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Jemm··on Claude for Desktop
Any site that hijacks the back button has lost my trust.
Jemm··on What sank the Bayesian superyacht in Italy?
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Jemm··on Google orders small modular nuclear reactors for its data centres
Very lucrative business with millions spent on research, outreach, politics.... and then finally ultimately sticks spent fuel into barrels and stores them somewhere for future generations.
Jemm··on ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera
Why does a vacuum need a microphone?
Jemm··on Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)
Canada got rid of the penny for cash transactions. Problem solved
Jemm··on 45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web
Damn CompuServe took so much of my income.
Jemm··on Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail
Apple ignoring standards again.
Jemm··on Work with people who tell you when you're stupid
No! You have it all wrong. We have to be positive all the time and never ever say anything that might be construed as negative or critical.
Jemm··on Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?
Yes, reduce the human population.
Jemm··on Would you use a government-issued ID to prove your identity online?
In Canada to access some government services we log in using a trusted partner, which is usually a bank at which we have an account.
Jemm··on Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says
Aviation still uses leaded gas. They call it low lead but it is just regular leaded AV Gas.
Jemm··on Meta outage
I was able to use my Quest 3 throughout the outage for offline games.
Jemm··on Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"
Been looking for something like this for use with a VR headset for coding.
Jemm··on Shittier: Code formatting tool that makes your code look terrible
Worked with a company that outsourced their code. Contract stated that source code must be provided so in an effort to be pricks, the outsourced company provided their code on fanfold dot matrix printouts using a line printer from the 80s. It arrived in three very heavy boxes not even folded neatly.

This reminded me of that for some reason.

Jemm··on Ubisoft is killing off a game millions have bought (The Crew)
Prior to NAFTA we could rent software. NAFTA made that illegal. Now we have this system but how is it really different?
Jemm··on "Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks
Canada has bee fuelled by money laundering and asset hiding for decades.
Jemm··on Satellites Are Becoming the New Cellphone Towers
Likely won't work indoors where humans spend most of their time.
Jemm··on Cruise wasn't hiding accident video from regulators – it had bad internet
Another case of a self regulating industry failing basic competence.
Jemm··on Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
"Can you move it a half pixel to the left"
Jemm··on Rolexes are in a spiraling crash as "the bubbles have popped" in collectibles
Of course they are now that I have one.
Jemm··on The Hawai’i Seaglider Initiative: A new approach to travel between the islands
> I flew on a seaplane between the US and the Bahamas, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalk%27s_International_Airlin... . It was a fun touristy thing, but not touristy enough to maintain a commercial seaplane service.

Chalks suffered a tragic structural failure, likely caused by corrosion, which mostly ended the company.

Jemm··on Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes
Surely the fasteners use a captive nut like a castle nut and pin/wire. Loose doesn't mean much in that context.
Jemm··on Waterway Map
When choosing 'Navigable by boat', the massive Trent-Severn system in Southern Ontario disappears.
Jemm··on Vibrating belt that treats low bone density gets FDA approval
Treats? Is the FDA approval meaning it does not cause harm or that it has a benefit?
Jemm··on Arno A. Penzias, 90, Dies; Nobel Physicist Confirmed Big Bang Theory
"settled a debate over the origin and evolution of the universe."

Really?

Jemm··on Compression Attached Memory Modules may make upgradable laptops a thing again
I look forward to hardware capacity as a subscription. Won't be long before someone does it, cough cough Akkle
Jemm··on Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Japan, tsunami warning issued for Ishikawa
Any connection with the large waves in California recently?
Jemm··on Calculation before we went digital [pdf]
Father worked as a calculator. Room full of guys summing columns in their heads. When mechanical calculators came out they ran them in parallel with the human calculators.
Jemm··on Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch
$40 smart watch from Amazon does most of what the Apple Watch does and battery lasts a week even wearing it all night. I occasionaly charge it while showering
Jemm··on Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
I was an ArcNet fan.
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