Doohickey-d

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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
One reason I can think of: when you rotate an image in the windows photo viewer (and probably lots of other apps), it stores that in the EXIF metadata. So the rotation is lossless, by not having to re-compress the JPEG. I could also imagine
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
The lid angle sensor is also serialized to the motherboard: you cannot replace it, or the motherboard, without performing calibration, which can be performed by an apple authorized service provider, or alternatively, in Europe (and elsewher
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
This is mostly a link to: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/08/29/pictures-not-photos-w...
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
It's possible to increase the brightness in software on M1, by faking HDR (desktop capture -> scale brightness to HDR -> display). One example: https://www.brightintosh.de/ but there's many others.
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
I'd be curious how much better a more expensive LLM would do - gpt-4o-mini and gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20 are definitely not the most capable LLMs one could have chosen.
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
M1 Macs are more theft-proof than most: it's useless if it's attached to someone else's iCloud account. It even has parts pairing, so the e.g. the screen has some features disabled if you swap it.
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
I'm using this instead: https://gist.github.com/mijorus/b9fabea963fabd435139654c6ebe... Turn off WiFi when going to sleep, turn it back on on wake. I don't need my laptop to be doing things when it's in
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
It's great that it's still around and still seems to be updated. Since it seems that they laid off the entire team in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24132494 Or did they re-hire?
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
It's almost there: firefox has shipped it for windows (to begin with): https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/shipping-webgpu-... And safari is coming soon. So not too long untill it'll be usab
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
Blog post from 2016, detailing the setup: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar... It's a bit of a shame, but I guess also with declining traffic and revenue, they're als
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
This is actually quite common: I've been on ferries, at airports, even hotels, which give you some amount of time for free, often anonymously. So just a mac address change gives extra internet. New Android versions make it especially c
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
There's also another version of the story of why they removed it: > So basically, Microsoft's claim of Aero being "cheesy" "and "dated" are just lies to cover up the fact where the original Surface RT i
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
It's a bit more recent than a few decades, but this sounds a lot like the short story "MMAcevedo": https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
> Users requiring raw chains of thought for advanced prompt engineering can contact sales So it seems like all 3 of the LLM providers are now hiding the CoT - which is a shame, because it helped to see when it was going to go down the wr
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by Doohickey-d 1y ago
They changed it yesterday or so: it used to show the actual reasoning, now it no longer does. And the reasoning was quite useful to see if it was going down the wrong track, the summary is much less so.
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by Doohickey-d 2y ago
If you right click -> new tab, you can see them.
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by Doohickey-d 2y ago
As an alternative to this, I quite like https://squoosh.app/ - Also works on-device, but additionally it's open source, supports multiple output formats, and exposes all the speed / quality / transparency opt
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by Doohickey-d 2y ago
I haven't used it in a while (now using streaming...), But Musicolet ( https://krosbits.in/musicolet/ ) should be able to do this. Offline-only and lightweight.
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by Doohickey-d 2y ago
There's also a usecase of using flac for non-audio data: anything that looks like a waveform compresses quite well. e.g. analog signals, data logging, etc. One example is https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode - c
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by Doohickey-d 2y ago
https://www.flightconnections.com/ is IMO nicer for exploring all airlines, you can just click on airports on the map.
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by Doohickey-d 2y ago
This worked for me, French carrier "Free", and install new eSIM while in Spain. But now I have doubts, especially outside the EU: if it doesn't work, that would loose one of the advantages that I'd sort of expected eSIM
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by Doohickey-d 2y ago
There's even cheaper versions of this now, "fiber" HDMI cables with the electronics in the HDMI plugs themselves, no additional power required. They go up to 100m length. I do wonder how these work, since I've never seen
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by Doohickey-d 2y ago
Another one; where you can get to without changing trains, and how long it takes: https://direkt.bahn.guru/
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by Doohickey-d 2y ago
I'm curious which of the Whisper derivatives is actually the fastest ? Since faster-whisper claims 4x speedup over base Whisper, and I've found WhisperX to be faster still (for longer audio where it can do batch inference), at lea
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by Doohickey-d 2y ago
This way, you can re-use the return part of the ticket for multiple trips, either until it gets stamped or marked by the ticket inspector, or the 30 days are up.
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by Doohickey-d 2y ago
If you want your forms submissions in a spreadsheet, it's also possible using only Google Apps Script: https://github.com/levinunnink/html-form-to-google-sheet