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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Modern construction requires a significant amount of maintenance. I was raised with the rule of thumb that you should budget 1% of the purchase price of a house for maintenance; while that's roughly true for my century-old villa t
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Podman-TUI is a Terminal User Interface to interact with the podman(pkg.go.dev)
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I care less about weight (although that obviously does affect road maintenance) and a great deal more about dimensions . The arseholes who block footpaths with their oversized vehicles have purchased something too wide to fit in a standa
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> I keep wondering what would happen if Apple were to license iOS. Much the same thing as happened to Apple when they licensed their OS in the 90s, I imagine.
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> This stuff matters. The number of people who want to sysadmin their phones is effectively zero.
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And A/UX.
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Martin Scorsese and others have complained about this, but tend to get shouted down by Marvel enthusiasts, but yes: the mid-range films from studios have largely evaporated; as they run more like any other business, the focus is entirely on
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It's nevertheless that the password vs biometric challenge seems to be more-or-less at random.
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> I think there is an important little nod to the future in this announcement. "Personal Voice" is training (likely fine tuning) and then running a local AI model to generate the user's voice. My Kiwi accent needs this so
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> music used to be a much bigger part of our lives. Before the radio a piano was a household staple. Kids would learn, family’s would play and sing to each other. We’ve largely given that up. Recorded music, and our reaction to it, has p
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by rodgerd 3y ago
This is how it works in New Zealand; you get a tax statement. You can file if you think that IRD got it wrong, and you have to file if you have income from (for example) dividends, overseas incomes, or similar sources. But for the great maj
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Well, that's a problem that social media companies have with China and India, both of which are big markets. These are actual problems.
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Reinventing the same features many times over in many different places, of course.
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> I was in College at the time, comparing it to the Dec and VaxStations next to it, it held it's own It's interesting to me that this criticism has stayed around so many years in different forms: the iPhone has underpowered RAM
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The great thing about collecting monopoly rents is that you can afford to fuck up again and again before it has any real cost to you.
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Phil Ochs isn't buried, but he's really not as well-known as he ought to be; the story about Dylan "throwing him out of his limo" for being too political for Bob's taste says a lot about Dylan.
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And that's before considering the fixed width.
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The Amiga vs ST is interesting, because the ST ran away with a lot of the mindshare because of the built-in MIDI capability. The Amiga, on the other hand, didn't have that (or even a synth chip), but it did have the Paula chip, which
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by rodgerd 3y ago
The blog spends a lot of time pointing out that it is not, in fact, widely available today in any practical sense.
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> In fairness, if the problem is only with the self-driving, you can circumvent that by not using i I wasn't aware that I could disable FSD for Tesla owners when they're using the roads in my city. Could you point to that featu
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Indeed - when we had a big storm forecast where I live a few months ago I picked one of the ones up for my tool brand as an additional backup for phones and the like if we lost power (and the house battery). Having a few 2/4 Ah packs a
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It's interesting to me that one of the big ideas that made the Amiga different was having a unified memory (the chip memory) where the specialised processors and CPU had equal access; it's now very mainstream in the gaming arena,
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elinks is my fave as well.
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It makes it very easy for me (as someone who comes from a world of physical datacentres) to reason about what an AZ is getting me, and also to understand the benefits of using AWS (not having to think about the details of power routing, bla
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> there was something written about MySQL people posting misinformation in forums. They were absolute liars of the first water back in the day, absolutely. In the 3.x era there were claims that transactions were only for people who didn&
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> Unfortunately, most database tools are too unapproachable or cumbersome for most. This always used to be Access and Filemaker's appeal, but they've been so widely and thoroughly derided over the years you wouldn't know i
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A couple of them got together to make three US Supreme Court appointments recently.
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> The child mental health industrial complex This seems like a rational, evidence-based position.
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> Try dressing different from the norm in the 1990s Social media is small town gossip, at scale.
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> Something seemingly lost to many new devs. I'm pretty convinced by now the reason the win32 API is so stable because no developer is interested in "the old stuff", so nobody tinkers with it, hence stuff doesn't brea

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