abrowne · HackerLangs

Was your bookshelf stained from sliding them out? Ours was all red on the bottom edge.

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All good deadpan deserves a downvote?

vor 22 Tagendiscuss

I think that's true, but energy efficiency is only one potential benefit of epaper displays, and not one that is a goal with this product.

abrowne

vor 22 Tagendiscuss

> Touchscreens on your wrist suck so bad.

I don't mind myself, and especially in winter with mittens on I can – and often do – use my nose :-D

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Bangle.js 2 (https://banglejs.com/) also has a transflective LCD. It's very fun product with a great community.

Bangle.js 3 is being discussed: https://github.com/orgs/espruino/discussions/7341

abrowne

vor 25 Tagendiscuss

Or they meant 2010s?

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vor 28 Tagendiscuss

Bankman won't be Fried

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Source article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187998172...

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I agree with your comment generally, but note that Dell's $699 competitor they announced this week has has a slightly larger screen than the Neo with similar resolution and brightness but better color coverage.

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I can't imagine browsing the web without user stylesheets. (I guess I can, but I don't want to.)

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Any site I visit regularly gets a user stylesheet via Stylus that I use to hide anything like this.

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I know that if you want `fd` (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) you need to `apt install fd-find` and which installs the binary `fdfind` (!).

abrowne

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Hearing this in the news reminded me of William Langewiesche's great piece in vanity fair about the cause: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...

abrowne

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Sustainable means those sources of income will continue, not that they are positive for users.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

There's plenty of legal gambling in Minnesota. To quote the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library it includes

"horse racing, a card club at Canterbury Park, Indian tribal casinos, charitable gambling, and a state lottery."

(https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=gambling)

abrowne

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

14-month old article headline, but hasn't aged a bit:

American Foreign Policy Is Being Run by the Dumbest Motherfuckers Alive

(Daniel W. Drezner https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/american-foreign-policy...)

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Contrary anecdote: I've installed and used Linux, mainly Ubuntu desktop (GNOME) on a dozen or so computers in the last ten years, including several older MacBooks, a Surface Go for my son and an HP I special ordered without Windows. I come from a Mac background and use the terminal, but I've never need to do so to get them to work. Sure I've tweaked them, but only cosmetic things like locales and default fonts. For install and use I haven't done anything special. Old MacBooks need wi-fi drivers, which usually Ubuntu will find. Besides that everything has honestly just worked for me.

abrowne

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Ditto. The only thing I can remember of is Apple Maps. They used to allow only Windows or something? But they relented eventually.

abrowne

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

If a {Dell, HP, Lenovo} firmware update fails leaving the computer bricked, can you use another {Dell, HP, Lenovo} to restore the firmware?

(Honest question: I'm a longtime Mac user, I use Macs at work and I can tell you the correct DFU port for each model. But my home computer for the last 6 years has been an HP EliteBook with Ubuntu.)

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Cancelled presumably because instead they will move new Chromebooks to this Android OS.

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