fainpul

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by fainpul 3d ago
About that artist's impression with the blue spiral: wouldn't any planet or other object do one of these things: - approach and hit directly, without spiraling - approach, make a close fly-by and fly off into deep space again - be
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by fainpul 15d ago
"delightful"
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by fainpul 5mo ago
The user wants to "disable data collection ". The manufacturer offers only a kill switch for all connectivity , with all the unwanted effects (which they helpfully list). I've seen this pattern before. It's a lame cop-
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by fainpul 5mo ago
The birth rate in Switzerland (just as in many highly developed countries) is already way below 2.1 children per woman, which would be required to sustain the population. Any population growth comes from immigrants. Xenophobic people are sc
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by fainpul 5mo ago
YES! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fm567YGy5c
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by fainpul 5mo ago
Because you can conceiled carry a smartphone? Please explain.
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by fainpul 5mo ago
Even after Google puts this crap in place, you can still uplodad your own apps to your own Android devices, using ADB. Doing the same for iOS, using Xcode, costs you USD 100 or more (depending on country) per year . I'm in no way defe
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by fainpul 5mo ago
My personal perspective: 2 out of 3 MacBook Pro, I worked with, had expanding batteries after about 5 years. Replacement was a big hassle and the new no-name batteries are nowhere near as good as the original ones. I sure wish it was as eas
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by fainpul 5mo ago
> We have people who can still do maths well after the introduction of the calculator. I assume by "do maths" you mean doing simple calculations, like adding a bunch of small numbers, in one's head. That's because in
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by fainpul 5mo ago
It created some "unconventional" routing :) The PCB also could be much smaller and the price seems a bit steep, when the IC itself costs only about $3: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/nxp-
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by fainpul 5mo ago
My observation is that there's a certain group of programmers who "don't get graphical CAD" (their words) and prefer code based CAD. Now with LLMs, many of them like to spin up their own solution of "text to CAD&q
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by fainpul 5mo ago
Similar to mdview.io (markdown only, not offline) and a suggestion I made a while back: https://tinyurl.com/mrpas5dc
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by fainpul 5mo ago
It doesn't feel like more ideas are explored, it feels like more variants of the same old things are produced. Ideas have always been hard and AI doesn't help with that.
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by fainpul 5mo ago
Have you actually done it? Mine were 15" MacBooks, not 13" like in the video – maybe that makes a difference. It took me about 20 minutes. In the video the outer two battery packs just pop up without much resistance – that is not
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by fainpul 5mo ago
MacBooks are not easy at all. I did it twice and it's an annoying, dangerous mess (danger of tearing the battery open). Apple won't even bother with it. If you want an "official job", they will just replace the whole top
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by fainpul 5mo ago
You're wrong about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835530
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by fainpul 5mo ago
> without requiring […] thermal energy, or solvents to disassemble the product. No heat or solvents required. Sounds good.
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by fainpul 5mo ago
212 cycles, still 100% capacity (maybe 99.5 rounded up) "relative to when it was new". Doesn't that seem a bit dodgy to you?
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by fainpul 5mo ago
Of course it doesn't help if a beginner doesn't understand why their curl command fails. I wrote this half in jest, because everytime PowerShell comes up, people like to Bash it for its stupid aliases on Windows. Yes these aliases
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by fainpul 5mo ago
If you're on Windows, run this once: 'Remove-Alias curl, wget' >> $PROFILE Now please stop whining about these stupid aliases.
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by fainpul 5mo ago
What the fuck is this? What even is a can holder for?
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by fainpul 5mo ago
True, the logarithmic scale lends itself to programmatic creation. I just wanted to show that the wrapping part is easy. Actually much easier – that code looks non-trivial.
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by fainpul 5mo ago
> wouldn't generally be easy to do with Fusion 360 Actually... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNiQJyRTs50 You would create the numbers and marks in a vector drawing program (Inkscape, Affinity Studio, Illustrator)
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by fainpul 5mo ago
I understand the concerns, but some things just make life much harder. I would definitely want to spare my child from living with autism, ADHD and certainly Down syndrome, given the choice. It's not like we're talking about choosi
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by fainpul 5mo ago
> AEPD […] known to be brutal. Nice. I wish more countries had something like that. Many of these organizations are lethargic and have to be forced into action by civilian efforts or the press.
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by fainpul 5mo ago
> This article’s framing and title are odd. It's called clickbait.
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by fainpul 5mo ago
"Swift uses Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) to track and manage your app’s memory usage." https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...
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by fainpul 5mo ago
If it's an "array of strings AND numbers", then it should not be allowed to call the function with a string[], because those are different types.
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by fainpul 5mo ago
> What's the Windows equivalent of dpkg (from 1993) and ssh (from 1995)? PowerShell PackageManagement [1] and Remoting [2] [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof... [2] http
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by fainpul 5mo ago
Try https://cheat.sh/

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