imglorp

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No plan. Core dumped.

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Comment · 45 minutes ago
How can I hide or move the ram program window? It's blocking the breadboard.
Comment · 8 days ago
Comment · 9 days ago
Did they force users to have an account to use a browser?
Comment · 10 days ago
> In 2024, PHP underwent its first external security audit in years. The PHP Foundation secured funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency to organize this audit ...

Well that's your problem right there! There are trillion dollar companies profiting off the back of open source projects without supporting the projects adequately. Why should they be scraping for funding for basic table stakes like audits?

Comment · 18 days ago
Comment · 18 days ago
Also: there aren't any really old iPads: Apple forces obsolescence. They could unlock the old devices and let users run whatever on there, but they prefer the ewaste route. Also because fuck you give us more money.
Comment · 25 days ago
(ignoring the snark but valid point)

To the contrary, innovation is proceeding full speed, despite patents. The only thing patents are doing is 1. enriching the lawyers on creation, 2. restraining law abiding innovators in country (meaning all other countries will proceed to ignore it anyway), 3. give the advantage to all other countries, and 4. enrich the lawyers again if they can find one of the in-country infringements to pursue (again ignoring all the others).

None of these outcomes is beneficial. The system is broken and antiquated. Ditch it.

Comment · 25 days ago
Oooh, good point. I bet the pharmas love this. Get that expensive, foot-dragging doctor out of the sales loop and write several prescriptions for every patient encounter! The KPI goes from minimizing MD minutes to maximizing med profits.

big /s

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Comment · 28 days ago
Many people from that era were well read and well spoken. He in particular sounded like he had some interesting life experiences: air force pilot, ambassador to the Soviet Union, president of the Boy Scouts, etc.
Comment · 1 month ago
The $3000 aids are also behind a gatekeeper wall of aid technicians. After an audiologist creates a hearing profile, a technician is needed to program it with proprietary cable and software.

New aids have a highly configurable user experience that will be deeply personal to the user: what do various taps and gestures do and how sensitive are they, what are the different discrimination modes (party, music, conversation, car, etc), and how to get to them, automatic behaviors etc. There's usually a user BT app but it's usually a horrible vast subset designed to keep the gatekeeping intact.

There's some disruption to be had here somewhere between the $3000 gate-kept experience and the $130 airpod one. It should include some open hardware and protocols, let the user adjust all the user knobs, but should retain the audiologist's role regarding the actual hearing profile and safety.

Comment · 1 month ago
Why aren't boring, old process ASICs isolated from this mess?
Comment · 1 month ago
I wonder what would org-babel for team settings look like? Disk/interchange format seems less interesting than what gets shipped around and what the UX feels like.
Comment · 1 month ago
Good eye. Its comment history really makes the point. Is it karma farming maybe?

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