OriginalPenguin

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by OriginalPenguin 2mo ago
Everyone has their own opinion as to what the best literature is, just like what the best music is. But there is also some consensus. For music it would be Beethoven, Mozart, the Beatles, etc. For literature it would include Tolstoy, Shakes
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by OriginalPenguin 4mo ago
To save everyone time: I just tried this and while ChatGPT got it wrong, Gemini and Claude answered correctly. Of course YMMV.
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by OriginalPenguin 4mo ago
They weren’t blindingly fast then. The hardware was so much slower in the 90s. It’s difficult to remember just how slow a 5400rpm hard drive was.
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by OriginalPenguin 4mo ago
My experience with any built in sandboxing for these command line tools has been awful. What I've done instead is built a script to create a disposable virtual machine (using incus to manage it). And then I just run the CLI inside the
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by OriginalPenguin 9mo ago
Spaced repetition works well for motor learning. You just have to keep hitting “Again” until you are actually good at it.
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by OriginalPenguin 3y ago
What makes Zoom better than teams?
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by OriginalPenguin 3y ago
Git? Syncthing?
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by OriginalPenguin 3y ago
People run marathons without shoes, so I don’t think grip would be an issue.
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
Can you go into some detail about how you meditate to reduce anxiety?
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
Nice. Can you talk a little bit about what this is written in and how the development process went?
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
He was part of the Silicon Valley Linux User Group in the late nineties.
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
Yes. But that's also true of laptops, tablets, cell phones and lots of other items in our houses.
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
For a while Amazon loved selling the smaller units for a little as a dollar (and often including several months of Amazon music for free or almost free as well). Sell enough of these 30 dollar gadgets for a dollar and it will add up quickly
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
What did you write it in?
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
I've never seen a great projector that doesn't make a ton of white noise form the fan. Do "silent" projectors exist?
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
He paid $5 a season. Assuming he doesn't want to watch anything else on Netflix, it's better to just buy it outright.
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
The other way to think about it is that it's the same order as cp.
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
Also uwb for Air tags.
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
You should keep going with Brothers Karamazov. The first 150 pages are mind-numbingly boring. But starting at around page 151, it does indeed become one of the best, if not the absolute best book ever written.
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by OriginalPenguin 4y ago
According to both Merriam Webster and Oxford (not the OED, but the regular one) there are two definitions for retarded, both of which are offensive, and neither of which mean slow.
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by OriginalPenguin 5y ago
I've never had the TSA confiscate my bladeless Swiss Army Knife (it has scissors and a screwdriver). But I have had it confiscated abroad more than once. Many other countries won't allow scissors, or anything that looks like a kn
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by OriginalPenguin 5y ago
If you want to set it just for syncthing, just type this when you run it from the command line: GOMAXPROCS=2 syncthing
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
Other languages that are spoken in multiple countries might be technically standardized, like the RAE does with Spanish. But that doesn't mean people outside of Spain follow the standard. (And depending on class and what part of Spain
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
For EC2 instances and the like it will be almost all X86 for a long time. But much of the cloud is made up of services like S3, RDS, Redshift, Route 53, etc. ARM can be very competitive for many of these.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
Not exactly. They would always send a postcard or something similar beforehand allowing you to opt-out.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
Maybe because you outsource fulfillment to a legitimate company, and they will find it strange to send empty envelopes? So instead you give them seeds to ship which probably cost less than the envelope itself.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
It certainly makes the decision to continue paying for Prime easier. If it was just fast free shipping, I'd have to add up how much I was saving (or spending extra) every year. But throw in the next season of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
Is that a real issue? A sticker is enough to impact a wifi antenna enough that people would notice?
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
Why? It's certainly imaginable Obama's cell phone was targeted.
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by OriginalPenguin 6y ago
Unless Amazon decided that they want to give DropBox a huge discounted rate for the PR, it would simply cost too much to have stayed on the Amazon cloud.

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