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New comment by jimmydddd in "Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop"

jimmydddd — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:20:23 +0000

Thanks! This is great.

New comment by jimmydddd in "Ted Turner has died"

jimmydddd — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:05:02 +0000

And on the flip side, while Turner was politically progressive, with his personal behavior, he was a hard drinking, loud talking guy who would likely have been villanized by the woke CNN of the early 2020's.

New comment by jimmydddd in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

jimmydddd — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:54:11 +0000

The book has an unfortunate title. It sounds transactional and manipulative. It could just as well have been named something like "How to communicate well with people."

New comment by jimmydddd in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

jimmydddd — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:27:06 +0000

Back in the early 1980's, a high school friend from a semi-wealthy family received a money from his parents to buy his first car to drive to school. They were expecting him to buy a new Honda or Toyota, but he proudly showed up at home with an old used 2002. They were not happy, but we had a great time with that car. :-)

New comment by jimmydddd in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

jimmydddd — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:39:56 +0000

Sorry. Why can't an indivudual bad actor site be targeted without affecting non bad actor sites? Why does the blocking have to be so broad?

New comment by jimmydddd in "Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs"

jimmydddd — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:21:07 +0000

Makes sense. The dude probably didn't care about the software. He was just trying to check an item off of his task list for the day.

New comment by jimmydddd in "Not buying another Kindle"

jimmydddd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:55:30 +0000

I just stopped reading books a few years ago. I just drink a cup of coffee and stare at the wall. Much more relaxing.

New comment by jimmydddd in "SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)"

jimmydddd — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:52:08 +0000

Yes. Mostly the same basic components--Just optimized for which direction you are going in. I recall using an single in ear speaker as a microphone as one of the experiments in my Radio Shack 101 eperiments electronics kit.

New comment by jimmydddd in "NASA Force"

jimmydddd — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:30:21 +0000

Not OP. Sounds like he was considered to be a manager and wasn't allowed to get into the weeds. So instead of just managing the off shore team, he wrote some of the code for them and then let them take credit for it.

New comment by jimmydddd in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

jimmydddd — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:29:38 +0000

It's amazing that in the late 1930's, someone with his academic credentials and intellect decided his life would be best spent writing science fiction.

New comment by jimmydddd in "Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D"

jimmydddd — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:03:33 +0000

I was able to do it on my iPhone. 1) Click on a plane on the map. 2) Click on "menu" at the bottom. 3) Scroll down to the bottom of info window and click on "cockpit."

New comment by jimmydddd in "Music for Programming"

jimmydddd — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:38:24 +0000

I used to work to SomaFM all the time. Then took a break I guess? Then somehow totally forgot it even existed. So thanks for the reminder.

New comment by jimmydddd in "The Weather Channel – RetroCast"

jimmydddd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:57:41 +0000

Got it. That also answers my question of "why 8 minutes?" Thanks.

New comment by jimmydddd in "The Weather Channel – RetroCast"

jimmydddd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:46:35 +0000

Great job. Thanks. Why the intermittant timed stop? Is it just to break it up since its a short clip? Like others have said, there are several projects recreating the old weather channel vibe, each with its own spin. And if you don't need current weather info, there are some good yt vids that play old clips with the music in the background.

New comment by jimmydddd in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

jimmydddd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:45:11 +0000

I went to law school and a few of us students were engineers. For our first set of essay exams, the professors all instructed us to "just answer the legal question" and not include extra analysis. After the exam, many of the engineers didn't do well because the professors *actually* wanted you to weave the whole sylabus into your answer (i.e., discuss hypotheticals that were not actually part of the question asked), not just answer the question. After that, we were fine.

New comment by jimmydddd in "MacBook Neo"

jimmydddd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:04:34 +0000

Our middle schools started out with iPads. But they switched to Chromebooks because they were a lot more useful. Also, apparently, middle school boys aren't that good at caring for iPads. :-)

New comment by jimmydddd in "MacBook Neo"

jimmydddd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:03:10 +0000

My son went to college with his Mac. But a bunch of the courses required running Windows software. So we had to get him a PC as well.

New comment by jimmydddd in "Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal"

jimmydddd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:37:05 +0000

So I guess the question is, when Sam says "and we put them into our agreement," what exactly was in the agreement? I distrust Sam. But if you were to trust his statements, it seems like he's saying he implemented in his agreement with the gevernment the safety features Anthropic wanted.

New comment by jimmydddd in "Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal"

jimmydddd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:27:44 +0000

I'm confused. Sam writes "Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement." How is this different from what Anthropic wanted?

New comment by jimmydddd in "Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees"

jimmydddd — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:07:27 +0000

What about the other 99.99999% of authors?