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- Comment on Surprisingly enough, shady USB-C multiport adapters can be dangerous 21 hours ago:
USB hubs.
Plain old splitters will almost certainly damage the port, and if this is with a machine where USB-C is part of the motherboard, it could cause even more damage and be really expensive to repair.
The power-only ones are not too pricey. But if you also need high speed data transfer (like drives) those cost a bit more. Be careful that even the ones that claim data exchange may not support drive speeds. It took me three tries to finally find one that worked.
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 21 hours ago:
- Comment on Motorcycle knowledge 1 day ago:
It cuts down on bathroom stops during long rides.
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 2 days ago:
Vodka doesn’t have much flavor, but the Vermouth adds a nice touch. Most Vermouth is crap, though and has a sharp edge. The Dolin Dry is more floral: www.bittersandbottles.com/…/dolin-vermouth-dry
As for shaking, it’s a matter of taste. Vigorous shaking in a covered shaker with crushed ice breaks small shards into tiny crystals. These quickly melt, though, so it’s really the very first taste where it’s a bit tingly.
Toss in 3 large green olives with garlic or pimento and it’s a pretty decent, hard to mess up drink that anyone can make at home.
- Comment on Breaking GPT-5 News! 2 days ago:
Worth it. Image
- Comment on Breaking GPT-5 News! 2 days ago:
For those wondering who he is: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus#Artificial_in…
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- Comment on Remembering alum David Mills, who brought the internet into perfect time 4 days ago:
NTP is one of those fundamental working parts of the internet that nobody has to think much about, because it works so smoothly.
It’s taken for granted, like the lights will come on when you flip a switch. But there’s SO much more to make that happen.
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- Comment on xAI asked me to suck Nazi dick. Top comment decides my reply. 5 days ago:
“Thank you for the note. I’d love to chat, and the technology is dead center of what I’m interested in, especially wrt free speech.
Thing is, I’m halfway through my HRT process, going through M2F transition. Was wondering if this was covered by xAI insurance? My current company’s DEI policy fully covers it. FWIW, I disagree with where they stand on this.
Regards.”
- Comment on WhiteWind is a blog that uses the AT Protocol 6 days ago:
Came across this a few weeks ago. ATProto plugin for Wordpress: wordpress.com/plugins/neznam-atproto-share
Combined with the existing wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ ActivityPub and RSS/Atom support, it should be possible to post once / share everywhere.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
I was one of those. Happily discovered Voyager. I go back, usually when a search link takes me there.
The mobile app is designed by people who I only imagine get paid by the bulk number of raw clicks/taps on UI elements.
- Comment on Anyone have advice for a beginner planning on getting AWS CP license? 1 week ago:
Have you looked at the free courses from AWS?
…skillbuilder.aws/…/exam-prep-standard-course-aws…
More links on the site: aws.amazon.com/…/certified-cloud-practitioner/
Best practice, if going further, is to set up a console account and practice experimenting within free tier.
- Comment on You Need to Use Signal's Nickname Feature 1 week ago:
Signal could improve its user interface around groups and people with duplicate display names.
Nah, they really shouldn’t. Way more fun this way.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
So this showed up last week: github.com/raminf/RoboNope-nginx
Similar vibe, minus the AI.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet? 2 weeks ago:
RFC 2549: www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549
This problem was solved years ago: …ieee.org/pigeonbased-feathernet-still-wingsdown-…
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 weeks ago:
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin
