CWuestefeld

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by CWuestefeld 17d ago
> in Texas, where, from what I understand, if you catch someone in the night stealing you could just kill them even if they never threatend you. It's worth pointing out that night is doing some of the work in this statement. Texas
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by CWuestefeld 17d ago
At least in New Jersey, the duty to flee is the law.
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by CWuestefeld 21d ago
Sure, but why is it that government-run institutions are (we're being told in this thread) uniquely vulnerable to the problem? Why isn't it happening at Buc-ee's or at McDonald's in the same degree?
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by CWuestefeld 22d ago
I used Buc-ee's as an example because they're famous for their clean bathrooms. But there certainly exist clean bathrooms in urban areas. I'd venture to say that those aren't all in high-end establishments that exclude a
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by CWuestefeld 22d ago
As I asked elsewhere, why is it infeasible for government to do this, but Buc-ee's can have sparklingly clean facilities while still turning a profit? This might tell us something about the nature of government management or employment
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by CWuestefeld 22d ago
Why is it so infeasible for government to keep their facilities clean, while Buc-ee's can have sparkling clean facilities and still turn a profit?
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
A large proportion of degrees awarded today are not useful for any practical application. But having a degree of some kind still serves as a signaling mechanism, demonstrating lots of things including the ability to "play the game&qu
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
Heads-up for BookOrbit users: Last week they released a change that put the header Strict-Transport-Security into all responses (yes, even non-HTTPS ones!). This broke not just BookOrbit, but every other app I had running on that server, be
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
If you want pedantic ridiculousness, well, notice that I never said that the e-ink emits light. It does, however reflect light back from the device's frontlight. The device taken as a system most certainly emits light, but less so wh
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
Another cool thing is you can use custom fonts and dictionaries. To be fair, it is now possible to load your favorite fonts onto baseline Kindle.
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
Ability to use things like BookOrbit (or alternatives) to manage your books and sync your progress/stats I discovered BookOrbit about two months ago. I think that it, together with the KOReader plugin that exposes the remote BO UI, m
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
I jailbroke my Kindle and moved to KOReader last year, primarily to get away from the Amazon jail. Just the bare KOReader UX was pretty utilitarian. It lacked polish for sure. I'll have to agree that, as noted elsewhere, the KOReader m
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
Because most of the page is dark, with light only coming from the text, the total light emitted is much less. That makes it less annoying to my wife, when I'm reading before going to sleep.
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
Americans, too. My understanding is that there are a couple of hundred Americans being detained in China now. Some of these people are expatriates who gave up their PRC citizenship for American but China still claims to have dominion over (
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
In the past I've felt the same way in China. At a macro level there may be a lot more restrictions there. But when it comes to day-to-day life, it seemed like people had much fewer regulations bearing down on them. For example, you&#x2
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
In the bigger picture, people were starting to catch on to the fact that Google's search product was becoming increasingly useless. Around here we'd come to that conclusion at least a couple of years ago, due to abusive SEO and so
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
I'm not at all an industry pundit. But I suspect there's a reason we're not seeing leading models from Google recently. Judging from my own frustrating attempts to use Gemini for vibe-coding, it seems like Google is badly ove
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure you're misunderstanding the definition of "targeted". It has nothing to do with the total capacity of the system, it's about the ability differentiate a specific target from everything else. The desi
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
My Instinct 3 Solar shows 34 days remaining in the battery. I charged it sometime last week, so we're talking about upper 30s at least. That's with running activity tracking including GPS for about an hour a day, and continuous he
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
> Garmin watches that have mapping support have an introduction price of >600 Euro. Even at that price point, zooming or panning maps is excruciatingly slow I just got a Garmin Instinct 3 Solar. It does mapping, and cost me about $300
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by CWuestefeld 2mo ago
I want to support the "what about debouncing" argument mentioned elsewhere; the author shouldn't just ignore this. But I also hate the "you had one job" meme and want to argue against its mindless usage. Most of the
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by CWuestefeld 3mo ago
I haven't played this, but just reading the description... > Learn to hack from TRASH WORLD NEWS, the underground computer magazine. It seems like a missed opportunity not to name-drop 2600. But I guess they wouldn't be allowed
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by CWuestefeld 3mo ago
There are no cars - or roads - where the lights can be seen. I'm aware that there's widespread support for the idea that there's some odd atmospheric effect with refraction or something, that displaces the apparent location o
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by CWuestefeld 3mo ago
The scarcity comes from there only being a finite number of the devices. But I was really speaking more broadly, about healthcare in general. There are only so many doctors, so many MRIs, so many heart surgeons, so many this or that. Giving
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by CWuestefeld 3mo ago
We went there a few years ago, while we were in Fort Davis, to see the Marfa Lights. We did see the lights - it's a real thing! But at the same time, we also saw a Space X launch, including seeing the flash of the 1st stage separation.
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by CWuestefeld 3mo ago
Scarcity demands some means of rationing out the product. Setting higher prices is one means of doing this, so only those with some means of paying can get it. Another approach is via wait times, where only those who can wait and afford the
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by CWuestefeld 3mo ago
One of my pet peeves is what seems to be an overwhelming desire in writers to always put an adjective in front of every noun. You can never just let it be a "notebook", it has to be some kind of notebook. It's even worse in
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by CWuestefeld 3mo ago
I was just making the change from LP to BW yesterday, completely by coincidence. My first reaction is that the out-of-box experience is poor. The first step was easy. The account creation and import of legacy data all went pretty well. But
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by CWuestefeld 3mo ago
If you like this, then try playing Red Dead Redemption 2 . While just a tiny part of the game, you improve your relationship with the rest of the gang by doing chores like splitting wood, and also carrying hay to feed the horses.
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by CWuestefeld 3mo ago
I mostly agree with your criticism of my post. I was being generous trying to avoid being inflammatory here, since I know there are readers that strongly support socialist ideas (in the strict sense, not just the "safety net" sens

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