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by andix 2y ago
VPN providers might be much more trustworthy than other ISPs.
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by andix 2y ago
I don't get the rant about VPNs. Many ISPs (especially in not so democratic countries) collect a lot of data, and might sell it or store it for access for the authorities. Tor is great for privacy, but usability is poor, it's real
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by andix 2y ago
Edit: the windows 3.1 manual "recommends" exiting windows before turning off the PC. It doesn't say it's "required". And with 386 mode, windows actually did do disk IO, including caching. Probably a lot of peop
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by andix 2y ago
Sorry, please ignore the second paragraph.
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by andix 2y ago
Many modern embedded operating systems support this (including some Linux distributions and Windows IoT). It’s possible, just not very practical, most wouldn’t consider the necessary trade offs worth it.
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by andix 2y ago
Sure, if you turned it off too early the files were corrupted. The safe thing was to exit Windows 3.x to the DOS prompt and only turn off the computer then. But it wasn't really required.
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by andix 2y ago
True, that was a good idea with some early hard drives, but only required if the PC was moved. In that period hard drives were a luxury, many pcs just had two floppy drives. One for the operating system and applications, the second one for
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by andix 2y ago
Some people think UX designers are useless. But they know that kind of stuff and how to make it right. (Let's not get into the discussion that a lot of graphics designers call themselves UX experts, without actually knowing UX stuff).
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by andix 2y ago
For all the younger people I think it's important to know, that before Windows 95 the concept of "shutting down" a computer was mostly unknown. DOS never had an option to shut down, you just saved your work and turned off the
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by andix 2y ago
Responsible AI is a really important aspect of it. Maybe even the most important. Look at what social media did to us. And you were the one starting the discussion ;)
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by andix 2y ago
Sorry, it felt to me like you're trying to troll. Those behaviours are extremely likely intentionally added. I can't prove it, but the responses read like they are from a propaganda text book. Not the nuanced new fashioned kind of
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by andix 2y ago
Btw, the propaganda is specific towards china. If you ask about other authoritarian countries and politicians, it behaves unbiased.
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by andix 2y ago
Feel free to call propaganda a bias if you like. But if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, ...
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by andix 2y ago
Ask about Xi Jinping in all the ways you can imagine (jokes, bad habits, failures, embarrassing facts, ...). Compare the responses to other well known politicians, use the same prompt in a fresh conversation with a different name. Ask about
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by andix 2y ago
Its llama/quen with some additional training to add reasoning. In a similar way deep seeks v3 was trained into r1. It also looks to me like there was some Chinese propaganda trained into llama/quen too, but that’s just my observat
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by andix 2y ago
I've seen the tweet before, and the issue I have is: one person is claiming FSD crashed their car. No video, no other evidence. I'm not saying it wasn't FSD, but it is a possibility FSD wasn't even enabled.
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by andix 2y ago
I would say 1 million views should roughly pay the interns salary for a month. Some of the movies accumulated around a million views within the first 10 days.
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by andix 2y ago
Free money? It's probably zero effort to upload them to YouTube. People watch them. YouTube generates ad revenue and pays out Warner Brothers. They probably choose the movies nobody wants to pay for any more on VoD/DVD and nobody
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by andix 2y ago
They deleted the documentation for this bypass, not the bypass itself, right?
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by andix 2y ago
My approach for AI generated code with more complexity was always this: 1. Ask AI to generate a spec of what we're planning to do. 2. Refine it until it's kind of resembling what I want to do 3. Ask AI to implement some aspects f
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by andix 2y ago
And nobody outside of the US cares about what's inside those official databases. If Trump changes the name of China to "Smelly Food Country" it might be required to change this in US Google Maps But if this propagates to Goog
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by andix 2y ago
The article suggests to put them into a config file, and considers it hardcoding. That’s how I understood it at least.
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by andix 2y ago
Isn’t Google Maps blocked in Russia anyway? Crimea is a different story, as many countries recognize it to be in some kind of limbo and treat it as neither Russian nor Ukrainian. I think Yandex (Russian Google) removed borders completely fr
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by andix 2y ago
It’s the reality of doing business all around the world. Either you chose sides, create different releases of software for some countries (deployment nightmare), or just remove such „sensitive“ features.
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by andix 2y ago
It reads to me more like: DONT USE EXPERIMENTAL COMPRESSION TOOLS FOR BACKING UP YOUR IMPORTANT DATA. USE IT FOR TRANSFERRING DATA AND CHECK HASHES.
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by andix 2y ago
Shouldn't a modern compression tool, targeting a high compression rate, try to switch its compression method on the fly depending on the input data? I have no idea about compression, just a naive thought.
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by andix 2y ago
You can set an old language version for a modern C# project. The compiler will behave exactly like 10 years ago, but it outputs a modern assembly. If you think this is the way to go in your organization, just do that. But I seriously don&#x
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by andix 2y ago
Using different libraries across projects is an organizational issue, not the fault of the programming language.
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by andix 2y ago
It's even okay to hardcode them into code (not a config/json file). Depending on the build pipeline this is similar to preprocessor flags, and the code will be removed during build. It might be enough to test new features with a l
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by andix 2y ago
It’s this one thing no one implements correctly ;)

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