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Also “ethnocentric”. But as usual, we first need to have a shared definition of fascism. If we use Eco’s Ur-fascism, many aspects are there (the moral and cultural decadence of the…

Maxell cassette players are not cassette players from back in the day, but cheap stuff like everything else: https://youtu.be/6XyaBls8jyg?is=Lrgqe23yWlelBvl-

The Asus 1000H served me well for my whole bachelor, and also became my first hackintosh with the glorious 10.6.8, iDeneb flavor (i even bought a new wifi card natively supported b…

According to the Dutch railway maintainer, it's not needed there, and the effect is not really proven: https://www.prorail.nl/veelgestelde-vragen/zomer/waarom-zijn... Same for the …

Tbh this was somewhat underwhelming… I expected using a microcontroller+motor to replace the mechanisms of a regular cassette mechanism, or some other uses of modern tech for the c…

Can’t you use notarized AltStore to install AltStore original, and from there install Firefox? I did that earlier today in EU. I just wish they had a different name now for AltStor…

I didn't know tank have regular problems with starting, especially in cold weather, regardless of whether the choke is open or not :)

I was thinking that it’s been a while since I saw those file names… but I guess your username checks out :)

Not the submission title, just the automatically revised submission title. Pretty sure I submitted it with the proper casing/spacing

I don’t know, I remember them being great from a HW point of view (I had an iPAQ 514 and it was mindblowing even without touch and just a tiny screen), but UX wise… I now have anot…

If I had to take a guess, I would say he heard it in a lecture by Prof. Alessandro Barbero, same as I did :) But I think the source is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_vulgar…

It’s not just “touched by the LLM” — it’s literally transformed. /s I have the same feeling, I skipped reading any paragraph that starts with “not X, Y”. It’s possible the author h…

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YES PLEASE! AI's rigor in terms of evaluation of ML systems has been only barely improving in the past 15 years. Thanks for the concrete recommendations; unfortunately, most of the…

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Yep, started coding iOS apps on an EeePC 1000H on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and XCode 3.1.something. While the updates would break things, it was not more complicated than a Linux of the…

The evidence being…

Luigi Mangione, the guy who shot an health insurance company CEOs in 2024

Wow, you still need to even ask questions.

To you people who moved email to a different provider… how did you do that, practically? Email signature, reply from another address and hope your contacts pick it up, or something…

Look up Visual Basic for Dos for a surprisingly good TUI editor!

So… the moment the Interface Designer in XCode can identify the app only has a single button at the center of a window, the window should be a circle? :)

No, Windows NT until 4.0 had the same interface design as Windows 3.x (although there existed a semi-official SP/addon to give NT 3.5 the Chicago interface, making it quite similar…

I picked something that can be rooted and made cloud-free with Valetudo for the same reason