Semaphor

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by Semaphor 5d ago
Feedback is one thing, but another is complete memory. I used to stop talking in a thread once gpt solved my issue. But then it would bring it up again in another thread, treating it as an active issue. So now I always close with "than
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by Semaphor 6d ago
> but not the rule governing why. Be glad you didn’t have to learn German, our grammatical gender only has more exceptions than rules.
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by Semaphor 10d ago
I mean, if you really need redundancy, isn’t a second instance on a VPS somewhere that you manually switch over to, enough? Over multiple ISPs, so far internet outages for more then a few minutes is very rare (though the few minutes would m
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by Semaphor 10d ago
I personally just find it convenient, even in my 3.5 room apartment. Though I do have switches that work.
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by Semaphor 11d ago
I sometimes called it "textual memory of an image", but I also liked TFA with "we experience these as an awareness of a set of spatial facts"
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by Semaphor 11d ago
I don’t have ADHD¹, there. But anyway, while I have aphantasia, almost everyone I talk to reports being able to see images, most being able to manipulate them. From my incredibly small sample size of ~20, my sister was the only one with pos
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by Semaphor 12d ago
Is there a way to have fast on-the-fly WebP encoding? When i checked it, it was unusably slow (multiple seconds for large images), but maybe that was the implementation. That alone made JXL far more interesting to us.
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by Semaphor 12d ago
This behavior predates modern AI. Maybe it’s getting worse, but without high limits (which lower revenue) adsense will result in a lot of scams.
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by Semaphor 15d ago
Under privacy, ignored, I put providers that always suck. Digital Ocean, OpenInference, DeepInfra, AtlasCloud, and Alibaba (that one is different, it doesn’t suck in the same way as the others with a dumb model, but instead it’s heavily cen
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by Semaphor 15d ago
FWIW, one article is very short on details, it’s a slightly expanded press release, and the other is a video. I’m not sure either is what’s needed more on HN.
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by Semaphor 17d ago
Yeah, it's the same for me, but luckily those are very rare
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by Semaphor 17d ago
> This is quite common if you have full on aphantasia. Is it? I’ve never really researched common aphantasia behavior, but I’ve seen many mentions of aphantasia in fantasy/scifi subreddits where those of us with it still love readin
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by Semaphor 17d ago
FWIW, there’s a famous(-ish) fantasy author with aphantasia (Mark Lawrence), and I also have aphantasia, yet I absolutely love reading and if I would have to choose only one entertainment for the rest of my live, it’d be reading. But I can
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by Semaphor 18d ago
Ohh, conditional comments. We had so many IE holdouts on our site, I think only around 2021 I removed the last IE specific fallbacks, and I think some conditional comments were a thing until 2020. I’m not sure when I removed a bunch of `msa
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by Semaphor 18d ago
People clearly like lying… or just maybe their experience is different than yours for a multitude of reasons. I have absolutely no clear difference.
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by Semaphor 23d ago
> Gamers will refuse to buy a PS6 if there's not an ironclad guarantee that they own the games they purchase, be it digital or disc form. I highly doubt that. I’d say 99%, probably more, won’t care either way. People barely care on
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by Semaphor 23d ago
Was troubleshooting a strange SSD issue with ChatGPT. Apparently this outage resulted in losing the latter half of it. My uploaded files it requested are still in the library, but the actual conversation is gone.
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by Semaphor 25d ago
I really like the Firefox usability. For what I do it works great. It has uBo and a bunch of other extensions, and if course it can sync with desktop.
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by Semaphor 25d ago
Thanks, I did read articles about it back then, but while PRISM was mentioned always and everywhere, none of those I read mentioned the other ones, or if they did, just as an aside.
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by Semaphor 25d ago
As someone working for a small publisher: The amount of "don’t care" is amazing. We tried 2 different big and popular "programmatic bidding" platforms. The amount of scams and extra-shoddy ads was crazy. And for each we
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by Semaphor 27d ago
I must say I find it interesting you say "cannot have missed" as I never heard of stateroom or bullrun before
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by Semaphor 28d ago
Including a very healthy metal scene, Martröð (50 % icelandic) and Nexion were recent favorites of mine.
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by Semaphor 28d ago
The idea is to make people think about what they say, and maybe not declare themselves the winner in advance. Kinda like you do by declaring what my intentions were.
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by Semaphor 28d ago
That’s what OP did. "Again, not some weird controversial point." OP already declared their statements as axioms.
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by Semaphor 28d ago
I wouldn’t be afraid, but I also wouldn’t reverse a legit one. When you do that, you get sent to collections, which makes sense.
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by Semaphor 29d ago
Wero is just starting on B2C, many business accounts still don't offer it. Not yet comparable to PayPal when talking purchases.
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by Semaphor 29d ago
The thing is, burden of proof is with the bank. For a lastschrift, you have 8 weeks to reverse it, if you didn't actually sign the Ermächtigung, you have 13 months. Unless you don't care what transfers happen, that's pretty m
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by Semaphor 1mo ago
One thing I’ve not seen mentioned: encoding speed. Encoding to webp (and I think Avif) is really slow, while at lower effort levels, JXL should easily be fast enough for on-the-fly.
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by Semaphor 1mo ago
FWIW, I think I had to fight a bit to figure out setting everything up correctly for uploads to work. But as I said in sibling, nothing too problematic.
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by Semaphor 1mo ago
So it tells me I’m unique and it can track me across different browsers. It also tells me that in a different browser with a different fingerprint. Even private browsing shows more unique fingerprints that are completely different. I don’t

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