When I was a cashier, I'd tell people that and they'd respond that it wouldn't fill out the carbon copy, so they'd just manually continuing to fill out the check anyways and hold up the line :-\
With the machine filling out the checks, it's no slower than running a credit/debit card.
Agreed completely. With those tools it looks super easy and then you go to do it, it takes all day!
A few of ChrisFix videos he's said something like "if your car is as rusted as this one is, you're going to need to spray it with whatever a few hours in advance to help unseize the bolt, I've already done that, so ...." And you just don't get tips like that from someone that's going to just air hammer away the problem ... Best case if they even show the problem at all, their initial go to is to hit it with the torch, which is never my initial go-to! Start easy and escalate up!
I do have a battery impact wrench, so that helps some, but, seeing it done completely by hand definitely helps give the actual scope of the project and mine doesn't fit everywhere and hand tools are usually needed anyways.
I mean, they also think that the text needs to be verbatim in order to qualify as infringement (although, it does make it significantly easier to prove!), so, they're operating from an absurd level of naivete on the subject.
Like, if I CTRL+H'd a book and changed ' and ' to ' & ' do they think I can all of a sudden (commercially, no less!) re-distribute a book all I want? Just to be on the safe side, maybe I should remove every 'e' since that's bound to change almost every sentence in most books but won't make it all that much harder to read!
More importantly though ... plenty of people purchased material that they then put on Napster back in the day and they weren't magically granted immunity because they legally acquired the material that they then distributed illegally and that wasn't even for commercial gain! Once you add people making money into the equation, it becomes even worse.
RIght, exactly. Mine is basically 'worst case scenario' for these things and I'm still very happy with it. In aggregate, it does a fantastic job even though objectively, it's about as bad a unit as you can buy (I mean, it sucks well enough ... I'm sure there are ones that are functionally worse, I just mean feature wise, it's very minimalistic)
The only real improvement I'd actually want it to have one of the ones with the tanks on the base so I would be able to leave it and not have to empty it as often ... other than that, it successfully picks up pet hair and anything else that it needs to, as long as it's not something that is in the way (in which case, from a practical perspective, no matter what robot vacuum we had, the best solution would have been to pick it up ourselves).
I’m a lover of physical books but I’m looking to get an e-reader as well, for those books that are hard to find physical copies of, or are just very expensive....
FYI Kindles now support ePub natively and it's fixed a lot of the random issues that used to occur with the spacing and such with no need to convert into AZW3 first (they recently dropped support for AZW ... at the same time they added ePub). It helps that I get everything I can in ePub format or convert to it when I can't.
All in all though, as long as we're all happy with our workarounds, it's all good :-)
I kinda like that mine costs Amazon fractions of a penny in compute time though!
I might be wrong, but I believe the life terms are stipulated in the constitution, so it'll require an amendment to change it, whereas stuff like how the courts are configured (size and such) is NOT explicitly stated in the constitution and is something that congress is delegated to overseeing.
Fun fact: James S.A. Corey isn't a person and is the pen name that Ty Franck and David Abraham use when they're writing together.
The Expanse show was fantastic and the books are somehow better (there's also like 40 more years worth of story [although the books did a multi decade time jump between books to get there])!
All righty -- I didn't realize I somehow found myself in a 3 week old thread. In case it happens to anyone else, I'm going to send my reply anyways, but I'm not going to reply directly to him because I see no point in engaging with shithead racists 3-weeks later!
Uh ... 900 uses of racial slurs / racist behavior reported and more than half of them being the N-word ... seems to me like maybe they deserved to taught that they're being racist because ... [shocker] they were being racist!
Also, ONE fucking example of a moderately sized (~435,000) suburb isn't the smoking gun they think it is, even if it turned out to be accurate (which, this isn't).
You'll notice that there is zero proof of what he said, just that right wing whack jobs lost their fucking minds and got stirred into a fury because of the CRT boogeyman.
Yeah, but, I don't see how that really changes anything.
On a smaller instance (or one that's defederated from others ... in either direction), that might very well completely shift focuses.
For the Fediverse specific community, if you want one with the most chance of getting to the developers, use the instance that they're on, otherwise, I'd think to just let the cultures develop and diverge naturally as they're likely to.
Researchers used electric stimulation to switch on exact genes involved in regulating insulin. Blood glucose concentrations of model mice returned to normal.
Yeah, if Relay showed up with an app for KBin and wanted $30, I'd give it in a heartbeat, but being a long time user, I'd also feel like it's partially back pay for using it for years after only paying like $4
As it is, I'm really looking forward to Artemis launching and will probably do an equal donation of at least that much to its dev and to Ernest (/KBin social admin and /KBin dev).
