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bluGill

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A programmer with an interest in transit, making music, and building things of all types.

I have dysgraphia which makes writing difficult for me. I hope you can figure out what I mean despite my issues.

  • SilverBullet: a self-hosted personal knowledge management system for people with a hacker mindset

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  • mobiles and desktops are very diffrerent and need different user incerfaces. So you are not savin, much work. In fact trying to handle both in on may be worse because of all the special cases. Be glad you don't have to support teletypes, they demand different user interfaces.

  • What do you do with your vehicle when you're at your destination?

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  • EVs won over US early adopters, but mainstream buyers aren't along for the ride yet

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  • i have looked at it, one trim level which isn't the one I need. The pathetic range means I'e mostly be on gas even for trips around town.

  • EVs won over US early adopters, but mainstream buyers aren't along for the ride yet

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  • another exception.

  • EVs won over US early adopters, but mainstream buyers aren't along for the ride yet

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  • The cells should be individual 18650 which are standard and easy for a tech with the right training to replace. No need for a swap able battery, just repairable is all we need.

  • EVs won over US early adopters, but mainstream buyers aren't along for the ride yet

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  • Most vehicles are not available as an EV yet. Want a minivan - VW says this summer you can get the first one. Want a truck - has to be the Ford F150 - which is in short supply and only available as a crew cab no long box. Want a car - limited choices and all luxury (except the leaf which is very limited range)

    And of course most cars are old - most car buyers don't even have as many options as the above as EVs are not yet on the used market in as great numbers.

  • EVs won over US early adopters, but mainstream buyers aren't along for the ride yet

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  • Swapable batteries will never happen in cars. (might for semi trucks or tractors). The individual cells in a battery are small and car designers want to cram as many in as they can where they fit. Thus the incentive is to make each battery an odd shape around the other things in the car.

  • How do you know when saw files need to be replaced?

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  • It is really short. Files go dull and don't really give any signs. 5 is a good rule of thumb, but some go as little as 3 or as many as 10.

  • US moves to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela after opposition candidate barred from presidential election

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  • Many believe that your so called help for the poor makes things worse for the poor in the long run. You don't have to agree with their position, but you need to accept that they are reasonable people looking at facts and coming up with a different interpretation.

  • Political pressure builds on Biden to strike Iran after US deaths

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  • Do you also include civilians who are killed by someone else if we don't take action? While "we" can do better about killing civilians, whoever "we" is, there is a "someone else" who will kill civilians as well - maybe a different group of civilians, but they will themselves do some killing.

  • Political pressure builds on Biden to strike Iran after US deaths

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  • Try which? I've seen many ideas, we cannot try them all. Some of the ideas have been tried as well, but the proposers don't have enough history to know that or the results. Most of them will take decades to implement. This isn't an easy problem.

  • Political pressure builds on Biden to strike Iran after US deaths

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  • That is one hypothesis. While it sounds reasonable, we don't actually know if it would work. We also have no clue how to solve the underlying conflicts. (Other than simplistic things like turning the entire middle east to glass - killing many innocent people in the process).

  • Political pressure builds on Biden to strike Iran after US deaths

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  • Nobody knows how to stop terrorism. There are a lot of hypothesis. However they are either untested in the real world, or they have failed.

  • What else can I do with this tear out?

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  • Drill a small hole all the way through, then switch to the correct size bit and drill half way through from either side.

    Try all the options everyone has mentioned to see what works best. There is no one correct answer that works for all situations.

  • California bill would require ‘watermarks’ to signal content created by AI

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  • It is enforceable. Not in all cases, probably not even in the majority, but it only needs a few examples to be hit with large fines and everyone doing legal things will take notice. Often you can find enough evidence to get someone to confess to using AI and that is aall the courts need.

    Scammers of course will not put this in, but they are already breaking the law so this might be - like tax evasion - be a way to get scammers who you can't get for something else.

  • California bill would require ‘watermarks’ to signal content created by AI

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  • You can do that, but if you are in California you have just broken the law. If California enforces the law you will discover projects all make a big deal about this since users can be arrested for violation of the law if they don't handle it correctly. Most likely it is just turned on by default for all versions, but there is also the possibility that they have large warning about turning it off. Note that if you go with warning nobody with your project should travel to California as then you are liable for helping someone violate the law.

  • Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

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  • That isn't clear, but probably not. Though if you are a dev there are some open source charities that exist to defend against things like this, so I'd recommend you go look for one.

  • Which terminal emulator do you use?

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  • A terminal is something like a DEC model Vt220, or IBM 3270. These are physical machines with a keyboard, and a display. Most often the display was a CRT, but some were just a printer, I supposed some must have had a LCD but I've never seen one. A few did have a mouse, but that was rare. They might look like a computer, but they do not have a CPU (or they do but the CPU is very under powered). The point is you can have 100 cheap (cheap as in 4x the cost of a modern PC, without factoring in inflation) terminals connecting to an expensive powerful computer (expensive as in millions of not inflation adjusted dollars, powerful as in a modern smart phone is faster by nearly any measure). Every terminal had some special commands that programs could use to do something more fancy than plain text, but different ones had different abilities.

    These days a powerful PC is cheaper than any terminal could be and vastly more powerful than those old computers, so it doesn't make sense to have one except as a collectors item. However terminals themselves did leave a useful of program design. Most command line programs know how to control a terminal to do some pretty printing. Thus we often use terminal emulators which let our computer pretend to be one of those old terminals. The DEC vt100 for whatever reason ends up being the most commonly emulated terminal when someone says terminal emulator - there really was a model vt100 terminal at one time.

    Note that a web browser counts as a terminal emulator by the above definition. Nobody thinks of them that way, but they fit.

  • EU mulls sending warships to protect Red Sea vessels from Houthis

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  • This is clearly about Hamas andithe various reactions to it. Not invoking Hamas is thus trying to hide something.