinstate DST because more school children were ki
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by radley 5y ago
> an aeron chair costs about $2000 dollars (give or take). Some people buy that $2000 chair when it's $350 and can still use it for years. The key is to learn what products remain quality products. (And it's not about it being
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by radley 5y ago
Not exactly an extreme solution: on macOS you can use Time Machine to restore Twitter to a version that's only chronological. You have to grab the Sept 11 2021 release. The Home feed was added in late October as a trojan horse.
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by radley 5y ago
You overlooked the part that it's a one-year minimum commitment, which was by design.
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by radley 5y ago
Want to be hands on and make customized modifications
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by radley 5y ago
It was an archaic tome known as the Yellow Pages printed on a thin material called paper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_pages
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by radley 5y ago
> Please note that Apple has audit rights pursuant to the entitlement’s terms and conditions. Apple expects each company to open their books in perpetuity. Simply evil.

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