Leonard_of_Q

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by Leonard_of_Q 26d ago
Those who lived through the (text-mode) WordPerfect era may remember 'widow and orphan protection' as being one of the features which was advertised for this program, i.e it could be set to either move that orphaned first line of
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by Leonard_of_Q 28d ago
Self-hosted Nitter still works for now, it is what I use to read X posts. You do need an (or, better still, some) account(s) but those are easy to create for now. The account(s) don't need any history, freshly-minted free accounts do j
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by Leonard_of_Q 1mo ago
At the same time the Dutch gas reserves are at a historic low (current somewhere around 44% of capacity) and are not expected to be filled to capacity before winter comes. It is to be hoped this will be a mild winter or prices - already hig
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by Leonard_of_Q 1mo ago
Realise that saying something like this against the Chinese regime in China will land you in hot water while you won't have any problems now. > In both systems, anybody with a pulse knows what they can’t talk about. Who you can’t cr
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by Leonard_of_Q 1mo ago
Hey, CCP bot, please explain the downvote. If you disagree with what I write here and can prove what I wrote is in error we'd all learn something. If what I wrote is correct and you just hope other knee-jerk downvoters will follow your
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by Leonard_of_Q 1mo ago
"Great" except for those nagging problems in Xinjiang, that nasty business with trade in prisoner's organs, forced labour camps, lack of freedom of association and expression, the problem with people forcibly being disappeare
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by Leonard_of_Q 1mo ago
I have a bridge for sale, hardly seen use, pay me ${money} and you can collect it in New York City. Interested?
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by Leonard_of_Q 1mo ago
Does it or is this part of the push to keep people from hosting their own email services? I've self-hosted email for about 35 years now and see no reason to stop, it hardly ever needs maintenance and my mail tends to arrive even at hos
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
They probably feel like the athlete who missed breaking a record, like the shipping company which just failed to load the goods in 4 trucks and now needs 5, like the painter who just needed that extra 50 cm on his ladder: "darn, so clo
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
Because humans don't want to spend time to learn how to use "dead" languages and humans still play a role in programming. Having LLMs churn out more COBOL instead of Java means more of the code base becomes 'terra incogn
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
You can replace the Android TV launcher with an alternative like Projectivy [1] to get rid of whatever nonsense the stock launcher tries to push. Add Flicky [2] to address F-Droid and you've got a nuisance-free Android TV. [1] https:&
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
Racism?
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
Just make sure to use a local model if you're really serious about this since there is no guarantee the cloud models can't not won't add watermarks to the output.
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
Nothing except for the link with the well-known and -regarded VPN provider Mullvad. The ban on political articles here is not complete nor unbiased.
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
Yes, many manufacturers know. I have a number of Motorola Defy phones from 2010/2011 with replaceable batteries, all waterproof. My daughter left hers in her back pocket when she put her trousers in the washing, the thing went through
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
> The real benefit I think is when stuff like tax codes, carbon credits and government subsidies come into play and ROI goes down significantly. Those are unreliable and vary at the whim of the government and their need to fill a hole in
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
More "Microsoft called, they want the 90's back".
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
When referring to really ancient tombs you're fortunately in a diminishingly small minority or we wouldn't know a fraction about some culture's history compared to what we know now. Whether it is Egyptian tombs like this one,
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
You forgot 'signalling' which is what people in the West - not just the USA - are tired of. I know I am tired of it and I'm neither an American nor in the USA. Stating that a whole country has problems with virtue is rather s
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by Leonard_of_Q 2mo ago
A man goes to a psychiatrist. To start things off, the psychiatrist suggests they start with a Rorschach Test. He holds up the first picture and asks the man what he sees. "A man and a woman making love in a park," the man replie
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by Leonard_of_Q 3mo ago
Is writing thinking? Good writing requires thinking but does that also go for sloppy writing? What is thinking? This is the subject of a discussion [1, 2] I'm in - which in true HN style has been greyed-out because of ${reasons} - rega
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by Leonard_of_Q 3mo ago
I've read a bit through your comment history which gives me the impression of a mostly rational individual with whom I agree on some things while disagreeing on others. You don't seem to be a raving anti-LLM crusader nor come acro
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by Leonard_of_Q 3mo ago
You're describing a process by which a 'thinking' entity uses cognition to refine a solution to a stated problem. That's a lot of words so usually we shorten this to 'reasoning'. Do LLMs 'think'? I &#
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by Leonard_of_Q 3mo ago
It is fine 'cause it uses the browser you're already using anyway instead of importing a new one for each and every application. Run the backend on a server somewhere and you can get to your application anywhere you can reach that
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by Leonard_of_Q 3mo ago
AI designs will start to look more (biologicaly) evolved, less intentionally designed. Museums, especially older ones are full of jars with pickled specimens, bags of bones and tubes and strings which somehow seemed to fulfil their purpose.
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by Leonard_of_Q 3mo ago
"how do you use an ax in the age of AI" Exactly the same as I used it on the age of frameworks, the age of Java and .NET, the age of compilers, the age of ...: you take it by the helve and swing the business end towards the objec
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by Leonard_of_Q 3mo ago
It can be done mostly right but isn't in many places in the USA where ballots are sent to everyone on the voter records no matter whether they still live there or even live at all. Where there are no or insufficient checks on whether t
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by Leonard_of_Q 3mo ago
Not so much "poor" 'cause that is rare in the Netherlands. Having said that fatbikes are significantly less expensive than other electric bicycles so they are more popular with those who don't want to or can't spend
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by Leonard_of_Q 3mo ago
Interesting, a local search option. I made the recoll engine for SearX and now SearXNG and still use this daily over a rather large archive of journal articles and other non-fiction texts. Recoll's indexer can extract text from just
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by Leonard_of_Q 3mo ago
Carney seems to flirt with China [1] so they might make him an offer he can't refuse. [1] https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/01/16/prime-...

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