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pcdoyle··on VA Linux: The biggest dotcom IPO
I just got a ThinkPad E14 Gen 6 and the only thing I had to fix/install manually was the driver for the fingerprint reader (fprintd). Everything else just worked, including my docking station and ultra wide monitor.
pcdoyle··on LLM tech comes to Wolfram Language
I didn't know that, but apparently yes: https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/
pcdoyle··on Ask HN: Where are all the parties?
I must be incredibly lucky because I am a millennial and this is not my experience with my social circles. We have a game night almost every week (5+ people), and usually a few parties a year (15+ people) with no drama or fuss. Is this not normal? Is it different depending on the area you grow up in?
pcdoyle··on Twitter's API is down?
Reading that article, I am actually impressed that after that 45-minute outage in 2022, the next major outage was all the way back in 2016. I would say that is actually quite an endorsement for the quality of engineers they had.
pcdoyle··on Twitter's API is down?
I have noticed that the explore page, and my timeline are way staler than they used to be. Tweets I have seen or even interacted with keep popping to the top all day, and trends on the explore page can be there for days at a time. It can take hours for major world events don't show up on the explore page for me sometimes.
pcdoyle··on Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
Yeah this is how my Hyundai Kona (2020) works and I think it's a good bridge between both. Touchscreen for CarPlay navigation, knobs on the dashboard, and additional buttons on the steering wheel (volume up/down, skip, mute, answer call).
pcdoyle··on Firefox 72.0
I made a bookmark for about:profiles so I can launch a different profile, but it is a bit more cumbersome than having it be part of the main interface.
pcdoyle··on ICE has kept British family with their 3-month-old baby detained for days
It's per family (residing in one household).

http://customsandinternationaltradelaw.com/2013/12/13/intern...

pcdoyle··on The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’
It's different in every province. The Federal Government has a very narrow jurisdiction in Canada, and healthcare is not in it. In BC I pay for my prescriptions but it's heavily subsidized for most of them.
pcdoyle··on The “Doorway Effect” – forgetting why you entered a room
Yeah, I've only used the search box since Windows 7 when it was introduced. I find it a lot faster than clicking through the menu. It seems like it's difficult for some people to get the hang of after so many years without that option being available though. I do believe it's on Microsoft for not introducing it well though.