tlavoie

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by tlavoie 2y ago
Are Mac laptops still glued together? My 2013 MBP needed a new battery, which required replacing the following as one unit: battery, keyboard, top case, trackpad. The reason is that it was all one blob. (And then the charging circuit on the
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by tlavoie 2y ago
I don't know, is it? I mean, it's often not the convenient choice, but there is still choice. The choice to "license" cough access to an ebook is a valid one, if made with awareness for what exactly that means. I think
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by tlavoie 2y ago
The point wasn't that they sold something they weren't supposed to, but that they felt it reasonable to "un-sell" something after someone has received it. It showed everyone that electronic purchases can be yoinked away
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Ever since Amazon removed copies of Orwell's "1984" from people's Kindles after sale, it's served as a reminder that ownership is a fickle thing. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from
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by tlavoie 2y ago
No, Kobos are a better choice. Much more consumer-friendly, even if the default book store is still DRM-encumbered.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Thanks for the paper, will check it out! (Still skeptical that we should encourage LLM summarization though, suspect people would gain more and actually learn things from reading papers.)
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Whoops, I stand corrected. I thought I had read it elsewhere (news, I assume) that most countries would not see the change. Looking back... sigh.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Well, the "Gulf of America" nonsense is also shown here, in brackets after "Gulf of Mexico." So it seems like they're not content with just keeping it to the US as originally stated.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Oh, true enough. Or at least, by the time the battery gets low, the whole thing should be replaced anyway. As you say, depending on detector.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Smoke detectors usually have something like a 10-year usable life, and should have a sticker to that effect along with its manufacture date. I've had a couple that when they aged out, went straight to full-on alarm beeping.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Have you looked at "Emily" language at all? Same person or two, their original paper isn't reachable at their linked URL, but is on the Wayback Machine. "How Emily Tamed the Caml" - https://web.archive.o
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Back in the stone age, you just needed someone that would let you connect to their server. The whole point is that it's distributed, not a central, closed system. That server might have limits on the groups they wanted to host through
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by tlavoie 2y ago
I wonder too if the reflective markers are also messing with self-driving vehicles that hit stopped fire trucks. It's been a few years, but this article on Teslas hitting fire vehicles was sobering. https://www.wired.com&#x2
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by tlavoie 2y ago
The Developer Voices podcast episode with a couple authors of a DuckDB book was quite good as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nA3uDx1rlg
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by tlavoie 2y ago
I see that one of the issues given with uxn is that it isn't efficient, nor self-hosting. I wonder how they'd feel about something like MirageOS, where OCaml is used to create unikernels that contain just what is needed. The appli
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Well, and a GUI that people see fit to implement within many other languages as well.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
They might be there, but the position was remote-friendly.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
There are similar-ish tools such as Isso. Self-hosted, no snooping, stored on SQLite. https://isso-comments.de/
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by tlavoie 2y ago
I have to wonder, why can't their wi-fi be disabled? Is it one of those scenarios where it is being used to support other ISP customers in your area? My ISP (note: also owned by my employer) doesn't have this, so the modem I'
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by tlavoie 2y ago
This episode of Kris Jenkins' Developer Voices podcast talks with a couple authors of a new book on DuckDB, and does a great job of explaining the sorts of things that make it so unusual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by tlavoie 2y ago
There are a fair number of packages, there is a page on the recently-revised web site. I have started digging back into it myself, after tinkering on and off for some years. The new multicore functionality looks very cool, along with a bunc
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Oh, I hadn't thought to reach for Reader mode, that's a good point for people who are using closer to a stock config. Of course, rendering a text blog page should be trivial, but... Google. I expect little different there.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
It was blank for me on Firefox, even with uBlock origin turned off. However, disabling JavaScript on the page did the trick! So, whatever shenanigans they're doing to mess with the page rendering are completely unnecessary for the read
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Oh, some of those are the _worst_. My wife bought a car, and the dealer had gone beyond the usual decal and license plate holder, and had put an insert in the third brake light. E.g., every time she touches the brake, it's flashing thi
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by tlavoie 2y ago
How about OCaml? https://ocaml.org/ It's not BEAM-based, though I don't know that any single-file deployment would be either.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
MirageOS is for unikernels that can run on Xen or KVM, and I think would be very interesting for all sorts of network services. Each would be essentially its own VM, but with only the parts that are compiled into the service. https:/&
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Haha, nice.
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Well, for small-enough engines, that's probably fine. I mean, nobody's going to care when it's just a weed-whacker or something. Less so when it's an awkward 60 pounds or so, that still needs to be maintained. My mechan
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by tlavoie 2y ago
Their small engines really are great. My local fire department uses Honda models for all the small forestry-style water pumps, for example. You do have to watch out though, where some other brands have Honda-branded engines that are _not_ t
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by tlavoie 2y ago
So you did! Sorry, hadn't read the post beforehand. Oh, and I too mourned the loss of CrashPlan. Being in Canada, I didn't have the option offered to have a restore drive sent if needed, but thought it was a brilliant idea. On the

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