MarioMan

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by MarioMan 1y ago
> They didn't seem to appreciate me telling them that they'd asked this question the last time. Most places will appreciate if you tell them before you work on the problem. That gives them a chance to give you a different pro
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by MarioMan 1y ago
> they gave my then-girlfriend an introductory O'Reilly book on Java after she failed their interview. That's surprising. I've never seen any major tech company provide any sort of feedback, let alone handing you a book, e
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by MarioMan 1y ago
OpenAI gives an allotment of free daily tokens if you agree to hand over the inputs as training. I’d love a proxy that places the limit just before you exhaust those free tokens, to avoid incurring any expenses for small hobbyist projects.
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by MarioMan 1y ago
Here’s the first time setup documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105132 And the general iPhone documentation: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/welcome/ios Sometimes, I wi
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by MarioMan 1y ago
It used to be simpler. I remember it taking years before Apple finally added this ability to move more than one icon at a time, and it’s a change for the better in my opinion. Using it as a reordering technique is a knock-on effect I’d neve
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by MarioMan 1y ago
Those interested in the article may also enjoy reading this one, which really helps to sober your perspective on why one would even go for a CS PhD: “So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!” a.k.a. “Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduat
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by MarioMan 1y ago
I run TrueNAS Scale at home myself. There’s no need to proactively check in on anything if you’ve set up email alerts. It’s pretty straightforward to give the NAS permission to send you emails in case a drive dies on you rather than failing
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by MarioMan 1y ago
Siri has supported an offline subset of commands since iOS 15 came out in 2021. I just tested this with Wi-Fi and cellular data disabled. Calling someone works perfectly and asking to turn Wi-Fi on presents the relevant toggle.
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by MarioMan 1y ago
Steam has famously gone on record that they will provide a DRM removal patch for everything they’re legally allowed to, if/when they go under. If they don’t do this and it’s all just lip service, then it makes a strong argument for eth
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by MarioMan 1y ago
It’s also stock on iOS, albeit buried in the Files app under More (3 dots in top right)>Scan Documents. It’s especially useful for multi-page documents.
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by MarioMan 1y ago
We’ve had a few scares. Last year, it didn’t stop filling and caused some flooding across a few rooms before we caught it. Earlier this year, the plastic on the knob mount was so brittle it snapped off. We’ve been servicing it, and we’ll ke
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by MarioMan 1y ago
My washing machine is a "dumb" machine from the '90s. The wash cycles run based on the position of a glorified timer knob: it doesn't have a computer or sensors to detect if it needs extra time aside from the water fill
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by MarioMan 1y ago
One of the more interesting cases of sci-fi greebling is in Infinity Chamber. The film was shot on a budget of only $125,000. Most of the movie happens in a single room. To save money, the backdrop used 2 liter soda crates the filmmakers fo
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by MarioMan 1y ago
It's more than just the email. If you're in the breach, it might now publicly tie your email to things like your real name. You also have to worry if you reuse passwords (which you shouldn't do even if you haven't been i
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by MarioMan 1y ago
Getting there via the App Store is just one option. You can also get there from Settings under Apple Account > Subscriptions. And if that’s too tricky, you can just type “Subscriptions” (shows up after just typing “sub” for me) into Spot
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by MarioMan 1y ago
A 25% price jump would cause much grumbling. That being said, I’d like to believe that there’s a real market for bootloader unlocked iPhones.
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by MarioMan 1y ago
In the comments, he mentions that he will be returning the unit as defective.
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by MarioMan 2y ago
The wild thing is that the web has achieved both the aspirations and the failings mentioned here. There's an odd dichotomy of user experiences. Progress really has accelerated. "Big data" couldn't have been a thing witho
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by MarioMan 2y ago
I think it's been AI upscaled. Here's another article with more sane looking images of the logo: https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-loses-trademark-fight-aga...
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by MarioMan 2y ago
I felt the same way using GPT-2 and AI Dungeon back in the day. The surrealism and incredibly short-term memory was a big part of the fun.
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by MarioMan 2y ago
There are a couple of WebGPU LLM platforms available that form the building blocks to accomplish this right from the browser, especially since the models are so small. https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm https:/&#x
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by MarioMan 2y ago
For the longest time, I thought this was the only limiting factor, but modern panels are low enough latency for it to work, yet still don’t. The other important factor is the light filter. The NES Zapper has a filter designed to only be sen
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by MarioMan 2y ago
>It’s already a thing to have records deleted from the archive which should be the most worse thing when your whole concept is to archive. IA doesn't delete archives, they merely make them inaccessible. Perhaps that's a distinc
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by MarioMan 2y ago
I'm a bit miffed that Zoom "outs" you as someone with a webcam. If you have a camera, it shows up as such in the participants list. All of my desktop webcams are virtual, but Zoom couldn't know that. It gives this false
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by MarioMan 2y ago
That's a latency issue, and there's no real fix for that. The parent commenter, I believe, is talking about the problem where people use speakers and active noise cancellation, which makes it impractical to speak and be heard at t
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by MarioMan 2y ago
There is limited prompt control. You can provide podcast production notes for the AI to play off of, and they tend to honor it. I don’t know that they’d so completely change their personalities to suit it though.
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by MarioMan 2y ago
I've wanted to abuse this to support a static site "hosted" entirely from a QR code, but I haven't found any QR scanners that interpret the data URI as something to open in the browser. And without wide support, that pro
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by MarioMan 2y ago
Last time I was in the bay area, I went to Central Computers, and it fills a lot of the niche that Microcenter offers elsewhere in the country. It's one of the few places I can find Raspberry Pis at MSRP (without the high shipping pric
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by MarioMan 2y ago
I was shocked to learn there was a short period in the '90s when even reselling your physical games was outlawed in Japan. At the time, Nintendo put "no resale" icons on the back of all their games.
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by MarioMan 2y ago
Among other things, it usually means that the file type has wide interoperability (which makes it more likely you can open it in the far future) and comes in a format resistant to damage, so if bits are changed or removed, you can still rec

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