Cyan488

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by Cyan488 5mo ago
I have so many technical hobbies; coffee is my analog retreat :)
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by Cyan488 5mo ago
Agree on the Classic Pro. The Gaggiuno is quite complex; a Shades of Coffee PID kit is simpler if you want better shot-to-shot consistency and don't care much about customizing to the nth degree. Single boiler is fine if you're ma
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by Cyan488 5mo ago
We've definitely passed the point where discerning between real and AI images is impossible, even for a very detail-oriented eye.
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by Cyan488 6mo ago
I'm noticing sites that break the rules. I report (flag) them, is that useful or should I just PR to remove them?
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by Cyan488 7mo ago
I think it's meant as an art piece, not a product. I liked that the call to action is "BUILD YOUR OWN" instead of "BUY NOW ($599)".
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by Cyan488 7mo ago
I use a TCL Flip for this purpose. Phone calls and texting work well enough, the web browser is painful on the small non-touch screen but works in a pinch, and the phone can create an LTE hotspot. Sometimes I also carry my smartphone but I
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by Cyan488 8mo ago
Some people legitimately have no idea that others recognize and are offput by llm output. Also, i know a lot of non-native English speakers that use AI tools to "correct things". Because of the language barrier these people especi
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by Cyan488 8mo ago
Small private discord or slack servers meet this definition. I'm part of a few interest related ones and I'm glad to know members are more likely to be human than not
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by Cyan488 8mo ago
One of my first visible actions when working at a new company is to recommend the search software Voidtools Everything, and to set a 30 minute meeting to teach people how to use it. For the next 6-12 months I get so much positive feedback a
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by Cyan488 8mo ago
Funny they mentioned the GitHub email. I got the same one and unsubscribed from every GitHub email immediately. I wonder if they track how fast people unsubscribe after opening particular emails.
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by Cyan488 9mo ago
"Please add one deliberate but minor spelling or grammar mistake to your output".
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by Cyan488 9mo ago
I think both are reconciled by: > 5. Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the users self-expre
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by Cyan488 9mo ago
As someone that (for now) only ever has 2 digits worth of grey hairs at a time, I feel the same.
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by Cyan488 10mo ago
This is common in embedded systems, where there is limited memory and no OS to run garbage collection.
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by Cyan488 10mo ago
Anyone know what happened to NODE? They seemed to have had a good momentum and then went radio silent.
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by Cyan488 10mo ago
Speakers/Audio Jack or Bluetooth? Sounds like the audio device going to sleep during periods of silence, then taking a short time to wake up again when audio is played. Maybe to avoid hiss? For a data point of 1, my laptop does this re
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by Cyan488 10mo ago
I had the same experience, watching a nature documentary on a streaming service recently. It was... not so good, at least at the beginning. I was wondering if this was a pilot for AI generated content on this streaming service. Actually, it
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by Cyan488 10mo ago
I admit didn't spend a lot of time with it, but right after installing it, I needed to work on a project with Platform.io in VSCode. What was a 10 minute process in Zorin (mainly due to not using Flatpaks) didn't work out after ov
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by Cyan488 10mo ago
I've been dual booting Bazzite and Zorin for the last month it's been working out well. I didn't really like Bazzite as a daily driver, but it worked better for gaming.
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by Cyan488 10mo ago
The color of the screens is related to the phosphor used to coat the back of the screen, which is excited to glow by the electron beam. According to wiki, amber was used as an "eye-friendly" ergonomic color for similar reasons we
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by Cyan488 10mo ago
In my experience, all it took was buying a consumer Syno NAS, turning on the VPN server and connecting a DDNS service. Setting up a second off-site NAS and connecting it to the primary one over VPN was also easy. I haven't twiddled wit
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by Cyan488 1y ago
The circuit design software I use, Altium Designer, has a SaaS cloud for managing libraries of components, and version control of projects. I probably spend hours a year waiting for simple things like "load the next 100 parts in this l
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by Cyan488 1y ago
Libinput is adding Lua scripting to handle hardware quirks and edge cases without needing to rely on hardcoding hacks into the library[1], which might help the trackpad situation. [1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/libin
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by Cyan488 1y ago
Subtle rebellion by the developer?
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by Cyan488 1y ago
I agree with the side-project thing, where the code is only incidental to working on the real project. I recently wanted to organize thousands of photos my family had taken over decades and sprawled on a network drive, and in 5 minutes vibe
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by Cyan488 1y ago
Yes, I ignored Kanji completely while learning Japanese. I only learned words in hiragana and katakana from my SRS decks. I regret it because it locked me out of a lot of comprehensible input I could have used to actually progress in ways a
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by Cyan488 1y ago
As an electronics designer myself, I would find it hard to trust the AliExpress board. Without the design files, running a failure modes and effects analysis on the board is difficult. There's also no guarantee that each board you get
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by Cyan488 1y ago
Electronics can be surprisingly easy and cheap to build these days. He designed the circuit and layout with software called KiCAD (free and open source) then submitted the designs to a fabrication house - probably a popular offshore one - t
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by Cyan488 1y ago
Was waiting to see all different colors of iMac G3 in the high resolution device icons, but alas. I believe those icons are used in Network places if a device with a known model is on the local network. The BSOD device would represent Windo
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by Cyan488 1y ago
Ben Franklin's coin flip landed the wrong way - nowadays electronics circuits are calculated and drawn assuming movement of positive charges, when in reality it's the negatively charged electrons that flow.

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