I like this idea. I like it quite a lot. But can we... uh... can we keep that as some kind of tertiary issue to solve later after we successfully stop screwing up the clocks twice every year? We don't really need to…
This is the only reasonable and measured take. (Unfortunately, it always gets derailed by highly-polarized discussions about whether to stay on DST forever or get rid of it forever. They'll be showing up here again soon…
Maybe you could be happy with that, or perhaps I could be as well, but you and I aren't ChiTu. And ChiTu is free to do whatever they want (including doing nothing at all). And that matters because statements like "just…
For awhile, I picked up yet-another Pi Zero W every time I went into Microcenter for $5. It was a wonderful time to live nearby.
I've been on Amazon's "get free stuff" list for a few years. I review stuff honestly. If the product is trash, I review it as such. If it's good, it gets some notes about the good stuff and the parts that make it…
Same on my 14-year-old Honda van. The sane way to replace the HID bulbs (or the ballast or the ignitor, because HID things) is to remove the headlight housings, and the first step of doing that is removing the front…
That's a computer, wherein: More is better. But here we have LLMs, wherein: It depends. The smaller models can in fact outperform the bigger ones, and get some stuff done cheaper, better, and faster. If the question is…
The customer is always right in matters of taste.
I'd prefer no pictures over obviously-false pictures that don't resemble the food on this planet. Even in a strange place and where I don't understand the language, I have Google Lens.
[delayed]
Does whole experience of having dinner at restaurant involve more than dropping some plates of food on the table and a finale of "Fuck you, pay me"? If does, then: The menu is an important part of the experience. It's…
It can! :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhpF10H9G-M
How does one more-properly articulate "it depends"?
Cheap MCU dev kits in general, for me? A somewhat-elaborate fan speed controller for a wonderful old pro audio power amp that also needed a good bit of other rehab A window fan controller, for summer use, that only…
My cat's brain sure does seem to be stimulated by birdwatching on a screen. He tries to kill them, then walks behind the screen and has a WTF moment, and returns to the front to try to kill them again. It's very…
Yeah. You get it. Heroin is bad. We all know something about what it does, and that it is bad. Regular folks are often unaware at all that Heroin was once a product and trademark of Bayer, or that Bayer was the first to…
Yep. And to be justifiably curt: It's fucking bullshit. At best, it's deliberately manipulative. At worst, it's a pack of lies. The median bullshit quotient here is: Festering.
What I'm trying to convey is this: We may end up getting rid of Flock the company (ha, as if), but we'll always have [what people call] Flock cameras.
I'm not worried about it. Regular folks often refer to any larger-than-phone, smaller-than-laptop device they see with a screen as an iPad, even if it's a hardwired Clover payment terminal running Android. The…
We survived fine as a species when IBM's automatic machines replaced the ledger clerks of yore. That wasn't even such a long time ago. We'll survive this transition as well.
That's a nice certification program. I'm glad that it exists and that there's a list of products that comply with it. I've saved it for later perusal. But it reaches a wee bit further than I actually care about for…
I'd rather bet that YouTube wants the greatest number of people watching as many videos with as many ads as possible, and that they don't give a fuck how the content was produced as long as it acquires and retains…
I understood your point very well. But understanding and acceptance are two very different concepts.
I'd like to present a newspaper insert from Circuit City in 1997 that advertised the televisions they offered: https://web.archive.org/web/20261025051358/https://i.ebayimg... Front page at…
I like this idea. I like it quite a lot. But can we... uh... can we keep that as some kind of tertiary issue to solve later after we successfully stop screwing up the clocks twice every year? We don't really need to…
This is the only reasonable and measured take. (Unfortunately, it always gets derailed by highly-polarized discussions about whether to stay on DST forever or get rid of it forever. They'll be showing up here again soon…
Maybe you could be happy with that, or perhaps I could be as well, but you and I aren't ChiTu. And ChiTu is free to do whatever they want (including doing nothing at all). And that matters because statements like "just…
For awhile, I picked up yet-another Pi Zero W every time I went into Microcenter for $5. It was a wonderful time to live nearby.
I've been on Amazon's "get free stuff" list for a few years. I review stuff honestly. If the product is trash, I review it as such. If it's good, it gets some notes about the good stuff and the parts that make it…
Same on my 14-year-old Honda van. The sane way to replace the HID bulbs (or the ballast or the ignitor, because HID things) is to remove the headlight housings, and the first step of doing that is removing the front…
That's a computer, wherein: More is better. But here we have LLMs, wherein: It depends. The smaller models can in fact outperform the bigger ones, and get some stuff done cheaper, better, and faster. If the question is…
The customer is always right in matters of taste.
I'd prefer no pictures over obviously-false pictures that don't resemble the food on this planet. Even in a strange place and where I don't understand the language, I have Google Lens.
[delayed]
Does whole experience of having dinner at restaurant involve more than dropping some plates of food on the table and a finale of "Fuck you, pay me"? If does, then: The menu is an important part of the experience. It's…
It can! :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhpF10H9G-M
How does one more-properly articulate "it depends"?
Cheap MCU dev kits in general, for me? A somewhat-elaborate fan speed controller for a wonderful old pro audio power amp that also needed a good bit of other rehab A window fan controller, for summer use, that only…
My cat's brain sure does seem to be stimulated by birdwatching on a screen. He tries to kill them, then walks behind the screen and has a WTF moment, and returns to the front to try to kill them again. It's very…
[delayed]
Yeah. You get it. Heroin is bad. We all know something about what it does, and that it is bad. Regular folks are often unaware at all that Heroin was once a product and trademark of Bayer, or that Bayer was the first to…
Yep. And to be justifiably curt: It's fucking bullshit. At best, it's deliberately manipulative. At worst, it's a pack of lies. The median bullshit quotient here is: Festering.
What I'm trying to convey is this: We may end up getting rid of Flock the company (ha, as if), but we'll always have [what people call] Flock cameras.
I'm not worried about it. Regular folks often refer to any larger-than-phone, smaller-than-laptop device they see with a screen as an iPad, even if it's a hardwired Clover payment terminal running Android. The…
We survived fine as a species when IBM's automatic machines replaced the ledger clerks of yore. That wasn't even such a long time ago. We'll survive this transition as well.
That's a nice certification program. I'm glad that it exists and that there's a list of products that comply with it. I've saved it for later perusal. But it reaches a wee bit further than I actually care about for…
I'd rather bet that YouTube wants the greatest number of people watching as many videos with as many ads as possible, and that they don't give a fuck how the content was produced as long as it acquires and retains…
I understood your point very well. But understanding and acceptance are two very different concepts.
I'd like to present a newspaper insert from Circuit City in 1997 that advertised the televisions they offered: https://web.archive.org/web/20261025051358/https://i.ebayimg... Front page at…