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emeril··on The email they shouldn't have read
lattice isn't too bad I think?
emeril··on Six surgeons general: It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr
while you're right, anyone who is vaccine hesitant probably isn't going to be influenced by this or even see reporting on this sadly
emeril··on Six surgeons general: It's our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr
yeah, but it doesn't matter - anyone who is on the fence for vaccines will just be that less likely to get vaccinated because of rfk jr
emeril··on Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys
maybe but the article is on cell?
emeril··on U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor
for all his failings, I believe he swore off alcohol after his brother died from it

that said, he has no problem putting drunkards in charge of national security...

emeril··on I only use Google Sheets
so true - as the spreadsheet "guru" at most of my employers - most of the issues with spreadsheets is misuse which is very common sadly

though, much programming is poor and often can be accomplished better in a spreadsheet given the situation and use case...

emeril··on FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness
on the bright side, the next phone which gets sucked out of a mis-installed door will get even bigger publicity if it survives intact like the last one
emeril··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
at least make sure to clean the vibrator first
emeril··on OpenWrt: A Linux OS targeting embedded devices
I've had the same for a number of years - mine is even more vanilla than yours

rock solid

emeril··on Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features
at least for now, I just make sure that any internet connection is "metered" to avoid updates + use an LTSC build + use a bunch of winhawk + openshell to make it...usable :(

ms is def at the point of major enshitification

emeril··on Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need
yeah, i was able to successfully use 2003 until 2018 at which point I could no longer get it to work sufficiently in whatever build I had of win10

I then used 2010 (least bad new version it seemed) until now... mixed feelings about even more "nu" excel...

I look forward to when I'm no longer using excel

emeril··on Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need
i still miss office 2003 - esp as a power user of excel - it was so much faster/more reliably than the modern versions

65k rows was a feature, not a bug...

emeril··on Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations
torrenting is a lot easier than using an antenna and ota dvr...

that said now that I have more than enough skills for these things...barely watch tv anymore anyway

emeril··on Dropbox Passwords discontinuation
I suppose though to be honest, it seems they are still the best for cloud sharing I think?
emeril··on AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks
hmm, as an actual accountant on this forum, bookkeeping usually isn't the tough part

it's how to account for bizarre ambiguous business situations often in the context of bureaucratic business requirements no LLM could currently create economically...

emeril··on Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death
I'm still waiting to hear 4'33" by John Cage and it's allegedly very popular
emeril··on Coding agents have crossed a chasm
very true - for many tasks excel is enough, better, and faster
emeril··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
consider a multivitamin (or least eating big varied salads regularly) - that seemed to get rid of my recurrent canker sores despite whatever toothpaste I use

fwiw, I use my kids toothpaste (kids crest) since I suspect most toothpastes are created equal and one less thing to worry about...

emeril··on Buttplug MCP
I know about boofing, I learned about it during one of the more recent us supreme court confirmation hearings
emeril··on Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp
I miss slashdot when it was at its peak decades back

unsure why precisely it descended so much

not crazy about HN's approach but the quality of the discourse here is so high through whatever mechanism, I don't much care

emeril··on The WinRAR Approach
I still use PSP 4.1 on win10/11 after 30 years... loads in <1 second and does 99% of what I need in an image editor (barely took more than a couple seconds to load even 30 years ago on regular hardware)

for the remaining 1% of the time, the image editor in sharex does what I need at least for screenshots and rarely I need to use paint.net for something more nuanced...

emeril··on Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
don't get your hopes up - I fully plan on moving to Canada and sending my children to college there even if we elect a "better" president in the future

the fact that roughly half of of the electorate is fine with how things are as well as virtually all of the republicans in the senate and the house are too "scared" to do anything (complete BS as this is the very definition of their job) is really an embarrassment of civilization and humanity - apes are more evolved than we are

emeril··on I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it
I had bad tinnitus years ago that thankfully eventually largely went away

That said, always having some white noise or music going helped a lot

emeril··on SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
yeah, I use GV with all sorts of things that don't normally allow most likely as a result of being grandfathered in - i.e., I suspect they don't recheck old active numbers as being invalid per VOIP classifications/etc.
emeril··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
I've found not to trust excel for CSV's generally unless I build them manually in excel as a concatenation
emeril··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
yeah I agree, afraid it doesn't have a/c either

should cost like nothing to add simple stereo system with a couple speakers

emeril··on Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs
that's a nice solution too but re: mercedes it requires the user to actively use that feature which I suspect most won't remember to do
emeril··on Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs
maybe so, but this would seemingly solve most of the problem with easy to implement tech

the real test is to find out if this effectively eliminated all fob hacks for volvo since they may not be faster than the tiger, they just need to be faster than everyone else...

emeril··on Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs (2021)
part of what helps is, at least, before buying a car, to get insurance quotes and then you see the true cost of THAT car
emeril··on Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)
for those who didn't realize - same guy is Walton Goggins father in S03 of White Lotus
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