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by psim1 6d ago
Jesus was a carpenter! More appropriate for New Yankee Workshop or This Old House.
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by psim1 6d ago
Perhaps they consider it some kind of perk that is not "paid for" by the donation. The receipt states "No goods or services were provided." Or maybe they're lying, but I'm going with what the receipt says.
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by psim1 6d ago
One of the highest-value streaming subscriptions you can get is PBS Passport. You get it with a $60 donation to either a PBS TV or NPR radio station. The donation is tax-deductible and the PBS subscription is rich with high-quality content
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by psim1 28d ago
I felt successful before I had kids. Satisfying, upward-moving career; happy marriage; lots of travel; volunteering in multiple organizations. I liked all these things, succeeded in them, people liked me, etc. As a dad, I feel like a total
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by psim1 4mo ago
I think I would have instead changed the name to `marty`, who, in time, learned to think fourth-dimensionally.
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by psim1 4mo ago
I like the ideas of this article but would not use SPARC as a main badguy in my examples. A naive and probably popular takeaway would be, "Thank goodness I am not writing for SPARC and don't need to worry about these SPARC archite
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by psim1 4mo ago
I went through elementary and middle school using MECC software on Apple II, and of course had no idea at the time what a treasure it was. My generation was at the beginning of the computer-education revolution; we had "gamified"
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by psim1 4mo ago
Truly, the SE was a great phone. It was not really "rolled in" to future phone models; it just ended.
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by psim1 4mo ago
Tangentially related, if anyone has Sun nostalgia but only a bit, find a Sun Type 6 USB keyboard on eBay and plug it in. Great keyboard for a Mac. Unfortunately, the left-hand function keys (Stop, Again, Props, etc.) do not emit any usable
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by psim1 5mo ago
I agree, it looks like an IBM-mediocre version of every other LLM coding tool that currently exists.
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by psim1 5mo ago
Definitely not the grandson of Microsoft Bob.
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IBM Bob(bob.ibm.com)
4 points by psim1 5mo ago|4 comments
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by psim1 5mo ago
(Please don't downvote - serious question) Are Chinese models generally accepted for use within US companies? The company I work for won't allow Qwen.
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by psim1 5mo ago
LibreOffice almost seemed irrelevant; with cheap to free (*included) tools in abundance, such as MS Office, Google Workspace, Apple Pages/Numbers/Keynote, the need for LibreOffice is not what it once was, back when StarOffice and
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Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny(bbc.com)
570 points by psim1 6mo ago|392 comments
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by psim1 6mo ago
Janky is directly proportional to cost. Grandstream are the jankiest and least expensive. I like the Cisco 191; it is a fine unit but costs about $100-120.
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by psim1 6mo ago
For three or four endpoints all within the home, you could do this with just ATAs and not even need a SIP server. Many ATAs have a configurable "dial plan" that will let you map a number to an IP address, thus giving you the abili
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by psim1 6mo ago
Yeah, this was the confirmation I needed that it's "not just me."
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by psim1 6mo ago
And this! https://www.mcmaster.com/help/api/ Linked from the footer of every page! I'm so happy to have seen their web site that I want to do business with them, even though I have no business to be done.
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by psim1 7mo ago
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-ai-wrongful-death-lawsuit... is the Gift Article link. This was what I submitted, but the query params got stripped.
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Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead(wsj.com)
53 points by psim1 7mo ago|61 comments
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by psim1 7mo ago
Carriers both land/VoIP and wireless must attest to having fraud mitigation measures; this is the "Robocall Mitigation Database" and in Cape's record they exempt themselves from STIR/SHAKEN attestation but state the
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by psim1 7mo ago
I need an agent to summarize the buzzwordjargonsynergistic word salad into something understandable.
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Defining Moments in TV History(wsj.com)
1 points by psim1 8mo ago|0 comments
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by psim1 8mo ago
In 2021 I speculated on IP and acquired a /23 block by ARIN wait list. I figured on running some services from the IP space for a while and after the 5 years mandated wait time would cash in when surely it would fetch $100k from some p
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by psim1 10mo ago
Around 2010 I ditched Perl for PHP because I had been using PHP for web and could write the same systems scripts in PHP as I used to write in Perl. Sticking with one go-to language is easier on the brain.
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by psim1 10mo ago
> It is unfair to blame Cloudflare (or AWS, or Azure, or GitHub) for what’s happening > Ultimately end-users don’t have a relationship with any of those companies. They have relationships with businesses that chose to rely on them Cou
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by psim1 10mo ago
Later today or tomorrow there's going to be a post on HN pointing to Cloudflare's RCA and multitudes here are going to praise CF for their transparency. Let's not forget that CF sucks and took half the internet down for four
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by psim1 1y ago
Your description can only refer to Kevin Mitnick. They threw the book at him to set an example. I remember being amazed at what a hacker he must have been. Later I read about his crimes and thought "that's all?" RIP Mr. Mitni
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by psim1 1y ago
Because that's how and where people find them. Related questions with same answer: Why do you still use Facebook? Why do you still use LinkedIn? Why do you still use YouTube?

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