The /KBin PWA isn't bad for what it is, but god damn do I miss using a proper app. At least y'all on Lemmy have options!
With Threads/Meta heading for the fediverse, and Tumblr looking at ActivityPub, how would you feel if Reddit decided to add support and federate Kbin & Lemmy?...
If Meta does end up Federating, then Reddit would potentially be able to gain 100M (or whatever the latest crazy numbers are) potential viewers of ads disguised as content. That's a lot of eyeballs to try and make money off of!
For the Lemmy/KBin side, being able to potentially monetize the people that specifically left your shitty platform has to look somewhat appealing.
That'll get you an extra bay as a 'just in case' too.
I used to have one like it and it worked well, until I went with a much larger JBOD (Norco 4220 - 20 bay). I'd recommend the JBOD route myself for the flexibility it offers, but I've got place to store the loud equipment.
Another option would be to pick up an HP microserver, which could get you features like an iLO and hotswap bays in a small and quiet formfactor. I can't vouch for this particular one, just did a VERY quick search.
ETA: If you're going 2.5" drives, you can also fit more drives in less space. I've seen some that can get 4 in a 3.5" space (not hotswap-able though)
Yeah The Interdependency felt like it really needs a few short stories in the same universe to cover a few of the characters and another novel at least for what happens after the ending!
I just finished KPS and loved it! It was fun in a "this entire thing is fucking ridiculous" sort of way that Scalzi (and the book itself) fully acknowledges.
"I lift things" started infiltrating my spoken phrases without me realizing it and I was like "wtf‽" when I realized.
As we start to see more users join, it's inevitable to see trolls (especially low-effort trolls) making more of an appearance and trying to be controversial and noticed....
Weird! I get notifications on mobile (the web app) and on the full browser (attached).
Sorry that you guys have problems ... maybe try turning the notifications off and back on? I know I had initially changed them a few times, so maybe that was needed and I just never noticed any issues while KBin was less busy.
Interesting, I don't think I ever thought about it that way.
I don't recall changing behavior as a blind person was walking by, but I could see myself intentionally being quieter to make it easier for them to concentrate on the data they're getting from the cane ... or something.
I'm not sure. Either way, I'll make sure that in the future, I make sure I don't do that and make a bit of noise if I was already being silent.
Thanks for the tips!
Also -- you said the post was an exercise in testing your screen reader against the Fediverse to see how it works out ... what were your results?
From my sighted perspective, it looks like a post that someone intentionally put some effort into with headers at different sizes, quotes and some bullet points, so, from this end it looks like a success!
Outdated (lemmy.zip)
What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ?
Computer related:...
The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work (www.nytimes.com)
Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
What's your automatic vacuum's name? (lemmy.world)
I saw a couple of fun ones somewhere else, and it got me interested. My mom calls her’s: Mr de Vries...
What are the best e-readers on the market?
I’m a lover of physical books but I’m looking to get an e-reader as well, for those books that are hard to find physical copies of, or are just very expensive....
Core Values (lemmy.ml)
Senate Democrats introduce bill to implement term limits and biannual appointments to Supreme Court (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
Anon tries to understand Stephen King's IT (sh.itjust.works)
Tolerating intolerance (i.imgur.com)
How are you using or hoping to use kbin?
With Twitter and Reddit the way that they are, many people are turning to federated servers as their online home, kbin among them....
Should we decide to have a main fediverse community or should we keep posting everything twice?
Hello everyone,...
America's Toxic Food System | Some More News (www.youtube.com)
Check out c/breadtube for more left video content and discussion....
kbin notifications not working for the past week - anyone else?
Any time I click on my notifications, I get directed to an Error 50x page that says:...
Scientists Control Human DNA with Electricity (www.vice.com)
Researchers used electric stimulation to switch on exact genes involved in regulating insulin. Blood glucose concentrations of model mice returned to normal.
It was 15 euros earlier today, what happened? (lemmy.world)
Reddit: Into the Fediverse
With Threads/Meta heading for the fediverse, and Tumblr looking at ActivityPub, how would you feel if Reddit decided to add support and federate Kbin & Lemmy?...
Pasta machine recommendation (lemmy.world)
What pasta machine would you recommend? I’m looking for something very durable.
Recommendations for JBOD?
It’s time to get some storage for the homelab. I could get a Synology, but I’d quite like to build my own using ZFS....
What are you reading this week? [7/02/23]
What book is currently on your nightstand?...
Reminder: reddit may be dead, but trolls are not.
As we start to see more users join, it's inevitable to see trolls (especially low-effort trolls) making more of an appearance and trying to be controversial and noticed....
Make some noise!
Make some noise!...