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pcdoyle commented on VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO dfarq.homeip.net/va-linux... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

gkhartman · 3 months ago

If you don't mind me asking, what did you end up buying, and what was lacking support? I'd expect full support from one of the "Linux first" suppliers like System76.

pcdoyle · 3 months ago

I just got a ThinkPad E14 Gen 6 and the only thing I had to fix/install manually was the driver for the fingerprint reader (fprintd). Everything else just worked, including my docking station and ultra wide monitor.

pcdoyle commented on LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language writings.stephenwolfram.c... · Posted by u/zyl1n

ALittleLight · 3 years ago

I've heard, but never confirmed, that you get Mathematica for free when you purchase a Raspberry Pi.

pcdoyle · 3 years ago

I didn't know that, but apparently yes: https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/

pcdoyle commented on Ask HN: Where are all the parties? · Posted by u/throwaway_party

motohagiography · 3 years ago

I don't invite people over anymore because their fussiness scales negatively - where if you want to mix 5 people who each have a rule about what they cannot abide, the common denominator is rarely special enough to leave the house for. Between the discretionary lifestyle demands of vegetarians, vegans, non-glutens, non-porks, non-drinkers, anti-smokers, non-problematics, non-outdoorsies, hover-parents, maskers, and the increasingly insane milenial need to make all their experiences on-brand and instagrammable, the closed path through those obstacles is a Hard problem.

It recently occurred to me how important my fraternal org is in my life after taking some time away from it. Showing up to see 30 or so guys who aren't family, and who were happy enough to see me, say hello, have a pint, dinner and small talk is maybe a once a year experience for most guys over 40, but for me it's about 10x/year, just with that group. There's a natural filter, where you don't have to re-negotiate all these anxieties every time you try to get people together.

One reason parties disappeared is because we have encouraged widespread neuroticism and anxiety about maintaining purity in different and various forms, and that intolerance has effectively eroded the social fabric. Surely we can hav e new kinds parties, ones that are lame, and that nobody enjoys, but we can have the satisfaction that at least those other people aren't here...

pcdoyle · 3 years ago

I must be incredibly lucky because I am a millennial and this is not my experience with my social circles. We have a game night almost every week (5+ people), and usually a few parties a year (15+ people) with no drama or fuss. Is this not normal? Is it different depending on the area you grow up in?

pcdoyle commented on Twitter's API is down? · Posted by u/mvid

vntok · 3 years ago

Surely you're writing this in jest?

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/twitter-e...

pcdoyle · 3 years ago

Reading that article, I am actually impressed that after that 45-minute outage in 2022, the next major outage was all the way back in 2016. I would say that is actually quite an endorsement for the quality of engineers they had.

pcdoyle commented on Twitter's API is down? · Posted by u/mvid

omnibrain · 3 years ago

> its up and running well

I would from personal experience disagree on the "well" part.

I'm suddenly following accounts I recently unfollowed again. Previously blocked accounts show up. The search doesn't find stuff it used to find anymore - posts that are definitely not deleted because I can usually find them via other references.

pcdoyle · 3 years ago

I have noticed that the explore page, and my timeline are way staler than they used to be. Tweets I have seen or even interacted with keep popping to the top all day, and trends on the explore page can be there for days at a time. It can take hours for major world events don't show up on the explore page for me sometimes.

pcdoyle commented on Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station kuow.org/stories/we-didn-... · Posted by u/walrus01

JohnBooty · 4 years ago

My wife has a 2019 Subaru Crosstrek that gets this exactly right, IMO.

There is a touchscreen. IMO, you want that for Apple CarPlay / Android Auto. Mostly for nav.

But for everything else, there are big grippy analog controls. There are also analog volume and prev/next controls for the touchscreen. I believe the interior was designed with the concept of, "everything should be operable, even if the driver is wearing gloves."

pcdoyle · 4 years ago

Yeah this is how my Hyundai Kona (2020) works and I think it's a good bridge between both. Touchscreen for CarPlay navigation, knobs on the dashboard, and additional buttons on the steering wheel (volume up/down, skip, mute, answer call).

pcdoyle commented on Firefox 72.0 mozilla.org/en-US/firefox... · Posted by u/Shinkirou

mderazon · 6 years ago

Only thing keeping me in Chrome is multiple profiles

And no, Firefox containers are not the same, I cannot install two versions for 1pass - personal/private

Firefox also have true "profiles" but they are kind of a hack

pcdoyle · 6 years ago

I made a bookmark for about:profiles so I can launch a different profile, but it is a bit more cumbersome than having it be part of the main interface.

pcdoyle commented on ICE has kept British family with their 3-month-old baby detained for days washingtonpost.com/nation... · Posted by u/primroot

vasco · 6 years ago

If that's per adult they're below the limit.

pcdoyle · 6 years ago

It's per family (residing in one household).

http://customsandinternationaltradelaw.com/2013/12/13/intern...

pcdoyle commented on The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ theguardian.com/lifeandst... · Posted by u/wallflower

SlowRobotAhead · 7 years ago

I was under the impression that Canada’s health system does have a yearly deductible for perceptions at least. $750 I thought.

Edit: Yes, this was for BC or Alberta and is still the case in at least one of those.

pcdoyle · 7 years ago

It's different in every province. The Federal Government has a very narrow jurisdiction in Canada, and healthcare is not in it. In BC I pay for my prescriptions but it's heavily subsidized for most of them.

pcdoyle commented on The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room bbc.com/future/story/2016... · Posted by u/edwinksl

drb91 · 8 years ago

As someone who just started using windows for the first time, doesn’t the little search box essentially replace the start menu? How are people expected to find their app—manually clicking through a bunch of menus to one they are looking for? Assuming they have NOT pinned it to the dock at the bottom.

pcdoyle · 8 years ago

Yeah, I've only used the search box since Windows 7 when it was introduced. I find it a lot faster than clicking through the menu. It seems like it's difficult for some people to get the hang of after so many years without that option being available though. I do believe it's on Microsoft for not introducing it well though.