hobobaggins

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by hobobaggins 6mo ago
It's always good to not slack when compiling.
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by hobobaggins 6mo ago
Best Buy is actually one of the worst and slowest websites from any large retailer. I cannot believe how bad it is. It's like they set out to make it pretty and accidentally stepped in molasses.
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by hobobaggins 8mo ago
Yep. Gaikai.
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by hobobaggins 8mo ago
Canonical. at least they used to, although not a fan of the recent (last ten years) Canonical.
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by hobobaggins 9mo ago
Saber rattling and nuclear threats always benefits someone.. who?
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by hobobaggins 9mo ago
Phoronix is blogspam?!
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by hobobaggins 9mo ago
The thing that prevents a TV mfg from bricking your device is that they'd be instantly (and successfully) sued. In fact, there have already been many such class actions, ie with printer inks. The downside is that it's sometimes
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by hobobaggins 10mo ago
They didn't just outperform "normal" congress critters.. they also outperformed nearly every hedge fund on the planet. But they (meaning, of course, just one person and their spouse) are obviously geniuses.
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by hobobaggins 10mo ago
you mean... like Linux? or gcc?
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by hobobaggins 11mo ago
There are a lot of smart TV's (name-brand ones!) that will try to connect to any open wifi. Monetizing from analytics and telemetry are literally priced into the cost of the gadget. A lot of smart TV's will even ship with their ca
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by hobobaggins 11mo ago
> Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. ... followed by lots more words that don't support this premise.
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by hobobaggins 11mo ago
You can always move somewhere else. It's a big country with different state laws for every type of preference.
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by hobobaggins 11mo ago
.. and why it's even a problem.
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by hobobaggins 11mo ago
If that's what you want, then just hold. The beauty of capitalism is that nobody's forcing you to buy or sell. Be a Warren Buffet and buy for keeps, and obviously you can do very well for yourself if you choose wisely.
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by hobobaggins 1y ago
Too bad Userify is too expensive for a lot of VPS-style projects (free for less than five instances, but we blow through that pretty fast most of the time)
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by hobobaggins 1y ago
> Is “don’t buy stuff with TSMC chips” really a valid option we have? Not sure that TSMC would want to do that either! We're probably their biggest market, even allowing for China. > Isn’t that basically “stop buying high technol
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by hobobaggins 1y ago
Actually, Heat was the movie that inspired heavily armed bank robbers to rob the Bank of America in LA (The movie inspired reality, not the other way around.) https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/north-hollywood-s
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by hobobaggins 1y ago
Amazon didn't raise money from credulous investors. Alphabet's Waymo was also having humans take over for some of the driving as well. And everyone knows that ChatGPT Pro is exclusively powered by capuchin monkeys.
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
Easy to criticize, hard to actually build something.
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
Show HN!
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
If only it wasn't Java.. but it looks very cool anyway.
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
The contrast ratio of an old CRT (and amber and green were considered more comfortable than white-on-black) is radically different from a modern LCD/IPS/OLED screen. It's so different that there's no comparison. Dark mod
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
The patent on the manufacturing process , not the peptide itself.
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
It actually appears that Ukraine blew up Nordstream. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/...
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
Check out local weight-loss and hormone clinics, which often have connections to reliable compounding pharmacies.
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
We agree on the cause, but not the solution described in your last paragraph. If it was truly a free market, the federal government wouldn't be involved at all and I could buy insurance from any company in any state. It's because
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
The problem is that it's literally sub jectively the best speed limit, at least from the standpoint of that young man outside of Billings.
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
As you'd find if you drove a motorcycle fast enough in the rain, a motorcycle with a fairing and windshield will sweep the rain (or dust) over and past you and you only get wet when you stop at a light. Perhaps that's the case he
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
Thanks I will!
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by hobobaggins 2y ago
Do you have an X or other social acct to get in touch?

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