GuB-42

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by GuB-42 1y ago
Considering that the author likes the idea of carrying his stuff in a brown paper bag. I don't think a beat up looking laptop would bother him. In fact, if you look at the picture, there are a few scratches and dings on his laptop. Min
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I don't really understand how it is round tripping. In the end, Nvidia will have OpenAI shares, which are valuable, and OpenAI will have GPUs, which are also valuable. It is not fake revenue, the GPUs will be made, sold at market price
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by GuB-42 1y ago
To make it clear, I am not saying that solar panels don't work, of course they do. What I was questioning is using a solar panel over a power bank of the same weight. A 20 Ah (77 Wh) power bank weight about the same as a 15W solar pane
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Why does it needs a new name? I had a good idea of what it did before reading the article, it is a long name but not Java-long, and none of the suggestions so far are clear to me, even after reading the article. The only somewhat confusing
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by GuB-42 1y ago
But they won't, because the government won't let them. Even Coca Cola is not above the law. But government hired goons (aka the police) are the law. In free countries, their role is limited to things like making sure that you wo
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I have tried my luck with portable solar panels, and my conclusion is that in most cases, they suck. For a solar panel to be useful you need: - At least a few days without access to electricity, otherwise even at max power, you won't g
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It actually is, when you read GGP's link [1] 20000 mAh (3.85V/77Wh) Which is consistent with what the latest mass produced batteries can do. [1] https://www.makuake.com/project/haribo_dcglobal/
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The neural networks we use today have really terrible accuracy, and we tend to make them worse, not better, as having more neurons is better than having more precision. Human brains are also a mess, but somehow, they work, and we are usuall
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It would be interesting to layer it with an elevation map. We can almost make out the contours of the mountain ranges. For example if you look at France, there is like a big hole in the middle of the southern half of the country, that all t
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by GuB-42 1y ago
This kind of reasoning works for private companies, not for the government. It is true that if you are accepting money from Coca Cola, it will limit your ability to do work that goes against the interests of Coca Cola. To be independent, ju
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by GuB-42 1y ago
That's something you can override in the accessibility options, both in Chrome and in Firefox. IMHO, it should be the default, I have never been in a situation where it caused a problem, but I have been in plenty of situations where it
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by GuB-42 1y ago
How well does it cut frozen food? Probably not great, otherwise they would have shown it, but being able to cut frozen food properly would be a game changer. The only things I found working are saws, and they are messy.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Like many people here, I dislike the moralizing aspect, so I tried thinking of it on a more technical perspective. Which led me to the question: Why are the tabs and URL on my browser on top while the OS bar is on the bottom? It looks like
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Except that Oracle doesn't say sorry and doesn't appear to have any human connection at all, they don't even fake it.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Yes, Li-ion batteries would have been so much better had they been called "Goodenough batteries". And we already have Galvanic cells and Voltaic piles, so it wouldn't have been the first battery named after its creator.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It is significant though? The suggested board is powered by USB, that's 5V 500mA, so, 2.5W. Let's say the tube is run at the recommended 380V, at 2.5W, that's a current of 6.5mA, which is barely painful, and not dangerous. I
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by GuB-42 1y ago
KDE is, as its name implies, a desktop environment. And it hasn't been "infected" by the "mobile" virus. I often wondered why desktop UIs became so terrible somewhere in the 2010s and I don't want to attribute
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It looks like Git supports it since 2015 and Bash and OpenSSH apparently don't as neither contain the string "XDG_" in their binary.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Small caliber, lots of plastic, short lifespan, unreliable. Most serious 3D printed guns have at least a metal barrel. Often, 3D printed guns are just a lower receiver, that is the part you hold in your hand, the parts that actually fire th
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by GuB-42 1y ago
And then, there is /usr It was supposed to be the user directory, but because someone didn't have enough space on /, it was somehow decided to put some stuff in there, so you have /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etc..
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> C# is right there if I want a java-like experience without the anxiety of Oracle breaking my kneecaps. Is Microsoft really better than Oracle in that regard?
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by GuB-42 1y ago
There is definitely not one single standard. If you look at the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard" (LSB standard, which is not universal), on the section about the home directory, you can find this: > A number of efforts have been
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I don't know the Microsoft guidelines about that. But my understanding is that apps should put their stuff in AppData. "My ..." is for files intended for the user to access directly. For instance photo apps will naturally sav
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The US literally dumped their trash in China for "recycling". China doesn't want to anymore and India and several southeast Asia countries took over (Indonesia, Vietnam, ...). And sure the the western world wasn't forced
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Also, both Europe and the US are happy to have China do the dirty jobs so that they stay clean in their countries. With the consequences we all know today in terms of dependence. Furthermore, China doesn't want to be dirty anymore, in
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by GuB-42 1y ago
And PDF documents in image form. Usually scans of printed copies. It is fine for historical documents, but doing today means you really want to piss people off. And by the way, PDF files support signatures, both handwritten and digital. The
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It is not for preventing you from taking screenshots, if you insist, you can do it with another camera. It is to prevent malware and "helpful" AI tools from doing it for you and then uploading the picture to who knows where. Signa
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> Shai Hulud Clever name... but I would have expected malware authors to be a bit less obvious. They literally named their giant worm after a giant worm. > At the core of this attack is a ~3.6MB minified bundle.js file Yep, even malwa
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I don't consider "My..." in Windows XP to be a blooper. In folders, it meant these are personal folders, as opposed to system folders, shared data, etc... You have to put it into context, it was the fist multi-user system for
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Public servants have a job, outside of their job, they are just regular citizens with the same rights and duties as everyone else. So, monitoring them of the job, sure, but they have the right for a private life. Or not, depending on the la

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