sammyo

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by sammyo 3mo ago
My wife finds yard sale watches and has me change the battery, but then I open one, a tiny thing and it's not battery powered but there are layers of tiny tiny gears. Mind boggling. (pro tip, a "bench knife" has a tiny blad
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by sammyo 5mo ago
Worked for me yesterday, not the newest but pretty recent. 10th gen paperwhite.
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by sammyo 8mo ago
Had a used 13 Mini for about a year now, very pleased and the battery is just fine.
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by sammyo 1y ago
Same here, oddly pleased that the Scanner class is deprecated before I even knew about it.
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by sammyo 1y ago
>I honestly don't know why more people don't gravitate towards these ideas. They would if there was a bit more GUI introduction. Seriously functional menus and visual indication of modes. With hints from graphical to the faster
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by sammyo 1y ago
Not with the ancient barely working WRT54G that comcast keeps nagging me to replace!
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by sammyo 1y ago
So, is the "The Prosperity Institute" the new NIH? The briefest of googling suggests the source of Covid is undetermined.
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by sammyo 2y ago
A (super easy to set up) rsync on IPhone that can "see" the itunes music folder would be a huge boon and likely change the world for the better!
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by sammyo 2y ago
Just want to turn it on a half hour from arriving home.
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by sammyo 2y ago
I sent in a report sending bikes through a highway tunnel in Boston, took six months but received a message they made the correction.
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by sammyo 2y ago
Soo essenially eaten by MBA's?
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by sammyo 2y ago
One actual researcher mentioned good habits will get anyone into their 80's but everyone tested over 105 has most of 100 certain genes. Really old age may be genetic.
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by sammyo 2y ago
Noticed a comment in /r/spacex from a reliable poster that there are very quiet ongoing discussions between NASA and Spacex.
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by sammyo 2y ago
A big percentage of ticket price goes directly to the studio/distributor, perhaps the entire fee stays with the theater.
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by sammyo 3y ago
It was altered from the original to allow a Chinese mainland release.
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by sammyo 3y ago
So much better than paper tape! My first adventure was on a PDP-8 that had a paper tape reader that was great but really slow even for that time. So a job with a real card reader that ran through a deck in seconds was cool. (And I almost
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by sammyo 3y ago
882
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by sammyo 3y ago
Math is the map. The map is not the territory, yet incredibly useful.
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by sammyo 3y ago
There is a couple blocks of these houses near me (near Boston) that seemed like normal small homes. Did not realize until someone mentioned at a party that they lived in a Sears house.
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by sammyo 3y ago
Yes please.
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by sammyo 3y ago
Metafilter
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by sammyo 3y ago
A bear walks due south one mile, then east one mile, then north one mile. Bear is back where it started. What color is the bear? ChatGPT The color of the bear is not provided in the given information. (I win, yea! Yeah probably the last tim
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by sammyo 3y ago
Throw'm a bone. Click on gmail ads, keep gmail alive as long as possible. Yes issues, yes privacy, yes a lot, but gmail is one of the best things on the internet. So good at spam, especially the real nasties. Worth a few clicks.
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by sammyo 3y ago
Well unless you tell them, don't do that;-) ..sigh and don't ask me how I know.
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by sammyo 4y ago
From my short stint as a tech columnist, the number one goal is to get the copy in by deadline. So deliberate lies, not so much, just no time to craft a great lie, joking/not joking. Getting it exactly right in a short time frame, easy
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by sammyo 4y ago
Check out the "starlink on boats" forum on fb. Working now for folks.
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by sammyo 4y ago
Why hasn't most of the web moved to Erlang (or erlang like) architecture, actually distributed?
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by sammyo 4y ago
Ah excellent, I read about the fish and donkey conundrum on an email list years ago and have hunted and asked well versed folks if they knew the reference but no luck. And hey, good luck doing a search for a specific talmud reference ;-0 It
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by sammyo 5y ago
Can you comment on that "force"?
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by sammyo 5y ago
They can't. But there are certainly unsavory actors that are able to trick a certain percentage of the unsuspecting to just give them a private key.

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