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I had that dimming issue in my house... And got the gas boiler serviced cause it had a problem with the ignitor, and all the dimming stopped. Now the house is ancient, so I'm guess…

We've started calling it "Human on the hook" instead of human in the loop in work. It is more accurate, in terms of, it only matters when something goes wrong. Edit:"On the hook" i…

Hi Simon, nice article. The parent there may be making the same assumption I am, that large enterprise _never_ pays sticker price. Also, to just color in the picture here, as I hav…

Your gonna get flagged and all for this comment..... But I agree. Is there a HN frontend that filters out mentions of AI, it would make a nice change... Maybe I should AI code it /…

Check your mouse focus settings in your desktop environment (gnome/KDE/whatever). There may be an option called mouse stealing prevention or something, but if you have a look you s…

What do you mean by copied? Ireland was colonised by the English for many years, and was part of their common law system during that period. When it became independent, all laws we…

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Genuine question, when people talk about apple silicon being fast, is the comparison to windows intel laptops, or Mac intel architecture? Because, when running a Linux intel laptop…

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Is there a feed of your global feed? A meta feed? If I download an opml it will just go out of date right?

Is there an RSS version of the weekly newsletter about Wikipedia articles?

I have to agree. In fairness I am biased in that I have used xubuntu (xfce Ubuntu distro) for many years, but the one "feature" is that now I find it hard to use any other OS becau…

I assumed it was because windows 10 went out of support a few months ago

You forgot the "and off by one errors"

Seems to be recovering now

Bridge doesn't seem to be working either, webapp will not load

I'm not sure if this takes into account para-virtualized networks on VMs, ie. VMware vm's with "virtual" hardware access It's been a few years for me tho, so perhaps it's covered w…

You can also buy a cheap cd player and some CDs from a second hand store

You have hit the nail on the head there! The point in the book was that depending on your editor, you were essentially living in different realities. There was the east and west co…

Fall, or Dodge in hell, by Neil Stephenson has a take on this. The internet is flooded with slop and rage-bait on purpose. So filled as to be unusable, like a firehose of shit. So …

People were pirating before napster, but napster made it easy, accessable, and let people do it with little to no barrier. It's the same with this.. yes photo editing could always …