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by Strom 3y ago
Freight and air travel don’t involve cocaine as a standard. VPN and SSL do include encryption as standard. It’s not an analogy, it’s pointing out that encryption is more common than some think.
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by Strom 3y ago
Whenever you're confused about a vague term, just think - does my usage cost the service provider more than they earn from me? That will be your answer. It's not really about the specifics of what the bytes represent, it's wh
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by Strom 3y ago
The article claims that Druid doesn't use damage tracking for rendering, but this is not true, or at least not reasonably so. Druid does track damage regions and pipes this all the way to the OS. The only exception is macOS, where the
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by Strom 3y ago
The Fremont factory predates the Georgetown factory by a few years, and of course even more if we consider the pre-Toyota history of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by Strom 3y ago
The article claims: > The problem is, while it’s easy to lie to yourself, Jim isn’t fooled. While you claim: > So in order to fool Jim, don't think about doing that whole big thing you need to do. Just tell yourself you'l
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by Strom 3y ago
> relocating TSMC to Arizona That's a big no. What's actually happening is that TSMC is building a new factory in Arizona, including training a brand new US workforce. It remains to be seen whether it can even be done. Toyota
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by Strom 3y ago
> rarely any news of valuable partnerships, dominating the market and exceeding at certain field. The partnership with Porsche/Bugatti is quite valuable. They also dominate/exceed in terms of car performance, if not sales. Yo
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by Strom 3y ago
AGPL has language to cover such things, e.g. > All other non-permissive additional terms are considered "further restrictions" within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a
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by Strom 3y ago
> If the file is signed, metadata will be extracted and submitted to Microsoft. If that fails or the exact binary hasn't been run on a certain amount of computers, smart screen will show a big scary warning despite your $500 a year
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by Strom 3y ago
I'll give you two use cases, one for non-technical and one for technical people. Non-technical person will copy-paste a folder of documents to make a backup before editing a file. A crude form of version control. I've seen this me
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by Strom 3y ago
Windows does literally copy (parts of) files into memory. More precisely it's Windows Defender Real-Time Protection. It's a real menace when you're dealing with a lot of small files, e.g. node_modules. Windows Explorer is als
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by Strom 3y ago
The Free Software Foundation has the following to say. [1] > Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible
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by Strom 3y ago
> Any commercially reasonable age verification method. Is being born in 1900-01-01 still reasonable? The linked document remains extremely vague about what is reasonable.
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by Strom 4y ago
How many threats has it detected for you? I ran it for a decade or so and it caught exactly zero, so then I decided to disable it, because it makes file system access about 5-10x slower than it can be on my NVMe drive. Not bandwidth, but I&
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by Strom 4y ago
You can disable it. First you have to disable the tamper protection and real time protection in the GUI. Now the real time protection will come back automatically in some time, unless you do the following. If you have a Pro version of Windo
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by Strom 4y ago
This is about whether you incorporate outside context or not. Knowing about train tracks is not that different from knowing about magnetic poles or the common habitats of various bears. All these pieces of data are fairly basic to an educat
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by Strom 4y ago
I think most people would answer with whatever color their local bears are and won't even know about the polar bear riddle. > in the case of riddles, it doesn't matter that there are no trains in the Arctic in reality That&#x
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by Strom 4y ago
The bear question seemed interesting to me, so I tried a variation of it on GPT-4, with interesting results. The article has: Q: A house has windows on all the four sides, all pointing south. A bear walks by the window. What colour is the
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by Strom 4y ago
They also mention how it was previously run out of Las Vegas, so it could just be to highlight the immense shift in distance. It could be a way to emphesize remote work. It could be a way to show that they're stupid for not working out
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AI Rap Battle – ChatGPT vs. Bard – Text, Audio, and Video(old.reddit.com)
23 points by Strom 4y ago|3 comments
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by Strom 4y ago
Luckily https://bard.google.com/u/1 works to use the 2nd logged in Google Account.
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by Strom 4y ago
> 56°C is the world record temperature, not hot enough. That sounds like air temperature. Surface temperature gets way hotter. It’s well known you can cook an egg on desert sand.
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by Strom 4y ago
notepad.exe on Windows for example. If that's too lightweight, then VSCode is a more heavier example.
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by Strom 4y ago
They have ATX cases on shelves. You can take a look at this tour of their datacenter [1] for more insight. ATX cases are visible around the 3 minute mark. -- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM
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by Strom 4y ago
Disk choices have been a thing for a very long time. You can see the options when you scroll down in the configurator. [1] On top of that, Hetzner offers custom builds, so if you have specific needs you can get specific builds. Just not thr
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by Strom 4y ago
There is no real distinction between those two phrases here, because the person using those phrases isn't ultimately in control.
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by Strom 4y ago
> Their entire delivery fleet is composed of third world immigrants who are willing to work for peanuts for no benefits. It's similar in neighboring Estonia. However the reasons are more than just willingness to work for peanuts.
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by Strom 4y ago
It's not irrelevant for open source. As a Rust programmer I find these projects much more interesting than say COBOL, which I don't use. The ability to fix something myself is a big factor in my choice of what software I use.
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by Strom 4y ago
Not just privately either, there have been tools circulating even on GitHub. For a L3 example there's one repo [1] that's kind of still up but not really. Still enough to show that it happened. L1 bypass has also been on GitHub br
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by Strom 4y ago
Things have changed a bit, but not much. First, Google heavily censors results nowadays. You will get much more results with say Yandex. Second, TPB is no longer the best public torrent host. For public sites rarbg and 1337x are better alte

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