ssl-3

7 ms·

31.
by ssl-3 24d ago
It's weird that people still lament Google Reader going away. We've had RSS for about 27 years. Google Reader was around for less than 8 of those years, and it has now been 13 years since it died.
32.
by ssl-3 24d ago
> And every time I see a link about Twitter losing users or blocking some third-party client, guess what I think? All we know is, he's called the Stig
33.
by ssl-3 25d ago
A sternly-written, notarized letter of indemnification? A bizarro-world sequence of events (like activating Developer Mode on Android)? A game of Galaga which, if played perfectly, unlocks the gate just as doing so unlocks the black car i
34.
by ssl-3 25d ago
So there can only be one extreme or the other extreme? There's no possible world in which a gate can be installed in the wall of the garden?
35.
by ssl-3 25d ago
Lots of digital thermostats (both relatively dumb and very smart) allow for temperature adjustments to be locked within pre-set limits. If your customer disdain drives you to want that kind of thing, then just find one and install it.
36.
by ssl-3 25d ago
> Most of the time, I definitely intend to run my system as hard as it can. There are only 4-5 weeks out of the year where variable speed would make a meaningful difference. The system never catches up, even at night?
37.
by ssl-3 25d ago
> because it is both less efficient and will wear more while pulling the temperature down That's just not true. Aircon is a heat pump. It pumps heat more efficiently when more heat is available to be pumped. Warmer indoor air inc
38.
by ssl-3 26d ago
So what is it that drives such phrases into common parlance as a description of the apparently-fictitious culture of rote cancellation, might one suppose? I might suggest that "projection" is a primary motivator, although I work t
39.
by ssl-3 26d ago
I can imagine that. We'd have a slow SBC with a fast video decoder, a huge screen that is inseparable and also now uncalibrated, some video inputs for other things, maybe a tuner if anyone can figure it out, and some kind of network c
40.
by ssl-3 26d ago
Is that how they do it lately? I participated once or twice a good number of years ago, and it was kind of a pain: It involved keeping a paper ledger of what was watched, and when. Correspondence was all handled by regular mail. (As I rec
41.
by ssl-3 26d ago
When I buy a computer, I have the expectation of installing apps on it after purchase, and that doesn't necessitate any relationship at all with any app store provider of any sort (ie. Apple). (When I buy a pocket supercomputer , I ha
42.
by ssl-3 26d ago
I think the complaint is focused on the notion that the instructions tell a would-be contributor what is not OK, and then do not help them to figure out what is OK. > Determine if any of the search results represent the official websit
43.
by ssl-3 27d ago
Do we actually have a culture of cancelling people for the things they wrote when they were 12?
44.
by ssl-3 27d ago
Man, I sure knew 35 years ago that whatever I shared in public was.... public. :) And some of it still is public from way back then -- including dumb and ugly comments, stupid flamewars, teenager stuff, and phone numbers. It doesn't
45.
by ssl-3 27d ago
Obviously, running out of memory and resorting to swap (or other safety nets) is less than ideal. But why reject taking apparently-free steps to soften the blow? Is there some advantage in making sure that when the wall is hit, it is hit as
46.
by ssl-3 27d ago
It's OK to care about the performance of the safety net, too.
47.
by ssl-3 27d ago
I experienced my first go-around a few months ago, in an A321 that was landing in Tampa. The clouds had been very thick for awhile. The plane was making those weird low-and-slow vibes that it makes on final approach. We popped out of the c
48.
by ssl-3 27d ago
Just begin. You don't need an inventory. Just start by dividing them into piles on the floor, organized by role. The biggest piles can get further subdivided into more-specialized roles. There will be piles that consist of memorable
49.
by ssl-3 27d ago
I keep a lot of wires around because my interests and work require that, and I find great pleasure in being able to connect anything at a whim. Right now they're all pretty tidy, sorted by role into not-giant boxes on a shelf. I don&
50.
by ssl-3 28d ago
It works best with short-ish cables; several meters or less is nice and quick and is simple to keep neat. Longer cables can also work but it kind of takes more space to get it done. Like, a 30-meter extension cord or similar is completely
51.
by ssl-3 28d ago
> Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández is 16 years old and has an idea no one else had. ...meanwhile, some folks at George Mason University were doing this back in 2015[1]: > The fire extinguisher uses low-frequency sound waves to douse a
52.
by ssl-3 28d ago
I double the cables over until they're short enough , and then tie them into a loose half knot. No fasteners to wish for, or to fail. Both ends of every cable are always next to each other for identification at a glance. Different cab
53.
by ssl-3 28d ago
Your comment is unique. Nobody before you has ever written a comment phrased exactly like that. I saved a copy of your unique comment on my pocket supercomputer, including the letter "a". I didn't ask first; I just did it.
54.
by ssl-3 29d ago
I mean: I, for one, was definitely talking about telephone calls. :) But now that you mention it: Yeah, the state of common VoIP (Teams/Slack/Zoom/whatever) is also usually not very good. It's like there's some
55.
by ssl-3 29d ago
I don't have an LS-120 anymore, but I did have one at the very tail end of the floppy era. I never fed it one of the fancy disks. :-/ It worked, though, and it was really fast with regular floppies. Part of me says that I shoul
56.
by ssl-3 29d ago
I used to buy vulcanized rubber (like SO cable) test leads from Oldaker Manufacturing in Dunkirk, Ohio. They had supplied them to Tripplett when the latter was still manufacturing meters in Bluffton, Ohio. The ones I've had for decade
57.
by ssl-3 29d ago
I can understand people just fine with the voice profiles provided by Bluetooth. Strictly speaking, I don't need anything better than that. But it sure is nice to be able to make phone calls where people don't sound worse tha
58.
by ssl-3 29d ago
Yeah. The chaos was indeed delightful. I actually didn't get much gaming done on those days since I didn't usually have much of a gaming machine for myself at that time. My focus was instead mostly directed at getting everyone
59.
by ssl-3 29d ago
Modern pocket supercomputers don't divulge anything useful about the kind of connection that is being used for Bluetooth audio so we don't know if it's using 256kbps AAC or something else instead, and it cuts out in some area
60.
by ssl-3 29d ago
You already won. Please accept your victory.

More ›