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by sowbug 3y ago
Fair point. For me, the broth is the final product -- it's chicken soup!
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by sowbug 3y ago
Related: if you ever get a $5 Costco rotisserie chicken, don't throw it away when you're done with it! Put the rest in a small pot with some water and let it barely simmer for a long time (6-12 hours). Taste it every few hours, ad
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by sowbug 3y ago
If we really care about climate change, Electric vehicles and infrastructure should be incredible not profitable for 10+ years If we really cared about climate change, might consumers also bear at least some of that lack of profitabilit
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by sowbug 3y ago
Just to add a bit more color here: most flexor muscles in your body are a lot stronger than the corresponding extensors, so when an external command comes in telling both to contract, for example from electricity in the thing you're wo
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by sowbug 3y ago
What I'm hearing is that you object to cases where the entity exerting the most control over the direction of an open-core project has an incentive to restrict the project in favor of something else the entity also controls -- usually
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by sowbug 3y ago
The same is true of any successful open-source project, isn't it? Almost all popular projects are used by for-profit companies, regardless of who owns the copyright on the code.
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by sowbug 3y ago
PSA for potential nerd sniping victims: this question has been thoroughly analyzed by Mythbusters. https://mythresults.com/episode72
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by sowbug 3y ago
The Apple II had a one-bit DAC! Accessing address 0xC030 (PEEK(-16336) or STA $C030) would cause the machine's internal speaker to click. I assume it was the result of the voltage to the speaker toggling from digital on to digital off.
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by sowbug 3y ago
There is a newer report: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2023_IC3Report.pd... . Figures are based on the FBI's tally of $12.5 billion in 2023 online scams. Ransomware has declined (0.674% in 20
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by sowbug 3y ago
I don't personally have this desire, so I haven't thought much about it. I guess for online stuff make sure all means of access are behind passwords that will be lost when you die. For physical property, seems like a hard problem
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by sowbug 3y ago
I use Google Keep for online stuff. For real life, I have a bunch of boxes that take up a shelf in my home office. Pretty simple, nothing too fancy.
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by sowbug 3y ago
The law generally frowns on "dead hand control" of real and personal property that's been passed on to successors. Society is believed to be better off if living people actually own what they own. The classic legal example is
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by sowbug 3y ago
Apple II floppies in the 1980s that contained a bad version of DOS 3.3, circulated on BBSes. I was never personally affected, but I heard (at the time, not after the fact) that the point was to drive traffic to a certain pirate BBS that cha
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by sowbug 3y ago
I would interpret the data as agreeing, not denying, that digital currencies are used in crime. I don't believe that was being debated. The open question is whether legitimate uses of digital currencies outweigh their illegitimate uses
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by sowbug 3y ago
In 2020, ransomware was $29 million of $4.3 billion in online scams. Digital currencies were involved in $246 million of that $4.3 billion. The rest was wire transfers, gift cards, checks, ACH, and cash. Perhaps we should ban those, too. Bl
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by sowbug 3y ago
One might ask the same question about the entire internet.
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by sowbug 3y ago
They never promised that. They said you wouldn't need a Facebook account. (Meta and Facebook accounts are different things.)
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by sowbug 3y ago
Some of these will still happen, even in a self-driving car, because of prior passengers. In fact they might be more of a problem because passengers won't have another human in the car inhibiting their impolite or gross behavior. I loo
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by sowbug 3y ago
You can actually walk right past most "no trespassing" signs as well. Signs, locks, and copyrights keep honest people honest. They don't change anyone else's behavior.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I'm working my way through Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte. I can't say I've digested it well enough to recommend it, but a key point that stuck with me is to get into the habit of making a note of things you encount
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by sowbug 3y ago
Anyone else remember less from reading an ebook compared to a physical one? This happens to me, and I think it's a similar explanation. I recall less of where I read something in an ebook. But in a physical book, I often remember tha
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by sowbug 3y ago
Since BIP-32, receive and change addresses have been generated from a single seed, never from outside sources. Hardware wallets verify this. It's much more likely you'll fall victim to malware that waits until you're on an ex
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by sowbug 3y ago
Fair enough. The Overton Window shifts quickly these days.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Aha, I didn't see the comments to the Gist. Thanks for that.
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by sowbug 3y ago
See my reply to the sibling comment.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I'm not proficient at reading minimized code. Maybe you're better at it than I am. The ChatGPT output helps kickstart a meaningful discussion about the content of the code.
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by sowbug 3y ago
In retrospect I view that part as an example of "don't hate the player, hate the game." In negotiated deals like this, it's not unusual to represent yourself as the right choice even if the terms you're offering are
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by sowbug 3y ago
About 15 years ago I sold a car I owned. Its fair market value was $5,000, but to get that I'd have to wash it, put an ad on Craigslist, deal with the scammers who want to pay with fake money orders, meet with potential buyers, let the
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by sowbug 3y ago
You might be interested in an excellent keyboard shortcut: control-W. (Or command-W on a Mac.)
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by sowbug 3y ago
If space isn't a concern, then transmission is.

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