blacksmith_tb

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by blacksmith_tb 7d ago
I have had zero luck trying to get gMaps updated to remove an imaginary address they added for my garage. I might as well just put up extra address numbers and another mailbox.
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by blacksmith_tb 7d ago
I gather that for many people, their smartphone is their only computing device. Doesn't have much appeal for me, but if that was the case, I could see that nudging people towards bigger devices, even if it makes them less practical as
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by blacksmith_tb 13d ago
It's easy to see how it could simplify typesetting, I would think computers though have that mostly covered now. Making Arabic easier to read is interesting, it would help new learners potentially, but I am not surprised that existing
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by blacksmith_tb 16d ago
Or oleander [1], which people occasionally poison themselves with by burning its wood. 1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbio...
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by blacksmith_tb 22d ago
Now DO has to plow those loss-leading Marketing dollars into paying for memory I expect...
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by blacksmith_tb 23d ago
Except that the study is from France?
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by blacksmith_tb 23d ago
I have a fair number of badly designed / implemented usb-c devices with this problem (not all from fly-by-night companies, my Philips water flosser is a glaring example). I have a couple of small metal-enclosed male C to female C adapt
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by blacksmith_tb 1mo ago
It also charges like any other EV, leve1 1 or 2 at home, and they say they intended to support faster DC charging in their FAQ[1]. I would be fairly skeptical of the 46mi / 74km a day from the built-in solar, that sounds optimistic giv
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by blacksmith_tb 1mo ago
The cynic in me says that the visible presence of people dying on the street is very much intended to send a message, "work hard or this will be your fate".
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
Not to pull on the tinfoil hat, but I would assume most commercially available home cleaning robots will be covered with cameras, mics, and other sensors, and connected to their manufacturer's cloud... I don't pay for housecleanin
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
Which of course means they should use heat pumps, since the copper lines don't need nearly as much room (I suppose you'd still have to put a drywall wall in front of one brick wall potentially). Even just putting a bunch of mini-s
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An AL mother killed herself to fulfill a ChatGPT prophecy, lawsuit alleges(sfgate.com)
8 points by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago|2 comments
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
When AI sycophancy kills - "We ride not into darkness – but into the brilliant unknown."
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
But the sense that it had "almost everything" was more a halo effect of the old dvd-by-mail business, I'd say? I do agree with the general idea that streaming is less satisfying than ever, I probably get more mileage out of m
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
NASA uses knots instead of cable ties, for example on the Mars rovers [1] so they remain with us (I use a half dozen regularly myself) 1: https://www.planetary.org/articles/20120905-knots-on-mars
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
Give it a generation, and readers will ask "what was a TV?" and/or "what is a channel?" For us though, it's an evocative phrase - right place, right time.
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
That background is useful, though it seems more like "how" than "why" - my instinct is James C. Scott-style rebellious hinterlands[1] but I haven't gotten a sense if the bandits are the product of social dislocation
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
Ah, sorry to have imputed sarcasm then - and I agree that helping hundreds of monster-truck owners to roll coal is more serious and polluting than the individual yahoos doing it, so more deserving of doing time (eventually, maybe).
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
Sarcasm, presumably, but unless they're caught rolling coal[1] again, they can't be re-arrested as they've been pardoned for the previous cases. It's a tacky crime, hardly the most serious, but that makes a presidential
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by blacksmith_tb 2mo ago
Sagittarius A* is "merely" 26 thousand light years away (but we probably won't be imaging it, since there's a lot more in the way)
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
Africa isn't a country? There are 54 countries in Africa, and it has almost twice the area of all of North America, not just the USA [1] 1: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/continent-size-comparison/no...
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
The idea would be more like the car, not the human behind the wheel, would realize that if it right-hooked me that would be bad (read insurance-increasing, citeable offense, etc.) and wait, where the driver would just keep flipping through
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
As someone who commutes in traffic daily, this is not what I need or want. First up, it looks heavy and badly-ventilated, and then there's the potential for distracting info blocking my view of the actual road in front of me. Even if i
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
I have never heard that suggestion... if you can document it, the wiki entry would need an update[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring#History
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
Hmm, I wonder if a simpler room-temp alternative would be to fill a low-infill print with 2-part resin. In a way that would be a bit like casting, except you wouldn't ever remove "the mold".
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
I'm hoping we'll see most e-bikes at least use 240W usb-c pd charging (I figure I have about a decade until I will wish I had some assist and buy one, so probably by then, they'll have gotten there...) I also have assorted pr
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by blacksmith_tb 3mo ago
My personal fave RPi, the Zero W, is still $15 from Adafruit.
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by blacksmith_tb 4mo ago
I bike commute with an old Hero 8 on my handlebars, and I never bother controlling or setting it up or anything: just power on, press record (which dismisses the nag dialog to connect it to your phone). That does mean the timestamps are alw
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by blacksmith_tb 4mo ago
Not the OP, but I think the implication is you can't run a consumer economy if the consumers aren't making any wages to buy the products and services those cheap and efficient robots are churning out. Or pay taxes. So the entire s
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by blacksmith_tb 4mo ago
Maybe it would explain itself better if that said "specifically designed for writing fiction"? (lots of other sorts of writing don't have characters, for example...)

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