madphilosopher

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by madphilosopher 7mo ago
General purpose computers, copyright, a free society. Pick two.
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by madphilosopher 7mo ago
I typically use ninite to install this, and my favourite thing is when it says "Downloading Everything" followed by "Installing Everything". I always get a kick out of that!
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by madphilosopher 8mo ago
More evidence that Windows 11 is a hate crime.
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
I read a comment on a forum recently that I'll just leave here: "Windows 11 is a hate crime."
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
What would happen if a person tried to enter the United States at the border but were not carrying a phone or a laptop? Do they frown on this?
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
I always update in place. And I follow all the upgrade procedure advice in the release notes.
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
Maybe some college degrees could have an endorsement at the bottom: "Earned without AI."
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
Vulnerabilities like this lead to car thefts. Some models of cars are more susceptible than others, and the manufacturers seem unwilling to fix the problem. The insurance companies know which models are more trouble for them, and so they se
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
Not the OP, but I have a Postfix mail server running on my home media box that receives YouTube URLs sent to its special email address. Postfix passes the message to a Python script that parses out the URL and places it into a Redis queue.
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
Local noon (when the sun crosses the local meridian) orients us in time and in space. In time, because it marks the day being half-over. In space, because you can use solar alignment to lay out buildings and other structures in a north-sout
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
One of my screens at work is a full-screen UTC clock with seconds. But I added the solar altitude (in degrees) to the bottom of the display, just so I could easily track how close I am to sunrise or sunset. Solar azimuth would be more clock
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
Back when I worked an office IT job, one year I asked my boss if I could come in an hour earlier in the winter (and leave an hour earlier after work). I had evening chores to do with my animals on the farm, and I needed the daylight after w
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
Install the transmission-daemon and transmission-cli packages, and control the daemon with the transmission-remote command (from the latter package).
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
Ivan Illich argued that we should open the doors to the schools and let those that wanted to leave leave, and those that wanted to stay stay. And he meant this even for the teachers as for the students. Then, he said, true education would b
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by madphilosopher 1y ago
Just curious, is this a corporate network restriction, or something you've configured your web browser to block? This is the first time I've seen this as a problem for Hacker News folks.
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
A flywheel has a lot of angular momentum. Of course, that's the point. On buses, the axis of the flywheel is oriented in the vertical axis so that the bus can turn corners or change horizontal directions without causing gyroscopic pre
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
Things I absolutely won't order from Amazon: products you put in your body, products you put on your body, and electronics. Their business model and fraud are pretty much indistinguishable at this point.
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
Look for kitchen printers. They're dot-matrix / ink ribbon receipt printers for use in restaurant kitchens, where the plate warmers and other sources of heat will turn thermal paper completely black. So, instead, they use rolls of
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
A compressor is the right answer. If you lean toward more old-school audio engineering, I would recommend one of these compressors: * Alesis 3630 * DBX 166 or 266 * FMR Audio Really Nice Compressor Explore the various demos on YouTube to se
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
My wish is that those of us sick of the hype would start calling it ChadGPT , to give it the respect that it deserves!
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
Someone else did this, then built 20 more next to it. Now it's a business where they sell telescope time to researchers and hobbyists. I imagine it's profitable for them.
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
The main principle of celestial navigation is pretty easy to visualize. Pick a celestial body that's in your sky right now, like the Sun. At any given time, the Sun is directly over a single point on the globe (the GP, or Geographic Po
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
Are turn signals supposed to be red? Or orange? Or let's place them below the level of the back bumper... for reasons. Some standardization would be nice.
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
The secret about speed bumps is that with most vehicles you can drive over them at speed without slowing down.
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
Auto makers will decide that putting 6 headlights on pickup trucks is no longer competitive. Consequently, they will innovate that the world needs pickup trucks with 8 headlights, starting in 2025. FML.
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
I was doing this. But then I started noticing that some emails I had read were not being stored locally in the Thunderbird IMAP folder structure on my computer, even though Thunderbird had fetched them and shown them to me. I couldn't
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
All the print books on my bookshelf use fully justified text. In contrast, my preference for ebooks are to render them as left-justified. So I think I intuitively arrived at a practice that matches your conclusion about justified text in br
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
Oh, yes. A real hoot, this one! https://www.hundredsofbeavers.com/
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
I don't know what era a 6th gen Honda Civic comes from, but I just bought a 2011 Honda CR-Z hybrid sports car this year, and I love it . I bought it to supplement my 2012 Toyota Prius-C, which is a pretty awesome hybrid. The Toyota ge
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by madphilosopher 2y ago
For a forced-air furnace, I put a hinged piece of cardboard over a room vent with a paperclip switch. When the furnace blew, the cardboard would rise and the switch would open. Simple and effective. It doesn't measure the burn cycle of

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