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New comment by dmicah in "Backing up Spotify"

dmicah — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:37:25 +0000

For reference, considering you can purchase a 12-month Spotify Premium subscription via a $99 gift card at the moment, that same $6k could be used for 60 years of Spotify Premium.

New comment by dmicah in "VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot"

dmicah — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:01:42 +0000

Eventually Microsoft will stop providing security updates to their old OS, compelling users to upgrade if they want to stay on Windows

New comment by dmicah in "Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time"

dmicah — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:09:50 +0000

They probably hitched a ride on human travel. The article says "It’s unclear how the mosquito arrived in Iceland, but theories include the possibility it came via ships or containers."

New comment by dmicah in "Apple Health lies to you about your six months sleep average"

dmicah — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:29:51 +0000

I have a single night of sleep logged to Apple Health in the last 6-months, and the 6 month average exactly matches that single night. It seems that the author of this app is assuming that Apple is using the wrong denominator when calculating the 6-month average, but I think there could be other explanations for the difference in calculated values. For example how the two approaches might deal with data from different sleep data sources within Apple Health from the same date, how multiple sleep sessions on the same calendar date are merged prior to averaging, etc.

New comment by dmicah in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

dmicah — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:50:12 +0000

But why would you tailgate a driverless car? I think usually people tailgate to intimidate the person ahead of them to drive faster.

New comment by dmicah in "Positron, a New Data Science IDE"

dmicah — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:40:27 +0000

I think PyCharm does a pretty good job as being a MATLAB-like IDE replacement for Python.

New comment by dmicah in "Claude Code for VSCode"

dmicah — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:36:33 +0000

Anthropic also has a Claude Code plug-in for JetBrains IDEs: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/27310-claude-code-beta-

New comment by dmicah in "Framework Laptop 12 review"

dmicah — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:41:29 +0000

There is an M.2 hat for the Pi 5 that allows using an NVMe SSD instead of the SD card.

New comment by dmicah in "Location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding"

dmicah — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:42:27 +0000

Also consider that traffic violations are a source of funding for a municipality. Using technology to eliminate violations completely may not be desirable.

New comment by dmicah in "Thoughts on Daylight Computer"

dmicah — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:20:09 +0000

Also keep in mind that the Daylight doesn't have an e-ink screen like a Kindle. It is instead a grayscale transflective LCD. That is why it is able to have a high refresh rate like other LCD panels.

New comment by dmicah in "20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says"

dmicah — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:56:20 +0000

I think he is saying she is a SpaceX employee, and was doing well at her job but working a lot.

New comment by dmicah in "FEMA May Be Eliminated"

dmicah — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:28:29 +0000

Yes, FEMA is federal. If eliminating FEMA lowers federal taxes states could increase their state taxes to compensate and each have their own emergency management agencies. But generally it seems like having 50+ emergency management agencies is less efficient than having 1.

New comment by dmicah in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

dmicah — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:02:21 +0000

The Wii Remote Plus had gyroscopes built-in, the attachable 'Nunchuk' also had an accelerometers.

New comment by dmicah in "Advanced Expressive Humanoid Whole-Body Control"

dmicah — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 04:35:58 +0000

The first clip just seems like they blurred the background for that shot. Maybe because there were people walking in the background, they felt they needed to obscure them.

New comment by dmicah in "Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Linux revolt take II (1999)"

dmicah — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:10:59 +0000

I think you're referencing an earlier era. In 1998, 42% of US households had at least 1 computer, 26% with Internet access. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

New comment by dmicah in "UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot in midtown Manhattan"

dmicah — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:16:36 +0000

Was Seth Rich either politically influential or high net worth?

New comment by dmicah in "Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal"

dmicah — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 04:28:34 +0000

These are all concepts related to Curtis Yarvin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

New comment by dmicah in "GLP-1 for Everything"

dmicah — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:38:03 +0000

There have previously been associations between caloric intake and Alzheimer Disease or Cognitive Aging, for example:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/7... https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0808587106

New comment by dmicah in "Show HN: RF Hunter – Find hidden cameras and other devices"

dmicah — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:12:43 +0000

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New comment by dmicah in "Microsoft asking us to buy new Windows 11 PCs is wasteful"

dmicah — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:58:28 +0000

You can run Microsoft Office, Adobe, and Affinity on a Mac, no Windows required.