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by ssl-3 7mo ago
> I've noticed that the cheaper the hotel, the more free things they give you. Such as breakfast buffets. Good. I'm cheap. I'm attracted to freebies. And I like being able to get up, get around to start my day, grab som
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
This article is dogshit. The implied problem: People waste too much food at hotel breakfast buffets. The work: Some people made a model (that itself is devoid of actual hotels, food, and people altogether, as well lacking validation) that
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
It can be 1 or 2 day shipping. That's normally what I get at my house in Ohio. But it can also be a lot faster. I took a trip to Tampa not so long ago for a few days to hang out with an old friend who I don't see very often, and
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
"Brought to you by Carl's Jr. Fuck you, I'm eating! "
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
Perhaps. How much SEO happens here on HN? How much do they spend to tell everyone about it? I'm guessing: Not much; maybe zero. But people come here, anyway. (That doesn't mean that it's capable of independently sustaining
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
Mikrotik manufactures a lot of stuff in Latvia, yes. That's where they're based, and where most of their engineering happens. Some of their stuff is also stated to be made in, at least, Lithuania, Malaysia, Vietnam, and China (in
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
Wrong PSU? Sometimes, there's single-use reverse polarity protection on devices. It's a reverse-biased diode near the input which normally doesn't conduct at all, but which conducts very well when the input polarity is reve
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
The timing here is amusing to me. I have a fairly specialized bit of hardware here on my desk. It's a rackmount, pro audio DSP that runs embedded Linux. I want to poke at it (specifically, I want to know why it takes like 5 or 6 minu
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
It is different than it once was. It was dead-nuts simple in the 1990s: Just learn enough about DNS to put in an MX record that points to an A record, get sendmail working, and have it begin delivering mail. The end. (Open relay? No spa
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
I saw your point. Your point is entirely about sticking it to the rich guys -- for an entire 30 cents. It is based on the presumption that these can't be stuffed to spend time on an app, and you think that this means that the app is d
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
I've built mail servers before Gmail existed that lasted long enough to get blacklisted by Gmail. Fixing it was always pretty simple -- or at least, non-mysterious. They'd bounce some things, I'd look at the headers of the b
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
The wealthiest person who I know well would absolutely fiddle with an app for 5 minutes to save 30 cents on a sandwich at McDonald's. He's cheap AF. But even if he weren't that way, making the app deliberately bad to eek a f
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
That's how it was in the US, too. Sit down anywhere, fire up the app[1], order whatever, enter the table number and they bring it over. That part of the service was consistent and worked well. The consistency all changed with the cov
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
I almost never shop at Target. It's not near to me, and it's not on my list of destinations when I'm away from home. But I was in Target one day anyway, and they had a Raspberry Pi 3 kit for sale on the shelf. IIRC, it was
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
That's not how I interpreted it as being in this instance, but it could certainly be that way. I guess that'd be like keeping all correspondence in a shoe box (to be reviewed later -- or maybe never), or maybe the automated record
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
Anyone is free to use the app to get the best deals. They just need to be willing to put up with its behavior. That sounds, to me, less like something discriminatory and more like something that is simply sadistic.
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
Yeah, but you're kaoD. You're a bonafide person. You should talk with other people; it's good. (We're chatting right now.) That's quite different from chatting with a bot that pretends to be human. (Do you want
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
I tried to log into it just now to see which McDonald's it would select for me at home and whether it would be callous about changes. But when I touched the icon to open the app, a big M appeared on a bright red screen and then it died
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
Thanks. I'll check out Philips. I wonder if third-party pads exist. I prefer dumb, but I don't mind if it's smart. Especially if I can integrate the smarts into my Home Assistant rig. I built a humidifier once. I just use
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
If that's true, then their mobile app team must be both completely separate and isolated from all communications. Because it's really bad. And it's been bad for a really long time. When all I want is to order a cheap cup of
951.
by ssl-3 7mo ago
Man. It seems like every avenue of humidification is paved with difficulty. Ultrasonic humidifiers (and others) that spritz water droplets out? They need fed expensive water, or they spread particulates everywhere. Health aspects aside,
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
Outlet testers only go so far. They can produce false assurance. One of the things that people (well, idiots -- but idiots are also people) discover when replacing an old 2-prong outlet with a new 3-prong outlet from the big box store is t
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
Ferrite beads are awesome, and I agree that everyone involved with computing and electronical things should have an assortment of them nearby. They can fix problems. And yeah, we're pretty close to the limits. We always have been, th
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
They still are. They always have been. Since the introduction of the OG Raspberry Pi, 14 years ago, there's been an ongoing cognitive problem wherein people look at the price of a brand new, never used SBC that can purchased from a re
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
I mostly wrote a story about a concert. It was an amazing concert. I also wrote a missive about banning Trent Reznor from IRC three decades ago. At the show, the music was good (of course it was -- I like NIN and have for decades), but th
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
I got invited to see a NIN show recently, which was very kind of them. The process of actually getting in, post-invite, was a bit of a weird experience: Waiting around at the front of the venue, meeting some of his PR folks, walking all th
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
I mean, for my TV at home where everything is connected with a gigabit LAN, I usually use Kodi on a Pi4, over SMB, with a Logitech KT400 to drive it from wherever I feel like sitting. It's silent, reasonably self-contained, and is appl
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
Perhaps. Y'all (collectively) have some good ideas. But she likes the Roku. She's even got silicone skins for the remotes (plural; spares!), and two of them are tethered near the chairs that her and dad tend to sit in. Also: The
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
Indeed. I watched a backup of a [480p24] DVD movie with a (hacked) Wii quite a long time ago, as a fallback after the PS3 I was using got tripped up on that film's Cinavia[1] watermarks. The Wii worked OK-ish, but it was evident that i
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by ssl-3 7mo ago
Those are fine ideas. But I'm not all about getting something like Tailscale to work with my elderly mother's Roku device, nor teaching her how to use it.

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