Category: Technology
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The Internet is 50 years old today
Who knew? It’s already been half a century since the first message was sent across the Arpanet. That moment lead to me being able to post the following diatribe that no one will read. Oh the wonders of modern technology! Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web (which is different from the Internet…
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Google continues down the path to shitty search
I stopped using Google for my everyday search a long time ago. As the years rolled on I started to find that their search engine was trying to be too smart. I use Gmail and an Android phone and increasingly my search results were either what Google’s algorithm thought I wanted versus what I was…
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I wish I was smart enough to understand the problem and the solution
I took computer science and had to learn combinatorics and boolean functions. I’ll have to file this under the, “If You Don’t Use It You Lose It” part of my brain. I just don’t remember anything beyond the basics to understand the problem or the solution. I should have kept studying. A paper posted online…
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Dell XPS 13 (2019). A regular user’s review
About a month ago I purchased the latest version of Dell’s XPS 13 laptop. I previously owned the 2016 version and while there isn’t much difference cosmetically there are some improvements that make this laptop much better this time around and one immensely annoying thing that I absolutely hate. Let me get the hate out…
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I’m off the Brave Browser
I used the Brave Browser for about a year and I really wanted to keep using it because it was great at blocking ads, offered very secure browsing, and it was fast. But, there was one problem that kept creeping up that ultimately made me switch to Firefox. The problem is sync. I use multiple…
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Green Energy seems to be an “Exercise in magical thinking”
The entire thing is a long read but read it you must. Here’s some of what you’ll learn and this is just from the executive summary. $1 million invested in green energy only produces 50 million kWh over 30 years while $1 million invested in fossil fuel produces 300 million kWh over 30 years. Solar…