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nemacol··on Apple introduces new professional training to support growing IT workforce
Is this something you can do without 3rd party software?
nemacol··on Show HN: AI generated Magic The Gathering cards
I would play AI generated MTG Draft in a heart beat. Maybe a 50/50 mix with real cards so you don't have to learn every single card every game.
nemacol··on Dark pattern: how YouTube makes sure you don’t always “skip ad”
The main reason I don't want to pay is it cannot remove the ads the content creators put in themselves.

I could see paying if it was a totally clean experience but to pay and get rid of part/half of the ads I would see does not seem worth it to me.

nemacol··on U.S. economy shrank at a 1.4% annual rate in the first quarter
> Obviously Biden threatened to nuke insurrectionists.

That is an insane takeaway from the clip you shared. No reasonable person would listen to those words and take it as a direct threat to bomb insurrectionists. I think you are a troll.

nemacol··on The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)
Sure this 1.25gb:2500files is not massive - But if this little conspiracy theory is true it is easy to imagine them doing this sort of file padding in other systems as well. A little bit here and there adds up quick.

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

Personally, I think it is likely the padding was created for future use. Maybe tagging or some other meta data.

nemacol··on Please stop calling it “magic” (2017)
I also dislike light grey on a white background. Let alone how often the color and size change throughout. It is hard to see and feels noisy - maybe my eyes are already ruined, though I doubt it was from websites that are not to my taste.

If I really want to read something like this I usually copy it into a text editor (usually Sublime).

nemacol··on My own phone number is now spam texting me
I have two phones. Personal and work. The work one has all the MDM, email, and work profile/apps.
nemacol··on Joro spiders likely to spread beyond Georgia
Murder hornets to the west, giant spiders to the east. Take your chances with the tornados in middle America.
nemacol··on Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
Hasn't basically every bit of the industry seen massive growth and profits since the start of COVID?

I think the situation has proven quite a bit more than "the big tech companies can go fully remote and not completely crash and burn". Can't say the degree to which it has impacted business without studying it. It could have been great, not great, or a drag but to say "crash and burn" or nothing seems a bit touched.

nemacol··on Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet
Thank you.
nemacol··on Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet
>MEMORY ROM:64 GB *The available internal storage may be smaller as part of the internal storage is occupied by software.

Memory, ROM(??), RAM all the same thing? Am I misunderstanding or is this not the full picture?

nemacol··on Russian central bank confirms block on foreign bids to sell Russian securities
Seems to me like putting my money in to metal and burying it in my yar... an undisclosed location... would still be better than crypto.
nemacol··on Twitter based map of Russian troop movements
Is there a service out there like MapHub but for making timelines?

Thanks

nemacol··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
This is what I have done. Currently have Ubuntu, Mint, and DLing Pop now.
nemacol··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
Can you use Apple products without an account? If not*, what version of Linux should I get setup with. Casual web development. I mostly use my personal machine for gaming.

Edit - Typo

nemacol··on Cryptocurrencies – An Assessment by Reserve Bank of India
Forgive my ignorance but that sounds like comparing future crypto to the USD but with an extra step.
nemacol··on U.S. corn-based ethanol worse for the climate than gasoline
Corn Commonwealth or MaizeTatorship
nemacol··on I relearned typing to save my wrists
I started incorporating "Gamer stretches" from https://esportshealthcare.com/gamer-stretches/

The first time I was exposed to the idea of stretches specifically for computer users was from Day9.tv. One of his earlier videos has a few hand and wrist exercises that seemed to help me.

nemacol··on A year on, GameStop champion Roaring Kitty is quiet, yet much richer
Okay, but what if we sold their loses as an NFT. Then they can own their losses and make money on the NFT at the same time! No where to go but up!

(this is a joke)

nemacol··on Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results
I wonder if there is something like “The Peter Principle” for businesses.

> everyone is promoted to their level of incompetence

Where the business sees some success and grows until they lose the thing that everyone liked about them to begin with

Business outgrows their market or something.

Blizzard stops producing highly polished experiences for money.

Googles search results are degraded and littered with ads for money.

Microsoft shifts from software to consumer data collection and now my servers all have Xbox services and a touch UI for some stupid reason (sorry, for money).

nemacol··on Bridge collapse in Pittsburgh’s Frick Park
Any chance people were under there? A park bridge in the winter, I wonder if any homeless were around.
nemacol··on AirPods don't “just work”
It is my opinion that bluetooth headphones are garbage.

I have several - cheap, expensive, ear buds, over ear. They all suffer from issues between devices, one device out of range weird noises, can't decide which device to connect to. Some of the issues I blame on my phone (Pixel3a).

I spend so much time walking around my house turning BT off on all but one device so I can go outside and listen to something.

Much easier to plug my wired headphones into the device I am using. It is simple, reliable, and I don't have to charge my wired headphones.

For me BT headphones go mostly unused except for yardwork/woodshop time, where the wire poses extra annoyances.

nemacol··on Researchers Build AI That Builds AI
I ran the numbers and this checks out. That is 100% more problems. DOUBLE the problems.
nemacol··on A Tesla on autopilot killed two people. Is the driver guilty of manslaughter?
Yes. Also, I think Tesla should be on the hook for some of that guilt for their misleading marketing around the "autopilot" feature.
nemacol··on Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
I dread the day they switch the Blizzard app launcher to a MS account. You just know it is going to be a nightmare to sort out.

Beyond petty nonsense - Sure wish we had some antitrust laws in this country. The consolidation of every industry gross.

nemacol··on Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage
Warm air takes up more space. If you cool it before pumping it into the ground you will not waste time/energy. If you pump warm air down it will lose heat into the ground and shrink and you would lose capacity - pumping that last x% the tanks will be fuller until they cool down.

You warm up the air on the way out to expand it and you get more air to spin the turbine. More bang for your buck.

I believe is the thinking.

nemacol··on Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage
I would like more detail on the "Thermal management system" and how long it could store the heat it captures.

One of the benefits they touting is "Long duration energy storage" I would think the limiting factor would be the ability of the thermal management system to retain the energy it captured to reheat the compressed air. Am I thinking about this correctly?

nemacol··on NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations
Maybe in 15 years we will have space drones to refuel it! :D We can dream.
nemacol··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
>Who has accessed the report in the past 24 months

That is fucked up.

Edit - looking around, this system that has all of my personal data has a password requirement that looks like it was made in the 1990's.

8-16 characters. FFS

nemacol··on Show HN: A web app to turn photos into 3D AR models.
Excellent. Thank you for the reply.
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