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by slowwriter 6mo ago
Someone replied to his final tweets and ended with “#ChatGPT response”. It seems like the most sad and dystopian thing to me.
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by slowwriter 1y ago
I got 19/20. Turned off True Tone and cranked the screen brightness. Half the time I didn’t know if it was just my eyes playing tricks on me, but it was interesting to notice how the colors seemed completely indiscernible for a few sec
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by slowwriter 2y ago
As I understand it, Dokploy Cloud [ https://docs.dokploy.com/docs/core/cloud ] makes the hosting "managed" by removing the need for Dokploy UI to be installed on your own VPS. With the free/open sourc
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Space Selfie(space.crunchlabs.com)
3 points by slowwriter 2y ago|0 comments
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by slowwriter 3y ago
I will have to ask them for specifics, but I believe they are on an older iMac (pre 2017) that cannot run Ventura or newer. If they are running Ventura, they may have simply overlooked the dialog completely, but I'm leaning more toward
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by slowwriter 3y ago
Someone else pointed this out, I didn’t know. Although, yes, if they needed to close any prompts that might have been a problem.
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by slowwriter 3y ago
Not the Magic Mouse, though, unless you’re very skilled with your fingers.
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by slowwriter 3y ago
If I had known that rebooting would re-enable Bluetooth, that would’ve been a good fix in this particular situation. Although I do see how it can be annoying under normal circumstances.
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by slowwriter 3y ago
Interesting. Didn’t know, will have to check that.
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by slowwriter 3y ago
For sure. I did say ‘if it had happened to me’, though. And I do happen to have SSH enabled on both of my machines.
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by slowwriter 3y ago
Interesting! If that’s the case, great! But I believe the couple in question is on an older iMac not upgradeable to the latest version of macOS, so they would still be out of luck.
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by slowwriter 3y ago
They do, but instructing them to enable Bluetooth using only the keyboard didn’t seem feasible to me.
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by slowwriter 3y ago
Given very careful instruction this might have worked. But I didn’t know this trick myself to begin with. Now I do!
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by slowwriter 3y ago
Yeah, and as it happened this was an iMac with a Magic Mouse, so plugging it in was also not an option.
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by slowwriter 3y ago
:) Well, add that to the list of things that didn't prevent or solve the problem, unfortunately. Also, I was thinking: If I was in that situation I might SSH into it from a different machine. Yeah, good luck with that to the elderly co
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Tell HN: How an elderly couple I know had their computer 'stop working'
75 points by slowwriter 3y ago|93 comments
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by slowwriter 3y ago
Haven’t thought about that, but it doesn’t sound wrong. Will have to look into that
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by slowwriter 3y ago
Yes, on an OLED panel dark mode saves energy, but not on, say, an LCD panel
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by slowwriter 3y ago
Presumably all called Steve.
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by slowwriter 3y ago
I see. Don’t know if you’re still checking for replies on this thread. Livin’ up to my name. Thanks for taking the time to explain, though. I’m going to have to look further into this to get a better understanding, but I suppose the rules f
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by slowwriter 3y ago
I don’t understand your distinction between “the browser” and “HTML” in this context. The browser is merely the interpreter of the language, but the HTML specification lays out how the language should be interpreted. Also, this is an exampl
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by slowwriter 3y ago
Let me be clear about what I meant by whitespace insignificance. When you put plain text into an element, that is equivalent to a string in typical programming terms. No, whitespace is not entirely insignificant within a text node. But almo
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by slowwriter 3y ago
To be fair, HTML treating all whitespace as insignificant was absolutely the right call
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by slowwriter 3y ago
I entirely agree that the explanation in the article is somewhat confusing, because we're selecting 3 items starting from #3 in a list, counting both from the top and the bottom. So which of those three options does the 3 stand for? Th
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by slowwriter 3y ago
I was confused about "robot-axis" for a solid two minutes before I realized the article is about "robo-taxis".
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by slowwriter 4y ago
I believe it’s a hundred thousand
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by slowwriter 4y ago
I believe the difference is simply that the two sequences are in reverse order of each other.
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by slowwriter 4y ago
In situations where someasks "so you're saying that..." followed by something they didn't say it might very well be on purpose, but in other cases being explicit about how you understood someone can allow them to elabora
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by slowwriter 4y ago
All warning lights are flashing. Don't use this.
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by slowwriter 4y ago
GDPR is not the EU regulation on cookies. GDPR only has a single direct mention of cookies. The ePrivacy Directive is what's known as the "cookie law" ( https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ )

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