dripton

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by dripton 8mo ago
I needed something like this for my basement home office. But I was lazy, so rather than actually building anything, I just bought some color-changing light bulbs ($7 on Amazon including remote) and installed them on the basement stairs.
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by dripton 9mo ago
This is wrong. Exact weights vary with trim levels, but Model are around 4000 lbs. and Suburbans are around 6000 lbs.
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by dripton 10mo ago
A great book, but I read it too late, after I had already learned pretty much everything it says the hard way. So it was one of those books I enjoyed because it reinforced what I already thought, but didn't really get much from. Wish
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by dripton 10mo ago
Minor spoilers. (I've ascended but that was a long time ago so some of my NetHack knowledge might be outdated.) You can mostly trust your pet. But you can't totally trust your pet, because there are some foods that are good for
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by dripton 10mo ago
Cool. I used an HP48SX in college, and when it finally died about 20 years later, bought 2 HP48Gs so I'd have a Lifetime Supply. (1 is on my desk, 1 is still in the box.) But I confess that hardly ever use my real HP48G anymore, bec
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by dripton 11mo ago
It varies a lot depending on how much you have enabled. The distro kernels that are designed to support as much hardware as possible take a long time to build. If you make a custom kernel where you winnow down the config to only support t
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by dripton 11mo ago
I'd like to see more effective anti-fingerprinting. I know it's just an arms race though.
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by dripton 11mo ago
The phone vendors should support not telling the websites you're on mobile. I know they can guess based on resolution and such, but there should be a setting to lie and simulate a desktop. You can't rely on every single website
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by dripton 11mo ago
Dumb TVs are still being made. I bought this Sharp commercial TV just last year: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCMXNRFH Of course they're not mass-market and will be lacking on some other bullet point features, but
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by dripton 1y ago
We do have unit prices, but sometimes they vary the unit from product to product within the same product category, making them useless for comparison. This one is by weight, this one is by volume, this one is by count. At that point you h
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by dripton 1y ago
Istanbul's not Constantinople.
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by dripton 1y ago
Yes, the term you're looking for is "reverse debugging". It exists, and it's better.
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by dripton 1y ago
Check out LibreWolf and see if its defaults come closer to what you want. For me, it's better. I still have to modify a few settings, but not nearly as many as with vanilla Firefox.
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by dripton 1y ago
Yes, many people make many claims. You should think about which ones to believe.
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by dripton 1y ago
Consumer Reports buys all the items they review, anonymously.
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by dripton 1y ago
I'm amused that the original ageist response ("old people suck") is left alone and the parody of the original ageist response ("young people suck") is downvoted. I would expect a bit better from HN readers, though
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by dripton 2y ago
Words great, until a page rejects email with a '+' in it.
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by dripton 2y ago
Sure they do. Agnes and Hugo both tracked quite a bit west, for example.
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by dripton 2y ago
I installed Linux on a new laptop yesterday, and couldn't get either NixOS or Debian to install until I turned off secure boot. So I guess these distros don't bother getting every release signed by Microsoft. At least it was easy
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by dripton 2y ago
A couple of examples would be reduction of some of the Reagan-era defense spending under the Clinton administration, and partial rollback of some of the Reagan-era tax cuts under the Clinton administration. Of course these were not complete
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by dripton 2y ago
I'm just the opposite. One of the worst things about vacations was having to carry along all those books or take a detour to a bookstore (if there were any) to buy more. Now I just carry a single small e-reader. It's a great sa
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by dripton 3y ago
Still waiting for 4:3 to come back, as vertical real estate is precious when you're coding. Not holding my breath though. The market has spoken, and the market appears to want screens optimized for watching videos rather than screens
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by dripton 3y ago
There are two clauses that ban export tariffs. One applies to states, the other to the Feds.
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by dripton 3y ago
Export tariffs are actually unconstitutional in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import-Export_Clause
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by dripton 3y ago
You can divide realtime applications into safety-critical and non-safety-critical ones. For safety-critical apps, you're totally right. For non-critical apps, if it's late and therefore buggy once in a while, that sucks but nobo
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by dripton 4y ago
Yes, every Berkshire annual report has a chart comparing Berkshire's stock performance to the S&P 500's performance, year by year. See the table near the start of https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2021ar/
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by dripton 4y ago
The title of the post is not the same as the title of the article, and it's wrong. The problem isn't that the plows aren't powerful enough; it's that they can only plow for four hours before running out of battery life,
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by dripton 4y ago
Yes. I originally bought this board with a 3800X and 64 GB of inexpensive non-ECC RAM. That configuration worked fine. I later upgraded to a 5950X CPU, when I needed more CPU power and cores for some software I was writing. After upgrad
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by dripton 4y ago
Some Ryzen boards support ECC RAM, though the support is somewhat unofficial. I'm using 64 GB of ECC on an ASRock X570 Pro4 and it works fine. It's not the cheapest motherboard or the cheapest memory, but I'd say prices for
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by dripton 4y ago
No, they have an arbitration clause, but you have the right to opt out.

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