RattlesnakeJake

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by RattlesnakeJake 4d ago
Yep, upstream and downstream O2 sensors. The '96 I drove in college developed cracks around both. My cheapie self just patched them with JB Weld
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by RattlesnakeJake 5d ago
Now Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare do it
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by RattlesnakeJake 6d ago
I'm still not over the fact that the spectrum for both the Treo and the Pre was shut down before I got a chance to carry them. My teenage nerd self dreamed of carrying a network-equipped Palm device when I grew up. (Yes, what came afte
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by RattlesnakeJake 6d ago
Especially when combined with competitors' bad decisions. A lot of the stuff Microsoft pulled with Windows 10 and 11 made the Mac platform look attractive.
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by RattlesnakeJake 7d ago
We'll find out when the hands-on reviews start coming in. Right now, we're seeing Apple's carefully-curated press photos & renderings
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by RattlesnakeJake 9d ago
At least you can replace it if that becomes a problem. Firmware built into the TV itself is something that you're stuck with.
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by RattlesnakeJake 9d ago
We've had those in the US for several years now, and they work really well. I did encounter an upside-down one yesterday. That was... counterproductive.
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by RattlesnakeJake 11d ago
It would have been cool if the article included a photo of the new map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Earth_projection
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by RattlesnakeJake 12d ago
I feel like that term could also be used to describe Wes Anderson's filming style. The static shots and dead-centered framing are as much of a deadpan comedic character as anything happening in the scene.
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by RattlesnakeJake 14d ago
Frustratingly, I haven't even had that in-store experience for a while now. You do the same app-based ordering process, but on a big tablet. If there's an issue with your order, it can take several minutes to get near enough to an
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by RattlesnakeJake 14d ago
Gotta' love it when a possible answer to an LLM-related question is "Death."
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by RattlesnakeJake 14d ago
Yet they continue to be manufactured.
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by RattlesnakeJake 14d ago
If I bought one cotton bag and used it for my whole life, the argument would seem silly. In reality, a household can easily gain 5-10 new tote bags a year as businesses hand them out as swag or with legitimate collections of items or paperw
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by RattlesnakeJake 14d ago
That's a fair distinction. I suspect it would mostly mimic the way things played out with Android & ChromeOS. A corporation made the most polished and usable Linux distros ever, and it split down the exact lines you mentioned: - Th
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It turns out that Orion's much-maligned heat shield performed well(arstechnica.com)
18 points by RattlesnakeJake 14d ago|1 comments
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by RattlesnakeJake 15d ago
Working fine from Firefox on Android over PureTalk (small MVNO using AT&T's spectrum).
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by RattlesnakeJake 15d ago
If Microsoft stepped any further into the Linux world, the OSS community would run far away. There's already a precedent for massive backlash whenever Canonical or Red Hat build something proprietary or upstream a change that favors th
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by RattlesnakeJake 15d ago
You guessed it: It's another incomplete clone of the Tiger-era macOS user interface. I miss that generation of user interfaces too. But it's nearly a trope that every desktop environment project claiming to be "elegant"
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by RattlesnakeJake 18d ago
Never! * walks away backwards, sipping from my $12 Stanley knockoff the whole time*
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by RattlesnakeJake 19d ago
I've spent years chuckling over the description of William Taft as "America's greatest President by volume."
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by RattlesnakeJake 20d ago
Are there any faith traditions that *won't" immediately denounce this sort of thing the moment it arises? If religion is a search for truth about the world/cosmos, then integrating a hallucinating LLM is working against it.
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by RattlesnakeJake 21d ago
He was easily my favorite part of that movie. The scene where he preaches his way out of getting The Black Spot lives rent-free in my head: https://clip.cafe/muppet-treasure-island-1996/but-its-not-hi... (aside: Someon
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by RattlesnakeJake 26d ago
I'll take "Yes/No/Cancel" over the "Discover Windows 11/Remind Me Later" pairing that pops up on my arbitrarily non-upgradable PCs every month or so.
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by RattlesnakeJake 26d ago
I always assume it's more for the challenge and accomplishment than anything practical. The results are always neat, but rarely anything you'd actually use for general-purpose computing.
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by RattlesnakeJake 26d ago
I still miss the UI on my old Kindle Keyboard, which only showed the book list without an attempt at curation/upselling. I can simulate it by staying on the "Library" tab, but it tends to forget halfway frequently.
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by RattlesnakeJake 28d ago
Plot twist, they just bolted one of these onto the back of the cubesat: https://www.goldrecordart.com/product/sku/PFplat1
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by RattlesnakeJake 1mo ago
I can't even describe how many spots this hit for me.
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Axiotron Modbook(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by RattlesnakeJake 1mo ago|0 comments
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by RattlesnakeJake 1mo ago
...and that just triggered a memory of the ModBook, a pre-iPad aftermarket conversion service that turned white MacBooks into large tablets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modbook
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by RattlesnakeJake 1mo ago
> Apple is now due to release Macs with proper touch on them. I'll believe this one when I see it. "The Year of the Touchscreen Mac" has been confidently predicted for almost as long as "The Year of the Linux Desktop.

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