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by tiltowait 7d ago
At $2000, I'm not going to be an early adopter this time around. I'm concerned about screen crease/debris ingress, and I'll want to see user reports on how useful it ends up being. That said, I'm much more intrigu
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by tiltowait 7d ago
If you unfold and have two apps side-by-side, then the aspect ratio (and seemingly size?) is the same as having one app, closed. Seems nice to have.
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by tiltowait 14d ago
This feels like a distinction without a difference. Would you say a Python script/Java utility doesn't "run on Linux" because you need Python/Java installed?
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by tiltowait 2mo ago
The first ingredient is a plurality, not a majority.
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by tiltowait 2mo ago
Out of curiosity, why put "router" in quotes?
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by tiltowait 3mo ago
> Yes, it comes apart every so often Laces type matters a lot here. I've run countless miles with a fast knot without it ever coming undone. The secure knot does feel like a cheat, though. It's like a double knot that you can u
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by tiltowait 4mo ago
I do this all the time at my job, without issue. I think it's honestly easier than using plain git.
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by tiltowait 4mo ago
> Applications like Google Docs would be impossible without each of the four things you listed being available. I was already in favor of banning it. You don't have to keep trying to convince me. Okay, snark off. But as someone who
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by tiltowait 4mo ago
> scrolling: used by games, maps, image viewers Out of curiosity, does anyone like the way Google Maps hijacks scrolling? I use a trackpad. When I scroll, I'd want it to pan around on the map, not zoom in and out (which always fee
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by tiltowait 5mo ago
There are several different, sometimes overlapping markets for them. Reptile and amphibian keepers use them, along with live plants, to set up a bioactive tank that is relatively self-cleaning and self-maintaining. Keepers of very small rep
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by tiltowait 5mo ago
Interesting! To join the cavalcade of others sharing their experiences: I first asked it "how big are geckos". It gave me a cool comparison diagram between three gecko extremes (leachianus, Jaragua dwarf gecko, and leopard gecko,
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by tiltowait 5mo ago
Prior to 2016, he was better. Since then, he regularly posts about Trump, and whatever you think of Trump, those posts are seldom more than random ranting: devoid of substance or insight. Other times, they're just links to someone else
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by tiltowait 5mo ago
I assume you mean Kobo, not Roku?
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by tiltowait 5mo ago
There's research[1] suggesting readers of physical books have greater reading comprehension than readers of eBooks. Anecdotally, I feel that describes me well. [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/well-
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by tiltowait 5mo ago
I tend to approach jj commits as local PRs. Decide what it is I'm working on, make a new, empty commit on top of that : jj new -m 'do thing' jj new As I work on the "local PR", I `jj squash` my working
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by tiltowait 5mo ago
If you've never played it before, Dark Castle really is worth looking at. Its artwork is incredible even before considering the constraints, and its gameplay holds up remarkably well for something from 1986.
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by tiltowait 6mo ago
As I scrolled down, one of the animations started and brought up a subscription modal. "Okay, that one would be enraging," I thought, delighted, as I waited for the animation to loop. It didn't. It was the site's real
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by tiltowait 7mo ago
Claude's willingness to poke outside of its present directory can definitely be a little worrying. Just the other day, it started trying to access my jails after I specifically told it not to.
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by tiltowait 7mo ago
The raft of outages lately (my company was disrupted by I think four last week?) have certainly (and deservedly) created some pent-up frustration. I'm personally frustrated with its poor performance on Safari. Overall, though, it'
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by tiltowait 8mo ago
fish is a bit insonsistent on it. For instance, `git add <tab>` will only autocomplete for modified files. It will also fill in wildcards, e.g. `cat *.txt <tab>` will expand to show all .txt files. On the failure side, `rm foo &
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by tiltowait 9mo ago
ZFS will happilly (and intentionally) gobble up available RAM for ARC. On my 64GB system, ARC is using 42.4GB, but this memory is quickly reclaimable if it's needed. That said, I had very bad experiences trying to run ZFS on an underpr
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by tiltowait 9mo ago
Traffic fatalities increased during the pandemic[1]. AAA released a study examining the effects in 2024[2]. [1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10149345/ [2]: https://newsroom.aaa.com/202
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by tiltowait 9mo ago
> The vast majority of humans are not benefiting from it and are therefore motivated against it. The vast majority of humans do not benefit from you, personally, owning a car, but that doesn't mean we're all motivated to call a
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by tiltowait 10mo ago
> Rust has a standard library that looks an awful lot like Python or Ruby, with similarly named methods. Can you elaborate? While they obviously have overlap, Rust's stdlib is deliberately minimal (you don't even get RNG withou
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by tiltowait 10mo ago
If it gets abandoned—so what? Switching browsers is trivial.
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by tiltowait 10mo ago
> Of the top of my head, I can't think of a single feature that MacOS has shipped since 2020 that I care about. They all kind of blend together, so I asked Claude to give me a list of major features since 2020. Here are those that I
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by tiltowait 10mo ago
I've used password-encrypted keys on a Mac plenty of times. It was easy to add them to the SSH agent to not require a password after initial authorization, if that's what I wanted. What is the issue I'm not seeing?
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by tiltowait 10mo ago
I recently started a blog to document some service migrations and other random musings as I adopt FreeBSD (after a decade-long hiatus). It's fun to write and think about this stuff in a shareable way, even though I expect no one[0] to
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by tiltowait 10mo ago
You can test for existence: val, ok := my_map[123] if ok { ... } https://go.dev/blog/maps#working-with-maps
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by tiltowait 10mo ago
People are worried about half-assed[0] rewrites that break functionality and introduce exciting, new vulnerabilities due to improper implementation. And they aren't wrong to fear that, given the multiple issues we've seen in just

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