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MDWolinski

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About MDWolinski

A constant web tinkerer, currently rebuilding a game-play site while I work for a large corporation. Used to run my own small Internet web service in the pre-bubble burst of 2000.

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    I asked ChatGPT about that and it gave a nicely reasoned explanation on what AI produces compared to humans. But that being said, the problem I think is that people treat the outpu…

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    Comment #46790707

    Zangi does this. No idea on their overall security posture compared to Signal, however.

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    Comment #44347500

    The application looks nice but… Why do all these Notion “replacements” seem to think Notion is just an MD editor and note taker. It seems the unique position of notion is the abili…

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    Comment #43852887

    By this logic, we should be putting a higher tax on commercial vehicles then. Except the proposed bill exempts commercial vehicles, so... In Virginia, I pay a lot higher rate for m…

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    Comment #40341960

    I think the Game of Thrones type entries still are calendar entries to block time for personal events and not really To-Dos necessarily. I know plenty of people who block their cal…

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    Comment #40104896

    I recall an experiment with bees I read about where the bees were in a box. One path went to food, another to little balls which had no value to bees. Yet the bees would go “play” …

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    Comment #39245850

    You can plug in the Battery and just keep working, so as long as you’re not moving around a lot, that works great.

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    Comment #39169483

    Agree with this. In the Louvre, there are many pieces of art not protected from potential damage that people who didn’t care could have protested at. Given that it was the Mona Lis…

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    Comment #39085268

    New categories of hardware don't need a killer app at launch to be successful. VisiCalc wasn't available day one of the Apple II being released. What was the Macs killer app? Laser…

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    Comment #39079849

    Meh. This is just latching on to some large companies (Netflix, etc) who already stated they won't be building custom apps for it. Netflix doesn't even have a native Mac app, so it…

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    Comment #39018785

    Not to be argumentative, just wondering, has there been a case related to iCloud access that Apple has ever blacklisted someone? Certainly, I've heard of Meta and other companies d…

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    Comment #39000876

    No, I fully agree, the idea being that there’s a standard set of analytics and a way to report on them that apps can openly support. Granted the odd ball out would be Apple and if …

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    Comment #39000655

    It’s amazing how little analytics there are on podcast listening by default as a standard that all apps should provide. Stuff like if an episode was started, marked as listened (bu…

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    Comment #38954115

    Agree that this change doesn’t address what happened. I’m studying for my PPL and certainly very inexperienced at this but this accident seems to be a combination of many mistakes …

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    Comment #38912559

    The point of that answer in specific is so the specialist doesn’t make up an answer if they’re not 100% sure it’s the right answer for the customer. Its goal was to make the specia…

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    Comment #38911793

    The problem with society is that we live in a world where everyone demands answers NOW and people in positions that need to provide answers MUST give answers. So regardless if a po…

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    Comment #38240417

    Would you like it better if everything was bills? I agree that the change just accumulates and it’s even worse in Euro where 1 and 2 euros are coins.

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    Comment #38103386

    Business value is the value that a business creates through sales or services. So essentially, income - expenses + goodwill. Market Value is the price of the stock x outstanding sh…

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    Comment #38102507

    One day, I hope, people will inherently understand that Market Value != Business Value. Particularly in these days of extremely high valuation. The stock market does not equal the …

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    Comment #38060256

    Yep, we rented a Tesla from Hertz during a recent vacation. Took a small pebble in the window causing a 1-inch spider crack on the lower part of it. Over $1200 repair bill sent to …

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    Comment #38044479

    I didn’t think the current OSs supported these to enable song loading.