cacarr

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by cacarr 1y ago
People just need to quit using the term "PC" to refer to desktop or laptop hardware that happens to be running Windows. Laptops running MacOS are "personal computers," as are desktops running Linux, or effing phones run
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by cacarr 1y ago
They mean the web app.
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by cacarr 1y ago
At least in the major Indo-European languages, I think Gemini 2.5 Pro is _much_ better at translation than Google Translate.
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by cacarr 5y ago
That's certainly true of Duo in experience.
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by cacarr 5y ago
One can understand scepticism, but Duo isn't going anywhere. If you need a FaceTime replacement, just use Duo and put all the rest of that mess out of your mind.
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by cacarr 5y ago
Duo is solid, extremely simple, and not going anywhere. But, yeah, it's been a mess.
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by cacarr 5y ago
Duo is pretty easy for the old folks on i-devices, in my experience. It's pretty much Google's FaceTime, and isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I think it's actually a bit nicer than FaceTime.
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by cacarr 5y ago
There is quite a lot of regional variation in the States. I imagine Germans would prefer New Yorkers to West Coast Americans. Multiple times, while on a train coming into the city from Portland, OR's airport, I've observed Portlan
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by cacarr 5y ago
Many years ago I lived in a sort of dormitory in Tokyo. The Americans and Japanese residents understood each other's personal space preferences just fine, but it was amusing to note the look on some of the Japanese people's faces
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by cacarr 5y ago
The Japanese say something like "nice weather, eh?" (ii otenki desu ne? - to which one replies "sure is! - "so desu ne!") -- which is mostly just a semantically little-analyzed pragmatic sequence functioning as a c
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by cacarr 5y ago
"In the animal world bare teeth are considered to be a threat. Hence I think there is some instinctive fear of bare teeth built into our social perception system." Except a human smile is more akin to a canine's greeting&#x2F
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by cacarr 5y ago
There are many cities in the USA, outside of the Bay Area, in which $132k would be a reasonable salary for that job. Just west of the Mississippi: Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, possibly even Salt Lake City, Phoenix, pro
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by cacarr 5y ago
> 11K per month could pay for many developers if you hire people outside of Sillicon Valley ... There are many cities in the USA where $11k/month is not at all outrageous: Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, DC, NYC, et
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by cacarr 5y ago
> If we can’t get an agenda accomplished then perhaps it’s too overarching to be agreeable to or considered fundamental by most of Americans. Republican Senators don't seem to care if an agenda is supported by a majority of register
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by cacarr 5y ago
I think people conflate a high degree of modern GUI proficiency with general technical literacy. I'm not sure kids who grew up with an iPad appliance are really more generally technically literate on average than GenXers who entertaine
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by cacarr 5y ago
Not that many people who use Linux are clamoring for it, but it's interesting that GitHub does not provide an official desktop app for Linux -- even though it's a frickin Electron all. And that's totally GitHub's doing.
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by cacarr 6y ago
People from the USA often use "the Americas" in place of the sense of "America" that refers to both North America and South America.
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by cacarr 6y ago
There are multiple, separate issues in the question. As a matter of actual geological fact, North America and South America are separate continents (they have their own cratonic cores). Geographically they are considered distinct in the USA
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by cacarr 6y ago
An Anatolian livestock guardian dog is a vastly superior natural guard dog, compared to a GSD. They can not be bribed with food, and they spend every second of their waking day looking for intruders to destroy. Very gentle with children and
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by cacarr 6y ago
> (UK based) Often what's "country" in the UK (outside of Scotland) would be considered exurban in the USA. You might possibly feel different about security at a truly remote home in N America.
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by cacarr 6y ago
Take a bunch of useful services away from poor people. No Gmail for you, poor person! Nice.
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by cacarr 6y ago
Not being able to sideload apps really is feckin' idiotic, though. One ought to be able to install whatever they please on a handset they've purchased -- especially when they've spent that much. Just bury a toggle deep in s
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by cacarr 6y ago
If memory serves, the radiation environment of the Martian surface is not too much worse than LEO. If so, radiation would probably not be that much an issue.
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by cacarr 6y ago
IIRC, surface temps on Venus are hot enough to melt lead, but not hot enough to melt whatever sort of alloys were likely used. It does have ongoing volcanism, though.
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by cacarr 6y ago
The dump doesn't seem to have happened yet, though. DOGE has stabilized at about $.07, down from ~$.08.
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by cacarr 6y ago
Also, RH's initial communication about the matter was full of considerable shit -- moreso than other brokerages.
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by cacarr 6y ago
They can't have a democratizing investment brand, and then intervene in a way that wildly (and predictably) favors the fat-cats. Whatever changes they make, those changes need to enable them to not intervene in that manner ever again
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by cacarr 6y ago
Now Robinhood has stopped allowing purchases of those securities. While I suppose Robinhood would like to have good relations with hedge funds leading up to an IPO, they just pissed off a significant fraction of their actual customers -- an
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by cacarr 6y ago
"See the 'Bernie Bros' who flipped into full Trumpists ..." There really aren't very many of those people.
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by cacarr 6y ago
I still feel like I've been kicked in the groin every time I open Gmail and it isn't Inbox. Bastards! I suppose I'm probably a fool to continue expecting that they'll eventually get around to bringing Inbox's bundle

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