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by wpm 1y ago
> In what universe is windows defender “resource-crippling?” This one? Not all of us want to throw perfectly usable hardware in the e-waste pile. Windows 10 was perfectly fine on my old Haswell miniPC, save for Defender wasting CPU cycle
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by wpm 1y ago
Too big to fail means too big to exist. Google et. al should never have been allowed to get this large, same as those banks. Better late than never.
843.
by wpm 1y ago
They went from the company that everyone loves to hate, to the company that everyone just hates.
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by wpm 1y ago
Swift Data is CoreData in a wrapper. Also, not OP, but I’m glad it’s written in AppKit vs SwiftUI purely; AppKit just feels better on the desktop. I can always “smell” a SwiftUI app just like I can an Electron app.
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by wpm 1y ago
https://itsmycomputer.idowhatiwant.dealwith.it
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by wpm 1y ago
It does, and it predates JSON https://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd As elegant as anything on json.org
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by wpm 1y ago
It’s not anymore useless than a closing } or ], except since it has the tag name in it, so when I’m reading a highly nested object I’m not stuck in my text editor looking at a bunch of }’s at random indentation levels I have to scroll all t
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by wpm 1y ago
Comic Sans was a laughing stock and a target of derisive comedy, but now it can be used ironically, or in the case of Comic Mono, very straight faced as well.
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by wpm 1y ago
I count 13, plus two 2-pos toggle switches. Either this or some awful tap tap tap modal interface.
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by wpm 1y ago
The story I have heard was that they all got shit canned. They were professional technical writers focused on telling you “why”. These days most of Apples docs are “what”, and a lot of those don’t even tell you anything. Enums without value
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by wpm 1y ago
We are at a point where exploration does not necessarily have to have a direct, clear, objective, obvious cost-benefit analysis in order for it to be a worthwhile endeavor. Apollo also generated little science that couldn’t be done by machi
852.
by wpm 1y ago
> . If Apple really cares, they could provide a switch that allows users to disable installing "unverified" software. This exists on the Mac. You can configure Gatekeeper to always allow unsigned executables and packages to run
853.
by wpm 1y ago
> They'll run whatever garbage installer script the publisher gives them because they want the application. OK, sure. Fine. Whatever. Fuckin learn or get wrecked.
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by wpm 1y ago
Yes, it's stored client-side in a cookie. Surely you don't expect YouTube, a company that doesn't store any data at all actually, to be able to store a single boolean value somewhere in your account, do you? This would be imp
855.
by wpm 2y ago
Policing in a country filled to the brim with private firearms and a lot of people desperate to avoid serious consequences makes "massive policing campaigns" often lead to high-profile deaths. Chicago tried to put cops in the CTA
856.
by wpm 2y ago
That feels like it could be fixed with forced impoundment or surrender of the offender's vehicles, and a certified mail notification to everyone they might know that might loan them a car notifiying them that if they do lend their car
857.
by wpm 2y ago
> eliminating the ability to move from Point A to Point B privately Driving a car on public roads has not resembled this phrase for over a century in most of the world. Walking is free. Pretty private too. Lace up.
858.
by wpm 2y ago
> people will be spoofing GPS to remove the limit, just need a raspberry pie and some other components. How many, and how long before they straight up deserve to just go to jail for a little society time-out?
859.
by wpm 2y ago
I'm sure the "chronic shit driver, bad enough to have a judge mandate a speed limiter" vote is a big block that politicians will be lining up to appease. Just like the "chronic drunk driver, bad enough to have a judge ma
860.
by wpm 2y ago
This utterly ignores any context of German drivers and roads vs those in the US, context that makes comparing the Autobahn (which doesn't have that many unrestricted zones, and even fewer times of day where you can actually stretch you
861.
by wpm 2y ago
> In other words speed is only contextually dangerous while driving drunk and not using safety equipment are inherently bad which is why I'd imagine the latter two have been legislated. Neither of those are blanket dangerous. Drivin
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by wpm 2y ago
Spatial computing of iPad apps floating in the air with an even worse, low information rate input method? Neat concept, kneecapped at birth by sandboxing requirements, App Store rules, and Apples desire to own all of the innovation that cou
863.
by wpm 2y ago
Yeah I live in Chicago and it is not hard to keep it at 450ppm. Right now it’s 493ppm in here.
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by wpm 2y ago
The new Borealis route (short run of the Empire Builder from Chicago to St. Paul) was profitable in like, weeks, after it started running. It is consistently sold out.
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by wpm 2y ago
Chicago's commuter rail system is called Metra (operating code MTX). They own some of their own rails. UP and BNSF operate 4 of their commuter routes. CSX owns most of a few of the Metra operated routes. Once, I was delayed 2 hours o
866.
by wpm 2y ago
> Simple answer: Cars and aeroplanes and gov't money for both, and lack of gov't money for passenger trains. That has nothing to do with geography and everything to do with politics.
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by wpm 2y ago
In my experience the CPU is actually probably a good chunk of that power draw. I swapped my trash cans CPU for an E5-2560L v2 I had laying around and I pull like 30-40 from the wall of if I remember right. 20 cores at 1.7GHz. Low and wide,
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by wpm 2y ago
If your terminal is using readline/emacs bindings, Meta + B will go backward one word. Ctrl + a will move the cursor to the beginning of the line. There are of course equivalents if your terminal is configured to use the vi/vim ke
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by wpm 2y ago
Once you have the channels, the next step is to pick up a few old RF modulators and run your own cable TV network at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7m7OW2xrJE
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by wpm 2y ago
I can't wait for the day my hiking trails aren't festooned with piles of horseshit.

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