solrize

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[–] solrize 2 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Use wired earbuds and a player with a 3.5mm jack. BIFL for that stuff is kind of difficult though. Just buy cheap and replace now and then.

[–] solrize 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Look up "British Commonwealth" on Wikipedia. They rebranded from "Empire" post WW2 or so. It's a voluntary association now, and some countries have in fact withdrawn. No revolution needed any more. Just some paperwork, more or less.

[–] solrize 4 points 2 months ago

just want some old junker (6/7/8th gen Intel)

You probably have to go back further than that for a 3.5" sff pc. Look on woot though, they have such refurbs all the time. Or scrounge a mini tower.

[–] solrize 1 points 2 months ago

It doesn't appear for everyone to see.

Every user of the extension then, which is apparently a lot of users, enough to affect the site culture, if the other guy's report reflects reality.

[–] solrize 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If the label appears on your profile for everyone to see without further info then it's truth value is thrown away. IDK how big a problem it really is on bsky now though. The other guy says it is, you seem to think the opposite, I don't care enough to look into it further.

If Twitter went Nazi post-Musk while it's software stayed about the same, that shows that management really does shoulder blame.

[–] solrize 0 points 2 months ago

Shifted right means their policy preferences moved right. That is not the entirety of why someone votes a given way. Some probably did shift right. Others may have thought Trump had better hair. It's an analog world and you have to dive into the weeds to understand things. You can't look at one number and think it explains everything.

[–] solrize 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh sweet child. What has Apple done to people? A removable battery looks like this:

https://www.ifixit.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-x220-x220i-x230i-replacement-battery

You just snap it onto the computer. No disassembly. No tools. No screws. All laptops and cell phones except Apple used to have them. You could carry several charged batteries with you and swap them as needed. Some laptops even used two, so you could hot swap with no power interruption.

And we walked to school barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways. :)

[–] solrize 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you have to ask this question you should probably be using a garbage collected language. Manual memory management is quite tedious and it's easy to make mistakes. Rust's novel contribution is reliably catching the mistakes at compile time so once you have fixed all the compile time error messages you have a safe program. But it doesn't ease the tedium that much.

GC does it automatically and is way more convenient, but inflicts a cost in runtime performance. That's almost always fine on today's computers, thus Python's popularity. Rust is best for systems work where you need more precise control of machine resources. It is probably used more than necessary right now, because it's new and exciting and programmers like that.

The safest language is probably Ada but it is less flexible than Rust. They are working on extending it to be comparable. Right now Ada isn't well suited for programs that do lots of runtime allocation.

[–] solrize -5 points 2 months ago

Non sequitur, there are many analyses of the party change and they don't all boil down to left vs right.

[–] solrize 1 points 2 months ago

Not for me, I'm in a ground floor apt and anyway Elon isn't so great either.

[–] solrize 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hmm good point, I'll check the spring. Though the negative battery terminal had no crap on it. The tight head and popping sound made me think the battery had vented some gas from a short. (Added: there may have also been a spark when oxygen got in). But I'll check further. Thanks.

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