Toutouxc

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   by Toutouxc 4y ago

   As a customer I don’t really care if it’s hardware or software, Apple delivers where others don’t.
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   by Toutouxc 4y ago

   E-scooter (my own) rider from Prague: the cycling infrastructure here ranges from okay to pretty-nice-actually, and it's slowly getting better, so that's good, but there's a LOT of drunk tourists using the rental e-scooters i
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   by Toutouxc 4y ago

   My 256GB Air, which is my work+personal computer, shows 94 GB free. That's my whole job, my paperwork, Apple Photos library with 5 years worth of data, all my apps and personal projects, all my ebooks, memes, notes, screenshots, cached
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   by Toutouxc 4y ago

   TIL: this comment is about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controve...
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   by Toutouxc 4y ago

   Wow, this link shows $326 for my country. Even more expensive than most legit resellers.
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   by Toutouxc 4y ago

   Is anyone actually seeing things IRL like 46 % of code written by Copilot? I'm using it in RubyMine in a few years old Rails codebase with some complex bits, and while I find it much more useful than RubyMine's already nice autoco
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   by Toutouxc 4y ago

   I don't think my iPhone has this, but my 2018 Škoda has this. There are exactly these two checkboxes, they say something like "phone" and "audio" and they do exactly that. And this isn't even when pairing, you
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   by Toutouxc 4y ago

   You can find some 100 % Stallmanesque, extremely pedantic and tone-deaf quotes from him on pedophilia and rape. Some people are understanding, some are not.
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   by Toutouxc 4y ago

   I get this exact scenario very often — model says something blatantly false, gets called out, apologizes and continues. 3.5 or 4, they both do that. And I only discuss stuff with it that I'm at least familiar with, so I can usually cat
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    Meanwhile I've been confidently told by GPT-4 that iPad Mini 6 uses the A14 Bionic (then it continued for a while about how that makes it just about as powerful as the 4th generation iPad Air), which is false of course, and the model i
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    And then you read up on bit rot and HDDs dying when not used for a long time, and there goes the fuzzy feeling. :(
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    One backup is no backup. Two backups is one backup.
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    For what it's worth, ChatGPT is able to hold a meaningful conversation in Czech (pretty difficult, latin script, ~11M speakers). I can almost tell it's a bot, but it could also be a PR person from a big corporation who can't
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    I use a Hario Skerton Pro (roughly $60 where I live), considered an okay starter choice, and it's absolutely an entry level grinder. I had to mod it quite a bit to get something resembling consistency. Where can you get something that
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    I use Signal to be able to communicate with those members of my family who don't have iPhones. It's a compromise between my privacy expectations and their usability expectations.
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    I can mostly tell when webpages from my search results are trying to bullshit me (and Kagi gives me some nice tools to suppress the bullshitting kind), but with ChatGPT I have no idea.
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    > I can't imagine anyone wanting this behavior with a regular mouse that has a scroll wheel (as opposed to buying Apple's Magic crap, which Apple wants you to do). I had to edit some values in Windows Registry to get my gaming
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    The article makes zero sense the way it's written now. When you're going Mach 11 in one direction, you don't "toss" anything "over the shoulder" and run away. You either slowly turn the plane around, with
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    > my best guess is that it's for when you're driving on a lot of hills It’s for when you have people or stuff in the back, so the car squats a little. I think it’s mandatory over here in Europe, at least I’ve never seen a car w
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    > I'd have expected most people on HN to understand the relative roles of the US federal and state governments You probably didn’t mean it that way, but man, that’s some ‘Murica fuck yeah material. I know that different US states ha
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    Just in case you or someone else didn’t know; “Bootcamp” is a tool that allows anyone to set up dual-boot on their Mac without having to touch the bootloader or hunt for drivers. It’s not an emulation or virtualization solution, which is wh
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    That’s exactly what some people do. And it’s even possible to run older games that way. The x86-on-ARM Windows thingy is no Rosetta, but it’s pretty usable.
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    Usually writing Macs as MACs is almost a shibboleth among people who have very strong negative feelings towards the platform for some reason. (MAC’s is the ultimate misspelling) So it’s interesting to see a person who’s apparently neutral w
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    IKEA doesn’t sell a CO2 sensor.
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    That’s not even an opinion, much less an unpopular one.
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    Way out of the loop. IKEA now sells loads of smart home tech: smart lightbulbs, LED drivers, motion sensors, light switches, power outlets, air purifiers, motorized window shades and even amazing smart speakers (designed by IKEA, but fully
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    > IKEA already has a side table that doubles as an air purifier, but now it has a way to gauge just how clean that air really is Please note that the purifier/table combo and the standalone purifier, both called Starkvind, already h
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    The separate technologies are called Turbo, Stimulus and Strada, together forming Hotwire. The webpage [0] even looks like they were going for some kinda late-80s synthwave-y aesthetic. [0] https://hotwired.dev
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    I'd literally fly a bicycle with wings for fifteen minutes at a time if that made [fixed-wing] aviation more affordable. I live in one of the better-off eastern-bloc countries and I make significantly more than most people I know, but
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    by Toutouxc 4y ago

    I have similar questions about the apparent over-representation of LGBT people among high-profile software developers, but it feels like it's never okay to ask those questions.