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by scblock 1y ago
This is disgusting.
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by scblock 1y ago
That happened last year, when they changed their license terms and started shaking people down for money. I wouldn't touch it. https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squ... https:&#x2F
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by scblock 1y ago
I'm really angry about this outage. I have a small linode in Newark that runs a couple of things but mostly a Miniflux instance for my RSS feeds. And on Sunday I opened my feed reader app and it kept timing out. So I tried to load the
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by scblock 1y ago
Not particularly interesting (but very ad-infested), especially since many of these I am not familiar with, and the ones I know I do pronounce correctly according to them. Wow. Great.
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by scblock 1y ago
I prefer several types of modern mechanical key switches to the buckling spring switches for several reasons including sound, feel, travel length, and activation force (gaming and typing have different optimal force to me, for example) but
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by scblock 1y ago
While I agree with the base statement that makes up the title, I cannot get behind the rest of this idea that the heaviest users somehow "matter most". They cost the most, certainly. But how do they matter the most? But hey, this
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by scblock 1y ago
Windows has the worst font rendering of all modern operating systems. Wanting anything like Windows font rendering is insane. Windows 10 makes it near impossible to properly turn off subpixel hinting without also turning off all anti-aliasi
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by scblock 1y ago
No. Was that hard?
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by scblock 1y ago
Grub doesn't have to be ugly. Mine loads into a 4k framebuffer with a nice graphical setup. Only issue is secure boot and fonts don't seem to play nice so those are still basic monospace.
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by scblock 1y ago
The purpose of the NYT article is to protect the rich from the rest of us by smearing someone. I mean wait until you hear what Cuomo has done.
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by scblock 1y ago
None of these companies have room to talk about the others' ethics or safety culture. They're all guilty.
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by scblock 1y ago
Our small group uses The Lounge web client for IRC which is a very good PWA, acts as a bouncer, has history search (not unlimited, but pretty long), supports image upload, and basically builds a modern group chat on top of IRC as a backend.
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by scblock 1y ago
1Password demonstrating definitively why they don't deserve your money and in fact deserve to die. They have one job, but still chase trends like "AI" that are not related to their reason for existence. "But agents!&quot
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by scblock 1y ago
The ROMs should not be included but they almost all do it. The main exceptions are some of the pricier android-based handhelds. They market with things like "X,000 games" rather than on the capability to emulate. If an end user re
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by scblock 1y ago
That's a 33% increase (1/3 of 150 is 50).
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by scblock 1y ago
This is one of the worst ideas I've ever seen. > Mercedes‑Benz and Microsoft are also working together to integrate Microsoft 365 Copilot into the latest vehicles. This will be one of the world’s first application of its kind in a c
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by scblock 1y ago
Until you do. These articles never age well.
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by scblock 1y ago
Because he's a stupid piece of shit. And so is everyone around him.
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by scblock 1y ago
Bad headline. This is specifically referring to the AdBlock Plus "acceptable ads" program. So not "ad blockers" as a category, but rather a specific advertising company that pretends to be an ad blocker.
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by scblock 1y ago
Just adding some AI slop generators they want you to use.
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by scblock 1y ago
It probably depends quite a bit on what you're looking for. It's an older machine but should still be plenty capable with 16 gigs of RAM. Linux is the obvious choice for a non-Windows OS, but which flavor will be a forever argumen
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by scblock 1y ago
Marketing garbage.
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by scblock 1y ago
We'll need actual photos of the actual product displaying actual photos to be able to tell if it's any good. I didn't have the impression color e-ink displays had sufficient vibrancy in the colors to reasonably substitute for
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by scblock 1y ago
This would be more interesting with a few examples of overly long variables and a revised approach with a comment. Ideally realistic ones.
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by scblock 1y ago
We know, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44368854
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by scblock 1y ago
That may be the written goal, but I doubt that's the actual reason the project exists.
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by scblock 1y ago
That is correct. There are no modern utility scale turbines that are directly coupled to the grid. This was at least initially to allow for variable rotor speed at a constant grid frequency. Some use doubly-fed induction generators which ta
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by scblock 1y ago
Renewables can absolutely provide and consume reactive power through the use of power electronics equipment incorporated into the inverters. All modern utility-scale wind and solar power plants use this type of equipment, and most interconn
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by scblock 1y ago
This comment in this thread explains it fairly clearly. Do not make the mistake of thinking this is just a semantic difference. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247822
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by scblock 1y ago
Then you haven't tried looking. Women are being arrested and even convicted for having miscarriages, including in the US. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59214544 https://www.nbcnews.com/n

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