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by cagey 3d ago
And I loved "Norton Commander" and to this day use GUI'fied (and TUI: Midnight Commander) incarnations of it.
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by cagey 14d ago
[Speaking as a US citizen] > ... BS like "high yield savings account" there is no such thing as long as I am alive ... HYSA are in 2026 readily available. > ... well "money market accounts" seem better and kind of
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by cagey 22d ago
I found this[0] to be an interesting perspective: "Bluesky Isn't a Bubble. It's a Containment Dome. Pray that Bluesky doesn't die entirely — we need it so the worst liberal posts are kept in a place where the broader pub
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by cagey 27d ago
That sounds eerily like my experience 8 months ago with 'Verizon 5g Home Internet'. Lied to by the used-car salesman: "we'll give you $100 in credits", and when I canceled (mostly due to customer service saying &qu
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Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in killing of UHC CEO(apnews.com)
7 points by cagey 1mo ago|0 comments
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by cagey 3mo ago
> 25 thousandths would be sloppy, a nominal clearance hole for a 1/4x20 bolt is about that much. Isn't that 0.250 which would be 250 thousandths?
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by cagey 3mo ago
As an example: Claude Desktop (containing Claude CoWork) is not officially available on Linux, only Windows and macOS.
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by cagey 3mo ago
Obligatory: Rush - The Trees (Live From The Montreal Forum / 1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H0lwRqNF5I
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by cagey 3mo ago
The last [US] BigCorp I worked for deployed (in Outlook) automatic deletion of all emails older than their Records Retention threshold. It was incredibly frustrating to have essentially all design/rationale history (from the key playe
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by cagey 3mo ago
My experience is the same. It was agonizing directing Claude Code (Opus 4.7 at that time) to create a (non-mathematical) preso using LaTex. After banging my head against that wall for too long, I asked why this process (placing entities o
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by cagey 4mo ago
Well that's not how I heard the fable, and not how the authoritative reference recalls it either[0]. If "every time the boy cried wolf, there actually was a wolf and it ate some people", then it would hardly be a fable about
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by cagey 4mo ago
You're right, I won't, and I'm probably not alone. So what's the endgame? A world government that enforces all of those "give-ups" at gunpoint?
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by cagey 6mo ago
> So we're re-creating the Apollo 8 Mission 60 years later. Not even: Apollo 8[0] went into orbit around the moon (orbited 10 times), then left lunar orbit to return to Earth. This required mission-critical rocket burns both to ent
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by cagey 8mo ago
me too; Inoreader was my first/only stop after Google Reader, and is one of the only paid subscriptions I maintain. Probably > 80% of my RSS feeds are Youtube channels.
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by cagey 8mo ago
Pop!OS (22.04) nearly 2 years ago, after having read generally favorable reviews on HN and getting a sense of "monernity/stability/mainstream'ness of Ubuntu without snap and with closer-to-leading-edge kernels" on a
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by cagey 10mo ago
Yes
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by cagey 1y ago
> There's only one way this country can be saved and, regardless of the process to get there, it would culminate in a new constitution. NYT op-ed from 8/14 agreeing: "Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the
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by cagey 1y ago
From a more informative article[1] linked from TFA: "The expiration of the enhanced [premium] tax credits is expected to cause ACA enrollees’ out-of-pocket premium payments to increase by over 75% on average, with people in some states
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by cagey 1y ago
Ditto. I installed CrunchBang++ Linux[1] on a couple of out-of-support 4GB-RAM Chromebooks about 6 months ago, and they (with Firefox (w/shared account) and uBlock Origin) basically continue to fill the Chromebook role (my morning bef
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by cagey 1y ago
> Technologically simple, was done well on MS-DOS in a few hundred kB of code and data. Exactly. The outliner feature in Borland's Sidekick Plus was my all-time favorite, but its lifetime was brief (due to the entire product being a
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Smoking weed and consuming THC-laced edibles linked to early heart disease study(cnn.com)
4 points by cagey 1y ago|0 comments
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by cagey 1y ago
Ebooks and Internet sources of all forms of media have rendered public libraries moot as book providers: every person alive (in the US) has a cell phone, and most have laptops, and can with a modicum of bootstrapping access these sources, w
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by cagey 2y ago
Interesting and useful information. We've been on an Ambetter ACA plan for the past 1.5 years and have generally been pleased; this info suggests why, and informs our decision to continue with them in 2025 despite receiving random pos
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Study: ED meds associated with reductions in deaths, CV disease, dementia(utmb.edu)
1 points by cagey 2y ago|1 comments
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by cagey 2y ago
Among over 1 million men aged 40 or older diagnosed with lower urinary tract symptoms, those treated with tadalafil showed marked reductions in mortality (56%), heart attack (37%), stroke (35%), venous thromboembolism (32%), and dementia (5
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by cagey 2y ago
One feature I found rather unique at Fidelity (I too have recently migrated there as my "one stop shop") was free outgoing domestic wires ($100 minimum). Being able to "teleport" money within an hour to another pre-regi
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by cagey 2y ago
I'm a happy (albeit) infrequent user of https://mataroa.blog/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30896661
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by cagey 2y ago
A few decades ago I refactored a different way: // this may be a mistake! English language is unorthogonal in the extreme! const char * Add_es( int count ) { return 1 == count ? "" : "es"; } const
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by cagey 2y ago
My favorite source for current MVNO options: https://prepaidcompare.net/ My household of 4 adults independently chooses Visible (cheapest tier, $25/mon which offers unlimited data (and and unlimited hotspot, though cap
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by cagey 2y ago
> The tracks discussed in the article are BNSF. No. The unique trackage to be used between SFBA and LA is the "Coast Line" which is owned by Union Pacific. FTA: "Dreamstar signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with U

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