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by wolrah 5d ago
> And Seattle has banned every other possible avenue of passing this expense only to the parties responsible (higher deposits). From the very legislation this article is about: 7.24.040 Fees permitted and prohibited <...> B. A land
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by wolrah 5d ago
> Mac Minis used to have soldered on SSDs, but the 2024 model is upgradable. A lot of people purchased a cheaper Mac Mini and upgraded the storage themselves. Most people would argue this is a good thing, even if some of those Mac Minis
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by wolrah 5d ago
> You are fighting a losing battle and annoying everyone in the process. These comments are even more annoying. Sides that are winning don't have to constantly tell their opponents that they're losing. I have no idea why you
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by wolrah 5d ago
They are posting a link to their freemium SaaS product that has a price, of course they're looking for money. If I find something posted here interesting I like knowing what other similar tools/services/platforms there are ou
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by wolrah 6d ago
Business 102, something that's obvious to anyone who's ever worked a customer facing job but incredibly elusive to a lot of people who went straight to management, is that some customers are net negatives and you should not cater
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by wolrah 7d ago
Really? How many people can that possibly be, and how many of those would a reasonably sane developer actually want? If your competition is attracting the worst kind of users, do you really want to get in their way?
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by wolrah 9d ago
That's great, but honestly truck stops are the most obvious places and I'd be willing to bet that the majority of those locations already have at least one if not more than one fast charging provider either at the same exit or the
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by wolrah 9d ago
The way I see it, system requirements have gone through a few different eras. In the 8/16 bit single tasking era I feel like system requirements were generally pretty accurate hard minimums where the program would either not run at all
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by wolrah 9d ago
> * You own it forever Why does everyone advocating for physical always treat effective DRM as a given? I have bought a lot of digital music in my life, and I own every bit of it as long as my copies exist, just like all the physical mus
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by wolrah 11d ago
Can confirm, my Ioniq5's auto high beams are great. I've felt the need to manually override them twice in nearly a year of ownership, both times were cross traffic that didn't have enough visible reflectors for the car'
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by wolrah 12d ago
> The problem companies have is that "doesn't suck" generally means "it's free with no ads". I feel like way too many people forget that there was a great middle ground for the longest time, in the form of G
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by wolrah 12d ago
This is literally the only reason I have a J3400 adapter, as much as I hate the idea of giving money to a Musk company we have to admit that Tesla are one of only two companies installing charging stations that has an incentive to maximize
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by wolrah 12d ago
> There are big sections of the western US (for example) where the existing EV ranges are a dealbreaker. Not really anymore, at least not as far as places people regularly need to drive for personal reasons. I'm not saying you can&
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by wolrah 12d ago
> I'm not super familiar with AV1/AVIF but I do have extensive experience using h264 for desktop streaming, and all major implementations support 444 in hardware and software, and I doubt more advanced codecs/image formats
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by wolrah 13d ago
I have vague memories of something like this from my childhood, where my family's IBM 486SX had the 3.5" drive on A and the 5.25" drive on B but my grandparents' Epson 286 had the opposite. Also learning about disk dens
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by wolrah 13d ago
> Not necessarily for 4G to 5G. 5G can run a 4G compatible control channel and timeslices can be 4G or 5G. And for those playing at home, WiFi 7 devices aren't held back by coexisting with WiFi 6 devices, for the same reason (the us
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by wolrah 19d ago
Happy Eyeballs and switching to/from mobile are definitely hard problems to deal with in a privacy-friendly way, but I don't think IPv6 privacy extensions should really matter here. Just treat a /64 the same way you'd t
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by wolrah 19d ago
Not at all, because it uses the same pins as ARC, so the two features can't operate at the same time, and a lot of people use ARC to get audio from TV apps back to a soundbar or receiver. HDMI Ethernet is dead, it's never going to
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by wolrah 19d ago
Support in cables is nearly universal, because the same pins in the cable are used for the Audio Return Channel feature that allows a TV to pass audio from its internal apps back out to a soundbar or receiver via the same HDMI cable it take
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by wolrah 24d ago
> leaving deceleration to the motor wears it down much faster Not in the slightest, and I have no idea where this idea even came from. Whatever amount of stress the engine and rest of the drivetrain is under even at maximum engine braki
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by wolrah 25d ago
> The chaos seems to be a feature, not a bug. There's no "seems to" about it, any benefit of the doubt went out of the window years ago. There's a significant portion of the US Republican party that doesn't just
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by wolrah 25d ago
That sure does seem to be the only argument on the "keep Pluto around but nothing else" side, "I learned it this way and I'm done learning"
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by wolrah 26d ago
The question would be what are the specific rules that lead to that, and how you'd apply those rules outside of our own solar system. Any rule that just calls those distant objects KBOs is specific to our own solar system which is a s
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by wolrah 26d ago
Science works on logical rules. What logical rule would you propose that allows Pluto to be a planet without also bringing in a bunch of others? If you just want to arbitrarily declare things are they way you like them to be, religion is ov
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by wolrah 26d ago
Same with the early Xbox VGA mods.
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by wolrah 26d ago
The only thing we use large models (they are not fucking AI, never will be, and calling them that only supports the hype nonsense) for in actual production is voicing generic IVR messages and such. If we lost that we'd go back to havi
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by wolrah 29d ago
New York and Seattle both have the same thing and it's wonderful. Google Wallet even allows the user to set it to not require an unlock for transit transactions.
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by wolrah 1mo ago
It's also not uncommon for telecom providers to use it for their own internal routing because enough telecom software did in fact develop support for it despite lack of public implementations. As someone who's been in the VoIP ind
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by wolrah 1mo ago
> Handy for those four people left who want to author DVDs, but this is extremely light on details. MPEG-2 is also used in broadcast television standards, so those of us playing with QAM modulators for home or business internal cable TV
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by wolrah 1mo ago
No idea how OSS and Iron Mountain were doing things so this is pure speculation, but if for example Iron Mountain were providing an object storage platform on which OSS then ran some secondary platform that stored all the data in one place

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