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by iwanttocomment 7mo ago
I've been to Silver Crest Donut Shop. Once. I was disappointed that they didn't have donuts, or at least things you could legitimately refer to as donuts. Or much of anything, really, except a dirty 70s Bunn-O-Matic and a griddle
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by iwanttocomment 7mo ago
I thought this was going to be an article about one of the classic banes of many a marriage, intestinal gas. Try vibe coding your way out of that one, Tom!
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by iwanttocomment 7mo ago
When I specced out my macbook pro M1 16gb it was entirely possible to get 32 and 64gb without any tie-in to CPU upgrades. You're misremembering. The Macbook Pro M1 (2020) supported a maximum of 16GB, and the base Mx chips have neve
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by iwanttocomment 7mo ago
It totally would have been normal to have a custom shirt like that back in the day. I had a few. In the late 70s and early 80s, there were custom "iron on" T-Shirt shops in most malls. They would have a wall of larger iron-on deca
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by iwanttocomment 7mo ago
Keeping in mind that I wasn't the interviewee and this happened over 15 years ago, there was apparently a combination of extreme secrecy about the organization and a massive disconnect between the largely military experience of the int
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by iwanttocomment 7mo ago
I was hoping the comments would be full of similar stories, in which a demon makes a half-hearted effort to pull you into his clutches, only to be naively blown off, then not thought of again until his true nature was revealed. Our story of
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by iwanttocomment 8mo ago
You read the parent I was responding to, no? You're reinforcing my point. "Users who don't know about the feature can just use a pre-configured system like Mint Cinnamon and never know about any of these things."
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by iwanttocomment 8mo ago
> That's cause you're using a distro like mint which is using older builds of stuff. The context here is that I was commenting on the parent's assertion that one "can just use a pre-configured system like Mint Cinnamo
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by iwanttocomment 8mo ago
Nope. Linux user for decades, but headless since the early aughts. Decided to dip my toes back into the desktop space with Mint Cinnamon. I can mirror or run lots of phone apps on Windows or macOS, but ironically, not Linux. I decide to run
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by iwanttocomment 8mo ago
Give it to someone you know who needs a laptop.
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by iwanttocomment 8mo ago
I hadn't run desktop Linux in several years now. (I've run it server-side for decades.) Out of the increasingly loud outpouring of support for desktop Linux over the past year, I went ahead and installed some distros to get back i
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by iwanttocomment 9mo ago
"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence." - Hydration as a Behavioral Addiction (Immortan Joe, 2015)
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by iwanttocomment 9mo ago
Lede. It's "Burying the Lede". I'm going to have to assume that for all intensive purposes this article doesn't cut the mustard.
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by iwanttocomment 9mo ago
Had ISDN in the mid-90s back when I worked for an ISP. Wasn't expensive from my telco, 40 1996 dollars a month and the cost of a Motorola BitSURFR Pro. Got dial-up bonding working on the ISP side. It could "ring through" one
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by iwanttocomment 9mo ago
The article is simply incorrect when it says that Youtube Music doesn't allow streaming of one's own personal library. It does - up to 100,000 songs. This functionality has been available since 2020, around the time when Google Pl
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by iwanttocomment 9mo ago
We need to start looking at obesity as a hunger disorder, and not as the result of an addiction, a lack of knowledge about nutrition, or a lack of self control. When an obese person regulates their eating and loses weight, the hunger often
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by iwanttocomment 9mo ago
You post the thing. The HN audience upvotes it or downvotes it or flags it or ignores it. From the reaction, you get an impression of the reception of the thing. That's... it.
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by iwanttocomment 10mo ago
Video uploaded May 4, 2020
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by iwanttocomment 10mo ago
As the owner of a 2012 BEV (still going), I do not believe that BEVs are getting substantially better year over year. Are they getting better? Of course! Within a period of a few years? Yeah, no, that's not actually a thing.
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by iwanttocomment 10mo ago
No, I wouldn't touch a Tesla at this point. It's a Volvo. Bought it in February, a magnificent deal. I just calculated it, it was 37% of the original price. Still feels new.
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by iwanttocomment 10mo ago
With ICE cars? OK, perhaps. With BEV cars? No, no, no. Also, no. You can buy an insanely great BEV for 40% of retail after it's gone off lease after 2-3 years. Everyone is concerned about battery life, but it'll have years to go.
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by iwanttocomment 10mo ago
The early Leafs always had a fairly standard (for the time) Li-ion battery, but the corner they cut until a few years ago was to make it air-cooled rather than the liquid-cooled systems of most competitors. That made the earlier Leafs cheap
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by iwanttocomment 10mo ago
Sure, postal banking [0] has been around forever. Could it be updated to the modern day and in the US? Of course! Why not? Because we apparently just can't have nice things. It's a perfectly good idea that just doesn't have p
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by iwanttocomment 11mo ago
I own 3 EVs. Two of those, from 2012 and 2014, were built with 3G modems, and fully lost connectivity in 2022 when the 3G networks were turned down. Nothing changed, not even an error message inside the car, except that trying to connect to
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by iwanttocomment 11mo ago
I've given up on Costco. Most meats are now more expensive there - in bulk! - than at the local grocery, of similar quality. It used to be you could buy at Costco without price shopping and assume you'd get a premium product at a
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by iwanttocomment 11mo ago
I hear you, but our car literally has more value as a "garbage car" even after insurance than actual resale value despite the rather valuable battery in its innards.
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by iwanttocomment 11mo ago
I've asked this before, but as the owner of a 2012 BEV that has a good battery but is in not-so-good (ie, fair) condition, how can I maximize the resale value of the battery in my car? The battery is almost certainly worth far more tha
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by iwanttocomment 11mo ago
Thank goodness! Tesla would almost certainly do better without him. You could put $1T into competitive analysis, retooling, and the lack of his tarnished brand and get people to actually buy Teslas again. Signed, dude who owns multiple EVs
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by iwanttocomment 11mo ago
I totally get that, but as the owner, perhaps I'd like to make the money on the battery before the arbitragers.
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by iwanttocomment 11mo ago
I've got a 13 year old EV and nobody has told me how to cash my EV in for reusable energy storage. (No, seriously, hit me up.)

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