schmuckonwheels

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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
>Where I live we vote by mail by filling in little bubbles with a pen. >It is very economical and hard to compromise at a scale that has any effect. Vote-by-mail creates unnecessary opportunities for cheating, irregularities, and all
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
Experts say
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
Yes the visual clarity of staring into a reflection of my own shirt, and any light within 10m. There is no worse eye strain that looking at anything that isn't supposed to be on the screen. It's 90% noise.
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
I've been saying glossy screens are pure cancer for 20 years and every time I was dismissed as a Luddite that should get with the times. Now they can sell you "nano texture" at a premium after getting you hooked on functional
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Intelsat 708 02-15-1996 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago|0 comments
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
Rest in peace, Sky King.
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
That's great. Ask and ye shall receive. What's most surprising is churches notoriously have really sketchy electrical. There had to be some renovation in that regard, right?
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
It's more about when Google assumed full control of the cloud, the browser, the OS, and everything in between they self-appointed themselves as the unelected standards board of the Internet, and forced everyone else to follow their whi
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
You must be mistaken. This site stopped being Startup News just like Facebook became the 'metaverse' overnight.
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
Google does whatever is convenient and makes them money. Altruism was never part of the equation.
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
Google thrives on being the Internet's biggest bully. It turns out when nerds get a billion dollars they like being bullies too.
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
"To demonstrate how crappy most front door locks are, to boost our company's social media cred we will be leaving drills and a dish of bump keys at the entrance of the neighborhood."
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
An article about "infrastructure" that opens up with a dramatic description of a datacenter stuffed into an old church, I would expect more than just generic clipart you'd see in the back half of Wired magazine.
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
I wasn't expecting to read a podcast when clicking.
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
Disappointed with the lack of pictures.
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
This is the type of cool shit I come to HN for. Thanks for posting this. Unfortunately, it may be lost amongst the noise, and what I see being massively upvoted instead: • Some schizo conspiratorial screed about Epstein that I refuse to cli
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
Because like most political threads, it will largely consist of people with a crayon-and-coloring-book understanding of geopolitics posting low-effort snipes and trading insults while contributing basically zero to productive discussion. Th
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
>Your tone also implies that large, complex systems, even if designed well, don't normally require a lot of maintenance from many people. That's correct. In the case of Twitter, it was disclosed that many of their systems were
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
Is there a substantive connection? Like all the doom and gloom after the Twitter layoffs predicting the site would implode and go permanently offline "within a month" which...never happened. It's also ironic in the sense it i
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
My money is on expired certificate. If so, successful test.
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
I see multiple posts here speculating on cyberattack—as opposed to "we pushed a bad configuration update which messed everything up irreparably"—you know, like it has been every other time before this. E.g., Cloudflare, Meta (who
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
I'll save you the click: India is not affected. The list includes Russia, Iran, lots of RU-aligned nations, and a bunch that probably have security issues. The only one that stood out as odd was Thailand.
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Scott Adams has died(usatoday.com)
424 points by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago|3 comments
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DJT Says Microsoft to Make Changes to Curb Data Center Power Costs for Americans(money.usnews.com)
2 points by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago|1 comments
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
18.7.3 is no longer available as beta? It was as of a few weeks ago. Public or Developer beta?
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
Absolutely. This reeks. My iPads on 18.7.3 just yesterday started pushing notifications to upgrade to 26.2 again. Guess Apple wants to pump up those numbers. If they really cared, if they had an ethical bone in their body, they would releas
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
Your stance is all software should die as soon as the generation of chip it was developed on stops being sold?
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
Maybe I am a bit jaded, but with Apple's yearly OS release cycle — and breaking things nearly every time — I grew sick and tired of software I spent good money or relied on suddenly not working anymore. Imagine taking your car in for a
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
And what about Carbon? Gone. 32-bit apps? Gone. PowerPC stuff? Anything more than a few years old? Forget it. You can't even run versions of iPhoto or iTunes after they deliberately broke them and replaced them with objectively shittie
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by schmuckonwheels 8mo ago
>including the framework schizophrenia, as Microsoft shifted between Win32, UWP, WPF Ah yes, and the solution being presented is Linux, with Xlib, Motif, Qt, GTK, and your choice of 167 different desktop environments. Don't forget t

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