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by sq_ 3y ago
Is anyone else using Bear for notes? Curious what people’s take on it might be, I’ve been thinking about trying to bring all of my various note taking under one roof, so to speak.
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by sq_ 3y ago
It does seem like Apple and a few other companies still manage to do a half-decent job today. It takes a lot of running around through the phone tree and putting up with people going through the long script of solutions you already tried, b
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by sq_ 3y ago
I do the same thing with the nacelle! I haven’t researched enough to be certain, but it seems like shielding yourself from being hurt by an uncontained engine failure is probably the only thing that an individual can affect by their own cho
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by sq_ 3y ago
I somewhat agree with this when they’re running smoothly: you can pay for a few quality of life upgrades and get an experience only a little bit worse than a more expensive airline for somewhat less money. When things go wrong, though, I fe
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by sq_ 3y ago
It almost always used to, but in the last year or so it’s been much less reliable for me. I think it’s probably a mix of more people having status because of COVID causing the airlines to extend their rewards periods and then more people de
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by sq_ 3y ago
While traveling in Europe recently, I noticed that my adapter from the US plug to the European one didn’t always quite fit into the sockets. I wonder now if I was seeing some small incompatibility between Type E and F…
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by sq_ 3y ago
Similar experience here. I got absolutely ridiculous numbers of spam calls up until maybe early 2022? Now I get almost none in comparison. Like 2-3 a month as opposed to tons every week before.
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by sq_ 3y ago
Slight tangent to your tangent, but, after a poor experience last week, I'm really disappointed in how Apple handles specifically support in their stores. Historically, I've been able to just throw in a few little bits of "yu
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by sq_ 4y ago
> Undergrad college had 'infinite time' and 'open everything but people' exams, but graded on a curve so that sometimes getting half the questions right was an A. Much more stressful, learned more, and basically no ch
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by sq_ 4y ago
I’d been wondering why I’d been getting so many crypto spam emails recently, but then I saw an email from them about the breach. All makes sense now, since I made an account with them a few years ago but forgot about it.
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by sq_ 4y ago
> I'm assuming you've mostly been exposed to advertisements in US/European media? Spot on! I'll definitely be taking a peek at them. Not like I've seen much actual testing on Anker and the like, so a little anecd
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by sq_ 4y ago
I’m curious about the brands you mention, as I haven’t heard of them too much. I usually just shell out for Anker stuff since it’s performed well for me. Would you say they’re all typically good quality? Or am I reading you wrong and you’d
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by sq_ 4y ago
I love their write-ups, but I hadn't seen that one before. Crazy story! It's easy to imagine how scared/shocked Gruseus must've been by a new-to-him pilot trying to abort that late... glad he trusted him in the moment.
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by sq_ 4y ago
In my experience, sometimes the "systems" part means something along the lines of "architecture". I've seen syllabi for "computer systems" courses that did an overview of virtual memory and all, ran up to
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by sq_ 4y ago
Curious about this quote: > The only feature that Apple has denied for any reason other than technical is night mode when taking pictures at low light, absent here. I was under the impression that night mode more or less required the 2+
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by sq_ 4y ago
> I really understand when I want to use the phone or the notebook computer. The iPad is sort of in the middle. I'd never seen it put that way before, but I think it hits the nail right on the head for me. I do like my 2020 iPad Air
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by sq_ 4y ago
> Please delete this post as this means I am in big trouble. Interesting comment on Krebs' article... Probably a joke, but doesn't imply great intelligence among the people involved with RaidForums if not.
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by sq_ 5y ago
Ha, 0BSD makes me realize they could’ve called it 0MIT, as in “omit attribution.” Would’ve been funny and arguably more understandable.
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by sq_ 5y ago
I've barely touched anything Palantir, but the one gov project I worked on tangentially that used their products did seem suspiciously like a simple database that the gov employees/contractors were doing all the work to make usefu
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by sq_ 5y ago
Drachinifel's content is amazing. In particular, I love his video on the sinking of HMS Hood [0], his videos on Jutland [1], and his way of working some humor into what he does as with the Kamchatka and the title on his video about sur
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by sq_ 5y ago
For me it's often in the shower after work. Which is a pain because then I've gotta remember them until I get out and then find a way to remember them until the next day.
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by sq_ 5y ago
Hadn't seen that Framework post; maybe if they manage to be successful in the laptop world long term they can grace us with a TV with the same ideas as the laptops. One can hope, at least...
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by sq_ 5y ago
I don't disagree that skepticism may be warranted, but I think that people are also willing to believe in SpaceX's ability to solve hard problems, given their track record. As far as I can tell and have heard other people much sma
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by sq_ 5y ago
Similarly, my policy has basically become "find the relevant little subreddit or niche forum for $category" and then read/ask on that. Has worked out pretty well so far. Especially if it's a product category that gets da
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by sq_ 5y ago
If I remember correctly from playing with this stuff a few years ago, there’s a simple text format for WiFi SSIDs and passwords that’s recognized by both iOS and Android, among others.
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by sq_ 5y ago
I’m such a huge fan of that functionality. It doesn’t always work perfectly (i.e. pick up someone nearby trying to join the network quickly), but when it does, it’s such an awesome example of tech making our lives better in such a simple bu
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by sq_ 5y ago
Ah, the good ol' Kzinti Lesson [0]. [0] http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunexotic....
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by sq_ 6y ago
I was a fan of the “Rapidly Scheduled Non-Ascent” jokes a few weeks ago when Starship’s computers aborted a launch seconds before it would’ve started up.
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Robert Zubrin – A Method for Creating Enormous Space Telescopes(centauri-dreams.org)
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by sq_ 6y ago
I’ve seen dang explain it before, although I don’t remember exact details. I think they’ll just give interesting links a bump every now and then if they didn’t get a fair shot for whatever reason.

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