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Ironically, your entire post can be read as such, almost perfectly! Labeling each sentence (J)ab and (T)hrust, and using colon ":" to indicate arguments, one gets: ``` J: J. J. T. …

I think y'all are on something.

Question - How does this capture the entire screen, except its own window? I've tried making similar functionality in Python to add visual effects to the screen, but the only way I…

I remember his show was abruptly interrupted as he was detained by the Federal Police for working in Brazil without the appropriate visa. https://www.folhadelondrina.com.br/geral/p…

Yes, they felt very pushy with this & other tactics to get me to use new features. That creates distrust in me, so I swapped to BitWarden and haven't looked back.

> Specifically, the ones rich in descriptions of scenery. (...) skimming to find where the descriptions end so I can resume reading from there. I've always been good at conjuring i…

Prediction: CEO salaries increase to account for hazard pay.

The person giving the tour knows security by obscurity is weak for actual security, but strong for marketing.

How are the cluster label strings generated?

These are submarines* * https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Ceci n'est pas un submarine.

Adding iodine to salt has greatly increased the population's IQ in countries that have adopted it. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15734706/

> MacBook Do you mean the American Electric "Suicide" Computer? Yes I've been zapped by it numerous times. Zapped by shower heads? Don't know anyone. Almost died from a gas heated …

Digital distribution and cloud apps lowered the cost to correct mistakes and therefore lowered the barrier to release. No longer are developers bound by physical media, or have to …

> The platform has been blocked in the country of 220 million since the end of last month. Actually, 203 million. The 2018 estimate was 214 million, which was corrected in the 2022…

"Don't even talk to me if your computer doesn't have homemade transistors". While I get the difference between creators vs users, in the end we're all users in someone else's persp…

"Privacy Sandbox" by Google. See also: 1. Exxon's "Advanced Recycling" 2. Phillip Morris' "Smoke Free" > The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with …

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Telecom service is actually getting cheaper. There are some new entrants. Just got a plan with 10GB data for CAD$29/month with US+Canada coverage. $2 more adds another 10GB

I've been in Toronto for a decade and the only enforcements I've seen are transit related. People do whatever they want here. I lived in South America in the 1990s, but every now a…

This reminds me of the time XBox 360s were hacked by drilling the processor at a precise location, at a precise depth [1]. At some point, a tool was made to signal if you drilled f…

Unfortunately gaming the system is still a temptation. By rewarding growth, schools are incentivized to prevent earlier grades from doing too well. One student with potential pushi…

Linux keeps improving. But I can tell you the following from a Lenovo Certified Ubuntu laptop last year: - Hibernate/suspend issues, Graphics/Wifi dies on wakeup. - Still needed to…