devilbunny

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by devilbunny 4d ago
I've seen an interesting corollary: 4G on an airplane at the gate is much faster than the 5G microcells inside the terminal. If I'm downloading podcasts for a flight, I do it on WiFi beforehand or on 4G on the plane. 5G in the t
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by devilbunny 4d ago
Clickbait headlines have a long history. Go look up old newspapermen’s reminiscences about them. The most famous are classics like “HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR” (1983) from the NY Post or “STICKS NIX HICK PIX” (1935) from Variety.
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by devilbunny 9d ago
Yes, they advertise. And they discard things that will not sell. That is what businesses do. Most of them try to sell it for a lower price first.
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by devilbunny 9d ago
Big, successful grocery stores operate on a 3% margin. It’s mostly a commodities business. Doing all that alone could entirely wipe their profit.
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by devilbunny 11d ago
Sure. Go ahead. See where it gets you. Hard resets involve guillotines.
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by devilbunny 11d ago
Ah yea, the famously successful political approach of “discard half the people, they don’t matter, then throw away half of the ones left over”. Works very well.
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by devilbunny 11d ago
And the marvelous book Code . He explains how a digital computer works. Not sophisticated ones, not how it works on silicon, but how you turn relays into computation.
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by devilbunny 13d ago
His freeform, not-too-serious libertarianism can easily be mocked, but PJ O’Rourke did have a very good point about well-intentioned but counterproductive environmental legislation like the laws governing wetlands: imagine that, should an O
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by devilbunny 15d ago
The only realistic way to get someone back from ventricular fibrillation is cardioversion. That's why automatic external defibrillators are in so many public spaces these days. If someone drops in your presence, you find that thing and
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by devilbunny 18d ago
My in-laws had a Chihuahua as the alert dog and a Doberman as the guard dog. Yip yip yip WOOF WOOF WOOF. Took the Dobie on a lot of walks in natural areas where sketchy people were around. Funny enough, nobody tries anything when you have a
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by devilbunny 18d ago
As a natural night owl who works at a job that starts at 6:30, I wish I could still całl 8 “early”.
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by devilbunny 21d ago
Fwiw venison leans heavily on ground because it’s so lean that it’s nearly impossible to cook it to be tender and cooked; even sous vide methods require lower temps. Grinding it with cheap pork fat allows it not to be basically jerky.
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by devilbunny 22d ago
It’s been around for quite some time. I assumed it would be known around here. The lowest level is 100 Mbps and I keep telling people on Reddit that 100 Mbps is plenty for so many use cases. I wouldn’t install it on a new plant, but if it’s
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by devilbunny 22d ago
They are humans and American citizens. They deserve our compassion. They just don’t deserve to destroy our public places.
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by devilbunny 22d ago
Win95 OSR2 and Windows 98 Second Edition were actually pretty reliable, unlike early 95, but the first person I knew to own a CD burner called NT his 100-megabyte CD burning software, because 95 and 98 just weren't stable enough (and b
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by devilbunny 22d ago
Yeah, except that because the Warren Court was so incredibly arrogant, it's almost impossible to institutionalize anyone against their will in the US unless you go through all the process of setting up guardianship.
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by devilbunny 22d ago
Right, so, what do you do about the guy who smears feces on the walls and won't take his meds? Because that guy is the one who makes public spaces unlivable. Including places like SRO hotels that actually could provide people with affo
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by devilbunny 22d ago
Whatever other issues they may have, they are overwhelmingly mentally ill, largely schizophrenic, and the surrender in the US happened just outside your fifty-year window when the Supreme Court decided that it should be much harder to insti
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by devilbunny 23d ago
The problem with Libby is finding a local library that has a good selection. Mine does not, and my state does not have the feature of being able to get a library card from any library in the state. I would have to buy a membership to a non-
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by devilbunny 24d ago
As is MoCA, which in my experience is a lot higher-speed and more reliably so. People tend to want speed, speed, speed, but tons of use cases are totally fine with a reliable 100 Mbps. For a lot of remote monitoring stuff, even 1 kbps is en
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by devilbunny 24d ago
Cordless phones have mostly disappeared but the Panasonic Link2Cell models - where the base station acts as a Bluetooth headset for up to two mobile phones - are still around and are absolutely marvelous for older adults. They can plug thei
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by devilbunny 24d ago
I am part of three businesses - a partner in two, sole owner of a third. One of those is a real, functional business that has contact details. The other two are just LLCs that exist to be a single point of contact for payments for contract
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by devilbunny 25d ago
If Siam realized that there was value in being a buffer, rather than a warzone, and made the changes necessary to become that buffer so that accepting it as such was better for the colonial powers than trying to take it, that’s not taking a
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by devilbunny 27d ago
Cool technique but… a beagle? Odd choice to me. I can’t get too bothered by the “whataboutthe shelter and rescue?” song and dance. This is experimental, even when it’s not it won’t be cheap, and it’s not like this is a huge market. Shelter
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by devilbunny 27d ago
Yeah, but social media won’t be the only companies that notice. If Australia’s government will do it to them to prop up their local dying industry, they will do it to you, too. If the EU or US tries that, well, those are huge markets and ma
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by devilbunny 27d ago
I was really responding to the article’s odd claim of 18 C being the perfect sleeping temp, and your comment was so extreme in the make-it-cold direction that it seemed to be a good spot to reply. If we’re talking about “optimum” sleep tem
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by devilbunny 27d ago
> 10% of its global revenue Yeah, there’s no chance that the response to such a law would be for them to immediately shut down all Australian operations, block all connections from Australia, immediately lay off every Australian citizen
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by devilbunny 28d ago
If you are wearing clothing or any covering, clearly it isn’t your optimal temperature. I’m not trying to be glib here; I understand the appeal of being warm in a cool or even chilly room with air that keeps you from overheating. But that
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by devilbunny 1mo ago
That was (is?) how it was in dry counties in TX. Join the club for $1, you can get drinks. Membership valid for a year.
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by devilbunny 1mo ago
… in Massachusetts. New England Republicans are not the bulk of the party, and that’s not all bad - remember, the phrase was “banned in Boston”, not “banned in Bakersfield”. Bill Clinton was a once-a-century skilled politician, but if you t

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