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yeah Visual Basic 6, kind of a different thing but clicking on things to select the method etc is very similar

Jobs had won complete cultural dominance of desktop pcs with the iMac 27". If you saw a desktop on a tv show for the past 20 years it was an iMac 27". Tim saw they could cancel it …

The difference is with the app. With the Apple Remote it works fine, but in the app it only works with HDMI magic (I'm sure some tv's allow you to use the HDMI magic with no sound …

I got one recently for a room that was already wired with speakers, and man the ability to control the volume on Apple TV remote app on your phone is amazing. For whatever reason n…

Just wait till these robot maximalists figure out that a pile of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen is much cheaper than robots made out of steel and carbon fiber.

Seems like the obvious solution to this, is if you collect driving data on public highways, the data has to be made available to the public. If you collect the data on private high…

The ease and seemingly no-cost nature of small changes in software development, causes scope creep that would have huge costs in construction.

Yes, almost all post 2000 houses will have 20 amps in kitchen but in many areas the other circuits will be 15 amp.

I thought everyone got waivers and the tariffs were just an excuse for raising prices. Was that not what happened in his first administration?

In Astoria, Oregon on Wireless road you can find nearly 100 in a tree. I'm not sure why they are in such high numbers, but you can often see them scavenging fields where seafood wa…

I moved back to the south after living out west for 20 years and it is insane the amount of trash dropped by trash workers while they are dumping bins. Part of it is cultural in th…

how many vc investors are in the class of people that get audited by the IRS?

Even Apple Store employees will freely give you the discount. Apple doesn't discount because they aren't a discount brand, but they will give you this discount if you ask.

Wonder if its better than a single color channel hologram though

I don't understand how it isn't fraud. I looked at an ambulance bill for my mom the other day: $1798 total -$388 Medicare paid -$1324 Service adjustment $86 Amount you owe. I don't…

> Floating gardens using soil are practically impossible but very cool when they do exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island

If tomorrow everyone switches to your proposed vegan diet, where does all the saved power, water and land go towards? growing cattle keeps the land from turning into concrete. If y…

I mean brass can be crazy hard to find, I'd bet if you did a geocaching experiment with brass picking a random spot within shotspotter's accuracy tolerances, you'd find the casing …

What zwave devices have you been using? I have only used zwave (leviton, ge) and have only had to restart a switch 2-3 times. My biggest gripe with zwave was when home assistant sw…

Over a long enough timespan we will eventually run into it happening in an instant.

We could likely put 80% of cars on rails just as easily

i hope this isn't his last post

Photosynthesis turns carbon and energy into plants immediately. Longer term the same processes that turned algae and other life forms into oil are still happening and try as we mig…

turns out that happens without human intervention

the CO2 doesn't escape the atmosphere, it just doesn't recycle itself in a timeframe you are looking for