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by reaperducer 2mo ago
It’s inevitable cool and interesting things will evolve, and the people there early will bemoan how it used to be cooler. No, it's not inevitable. Burning Man is just making excuses for selling out. Look at how high school kids dress
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Is Burning Man fun? I got the rather cynical impression that it's mostly very well off tech people and even better off finance/political people. You're not far off. Burning Man is like Coachella, SxSW, and San Francisco, it
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
As a former embedded systems engineer, my door bell is two long bits of wire, a bell, a push button and two C cells. I know a guy who lives is a 1700's-era house. His is a bell, a pulley, and a string.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Why even start a blog post if you can't be fucked to write? If they're not going to write it, I'm not going to read it.
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Steve Jobs 8th Grade Science Fair Project: The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier(rrauction.com)
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I wouldn't find it productive to talk to 200,000 users in person Fortunately, our company has more than one employee, so one person does not need to talk to all 200,000 users.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Like Uber replaced all drivers with self driving cars [1] in its 20 years of operation? They're trying. I see Uber robotaxis almost daily.† I haven't bothered to see if they're still in training or actually taking passenge
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Surprisingly, yes. My company requires everyone in the company to meet our customers in person once a year. Everyone from the CEO on down to tech nerd button pushers like myself. Our method of telemetry is called "talking to people.&qu
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I did a quick search on my local electronics store's web site, and there are several options. I don't know where you are, so I can't say what availability is like there. But it's worth doing a basic search.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
No. No. No, because that's not how our industry works.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
You could also work in a windowless steel box inside a cave at the top of a mountain, if you really want to move the goalposts.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I do. With over 200,000 paying users. The Customer Service department (we're a real business, so we have one of those) forwards all email, social media, and phone contacts about it to me. Number of middle managers who have brought up
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
anything privacy sensitive You've got that backwards. Web is more private than an app. Every regulated healthcare company has a web site. None require an "app."
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
the average user demands an app No, the average middle manager demands an app. The average user has gotten over the novelty of having seven million apps on their phone.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
If you're going to needlessly gate certain functions behind an app that work on a desktop browser (or could work in-browser), then I just won't use those functions. Amusingly, I know of a very large hospital chain that has it th
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I need the Star Trek modules They're there. Installable from within the program.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I wish someone would do this for a recently deceased OS X screen saver I loved. Someone went through the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and re-created all of the computer screens, with animation. It was a masterpiece of mid-century design and s
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
> The cards have no battery and aren’t self-powered in any way. Instead, the reader on the gate emits an electromagnetic field that powers the card just long enough to complete the transaction. Brillant! AT&T showed this in televis
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I'm fairly sure the balance is shown in the app too Can confirm that Suica shows the balance in Apple Wallet.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
As a kick-starter project is this thing actually real? My experience with kick-starter has been that the projects are almost universally faked. I've only contributed to three kickstarters, and they all worked out well. But I think I
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Everything is someone else's fault. The buck never stops with him.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Is anyone the slightest bit surprised? Our courts are no longer effective at bringing justice. They only have the law, and the law flagrantly favors the rich and their pet corporations. This was a settlement. The court did not get a chan
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I’d love for someone to get me into Mark Zuckerberg’s head on why he should keep doing what he’s doing. The guy just bought a castle in Ireland. He's doing it so he can buy another castle, then continue to tell everyone how in-touch
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I've been looking for a humanist, sustainable font I'm holding out for a free-range, gluten-free paleo font.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
I wrote "skimp," not "skip." As for the bidet, the ones I've used in Japan make me wipe more, again, because it's all wet back there, and even the ones with the air dryers don't seem to get the job done.
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
OTOH, upgrade to a TOTO, or other 'smart' toilet. Need less paper that way. My experience with these has been that I use more paper, because I always feel "wet" afterward. Whereas with a good, solid, no-nonsense beef b
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
NetBSD for the Mac didn't come out until after the SE/30 was already discontinued, and even then was little more than a crashy, unusable beta mess, not a real operating system. It was a tech demo, not something you could do work w
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Except in the 90s, I could wield my OS of choice on the hardware I bought. What OS could I have loaded onto my Macintosh SE/30 that wasn't from Apple?
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
There were at least seven companies offering this. I personally knew two people who had them from two different companies, and I think they were also available at Best Buy and Circuit City. But yes, they all went out of business during when
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by reaperducer 2mo ago
Xiaomi: We have matched Apple in CPU performance. Apple: Meep Meep... This seems to happen repeatedly. Apple: Look at this cool new chip! Others: Look how we very slightly passed Apple (six months later, with worse thermals and power cons

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