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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
I've found some of my interactions with Gemini Pro 2.5 to be extremely surreal. I asked it to help me turn a 6 page wall of acronyms into a CV tailored to a specific job I'd seen and the response from Gemini was that I was over qu
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
Sorry, I completely misunderstood what they said. My mental picture was the equipment being _in_ the room attached to the patient (and safe to be so), but the person being stuck outside unable to easily intervene. My experience with MRIs is
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
I might postulate that while Rhubarb LTD absolutely doesn't hold and will never create a backdoor, Celery Inc does. Ignore the fact that Celery is staffed by some of Rhubarb's senior engineers working part time. Ignore the fact Ce
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
In that case, why (in the above example) does the anaesthetist have to monitor from, or a nurse or family member have to wait outside? I understand there's magnet safety worries, but if the anaesthetist is knocking someone out on the s
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
A lot of people get panic attacks / claustrophobia and are incapable of getting in or staying still for a scan. I have a lot of sympathy. I'm pretty good in confined spaces usually, but even after multiple MRIs it's still a s
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
Faraday cage makes sense considering the RF sensitivities involved with MRI. I do wonder if someone being in the room is enough to distort a scan? As there's no ionising radiation danger, it always seemed odd that you were left alone i
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
After speaking to one of my friends with a box, he insists there aren't adverts... Seriously though, this is a somewhat large CDN - how the heck is it financed?
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
To be fair, I've not actually played much with the VoD ones other than flick through the libraries and see if a couple of streams play. There's every chance they do break playback to throw adverts at you, I honestly don't kno
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Ask HN: How do free (illegitimate) streaming apps cover running costs?
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
HA doesn't care but your radio environment probably does. One of the great strengths of Zigbee is the mesh network - it doesn't matter where in my house I dump something, because all my bulbs are Zigbee repeaters it's going t
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
> The term "hacker," even in the computer field, originally had a larger scope than computer security. I've been helping run a Hackspace for a few years; I can't tell you how many times (sometimes per week or even day
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
> Interestingly though, years later they had to similarly release an update to Gauntlet Legends for just about the same reason. Useless tech point, but Gauntlet Legends was actually "new" enough to keep the game data on an IDE
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Tangentially related, but the built-in Windows Notepad still to this day will append the current time and date to a file on opening, if the first line is ".LOG".
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Have a look at Mental Omega, a quite over the top RA2 Yuri's Revenge mod that makes it easy to play on modern windows, play online and also adds a tonne of extra content should you want it. https://mentalomega.com/
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Slightly odd (age wise) Generals got open sourced before RA2. I wonder why?
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
The G3 an G4 towers deserve extra special design mention. From a tinkering and engineering point of view, they were _lovely_ to work on.
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
That does actually seem like a fair interpretation. Thank you.
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
The Olympics comment seemed more damning. He literally said twice they rigged the election. > They all came in on the Olympics. And then I saw [Gulati] and we got the World Cup too. And you know, it's only because they rigged the el
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
I've not seen a 'just-board' USB-C interface before; that in itself is as cool as anything else.
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Quick shout-out to Sandtris where the blocks disintegrate into pixels when hitting the bottom. It's surprisingly addictive: https://sandtris.com/
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Kindle cover would be extremely useful.
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Might be worth pointing out that "own data" actually meant "quite a large amount of OpenStreetMap".
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Apollo in Real Time is an overwhelmingly awesome resource. Thank you.
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Thanks for the archive link. I wonder what the DIP switches were for in the end?
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Got to shout out to VueScan for making obsolete scanners usable on modern operating systems. It's not free, but is reasonably priced. If you can physically connect your scanner (scsi2usb is an exercise left to the reader), then it&#x27
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Didn't this used to be a massive issue for the apache webserver team?
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Not just the weird meaning, but on my last Thinkpad the red dot and the slightly red glean of the camera lens look surprisingly like each other. Even worse I managed to get the cover in a position where it looked like it was closed, but the
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
I still have a lot of weirdness when it comes to making things actually stay asleep and wake up again when wanted. There's a lot of hardware that often boots up, or always boots but only if it's been switched on once before, or ke
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
> It requires loading the entire disc into memory first which is going to be slower than purpose built netboot images. I'm not sure it does require loading the entire image. Servers (Dell/HP) that allow remote mounting iso imag
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
The AR924's in question are POCSAG pagers; broadcast from base stations and receive only at the pager end. Two way pagers are a thing but use an entirely different protocol for communications.

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