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So what? When you work for free, the Times will work for free.

Also paywalled: The computer you're using. The food you eat. Whatever mechanized mode of transportation you use.

If you can't afford 0.003% of the average tech worker's salary to support journalism, then just don't read it.


It's inefficient and not living to its potential

Yeah, because we saw what a great job the tech bros did making government more efficient.


but the markup is quite high

Maybe a decade or two ago, but I looked into this last year, and the prices were just about the same.


I got mine 2nd hand on eBay as new old stock. £300 for a 55" 4K panel. The only thing I can ding it for is that the backlight local dimming is done in columns which is extremely distracting, so I turn it off. You have to remember this thing is designed to sit in a shop window in direct sunlight.

Ticks all my other boxes though, powers on as soon as my finger leaves the button on the remote, same with input switching and any other interactions with the OSD. Its completely braindead, just how I like it.

Oh, they also sent me the model with the touch digitizer installed. So I've got capacitive touch and pen input, it has a USB-B port on the side to connect to a computer.


Whats the model?

Its a NEC MultiSync M551

First off, the immediate appeal to Vance and Musk is embarrassing.

It's a very unhinged, very Trumpy response. The repeated use of "cabal" and hyperbole is, as you say, embarrassing.

It's useful to know this is the official voice, tone, and attitude of CloudFlare. Now I know not to recommend it to my company. The owners would not be happy to do business with an organization that has its politics and alignment so close to the surface.


They're human beings, not numbers or statistics.

Or would you have us believe that a certain number of these kinds of murders are OK, because they're just "rounding errors" or "edge cases?"

What's the over/under number?


Of course they're human beings. I think the point is, should you, statistically, live a life of fear based on possibly negligible odds of death or assault?

> negligible odds of death or assault?

Negligible odds of death I'll buy, but a very large number of my women friends over my life have been sexually assaulted (and probably far more than I realize, it's not like it's something you bring up during holiday dinner). I'm often shocked by how few men realize how prevalent this is.

The idea that "women who aren't comfortably traveling the world alone depending on the kindness of strangers are living a life ruled by fear" seems naive at best.

Even back in the days when hitchhiking was much more common you would almost never see a single woman by herself, for good reason.


It is also more likely than not for assault victims that their assaulter is known to them, which goes back to the original point: how much more likely is a woman traveling the world to be assaulted or killed than one who is just existing in her everyday environs?

My original point still stands: the commenter made a big claim: world travel is (more) risky for women (than not world travel), but provided little evidence to support said claim.


I'm male and I was speaking of males (male friends and co-workers for example).

The odds of assault for women are not negligible.

And it kinda takes the fun out of such a trip if you have to be on edge in order to protect yourself all the time.


You just need a nuclear-powered Big Bus.

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1066_and_h600_bestv2/l5n4h4gmRtj...

https://imcdb.org/i065460.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bus

"Cyclops has a passenger capacity of 110 and is equipped with a bowling alley, Asian-style cocktail lounge with a piano bar, swimming pool, Bicentennial dining room, private marble-and-gold bathroom with sunken tub, and chef's kitchen."


This was the first thing I thought of when I read the article. I remember making my own nuclear-powered big bus out of legos after watching that movie.

> You just need a nuclear-powered Big Bus

Ah, so there is a chance!


What privacy from vendors?

One of the big promises when the Apple Card launched is that, unlike most other cards, your purchase information isn't sold.

That's the big question mark from me with the Chase takeover. If that privacy goes away, I'll stop using the Apple Card.


Then, unless you use a different card each time you go

Or use one of the pool phone numbers. NPA-867-5309 is a common one.


I'll share this here now that I only drive EVs, but I suppose cashiers and random people at King Soopers(major grocer in Colorado, associated with Kroger's) would enter 555-555-5555 as their phone number for their rewards, and every time I would pump gas at their stations I would get $1/gallon off.

That number also works at Walgreens (at least in Arizona and New York).

What is the NPA for?

I meant bank card

Jenny left her number in your neighborhood too?

I largely thought this wouldn’t work, but having tried it at several grocery store chains while traveling with a 100% success rate so far I’m not complaining. (Nothing worse then being told you can’t sign up because customer service is closed, and you have to sign up to get the pricing, and there’s no generic store card they can scan as a curtesy ).

- this has worked for me in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, and Wisconsin.


Can you upload code to be executed on a stock 1541/1571?

Yes. There were disk duplicators that ran entirely on the drives.

You'd upload the program to a pair of daisy-chained drives, put the source disk in one, and the destination disk in the other and they'd go about their business.

You could then disconnect the computer and do other things with it while making all the disk copies you wanted.

I've always wanted a modern equivalent. I thought FireWire might make it happen, but it didn't. And it's my understanding is that USB doesn't allow this kind of independent device linking.

The closest thing I've seen in modern times was a small box I got from B&H that would burn the contents of a CF card onto a DVD-RW.


You can even skip the investigator in a lot of places, thanks to Flock. Dystopian.

Flock is an ALPR.


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