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> 25 thousandths would be sloppy, a nominal clearance hole for a 1/4x20 bolt is about that much. Isn't that 0.250 which would be 250 thousandths?

As an example: Claude Desktop (containing Claude CoWork) is not officially available on Linux, only Windows and macOS.

Obligatory: Rush - The Trees (Live From The Montreal Forum / 1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H0lwRqNF5I

The last [US] BigCorp I worked for deployed (in Outlook) automatic deletion of all emails older than their Records Retention threshold. It was incredibly frustrating to have essent…

My experience is the same. It was agonizing directing Claude Code (Opus 4.7 at that time) to create a (non-mathematical) preso using LaTex. After banging my head against that wall …

Well that's not how I heard the fable, and not how the authoritative reference recalls it either[0]. If "every time the boy cried wolf, there actually was a wolf and it ate some pe…

You're right, I won't, and I'm probably not alone. So what's the endgame? A world government that enforces all of those "give-ups" at gunpoint?

> So we're re-creating the Apollo 8 Mission 60 years later. Not even: Apollo 8[0] went into orbit around the moon (orbited 10 times), then left lunar orbit to return to Earth. This…

me too; Inoreader was my first/only stop after Google Reader, and is one of the only paid subscriptions I maintain. Probably > 80% of my RSS feeds are Youtube channels.

Pop!OS (22.04) nearly 2 years ago, after having read generally favorable reviews on HN and getting a sense of "monernity/stability/mainstream'ness of Ubuntu without snap and with c…

Yes

> There's only one way this country can be saved and, regardless of the process to get there, it would culminate in a new constitution. NYT op-ed from 8/14 agreeing: "Abolish the S…

From a more informative article[1] linked from TFA: "The expiration of the enhanced [premium] tax credits is expected to cause ACA enrollees’ out-of-pocket premium payments to incr…

Ditto. I installed CrunchBang++ Linux[1] on a couple of out-of-support 4GB-RAM Chromebooks about 6 months ago, and they (with Firefox (w/shared account) and uBlock Origin) basicall…

> Technologically simple, was done well on MS-DOS in a few hundred kB of code and data. Exactly. The outliner feature in Borland's Sidekick Plus was my all-time favorite, but its l…

Ebooks and Internet sources of all forms of media have rendered public libraries moot as book providers: every person alive (in the US) has a cell phone, and most have laptops, and…

Interesting and useful information. We've been on an Ambetter ACA plan for the past 1.5 years and have generally been pleased; this info suggests why, and informs our decision to c…

Among over 1 million men aged 40 or older diagnosed with lower urinary tract symptoms, those treated with tadalafil showed marked reductions in mortality (56%), heart attack (37%),…

One feature I found rather unique at Fidelity (I too have recently migrated there as my "one stop shop") was free outgoing domestic wires ($100 minimum). Being able to "teleport" m…

I'm a happy (albeit) infrequent user of https://mataroa.blog/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30896661

A few decades ago I refactored a different way: // this may be a mistake! English language is unorthogonal in the extreme! const char * Add_es( int count ) { return 1 == count ? ""…

My favorite source for current MVNO options: https://prepaidcompare.net/ My household of 4 adults independently chooses Visible (cheapest tier, $25/mon which offers unlimited data …

> The tracks discussed in the article are BNSF. No. The unique trackage to be used between SFBA and LA is the "Coast Line" which is owned by Union Pacific. FTA: "Dreamstar signed a…