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by ink_13 18d ago
What a shame I didn't discover this sooner -- I finally sent my 11-year-old TrueNAS system[1] through the one-way Linux door about a year ago because I gave up on any hope that something like this would come along and I didn't see
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by ink_13 20d ago
It's not just a patent fee, IC-card support takes special hardware that enables the low latency of the transaction. Only Android phones sold in Japan (including Pixels) get it installed at manufacturing.
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by ink_13 29d ago
Oh, Matthias Wandel, of course. This would have been back when he was writing software for Blackberry instead of his current semi-retired woodworking YouTubing
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by ink_13 1mo ago
Yes, top hats were one (but not the only) use of beaver fur
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by ink_13 2mo ago
The step that a lot of people leave out is the revising : it is worth the human hours to go over the outputs of AI for this kind of thing with a fine-tooth comb to make sure it is usable, readable, accurate, etc.
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by ink_13 2mo ago
If US backed NGOs were distributing life saving medications (e.g. for HIV-AIDS via PEPFAR, to give only one example) and then that distribution was withdrawn, causing recipients to die because they could no longer access medication, what ot
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by ink_13 3mo ago
Probably not. As you point out, it's a typesetting tool like LaTeX, not a page layout tool. You could probably write a template that does the right thing, but that's true of LaTeX as well.
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by ink_13 3mo ago
For the sake of completeness, the Four Colour Theorem was proved with the aid of a computer in 1976, although there were, er, quibbles with the original published result not finally put to bed until 1989. It was the first major theorem to
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by ink_13 3mo ago
For certain values of "reality". It doesn't take a financial analysis to tell you that it is bananas that Tesla (~1.3T) is worth more than four times as much as Toyota (280B), and yet.
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by ink_13 3mo ago
I bet you could build a fully off-grid DC that didn't guzzle water for less money than launching a rocket today, and there would be thousands of people lining up down the block to sell you more than enough land to do it a thousand time
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by ink_13 3mo ago
> In our downside scenario, orbital data centers won’t work or offer any advantage over terrestrial ones Technologically, will they work? Shovel enough money at the problem and there's no reason they shouldn't. Rack up some G
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by ink_13 4mo ago
Curious parallel to iRobot (Roomba): first mover in new product segment, became genericized name for things in that segment, in the end, (possibly in GoPro's case) could not compete in that segment
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by ink_13 4mo ago
> 5,3/4 4-8,11 1 4,5,6,9-11 */2 What's so hard about "At 5 minutes past the hour and every 4 minutes, starting at 3 minutes past the hour, at 04:00 AM through 08:59 AM and 11:00 AM, on day 1 of the month, every 2 days
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by ink_13 4mo ago
I tried to figure out how to buy that exact kettle recently because I typically store mine away in a cupboard (and so a "cordless" kettle with separate base is just an annoyance to me) and couldn't find it anywhere. I had to
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by ink_13 5mo ago
Not so much replicas as the original maker selling additional editions TBH if you're the kind of person who wants one might as well go to the source
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by ink_13 5mo ago
Hey, wait a minute, you're the guy who got Linux to run on a 4004 by writing a MIPS emulator[1]! If there's anyone who's been down a similar path before it'd have to be you. [1] - https://dmitry.gr/?r=05
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Two ways to turn a cube into an octahedron [video](youtube.com)
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by ink_13 7mo ago
Oh cool, a product of Waterloo's Craig Kaplan, most famous for his work on the discovery of the einstein monotile
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by ink_13 7mo ago
I don't have children and I prefer permanent Standard Time because I have the apparently weird belief that noon should be at noon. (i.e. the time 12:00PM should be when the sun is overhead) I'm not a "capitalism gives you bra
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by ink_13 7mo ago
This is it. Ultimately the best interfaces are designed for experts, not beginners. "Usability" at some point became confused with "approachability", probably because like in so many other areas, growth was prioritized
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by ink_13 7mo ago
Thanks for posting. That's actually a much more interesting story.
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by ink_13 7mo ago
(2024) Just FYI article is two years old
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by ink_13 7mo ago
An AI agent cannot be held accountable
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by ink_13 7mo ago
So... things where the producer doesn't respect the audience? Because any such analysis would be worth as much as a 4.5 hour atonal bass solo.
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by ink_13 8mo ago
What are you going to do instead? I am very close to moving from a 20-year-old GMail address to a custom domain and was planning to use Proton as the email host.
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by ink_13 8mo ago
Let's not overlook podcasts
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by ink_13 9mo ago
Old recipes are more memory cues for experienced cooks than the modern step-by-step guide for amateurs we are used to. They're scanty in detail because they assume quite a lot of existing knowledge. It's the difference between &q
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by ink_13 10mo ago
What's the name of the book?
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by ink_13 1y ago
Pixel phones exist (and have for some time!) yet people still buy iPhones
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by ink_13 1y ago
Dismantling USAID has condemned hundreds of thousands of people (if not millions) to literal death through a loss of famine relief and life saving medications for diseases like HIV and tuberculosis. It has diminished the soft power of the

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