BeetleB

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by BeetleB 3mo ago
That's a decent enough solution if they let you automate somehow (e.g. sync to PC once a week without me thinking about it). I could then build further automations to parse those PDFs.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
It changes every few years. My first was the Pilot Metropolitan. Still a solid pen I recommend. My next favorite was/is a PenBBS - perhaps the 309 - I don't have it on me at the moment. I replaced the nib with a Goulet nib, and so
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Honest question: How confident are you that you'll have access to those notes on your Remarkable/Kindle 20 years from now? I love my Kobo. I highlight stuff with it. But for anything really important, I then go to my computer, g
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I always wrote by hand - probably because I spent over a decade in academia dealing with equations. I always have a pen in my pocket (without a pocket protector!) About a decade ago I went back to writing with fountain pens after a nearly t
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> Their strategy to let Siri stagnate for 15 years and let everyone else take that market? What have they lost by doing this? Did anyone switch from iPhones to something else? Google's Assistant was and is better than Siri's. H
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> But I already have to babysit a NAS and a media server Is the NAS TV related? Why do you need these? My media is all on my PC, and I don't consider maintaining that as part of my TV burden. I have to maintain it anyway. And what m
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Same here. Same TV for the last 16 years. 1080p, but I'd rather keep it at that resolution than do the research and worry about smart TVs.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> I'm tired of having to manage 50 different devices to let my son watch some Gabbys Dollhouse on the TV. Other than the TV, most people really have only one device (Roku, AppleTV, etc). Why do you need so many? > I only need one
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Oh great! You've now made it a lot easier for LLMs to train on this dataset! Your next iteration will need different animals and different transportation options. You'll run out after a few iterations.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> IMO NIMB should be illegal, so long as the builder meets standards. NIMB is part of setting those standards. In a nearby town, the city was planning on putting a moratorium on new data centers, and so a lot of companies rushed their ap
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> No one ever cared about DCs before now. Just because you were not looking doesn't mean it wasn't happening. Anti-DC sentiment has been high in some places before LLMs came on to the scene. Even HN has had multiple submissions
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I can't speak for elsewhere, but a town near me has a few data centers, and the anti-datacenter sentiment precedes their use for LLMs. They simply take a lot of space, and the city gave sweet tax deals, and they employ almost no one. T
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
People in other countries trying to buy stuff from US ecommerce sites. A number of payment processors really don't care about them, and simply will not let customers from there buy using a credit card.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I want the screen for the rear view camera. I'd be OK with the screen doing other things, as long as it's not inferior to my just using the phone. Currently, AA is inferior. You don't need a huge screen for the rear view came
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
This whole submission is about a new way of calculating home ownership. The "standard" way puts it at 80% in the US. The new way is about 50%.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
We may just have different standards on what "cold" means :-) Let's say it's 35C outside. Just using a window AC alone, I want to cool the room to where I'm uncomfortably cold (not quite shivering but close) - withi
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Keep in mind the differing ways they calculate home ownership percentage. The ones you are looking at likely are calculated using the "older" method, which is 80% in the US.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> Page size isn't that big a deal when the text reflows The pain is in how often I need to "flip" the page. Especially if you're reading something where you want to reference back a few paragraphs, etc. > I can rea
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
On the flip side, window AC's are really effective at cooling the single room they're in. In the wooden house I have, I just can't get the room that cool if the temperature is in the 90's, because the internal walls prov
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Super doesn't yet come in color. I already have a B/W ereader that serves my needs. To be honest, I just need a decent ereader that supports Koreader. I definitely don't want to run apps, etc. I don't want to use it for
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I guess for a while we'll have the "premier cable channels" effect. You pay not to get ads. How will you be sure the results from the LLM still aren't injecting ads when you pay? Find a trusted provider who is serving an
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Fair point. I was looking into them recently, and can't recall why I ruled them out. I think it may have been because of the size of their color tablets - either too small or too large.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Kobo Forma. Probably not easy to run Android on it.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> I back up files to my own cloud with a Nextcloud integration for Android. Ouch man. Don't do that. Nextcloud is fairly unreliable. > That being said, a monthly or so backup of devices via USB/Ethernet, like we used to in t
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Yes, but except for the Scribe, even the Kindle readers are too small! Kobo had an 8" ereader. People loved it (except for the battery life). But there's no sign they'll make more of them.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I would imagine that for over 99% of the books covered in this lawsuit, they're earning less than $3000 per book. Put another way, their revenues wouldn't drop much if they simply hadn't trained on those 99%.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Yes, I too had a Sony ereader for years, and it was nice fitting it in my jacket pocket. But the reality is that most book pages are larger than 6", and if I found myself preferring the book because of the size, what's the point o
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
It saddens me that most of the ebook world is leaning towards smaller screen sizes. My reader is 8", and I think that's just the right size. I like a decent sized font, and I don't like continually scrolling. Surprisingly, th
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
So that the authors can use it to write their next books!
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
As was pointed out, the settlement is for piracy, not training. They had already ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted material for training fell within fair use. As such, if you pirated a book and had to pay $3000 for that one ins

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