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by yardie 2y ago
I literally had to present ID this morning to buy cold medicine. Had to present ID lastweek to enter my kid's school then had to present ID to their pediatrician.
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by yardie 2y ago
> GPIO: RPI: 40-pin Raspberry Pi GPIO header x86_64: Usually none, only available through USB to GPIO adapters I have a mixture of RPi's, cheap AliXpress ARM boards, and a stack of Intel NUCs from a decommissioned dev cluster. The
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by yardie 2y ago
Commercial property owners are in denial at the moment. I have a friend who wanted to open a small restaurant in our neighborhood. The building is mixed use so great foot traffic and great elevator traffic. They contact the realtor who send
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by yardie 2y ago
I've contested the red light camera fines in my municipality a few times now. In every case I request the footage and each time it's been overturned because the footage clearly shows me stopping before turning right on read. Ive n
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by yardie 2y ago
This article is from Thursday. The law passed over the weekend with hours before it was set to expire. None of the privacy concerns were addressed and they did the reading at the very last minute to ensure it would pass without enough time
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by yardie 2y ago
Carnegie: “I’d like to avoid being remembered for having a bunch of labor strikers shot and killed. How can I launder my reputation?” PR: “sir, with enough money you can make the public believe whatever you want.” https://en.m.w
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by yardie 2y ago
This was during the bad caps era [0] of computing. Visual inspection and then testing with a multimeter was more than enough. The 10k volts was my bigger worry! But I was fearless for a free, large monitor. [0] https://en.wikiped
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by yardie 2y ago
Hacker tip: I had one of these FW900s I got for free from work. The screen was extremely dim and it was assumed the flyback had gone bad. Since I am a card carrying member of "program the damn VCR" generation I knew that it was pr
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by yardie 2y ago
> Are people not saving for their retirement? Your retirement savings in the US has no fallback, except social security. So taking money out of it to buy a quickly depreciating liability like a car would be a really bad plan as most fina
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by yardie 3y ago
The iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S-series phones are the most popular with repair parts readily available. I was there when someone balked at getting their Samsung A-series repaired. For a few dollars more they could buy another one.
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by yardie 3y ago
I was just a teen when Jobs becaome iCEO at Apple. It felt like a big deal and the only thing that could have made it bigger was if Woz stepped on stage as well. It really did have the air of the band getting back together. At least that wa
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by yardie 3y ago
Most of the computer repair shops in my area have transitioned to phone/tablet repair. I spent $110 to repair my trusty iPhone 11 at the local PC store. Which I then traded in for a iPhone 15 since my carrier was offering almost $1000
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by yardie 3y ago
I'm middle class and lived in Paris. I had rich friends and poor friends. My rich friends owned flats that occupied entire floors of a building. My poor friends got whatever social housing was available. And my middle class friends ren
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by yardie 3y ago
> Be careful if it smells like birthday cake when you're working with lion cells This is hilariously specific. I wasn't sure how to describe that sweet smell of li-ion packs immolating. Birthday cake seems to fit it perfectly.
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by yardie 3y ago
35 hour work week is for government employees. Obviously, there are a lot of them but there are still more nongovernmental employees who don't have the benefit of a government job or unions that work a typical 35-45hr/week. > S
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by yardie 3y ago
I read about these charter cities a few years ago [0]. All the theory around them seemed to have this libertarian zeal about it that kind of put the foreign investors ahead of the local, voting population. And basic government functions (vo
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by yardie 3y ago
Got it, I think I understand the griping now. I've been a Mac user for decades but Sonoma is the 1st major release I can remember where everything is going to shit, even 9.x -> OSX wasn't this bad.
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by yardie 3y ago
Still have my college email address. But none of the clients can login until I physically go in and reset the password at helpdesk, 4HELP. I actively use the eBay account I created in 1998. And my Slashdot burner account has become my main
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by yardie 3y ago
Just read Jeffs blog last night and overclocking a Pi? Results may vary by batch but tend to regress to 2.4GHz being the most reliable. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/important-considerati...
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by yardie 3y ago
I'm an old dinosaur of a developer but I do remember enough XCode to know that it would throw enough warnings when API calls were going to be deprecated. And you could ignore those warnings and ship your binary. But eventually those wa
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by yardie 3y ago
Sorry, that must have been me. LOL. I had a Hackintosh and felt that any crash was 99% my fault and probably an edge case for MacOS. But in my defense, CrashReporter is way too permissive and will send a report even when the user doesn&#x27
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by yardie 3y ago
I mean some of the opponents have been obtusely racist in their criticism. One example is imploring the tribes to use "traditional" indigenous building techniques. As if that is supposed to mean they should be building as if they
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by yardie 3y ago
I've taken some tech certifications in the past and had the option of taking it at home (PSI) or at a test center (Pearson). The amount of intrusive demands the at home tests required and the absurd amount of monitoring made sure I nev
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by yardie 3y ago
It was $250M, a public acknowledgment of continued Office for Mac development, and the announcement of Internet Explorer for Mac gave investors, business buyers, and developers confidence in Apple. Because if Microsoft, the biggest tech com
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by yardie 3y ago
Collusion is illegal. Period. Doesn’t matter if a big landlord or little landlord are doing it.
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by yardie 3y ago
Probably because it's the opposite of dystopic but Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciences [0], Valencia, ESP is one of the most sci-fi locations I've ever set foot in. You'll recognize it from Marvel films it's the setting for
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by yardie 3y ago
How much in savings do you have? And there is nothing wrong with working on your startup while working a salaried job. I don't know a lot of millionaires or family bank owners so most founders are trying to bootstrap with their savings
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by yardie 3y ago
Unless it's a very old microwave it should not be leaking RF into the surroundings because that RF is energy targeted at warming up food and liquids.
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by yardie 3y ago
> There are a lot of cases where you pass a line without indicating though. I'm curious to know what those circumstances are. I'm just a dumb American driver but even I was taught you always use your indicator when changing lan
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by yardie 3y ago
I believe this is the first fatality where Tesla can't weasel their way out of the cause. There have been multiple crashes, some fatal, where FSD was engaged but disengaged a split second before the crash. So in the mere seconds betwee

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