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by kej 12d ago
Apparently there is a newer Qomu device that combines the FPGA and an MCU: https://www.crowdsupply.com/quicklogic/qomu
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by kej 16d ago
They added the installer to unrelated software, paid other companies to do the same, and defaulted the checkbox to on, so that unsuspecting users who didn't read all the tiny text with Adobe Reader or RealPlayer also installed Chrome.
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by kej 16d ago
Both things can be true. Chrome was generally faster [1], and also some of Google's growth tactics were shady [2]. [1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/528214/browser_speed_compari... [2] https://go
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by kej 17d ago
Either the one from Microsoft or another from that era had multiple colors of cells, and an option to play competitively where before each generation you could add one cell of your color. Whether it was actually "fun" is another q
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by kej 1mo ago
>there's no impact to you if you just set the DOB to 1/1/1999. Having to take an action is the opposite of no impact to me. The problem is caused by social media companies designing their products to be addictive. This law
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by kej 1mo ago
Yes, sometimes people shorten phrases when they communicate.
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by kej 1mo ago
I'm sure POSIWID gets used as a reductive way to avoid thinking through things, but his examples seem just as devoid of thought. His 67% cancer center could probably cure more cancers if society invested more in cancer treatments and r
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by kej 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
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by kej 1mo ago
> We all know parents are far more likely to tap "OK" for "Allow personalized social feeds?" than they are to knowingly falsify their kids' age. I know lots of parents and lots of kids, and I don't think thi
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by kej 1mo ago
Right, I'm saying that if the goal is to keep kids off of addictive social feeds, it would be better to have social media have to say "this site implements addictive feeds" and then I can configure my kids' devices to di
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by kej 1mo ago
I feel like all of these laws are being designed backwards. Content providers, like MPAA films, should have to identify what sort of content they are providing. Then I can give my kids a device configured to allow some or all of that at my
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by kej 2mo ago
If you put your unified watchlist on JustWatch, they will even notify you when something you want to watch becomes available.
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by kej 2mo ago
A decent amount of recent issues follow the pattern where someone's credentials are compromised, those compromised credentials are used to release a malicious package, and then the original maintainer is the one to notice it but it tak
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by kej 2mo ago
The "Lyttle Lytton" contest seems to still be going strong, for what it's worth: https://adamcadre.ac/lyttle/2026.html
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by kej 2mo ago
The main page has a better introduction, but it would still be improved by a video of a person using. https://scrollpods.app/
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by kej 3mo ago
I love how well this comment works as a vexillology joke, even if it wasn't intended.
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by kej 3mo ago
The sorites paradox says that removing a grain of sand from a heap doesn't stop it from being a heap, and yet we can do that until we are left with a single grain of sand which is clearly not a heap. Likewise, taking elements from many
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by kej 3mo ago
The combination of straightforward explanations and clear diagrams reminds me of David Macaulay's The Way Things Work which is one of my favorite books.
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by kej 4mo ago
Oh, no, I'm with you. The fewer connector types we have to use, the better. My comment was meant as an FYI for you or anyone else who wasn't aware and not as a dismissal of your valid criticism.
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by kej 4mo ago
For what it's worth there are third-party rp2350 boards with USB-C connectors if that's important to you. Heck, WaveShare has one with two USB-C connectors: https://www.waveshare.com/rp2350-usb-c.htm
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by kej 4mo ago
There was an interesting paper on how the newer equation editor handles math using just Unicode math symbols: https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1....
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by kej 5mo ago
This kind of analysis sounds far more interesting than a lot of the "just do what I did!" startup writing that's out there. Do you have any recommendations for further reading from this perspective?
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by kej 6mo ago
I really like that VIA produced a CPU with integrated graphics, prominently labeled "VIA GRA", the same year that the FDA approved sildenafil.
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by kej 6mo ago
I think some small adjustments could reduce friction to new users. Let people scan and read comments anonymously, group similar product discussions together until volume increases, and look up UPCs instead of asking people to enter what the
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by kej 6mo ago
Sure, as something parents opt into and where the local OS is the place where age and content rating are compared it could be a useful parenting tool. As something that lets big social media companies shift responsibility onto everyone else
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by kej 6mo ago
>interpersonal violence has overtaken accidents as the leading cause of police on the job deaths. Do you have a source for this? Not trying to argue, I would genuinely like to read more.
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by kej 6mo ago
An update to the Logitech software last year added a fast way to access some kind of Logitech AI, but made it so the combination of mouse and dongle I was using no longer worked together. It was kind of a parable for the whole industry late
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by kej 7mo ago
From the About page: >SBCL derives most of its code from CMU CL, created at Carnegie Mellon University. Radical changes have been made to some parts of the system (particularly bootstrapping) but many fundamentals (like the mapping of Li
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by kej 7mo ago
(Jared) Polis is the current governor of Colorado, so I was also confused but in a different direction.
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by kej 7mo ago
The habana-quic link is unavailable in GitHub. Is that possibly a private repo that you meant to make public?

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