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"standard adtech"

I hate stuff like this. Sometimes euphemisms are kind, like "senior citizen" instead of "old person".

But this is an attempt to normalize bad behavior that is really quite terrible for society.


> BTW 82% indoor humidity is really high

I looked back at the article, thinking maybe it was an outlier datapoint (like measuring near bathroom after shower)

but if average is 74% that IS really high.

I wonder if this is in a coastal region.

When I was young I lived in florida for a summer. I once naively put oreos in a cookie jar and eating one the next day was like biting into soggy toothpaste.


> I see Claude being wrong often enough that I view it as a faulty narrator.

I'm reminded of <insert-someone-in-your-life-that-generates-friction-here>

"Often wrong, never in doubt"


I too thought the 2003 keyboard was the best design, but for ergonomic reasons.

They did it right with respect to key shape.

- the keys were scuplted. This eliminated touch-typing problems because your fingers would find the edges of keys then self-center in the middle of a concave surface.

- the modifier keys were convex, so you could detect them easily

- you could plug the mouse into the keyboard. (though there were power problems with higher-powered mice)

I really hated it when they went to flat keyboards.

Functionality went out the window. You couldn't find the center of keys, so it was easier to make mistakes because of lack of feel.

The only nice thing I could say about them is that they were attractive to look at in a way, and the short throw was very light.


I think Abraham Lincoln

Nah, George Washington. He was so authentic that he never told a lie.

gold standard!

I'm reminded of the original matrix movie. It starts out with a lot of action, and then Trinity makes a phone call and disappears.

At the time I thought "groan, unbelievable" until the idea of virtual reality fixed my suspension of disbelief.

Maybe I'm reading the same things as everyone else, but I thought the agents coordinating on the german wiki is expanding my mind wrt what is possible.

Virtually ALL electronics or accounts hook to the internet to "add value". AI assistance helps writing programs, reverse engineering, automating programs/browsers/websites/devices, hacking, achieving goals.

Unsettling that the last 2-3 years a lot more ridiculous movie tropes have become plausible to me.


interesting that the rotor sail principle can be used with planes too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect#In_aviation

(can't help but think "tilt rotor" of a different kind)


I've given out jwz's link to several people:

https://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html

(maybe copy/paste this into browser instead of following link, since referrer from hn apparently does something)


> have this happen every morning at 5AM by creating a temporary text file containing this line: 0 5 * * * rsync -vax --delete --ignore-errors / /Volumes/Backup/

This leaves you needlessly exposed to this failure mode: Commit some "braino" that wipes out some recent work. Go to bed without noticing the loss. 5am rsync run wipes your backup as well.

The fix is to back up to not just one but to a rotation of images. Use --link-dest to reduce storage overhead to the size of the directory hierarchy only.


Oh that's fantastic (HN redirect)

Clicks on the link…yeah that’s accurate

I remember reading about star trek, and in particular uhura.

"Uhura" comes from the Swahili word uhuru, meaning "freedom"

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyota_Uhura

On Star Trek, Nichols was one of the first Black women featured in a major television series. Her prominent supporting role as a bridge officer was unprecedented.

She was once tempted to leave the series; however, a conversation with Martin Luther King Jr. changed her mind.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichelle_Nichols


I'll bet fire resistance and temperature stability are all good though.

Don't know about noise - wonder if it is better or worse?


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