c5karl

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Hot take on Google's Gemini 3(garymarcus.substack.com)
3 points by c5karl 10mo ago|0 comments
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Apple made a $230 crossbody sock(theverge.com)
2 points by c5karl 10mo ago|2 comments
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by c5karl 1y ago
It's not a good idea to call 911 with non-emergencies. But until a few decades ago, the primary way most of us to set our clocks was to call a number the phone company provided, which in our case was TI4-1212. "At the tone, the ti
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Tech billionaires' plan for a new California city may bypass voter approval(fastcompany.com)
2 points by c5karl 1y ago|0 comments
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Philips will let you fix your trimmer with 3D printable parts and accessories(theverge.com)
28 points by c5karl 1y ago|1 comments
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Alphabet CEO exploring private sales of self driving cars(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by c5karl 1y ago|0 comments
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Ethically sourced "spare" human bodies could revolutionize medicine(technologyreview.com)
1 points by c5karl 1y ago|0 comments
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by c5karl 2y ago
A lot of consumer products ship with half-baked software and/or firmware. I wish Polk would fix the bug(s) that cause my soundbar to freeze and need a reboot several times per week. But it's an old product that's not longer s
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Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg(techcrunch.com)
88 points by c5karl 2y ago|85 comments
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by c5karl 2y ago
Not just in cities. In the U.S. at least, a lot of people live in suburban townhouse complexes that have shared parking lots. It's going to take a lot of investment to make charging easy for everyone.
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US sues six of the biggest landlords over "algorithmic pricing schemes"(arstechnica.com)
48 points by c5karl 2y ago|7 comments
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"Do Not Track" removed from Firefox after 13 years(arstechnica.com)
4 points by c5karl 2y ago|2 comments
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Google fought back against a crippling IoT-powered botnet and won(arstechnica.com)
1 points by c5karl 2y ago|0 comments
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Topic Classification(developers.google.com)
1 points by c5karl 2y ago|0 comments
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by c5karl 2y ago
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3WU1izg
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Ziff Davis is buying CNET for just $100M(theverge.com)
14 points by c5karl 2y ago|14 comments
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The AI bubble has burst. Here's how we know.(mashable.com)
5 points by c5karl 2y ago|2 comments
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by c5karl 2y ago
The genesis of the Post's gigantic comics section (three full pages on weekdays, if I remember correctly) was that they picked up all of the comics that had been run by the Washington Star when the Star (along with all the other evenin
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OpenAI pleads it can't make money with o using copyrighted material for free(futurism.com)
18 points by c5karl 2y ago|22 comments
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by c5karl 2y ago
Anything is possible if you have a Standard Oil fortune and your collecting obsession starts early in life.
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by c5karl 2y ago
A lot of smaller cities (including the one I live in) are addressing this by designating "activity centers" where new, denser housing is incentivized and sought to be concentrated. Zoning is changed so that, as things like aging s
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by c5karl 2y ago
Fire safety, not the strength of wood framing, is what blocked this type of construction before. Effective sprinkler systems are what addressed that concern. There remains a concern about fire safety during construction, before the sprinkle
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by c5karl 2y ago
None of the flaws you cite is attributable to the stick-built construction. Dishonest and/or incompetent contractors can screw up a building made of any materials.
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by c5karl 2y ago
I'll respond to your anecdote with an anecdote of my own. I've been in a wood-framed apartment building for two years, and I never hear my neighbors. There are many ways to incorporate sound insulation in construction, and masonry
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Stop Using Brave Browser(spacebar.news)
7 points by c5karl 2y ago|1 comments
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What AI thinks a beautiful woman looks like(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by c5karl 2y ago|0 comments
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by c5karl 2y ago
I would think that any turntable that allows for adjustment of the speed of the motor would have this already (based on my limited experience with turntables from decades ago). So, nice little app, but if it shows you the error of a non-adj
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Microsoft is killing off an iconic programming tool – farewell to VBScript(techradar.com)
10 points by c5karl 2y ago|3 comments
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'My songs spread like herpes': why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?(theguardian.com)
12 points by c5karl 2y ago|0 comments
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On Self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers(arstechnica.com)
59 points by c5karl 2y ago|113 comments

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