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by wenc 1y ago
> My idea was to distribute an e-zine as a QWK packet. What a cool idea! I would have loved something like that. This hearkens back to the day of Byte and PC Magazine where I would actually buy paper magazines to learn about the latest
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by wenc 1y ago
Ah SLMR is OLX. Mustang Software (Wildcat! BBS) bought Qmodem and SLMR (and renamed the latter to OLX).
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by wenc 1y ago
I'm a big fan of DuckDB and I do geospatial analysis, mostly around partitioning geographies (into Uber H3 hexagons), calculating Haversine distances, calculating areas of geometries, figuring out which geometry a point falls in, etc.
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by wenc 1y ago
This brought back memories. I remember dialling into BBSes using Qmodem, downloading QWKs (compressed email packets) from “conferences” (similar to newsgroups). I would read/reply offline using OLX (Offline Express, a QWK reader also p
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by wenc 1y ago
New Orleans is not a place I would settle in, but it's one of the most interesting places I've ever visited in the U.S. - Setting for Gabriel Knight I: Sins of the Fathers. The most atmospheric game I've ever played. It was b
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by wenc 1y ago
Before I learned Dutch pronunciation, I always thought it was "coo-ee-per". But the other comment is correct -- it's approximately "kyper". Now try Huygens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi
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by wenc 1y ago
I remember eagerly anticipating ZFS for desktop hard disks. I seem to remember it never took off because memory requirements were too high and payoffs were insufficient to justify the trade off.
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by wenc 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell%27s_Books
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by wenc 1y ago
Well... Powell's in Portland is the largest independent bookstore in the world . I don't think any bookstore can be compared to them. And even Powell's doesn't have everything (say Tyler Cowen's reading list). I kn
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by wenc 2y ago
In many developing countries, I would say it's the reverse. Undergrad is actually "necessary" for most average people -- it's the minimum bar for white collar employment; the only exceptions are people who are have rare,
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by wenc 2y ago
> Maybe some trades can be done on the side? Plumbing/Electric/HVAC? These are not fancy or glorious and won't get you rich, but quality tradesman work will always be in demand. In developing countries (I grew up in one),
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by wenc 2y ago
Yes battery is definitely a limitation. I’m able to get 15-16 hours on my Series 7 between charges. That works for me because I just charge it when I shower and it takes no time. I wonder if for your use case a Watch Ultra might work better
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by wenc 2y ago
I own mechanical watches and had the hardest time switching to an Apple Watch. But one thing sold me on it. Apple Pay. It’s so convenient to be able to wrist tap things without whipping out my phone. I can pay for things in 1 second. With e
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by wenc 2y ago
I love Advanced Voice Mode except it's so unreliable in my experience. I can't have more than a 5 minutes of conversation without it getting stuck and me having to restart it. I believe it's partly due to it doing Whisper pro
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by wenc 2y ago
macOS is a BSD. If you're used to Linux (I am) it feels there are lots of quality of life changes, but I realized it's because I'm used to Linux. The OS itself is fine.
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by wenc 2y ago
Does your Roborock get stuck on electrical cords? I have a Roomba that used to be able to detect cords and roll over them, but at some point it ceased to do that -- and jobs would consistent failed due to it getting stuck. I'm too lazy
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by wenc 2y ago
XyWrite: hold my beer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XyWrite XyWrite was hardcore.
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by wenc 2y ago
I still don't quite get what MCP is. I had to ask Claude. Apparently it's a standardized and general protocol for passing context to an LLM? But if it's a structured protocol, how can it be general enough to cover all use cas
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by wenc 2y ago
I made an informed decision when I signed up. It's SNP genotyping, which realistically other than telling your ancestry and few health conditions, isn't that predictive of most health conditions. Genotyping only captures a small p
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by wenc 2y ago
Yeah Zojirushi is absolutely the right answer so the contrarian take in this comment is actually not what I would want in search result. There are other good rice cookers like Cuckoo, and cheaper options like Tiger or Tatung, or really budg
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by wenc 2y ago
I just tried Claude’s web search. It works pretty well. I’m not sure if Claude does any reranking (see Cohere Reranker) where it reorders the top n results or just relies on Google’s ranking. But a web search that does re-ranking should red
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by wenc 2y ago
Those who can do, those who can’t teach. Ironically often those who can, don’t know how to teach.
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by wenc 2y ago
Mine is a whole list of "weather" and "set timer for 4 minutes".
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by wenc 2y ago
It is learnable. Check Olivia Fox Cabane’s book The Charisma Myth. I’ve read this and found about 30-40% of it to be implementable and a percent of that have positive outcomes.
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by wenc 2y ago
Yeah, no. When I was younger, I thought, "wouldn't it be nice if Canada could join the EU?" (this was when the UK was part of the EU) It would mean: (1) I could live work in the EU indefinitely, and there are a ton of great c
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by wenc 2y ago
I was a TN holder once and had company lawyers prepare my TN dossier so that it was watertight so I was never refused. A refusal should only result in applicant being turned back and asked to try again after having addressed the shortcoming
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by wenc 2y ago
If you’re trying to monetize, realize that a feature is not a product. The product is the network. The restricted window is a feature. I can already achieve this with screen time and leechblock. But no quibbles if it’s just hobby project.
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by wenc 2y ago
It’s just the fitted sheet. The encasement I have is actually not a plastic wrap but a zippered tight weave synthetic fabric (polyester). https://a.co/d/3ut09wO It’s suppose to prevent bedbugs and others from setting u
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by wenc 2y ago
Just a data point. I have a mattress encasement which has never been removed (I got it to protect against bedbugs). Dust (dead human skin) still accumulates on the surface. It might not go into the mattress, but it will be on the surface. S
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by wenc 2y ago
You can use a conventional vacuum if it has enough suction (most of these dust mite vacuums are rated at 13 kPa, a sweet spot for extraction without damaging fabric), and if you don’t mind using the same vacuum attachment on other surfaces.

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