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- Comment on Have you done US district court jury duty? What CAN I bring with me to the courthouse? 8 hours ago:
OP said it’s US District court, and I think the federal courts tend to be stricter. It might vary from district to district, not sure about that.
- Comment on Have you done US district court jury duty? What CAN I bring with me to the courthouse? 1 day ago:
Was that US or State court?
- Comment on Even Xbox developer kits are getting a big price hike 1 day ago:
I understand it’s not just impacting US developers, as the price of these development kits is also going up across Europe and elsewhere. That’s likely because those “macroeconomic” conditions extend beyond just US tariffs, with currency fluctuations, production costs, and other elements impacting pricing.
I’m thinking they don’t sell that many dev kits so maybe the price is going up for Europe also simply because all of the kits ship from China to Redmond and get distributed to the rest of the world from there. Like, I kind of doubt they even build and sell enough in a year to fill a single shipping container.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 1 day ago:
Who’s out here deep frying crepes? American county/state fair vendors?
- Comment on Share your poops! 3 days ago:
It’s why the fancy hotels had phones next to the toilet
- Comment on Does you feel Crash Team Racing was better than Mario Kart? 3 days ago:
My experience was only playing at friends’ houses who had Play Stations, but I never felt like one was better than the other. I appreciated the mechanic of upgrading items helped to give a different element to the game instead of it being the same thing Nintendo was doing but with different characters. What we really played a lot with friends, though, was Battle Mode on Mario Kart. I don’t think CTR had that, or else no one thought it was as good. It really hasn’t been as good in Mario Kart either since the Wii version I’d say.
- Comment on Wild Seals 3 days ago:
I now plan to use “the morals of a seagull” whenever I can
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Do you have any old yearbooks? You might recognize him in there and at least be able to remember his name
- Comment on Share your poops! 3 days ago:
We used to keep diaries like civilized people.
- Comment on You dont have to answer silly questions 4 days ago:
Discord is really a terrible place to discuss issues and how-to’s. Whatever happened to just having a forum? Topics and threads keep things organized better
- Comment on What a welcoming party 4 days ago:
Set up a camera and run the video to a nearby viewing room
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 4 days ago:
I’m not sure but I’m trying to look (not very actively right now, though). Amazon seems to keep updates going for 6 years or so but I’d prefer to not be in such a closed ecosystem. There’s certainly an attraction to an Android-based system. Google has been pushing for suppliers to provide longer Android support but it doesn’t seem like many smaller suppliers have been doing that still. Of course, if you disable internet access and only load files over USB then it’s less of a concern, but then you lose out on some of the Android benefits.
- Comment on i hunger 4 days ago:
Who would win? A railroad speed champion or one grassy pile?
- Comment on Internet email for dummies 4 days ago:
How old is it?
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 5 days ago:
Thanks, that’s my concern with a lot of these interesting devices from small companies
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 6 days ago:
My concern would be less about features and more security updates
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 1 week ago:
Adding to this, how are they at keeping Android updated, especially on older devices?
- Comment on My Wife vs. Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Lock | LockPickingLawyer 1 week ago:
She cut the bottom of the container off.
Security is only as good as its weakest link.
—LockPickingLawyer’s analysis - Comment on What time is it? 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t that have been easier on grid paper? Why use ruled paper?
- Comment on They have a right to feel smug 2 weeks ago:
We took my in-laws back to my father-in-law’s hometown in France this summer and it was kind of mind-boggling to me how most of the homes had no air conditioning but also no screens on the windows to keep bugs out.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 2 weeks ago:
Tying into this, I feel like in the late-’90s/early-’00s there were a lot of people using the internet every day and some of the benefits and potential were already obvious. Office jobs were extensively starting to use email already and many people at home were checking email at least once a day and looking at online news. E-commerce was basically an improved mail-order catalog, but the improved selection, availability, and prices really were an improvement. Instant communication was an immediate benefit and digital media was showing obvious promise.
I don’t feel like I see nearly the same widespread use of “AI” today. Some of the things that are getting big money don’t really seem like they have a lot of practical application. I don’t think many people have a daily need to generate images or videos. A lot of the things that seem more promising, like improved translation or voice to text, also might not be very profitable, as in people probably won’t want to pay much for them, and they definitely won’t be unless the astronomical resource costs currently projected come way down.
I think where they’re very similar is there are a lot of companies rushing to slap the craze into their business, transform the business for the craze, or create a new business capitalizing on the craze, whether or not it actually makes sense to do so and whether or not the technology is actually useful for the stated purpose yet.
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 2 weeks ago:
On a globe, yes. If the earth were flat as depicted in the above map with Antarctica as the edge then no. This simply points out one of the many illogical points to flat earth conspiracies.
- Comment on What's your test for people? 3 weeks ago:
I almost never had a table stack their stuff the way I wanted. Just make sure your spot is tidy, easy to grab, and there are no surprises like silverware or a tiny dish wrapped inside a napkin. Definitely don’t stick a paper napkin inside your cup that still has a drink in it. By the time it gets back to the dish station it will have turned into a paste someone has to dig out and will be cursing you!
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 3 weeks ago:
The only place I ever saw it was at Costco or a little specialty health food store mom used to go to when I was little. I haven’t been to the latter in decades, and Costco got rid of theirs a couple years ago. I think Costco’s reasoning was mostly about them being underutilized compared to the cost. My parents were never coffee drinkers, though, and I started trying when I was dating my wife but also started getting ulcers soon after, so coffee hasn’t been something I’ve really paid attention to.
- Comment on Y = -x² 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for the formula
- Comment on Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo 3 weeks ago:
I’d never considered how much this applies to the general “tech bro” mindset beyond the chaos theory parts of the book
- Comment on Mozilla Integrates Google Lens for Visual Search in Firefox Desktop 3 weeks ago:
Upvoting for awareness, not because I’m happy about it
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 4 weeks ago:
“Please drink a verification can”
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 4 weeks ago:
Does it taste different than what you get in cans/bottles for home use?
- Comment on It's got the juice 4 weeks ago:
Crabgrass was once a food crop and not a weed?