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1. 61.▲
   by space_ghost 5y ago

   Isn't that at the core of the "right to repair" debate?
2. 62.▲
   by space_ghost 5y ago

   I'd bet all the marbles that they're "JIT" rendering the full video upon request. Intro + hour chunk (12 options) + minute chunk (59 options, skipped if minute is 0?) + am-pm chunk (2 options) + Outro. If you open the p
3. 63.▲
   by space_ghost 5y ago

   I used the "BATF" method for years, with one file per year. In 2014 I switched to Zim [1] and haven't looked back. [1] https://zim-wiki.org/
4. 64.▲
   by space_ghost 5y ago

   My mom made extra money in the '90s doing the manual version of that. She'd pick up a stack of pages with som company's letterhead, a template, and a list of names, and then proceed to hand-write hundreds of nearly identical
5. 65.▲
   by space_ghost 5y ago

   Wildcard DNS should be a prosecutable crime, punishable by no less than 20 years of hard labor. (Edit: Probably should have made it clear that this was a joke)
6. 66.▲
   by space_ghost 5y ago

   There's a line in the TV show "The Newsroom," after a 4-star General speaks anonymously on air about alleged chemical weapons usage, that "Generals don't have dumb friends." Two minutes of cross-checking milita
7. 67.▲
   by space_ghost 5y ago

   "The Secret Life Of Machines" was a very bright spot in my childhood. My mother recorded the episodes on VHS cassettes and I wore those things out playing them. I've been rewatching them as Tim posts them on YT and I'm d
8. 68.▲
   by space_ghost 5y ago

   I definitely meant East Berlin. I blame my Memorial Day hangover. :D
9. 69.▲
   by space_ghost 5y ago

   Ask citizens of (East) Berlin between 1961 and 1989. Edit: I definitely meant East, not West. It's a small but important distinction.
10. 70.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    Sorry to interrupt, but what are you laughing at?
11. 71.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    First time seeing this and I'm completely obsessed now.
12. 72.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    You just sent me down a 4 hour clickhole. I both blame and thank you.
13. 73.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    The Expanse was cancelled and then saved by Amazon within a year, Stargate has essentially been a dead property for 10 years.
14. 74.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    Long time Gimp user here who didn't know about this. Huge time saver.
15. 75.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    Touchscreens aren't as bad as the cheap capacitive switches that seem to be taking over the Appliance product space. Every appliance in my new house's kitchen has those damn capacitive switches and they only work ~10% of the time.
16. 76.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    Ford missed a trick by not making it magnetic and easily removable.
17. 77.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    My frequency of colds has increased 10x since I've gotten married and had kids.
18. 78.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    The #massassi chat moved to Discord a while back. There's usually a bunch of us in there.
19. 79.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    That section caught my eye as well, and my search turned up this [0] result. "According to gossip, which is spoken among the people and is not essential, those who made these works put the gold among the stones and asked the people to
20. 80.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    Are the harsh RAM limitations a symptom of the M1 chip? 16GB is terribly low for anyone that uses VMs.
21. 81.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    Here's a direct link to the money shot: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/pics/voyag...
22. 82.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    Can I get in on that action? I don't understand why instrument cluster bezels are universally chromed but I hate it and my eyes hate it and I'd really like to look at my gauges without getting blinded.
23. 83.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    I'm dubious. What do we know about the actual lifespan of the T. Rex? At what age did they reproduce, and how often? What was the survival rate? Mating practices? Territorial behaviors?
24. 84.▲
    by space_ghost 5y ago

    Every other week? I get "extended warranty" spam calls a dozen times a day on average. Like many commenters here I don't answer my phone unless I know the number.
25. 85.▲
    by space_ghost 6y ago

    Yeeaaaahh, that looks very much like an ATA cable connector, and I've broken quite a few of those just trying to remove cables from motherboards. Maybe they custom-cast it out of a harder plastic, but I wouldn't trust it to be tru
26. 86.▲
    by space_ghost 6y ago

    What's so burdensome about payroll processing? It seems straightforward enough.
27. 87.▲
    by space_ghost 6y ago

    As someone else pointed out, this isn't just a lame webpage. The YT video of the news broadcast, if it was faked, would have been much more involved.
28. 88.▲
    by space_ghost 6y ago

    I've been happily using Perl daily for 20 years. I still use it daily, despite slowly moving to NodeJS for most production work. There's just some things that Perl does better than everything else -- text processing and gluing ext
29. 89.▲
    by space_ghost 6y ago

    They're broadly similar to Workspaces, except you can also apply different panel and desktop configurations to each Activity. From KDE: "Activities are a super-set of Virtual Desktops. They don't replace Virtual Desktops -- i
30. 90.▲
    by space_ghost 6y ago

    I have Very fond memories of KDE ~3 running on SuSE 8.1ish in the early 2000s. My XFCE setup today is far cleaner and more efficient, but it doesn't give me the same sense of satisfaction.