steelframe

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by steelframe 9d ago
What does "use it too much" even mean for someone who is sight-impaired and who needs to use it every time?
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by steelframe 11d ago
I own my own domain in the .us TLD, and I've been using it for my email for the past 20 years. When I applied for an "Electronic Travel Authorisation" (ETA) to enter Great Britain earlier this year the app flat-out rejected
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by steelframe 14d ago
> A quick search suggests that the most expensive education in the world is something like $100k. I have a kid in an American university right now, and a quick search of my bank account statements confirms that there are far more expensi
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by steelframe 14d ago
Meanwhile Qwen3.8 27B got both the 'f's and the 'i's questions right.
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by steelframe 15d ago
Gastroenterologists generally categorize feces into ~7 categories. They can be indicators of a variety of dietary deficencies, including dehydration or insufficient fiber intake. Others can be indicators of a variety of medical issues, up t
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by steelframe 16d ago
I recently had to set up a new Android device for work. Since I keep all my personal accounts separate from my work accounts, I needed to create a new Google account on that phone. I ended up paying $8 for a month of the cheapest service I
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by steelframe 27d ago
This is exactly why Amazon has also been doing this acquisition and destructive scanning of millions of books for some time now.
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by steelframe 2mo ago
Just like BSD is dying. Netcraft confirms it.
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by steelframe 2mo ago
Apple isn't exactly competing with China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_in_China
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by steelframe 2mo ago
I owned only EVs and PHEVs since 2012. The GR Corolla was so compelling that it pulled me back to an ICE. I had forgotten what it felt like to have FUN while driving. The biggest feature for me is that I could pull the DCM fuse and not get
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by steelframe 2mo ago
I've heard it said that Oracle doesn't have customers. They have hostages.
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by steelframe 3mo ago
I started on a faulty 1200 BAUD modem that would only connect at 300 BAUD. And I used to load my programs off a cassette tape. If we keep this up, someone's bound to jump in with a brag about memory cores and punchcards.
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by steelframe 3mo ago
I'm one of the greybeards who has the 2400 BAUD modem negotiation tone sequences emblazened in my neurons. For a while I've been meaning to set up some Wireguard connections among some of my systems. Being as busy as I am with wor
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by steelframe 3mo ago
This isn't really news to many people with multiple sclerosis (MS). In fact, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is often misdiagnosed as MS. I think it was 10 or so years ago that a movement swept over the MS community wher
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by steelframe 3mo ago
Makes me wonder what the value of a PhD is.
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by steelframe 3mo ago
Volkswagon has no jurisdiction over how I manage my fob, which is the client for the vehicle's unlock and start API. Once you hand a bearer token to me that governs full access to the vehicle, including the accelerator and steering whe
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by steelframe 3mo ago
I can't even manually resolve the merge conflicts alone that happen between my code and that of everyone else submitting code at agent speed in my team's repo. So long as I have financial obligations toward my family, I cannot opt
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by steelframe 4mo ago
The most plausible near-term path is probably micropayments embedded invisibly in AI agents. Your agent that has learned what you value and can make a reasonable decision to allow a micropayment for certain content pays on your behalf witho
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by steelframe 4mo ago
I had an eerily similar situation in a behavioral interview I had with a company where I had a very strong internal referral from a very senior person. I didn't have any time at all to prepare for the interview and was super stressed o
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by steelframe 4mo ago
I like to ride my bicycle with my friends in rides organized by the (Pacific Northwest) Cascade Bicycle Club. They require that I solve a Google reCAPTCHA in order to register for a ride. Google is already completely locking me out from bei
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by steelframe 10mo ago
In my experience the overwhelming majority of services permit me to change my email address.
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by steelframe 1y ago
This guy just went to federal prison on a 25-year sentence: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Syonyk https://www.idoc.idaho.gov/content/prisons/resident-client-s... Some of his blog posts in th
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by steelframe 1y ago
> so how on Earth do you expect to realize any of these desires? The same way this sort of thing has always been accomplished: Government regulation. Vote, write reps, donate to the ACLU and EFF, socialize.
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by steelframe 1y ago
The last time I was in SF I used Waymo to get around town and Uber to get to the airport. The Waymo rides were near-perfect. At one point when a delivery truck was blocking 3 lanes, the vehicle assertively merged over into the free lane to
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by steelframe 1y ago
Whenever I start feeling smug about how cagey I've been about data brokers in the past, I remind myself that enough of my relatives have handed over their DNA to operations like 23andMe so as to render my efforts futile.
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by steelframe 2y ago
It's not just those without smartphones who are penalized. It's those without Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and spying imposed by Apple or Google on their devices. I run GrapheneOS on an older Pixel. It does everything I n
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by steelframe 2y ago
> Then you print a boarding pass at the kiosk? Those kiosks are gone from many airports. You're going to have to wait in line to get anything printed. And if you fly Ryanair it will cost you over 50 euro.
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by steelframe 2y ago
> That's not a thing. They're literally just cameras looking for a QR code. And yet for me one time earlier this year said QR code on my Graphene OS phone scanned fine at the TSA checkpoint but refused to scan at the gate, lead
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by steelframe 2y ago
> It's more about some weird incompatibility between my device and the scanner. I think I held up an entire flight for nearly an hour because the QR code on my Graphene OS Android phone scanned fine at the TSA checkpoint but didn&#x
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by steelframe 2y ago
Apple Express Mode lets you use certain Wallet cards when the phone is very low battery and turned off.

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