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by Pxtl 9mo ago
I assume he's referring to failed prototype rifles that never made it into mass production but appeared in videogames. Ask H&K for a list of the all the military rifles they ever made and dump it onto the list and you get some cool
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
Sadly the project feels semi-abandoned. No new releases so I had to build it from source. Also the PR board seems to be ignored (one or two of those are mine - I tried to fix the misleading button labels).
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by Pxtl 9mo ago
I've been giving Linux a go as a daily driver for a few months. I tried Cinnamon and while it was pleasantly customizable, the sigle-threadedness of the UI killed it for me. It was too easy to do the wrong thing and lock the UI thread
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by Pxtl 10mo ago
What we got was html for vector graphics and what we wanted was jpeg for vector graphics.
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by Pxtl 10mo ago
Infuriating that we get all the bad sides of digital ID without the good sides. It's deanonymizing and intrusive and mandatory for sites to implement without protecting them from sockpuppets and foreign troll farms.
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by Pxtl 10mo ago
From a UX perspective, the AI overview summary being a multi-paragraph summary makes sense since that was a single query that isn't expected to have conversational context. Where it does not make sense is in conversation-based interfa
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by Pxtl 10mo ago
You'd think with the reputation of LLMs being trained on Twitter (pre-Musk radicalization) and Reddit, they'd be better at understanding normal conversation flow since twitter requires short responses and Reddit... while Wall of
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by Pxtl 10mo ago
Shows how a stable API will beat the hell out of bleeding-edge improvements every time.
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
Apparently I misremembered the story, while Pebble was prototyped in Canada by U of Waterloo guys, when they went startup & kickstarter with the product they moved to California.
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
Right. And that particular use-case sounds nice, but realistically this new format will not be exclusively used in that particular case. Dealing with basically another .webp-like format in those cases (one that might be a backwards-com
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
Let's be realistic - when most users are upset they got a .webp, they're not annoyed because of quality-loss, they're annoyed because they can't immediately use it in many other services & software.
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
AFAIK downconverting to jpeg is only an option for legacy jpegs that have been upconverted to jpegxl though. Many jpegxl images likely won't support downconverting if they were created as jxl from the get-go. Basically, jpeg->jxl
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
I get that there are people who are super excited by this for very good reasons, but for those of us downstream this is just going to be a hassle.
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
> Lossless JPEG recompression (byte-exact JPEG recompression, saving about 20%) for legacy images Lossless recompression is the main interesting thing on offer here compared to other new formats... and honestly with only 20% improvement
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
Imho the web and SQL brought us to the ridiculous point that the most obvious way to "modularize" was to use fully separate isolated apps and servers. This is because web and SQL are both dominant platforms for enterprise and are
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
Yes, I saw the exact same thing when you posted it - "oh, AI text looks like an averaging of fonts".
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
Devops-heavy development, but been a Windows desktop user up until now, with linux just running on servers. I'll probably go with Kubuntu just because I want something as vanilla as possible with the largest support-base.
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
I've been doing my first journey w Linux as a daily driver and I'm not loving Mint+Cinnamon, what's the best distro for KDE?
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
Meanwhile AI products occasionally talk kids into killing themselves and that's okay.
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
It's the flash animation/design tools that are missing from modern young people, not the ability to render it into the browser.
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
This is what the world lost when Adobe Animate/Flash became impractical to pirate and switched to a monthly subscription fee for the Adobe suite.
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by Pxtl 11mo ago
Same reason I don't use a variety of other good programming ideas: the tools I use don't support it usefully.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I'm still confused why he replied this to me though instead of making it a top level post.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
That Carmack still posts to Twitter (and QTs Curtis Yarvin) was news to me.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
How is it offtopic on a Twitter post by John Carmack to remark on the fact that John Carmack posts to Twitter?
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by Pxtl 1y ago
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by Pxtl 1y ago
C# does this with the null hole. I wish more languages would take a versioning approach to defaults at the file-level.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
> Musk's ownership isn't such a negative that it outweighs everything else. If it was just his ownership that would be one thing but his aggressive support for turning the site into /pol/ has ruined it.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Do Americans know that other countries don't have this wierd "government shuts down if we don't pass a budget" thing?
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Obligatory Steve Yegge rant about the Google deprecation treadmill: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec... > Dear RECIPIENT, > Fuck yooooouuuuuuuu. Fuck you, fuck you, Fuck You. Drop whatever

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