abrowne

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by abrowne 13d ago
The Basques were whalers. They started from the coast, using watch towers. Once the Bay of Biscay was depleted they moved further and further into the Atlantic. Whale meat was mediocre and didn't preserve well, and while whale bone (ba
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by abrowne 14d ago
Do you want to use RCS?
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by abrowne 20d ago
Wildfire smoke will be the big question there. It's started to be bad for a week or two a year in Minneapolis, and is only worse the closer you are to the boreal forest.
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by abrowne 28d ago
Next gen of the Razr Ultra at least, according to another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363702
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by abrowne 1mo ago
And related to what happened in Ceuta recently. "The Moroccans orchestrated a similar cross-border influx in 2021 in retaliation for Spain’s allowing Western Sahara President Brahim Ghali, whose nation Morocco claims for itself, into t
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by abrowne 1mo ago
Agreed. If they really want to get ahold of me they'll leave a voicemail. But I feel like I have to answer when my son is at school/camp.
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by abrowne 2mo ago
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” — Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises , https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-hemingway/the-sun-a...
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by abrowne 2mo ago
I prefer the Firefox PDF viewer personally, and now that it can do all this I uninstalled the default Ubuntu PDF reader recently. It made me think and I uninstalled the image viewer app too. For both I'd rather use Firefox.
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by abrowne 2mo ago
Was your bookshelf stained from sliding them out? Ours was all red on the bottom edge.
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by abrowne 3mo ago
All good deadpan deserves a downvote?
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by abrowne 3mo ago
I think that's true, but energy efficiency is only one potential benefit of epaper displays, and not one that is a goal with this product.
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by abrowne 3mo ago
> Touchscreens on your wrist suck so bad. I don't mind myself, and especially in winter with mittens on I can – and often do – use my nose :-D
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by abrowne 3mo ago
Bangle.js 2 ( https://banglejs.com/ ) also has a transflective LCD. It's very fun product with a great community. Bangle.js 3 is being discussed: https://github.com/orgs/espruino/discussions&#x2
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by abrowne 3mo ago
Or they meant 2010s?
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by abrowne 3mo ago
Bankman won't be Fried
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by abrowne 3mo ago
Source article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187998172...
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by abrowne 4mo ago
I agree with your comment generally, but note that Dell's $699 competitor they announced this week has has a slightly larger screen than the Neo with similar resolution and brightness but better color coverage.
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by abrowne 4mo ago
I can't imagine browsing the web without user stylesheets. (I guess I can, but I don't want to.)
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by abrowne 4mo ago
Any site I visit regularly gets a user stylesheet via Stylus that I use to hide anything like this.
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by abrowne 4mo ago
I know that if you want `fd` ( https://github.com/sharkdp/fd ) you need to `apt install fd-find` and which installs the binary `fdfind` (!).
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by abrowne 4mo ago
Hearing this in the news reminded me of William Langewiesche's great piece in vanity fair about the cause: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...
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by abrowne 4mo ago
Sustainable means those sources of income will continue, not that they are positive for users.
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by abrowne 4mo ago
There's plenty of legal gambling in Minnesota. To quote the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library it includes "horse racing, a card club at Canterbury Park, Indian tribal casinos, charitable gambling, and a state lottery."
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by abrowne 4mo ago
14-month old article headline, but hasn't aged a bit: American Foreign Policy Is Being Run by the Dumbest Motherfuckers Alive (Daniel W. Drezner https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/american-foreign-policy... )
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by abrowne 4mo ago
Contrary anecdote: I've installed and used Linux, mainly Ubuntu desktop (GNOME) on a dozen or so computers in the last ten years, including several older MacBooks, a Surface Go for my son and an HP I special ordered without Windows. I
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by abrowne 4mo ago
Ditto. The only thing I can remember of is Apple Maps. They used to allow only Windows or something? But they relented eventually.
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by abrowne 4mo ago
If a {Dell, HP, Lenovo} firmware update fails leaving the computer bricked, can you use another {Dell, HP, Lenovo} to restore the firmware? (Honest question: I'm a longtime Mac user, I use Macs at work and I can tell you the correct DF
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by abrowne 4mo ago
Cancelled presumably because instead they will move new Chromebooks to this Android OS.
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by abrowne 4mo ago
I don't think these are Chromebook successors. This is supposed to be a premium line according to the "Android Show" video. But I suspect future Chromebooks will use this OS eventually.
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by abrowne 4mo ago
Google isn't making these (or having them – the devices themselves – made under a Google brand). Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo are making them.

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