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ch00f

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  • We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower

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  • pay to have the unit returned, spend valuable technician time diagnosing and fixing an issue and then pay to ship the repaired unit back.

    My point is that in a better world, people could fix this kind of thing themselves. Like offer a discount for their trouble and have them or their mechanic aunt come by and fix it.

  • We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower

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  • Meanwhile, my Wi-Fi router requires a PhD in reverse engineering just to figure out why it won’t connect to the internet.

    I do think people in general could benefit from maybe $100 in tools and a healthy dose of Youtube when it comes to this point. My PC of 10 years wouldn't boot one morning because my SSD died. There wasn't anything too important on it that I hadn't backed up, but it was still a bummer. I took it apart, and started poking around. Found a short across a capacitor, so I started cycling capacitors. Sure enough, one was bad. Replaced it. Boots just fine. (Moved everything to a new SSD just in case).

    All I needed for this job was a multimeter and a soldering iron (though hot air gun made it slightly easier).

    I think the "black box" nature of electronics is mostly illusory due to how we treat our devices. A friend bought a walking treadmill that wouldn't turn on out of the box. She contacted the company, they told her to trash it and just shipped her a new one.

    She gave it to me, I took it apart. One of the headers that connects the power switch to the mainboard was just unplugged. It took literally 10 minutes to "fix" including disassembly and assembly, and all I needed was a screwdriver.

    Yet there's zero expectation of user maintenance. If it doesn't work, trash it.

    Scroll through maker TikTok

    This guy might be looking in the wrong places.

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    What app/program do you wish existed and what does it do that you've not found elsewhere?

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  • Music software that shuffles entire albums and plays them end to end before switching to another random album.

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  • The children yearn for crocodile dentistry.

  • "Source code file"

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    • Auswitch statement
    • V2latile variable
    • Goebboolean
    • Zyklon C++
    • Left shift, Reich shift
    • Open and close Parenzer
    • Iron Cross-compiler

  • The ChompSaw: A Benchtop Power Tool That's Safe for Kids to Use

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  • This is a really incredible product. Unlike a lot of engineering-for-kids stuff, this provides just enough assistance to get out of the way, and I imagine it'd be a blast to play with as a kid.

    As someone who used to get blisters trying to cut cardboard with scissors, I wish I had this as a kid.

  • Before the algorithm took over, natural cruelty ruled supreme.

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  • Will it overflow? Will we have a -32768chan?

  • Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time

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  • Based on the description, my guess is that the script solved the problem of having the line interrupted by only doing a single 56k transaction per phone call.

    Lots of times, phone calls were billed $$$ for the first minute and $ for every minute after that. If her script only did one transaction per call and not even using the full minute, that could add up fast.

    And, given that it took a month for the bill to come, she could have been doing something wrong even during the day. Nobody would have noticed until the bill, and the 1am calls stood out the most when the bill finally came. Maybe there was a local exchange that didn't require long distance?

  • Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes

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  • Prompting LLMs is not engineering

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  • Even if prompt engineering requires skill, I suspect it's akin to "Google-Fu," which as far as I know was never a real job.

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    Your smart bulbs record 78% of conversations even when you think they're off

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  • Also from this fine media establishment:

    • Warning: 73% of garden soil contains hidden drain chemicals affecting families for 18 months
    • I tried this 2-ingredient summer mask at 53 and my dark spots faded 70% in 3 weeks (dermatologists explain why)
    • Cold plunge warning: this 15-second exposure raises senior blood pressure by 40 mmHg

    Also, for a writer named "John," he seems to really like wearing women's clothing

    And I don't know where he finds the time to get dressed considering he's written 18 articles so far today some in just 14 minutes.

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    This meme contains nudity because why not.

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  • I just want to afford to see a movie goddammit

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  • I was shocked to learn that most projectors are only 2k.

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    1312 Space ICE

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  • They do limit free movement though. Like the guy they pull over whose wife is going into space-labor was pulled over for leaving the city.

  • A Scanner For Arduino-Powered Book Archiving

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  • many book scanners use a wedge shape and two angled cameras to scan the pages when the book is held open at about a 5 degree angle

  • A Scanner For Arduino-Powered Book Archiving

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  • Very well executed, though not sure how I feel about the glass plate squishing the pages down like that.

  • How does multi-player support fit into theStop Killing Games Initiative

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  • CS 1.6 is how I learned about port forwarding

  • Cyclical fashions

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  • Photoshop or AI. The truck sucks on its own merits. Don't need to make up lies.

    Though you can see why someone would try to make this joke given what the bins actually look like: