reddig33
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- Comment on TV Time points to Apple's 'significant power' over developers after being removed from App Store | TechCrunch 2 days ago:
That suspiciously looks like something you could ship as a web app.
- Comment on California utilities scapegoat rooftop solar for high electricity rates 4 days ago:
Just keep pulling this nonsense and people will hog all that low cost electricity for themselves. Why should I pay utilities to take it when backup battery prices are getting cheaper?
- Comment on Nike’s Air Max 1000 are almost entirely 3D-printed 4 days ago:
I am sure they will be overpriced compared to manufacturing costs, just like Crocs.
- Comment on Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? - The Old New Thing 4 days ago:
GEOS was amazing.
- Comment on Where to start? 1 week ago:
I recommend starting with the original series or Star Trek the next generation. Picard and Discovery are probably the worst places to start.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Talks Directing And Tawny Newsome Talks Writing For ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 1 week ago:
This makes me think about the TNG episode where they originally tried to backdoor pilot a Starfleet Academy series — it was the one where Wesley and his cohorts break the rules flying shuttles during some exhibition and someone gets hurt (and they lie about it). I have to wonder how that series would have turned out if it had been picked up.
- Comment on Meta must face FTC trial that could separate Instagram and WhatsApp 1 week ago:
It will depend on if Zuck has done anything to kiss him off. If so he will probably give the FTC the go ahead. That’s how he operates. It’s not about what’s good for the country. It’s about quid pro quo.
- Comment on Meta must face FTC trial that could separate Instagram and WhatsApp 1 week ago:
They never should have let meta buy Instagram in the first place. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Max is getting ready for its own password-sharing crackdown 2 weeks ago:
Crack down all you want. I haven’t been subscribed since Last Of Us season 1 ended. The more you jack up the prices and other shit like this, the less likely I am to subscribe.
- Comment on Microsoft Rewards offers $1 million grand prize in latest sweepstakes to users of Bing, Edge 2 weeks ago:
Is this like an Elon “sweepstakes” where the winners are predetermined and not chosen at random? In mean I have to check to see if this is worth my time now that the courts have redefined what a sweepstakes is.
- Comment on In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily 2 weeks ago:
I’d like to see a cost comparison. I’m guessing all that battery storage cost less than the price of a nuclear reactor over its lifetime.
- Comment on Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable 3 weeks ago:
Proliferation of bots ≠ popular.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
If that’s the case, then why does the wireless keyboard have the port on the back?
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
Most computers go into a deep power saving mode when they aren’t in use. Far less than a light bulb or power brick.
- Comment on Interview: ‘Lower Decks’ Cast Talks Character Growth, Season 5 Finale, And Not Saying Goodbye To Star Trek 3 weeks ago:
I was pleasantly surprised by the two characters who showed up in live action on Strange New Worlds. I’d love to see them find a new home there or on another live action series.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 3 weeks ago:
“640k is enough for anyone.”
- Comment on The late Teri Garr as Roberta Lincoln in "Assignment: Earth" 3 weeks ago:
❤️
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 3 weeks ago:
The military had a similar problem with fitness apps for a while.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
See also first sale doctrine:
“Lending of physical books held by the library is permitted under the first sale doctrine. In other instances, such as making copies of articles and checking them out to students, libraries may rely on fair use to justify course reserves. A recent landmark case related to electronic reserves is Cambridge v. Patton, in which a group of publishers sued Georgia State University for their liberal e-reserves policy. The courts held GSU to be the prevailing party, finding fair use in the majority of alleged infringements”
guides.library.oregonstate.edu/…/libraries#:~:tex….
See also Ben Franklin:
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
“Fair Use” is a thing. Someone needs to go back to law school.
- Comment on 97 days: Kamala Harris has yet to do formal press conference since emerging as Democratic nominee 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis? 3 weeks ago:
I’d love to see an “empty property” tax. It would drive down the number of empty offices and homes, generate revenue, and drive down realty prices and rents.
- Comment on Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis? 3 weeks ago:
AirBNB/short term rental is likely already illegal in most cities. But no one wants to take it on (can’t piss off the lobbyists I suppose). If you’re renting out a property for a few days or a couple of weeks and you don’t live on site, that’s a hotel, not a BNB. And hotels are already zoned and taxed and regulated — they can’t be in a residential neighborhood for example. You’d think hotel chains wouldn’t want this illegal competition and would sue.
- Comment on Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis? 3 weeks ago:
Not sure how it’s dystopic to convert unused office space into housing. Sounds useful to me.
I’ve read that it’s difficult to do though because the buildings usually don’t have the right plumbing for it. I do wonder if they could replumb using raised flooring.
I’d also like to see some of this wasted office space converted into indoor farming.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 4 weeks ago:
Thinking of all the cool products this CEO has killed off. I would love to see this company split up so that maybe they could innovate again.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 4 weeks ago:
“Beyond the floppies, though, the Muni Metro needs many more upgrades. The SFMTA plans to spend $700 million (including the $212 million Hitachi contract) to overhaul the light rail’s control system. This includes replacing the loop cable system for sending data across the servers and trains. The cables are said to be a more pressing concern than the use of floppy disks. “
Not disputing what you said — just clarifying that other upgrades are not part of the $212 mil. The $212 is just to replace the floppy based system with something newer that includes a service contract.
Supposedly the new system is five gens ahead of the old system and would have additional features. Some would say “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” but whatever. I’m sure it will be as fancy as upgrading to Windows 11 at that price.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 4 weeks ago:
According to the article, the other improvements are priced separately from the $212 million de-floppy-ing.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 4 weeks ago:
The loop cable and other non-floppy improvements are priced out separately according to the article.
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 4 weeks ago:
T mobile going downhill since merging with sprint and losing Legere.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like a grift. All you need is an emulator and a disk image.