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jackdh commented on There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape   blog.jgc.org/2026/01/ther... · Posted by u/abnercoimbre
dbbk · 2 months ago
UK also banned them
jackdh · 2 months ago
Hardly, they banned fully disposable. You can still by them but now you can swap in a refill cartridge. The price of this refillable one is the same as the original.

Many places apparently don't even sell the refills so it's practically the same.

jackdh commented on Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything   walletwallet.alen.ro/... · Posted by u/alentodorov
saxenaabhi · 3 months ago
It probably is violating the ToS. But would like to know more.
jackdh · 3 months ago
Unlikely, I've used apps similar to this such as passbook [0] for a while now and they're still up.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/passbook-wallet-pass-creator/i...

jackdh commented on Viral 'Free Potatoes' Post Cost This Farmer 150 Tons of Crops   vice.com/en/article/viral... · Posted by u/xbmcuser
OutOfHere · 5 months ago
Is a farmer not supposed to have a basic locked fence around his farmed produce? (I'm not referring to the farm itself.)
jackdh · 5 months ago
Sounds like a nice way for someone to get a free fence.
jackdh commented on CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems   colton.dev/blog/tailwind-... · Posted by u/coltonv
pier25 · 8 months ago
> There is also nothing stopping you mixing and matching.

Yes, common sense. Having multiple approaches to solve the same thing tends to be a bad idea.

jackdh · 8 months ago
My point is that there is no one CSS library to rule them all and likely never will be. The closest to that is going back to pure raw CSS which I highly doubt people will do.

And yes while it's obviously not ideal to have a hundred competing libraries in your code, you can create what works for you / your team.

jackdh commented on CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems   colton.dev/blog/tailwind-... · Posted by u/coltonv
jackdh · 8 months ago
I used to be a naysayer of tailwind. However after getting practically forced into it I'm now drinking the koolaid. Yes things like having to duplicate styles using multi cursor is kind of silly, however for the vast majority of the time, having the styles written clearly each time, for me, makes it worth it.

There is also nothing stopping you mixing and matching.

jackdh commented on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir
leptons · 10 months ago
That has to be some kind of corporate money laundering, or highly illegal. The board should fire Altman if this is true and get out of this purchase.
jackdh · 10 months ago
Yes that worked so well the last time ha.
jackdh commented on No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains   blog.transitapp.com/go-un... · Posted by u/dotcoma
bambax · a year ago
Dead reckoning is... hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning

The first car navigator, the Etak, came out in 1985 and used dead reckoning and quantization to tell where the car was on the map; see this excellent article from 2017:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3047828/who-needs-gps-the-forgot...

Today dead reckoning is used in aerial navigation, and commercial planes (and others) are equipped with Inertial Navigation systems to supplement GPS information; they are getting more and more precise but can still go wrong and need frequent re-calibration.

The next step is "Quantum Positioning System" that promises to detect infinitely small movements and produce perfect dead reckoning at all times, with a precision of the order of one centimeter. It has already been tested successfully. For now the machines are heavy and extremely expensive, but it's imaginable that in some not-so-distant future the technology will be much more available.

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/quantum-navigation-infleqtion-...

jackdh · a year ago
There is a very good set of podcasts[0] by Cautionary Tales about the German V2 rockets in WW2 which tried to use this. It was so hard the Allies allowed them to continue wasting money on it during the war. Well worth a listen to if you're into that.

[0] https://timharford.com/2023/07/cautionary-tales-the-v2-trilo...

jackdh commented on American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway   cnn.com/2024/10/02/travel... · Posted by u/impish9208
hilux · a year ago
It's not the same thing at all, but if you enjoy reading about "abandoned military hardware," you'll love this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Belgium_MiG-23_crash
jackdh · a year ago
Ha, that is definitely not type of abandoned that I was expecting. That poor chap who was killed, what an incredibly unlucky event for him.
jackdh commented on Dell XPS13 RAM Upgrade   gregdavill.com/posts/dell... · Posted by u/fanf2
cies · a year ago
> But next time I think I’ll just buy the 16GB variant upfront.

Get the 32GB variant: RAM is often the limiting factor for being able to still use an old machine. Now that these get soldered on, better dial it up a notch.

jackdh · a year ago
Unless you're with Apple, in which case a solid 8GB should be enough for the next decade or so! /s

u/jackdh

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