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by bpoyner 2mo ago
Anyone else notice the time in the photo is set to 10:08:59, which is one second before Apple Watch marketing material using 10:09, which itself is 1 minute before the traditional 10:10 used by the watchmaking industry?
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by bpoyner 4mo ago
somebody in the comments mentioned this is a point where the AI glitched out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puRg-4ZvNYs&t=150
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by bpoyner 4mo ago
They'll also need it to track down terrorists. And who determines who is a terrorist? Why, the department of justice does.
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Pre-announcement of BIND 9 security issues scheduled for disclosure 20 May 2026(lists.isc.org)
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by bpoyner 4mo ago
He's describing my great grandmother's childhood in territorial Arizona, down to the riding a horse to a one-room school house. Her family were all tough ranchers living a lifestyle most of us can't really comprehend.
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by bpoyner 4mo ago
My mother and step-father were both state cops. They put in about 30 years each, but could have retired after 20 years in. They make more in retirement than my wife and I do. It pays quite well, but it comes with significant risks.
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by bpoyner 4mo ago
I imagine it would be a big lift. Asahi linux is managing through reverse engineering the hardware support, without any official documentation. Even with official documentation it would be a significant change from other aarch64 hardware.
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by bpoyner 5mo ago
That's _bananas_.
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by bpoyner 5mo ago
I taught myself to juggle in a weird way. I had 3 lightweight plastic cubes, laid down on the bed, and began tossing them directly over my head (my hands on either side of my head). I think it gave me a good sense of where each cube was at
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by bpoyner 6mo ago
Reminds me of stumbling across the Harvard Mark I, which is about 1-2 years older, while wandering through the Harvard Science Center (as one does). By far the oldest computer I've seen in person. Seems they moved it since then to the
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by bpoyner 7mo ago
This paper describes the front end of SETI@home and provides parameters for the primary data source, the Arecibo Observatory Most of this data was recorded commensally at the Arecibo observatory over a 22 yr period Interesting as Arecib
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by bpoyner 7mo ago
"We agreed on a 150-day disclosure window". Isn't that longer than Google Project Zero gives to release fixes?
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by bpoyner 8mo ago
I remember getting floppy disks in magazines, I've used cassette tapes with a Commodore 64, I also remember flexidiscs for music, but I've never heard of the flexidisc as a software medium. Where was this? I found a reference to a
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by bpoyner 8mo ago
Not directly related to this, but you can use systemd-creds to store secrets at rest. It can even work with a tpm2 chip or a key file to encrypt the secrets. And then use these tips for when you want to interactively reference those stored
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by bpoyner 9mo ago
No half life 3 released?
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by bpoyner 10mo ago
I agree that LVM in HP-UX was far ahead of Linux back in the day. To be fair some of those advanced features in HP-UX LVM required an additional license (eg: mirroring required Enterprise Operating Environment). I haven't touched HP-UX
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by bpoyner 10mo ago
Chuckling at the disclaimer 'No AI made by a human.' I doubt many web devs could tell you that because so many use AI now. I was speaking with a web dev this summer and he told me AI made him at least twice as productive. It'
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by bpoyner 1y ago
Sad you have to come to the bottom of the comment section to find any criticism of DHH. I wouldn't do business with the guy, nor use his OS.
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by bpoyner 1y ago
To drive home how luxurious this was, 1981 was the start of a recession that lead to 10% unemployment, the highest since the end of World War II, and here are people buying a TV that would be $35,000 in today's money.
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by bpoyner 1y ago
I hope everyone is reading through and noticing this is for F, M and J visas, which are all education related visas. Not that I love that either, but it doesn't apply to every visitor.
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by bpoyner 1y ago
Bolivia also has a reciprocity visa charge of $160 for US citizens. Many years ago we were very close to the Bolivian border but the visa cost for a day trip just didn't make it worth it.
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by bpoyner 1y ago
This is great and I believe it. But saying your game would be loaded "after a few minutes" might be true for a small game. I had the Commodore 1541 floppy drive while my friend had the Commodore Datasette. The speed difference bet
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by bpoyner 2y ago
That definitely brought back memories. Around '92, being a poor college student I took out a loan from my credit union for about $2,000 to buy a 486 DX2-50. For you younger people, that's about $4,000+ in today's money for a
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by bpoyner 2y ago
The have a XB-70 at the Wright-Patterson USAF Museum in Dayton. I was blown away looking at the engines. Highly recommended museum if you're into aviation, it's huge so give yourself plenty of time.
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by bpoyner 2y ago
Huh, interesting. They claim to have $11B of gold but at market rates it's closer to $450B.
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by bpoyner 2y ago
Along these lines, 'Mc' and 'Mac' mean 'son of' in Scottish and Irish surnames.
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by bpoyner 2y ago
You mean the social network that keeps showing my wife dick pics even though she turned off adult content? That social network? Pass.
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by bpoyner 2y ago
Unfortunately I'm pretty sure you're correct. This is just how things are now. You could probably break the antenna (whoopsie daisies).
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by bpoyner 2y ago
My 2024 Mazda CX-90 has a "Mazda Connected Services" feature which uses cellular networks and allows me to remotely control and locate the car. It's a subscription service that comes free for the first 3 years, after which I
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by bpoyner 2y ago
I bought my wife a Steam Deck and she loves it, her biggest complaint is that it's a bit too big for women's hands. She isn't highly technical but I haven't had to provide much in the way of assistance, it largely just w

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