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by avian 6mo ago
Probably not on Steam, but maybe still somewhere on the net. There used to be an open source game for unix-like systems simply called "atc" that gave you a text-mode view of a radar screen. You gave directions to pilots using the
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by avian 6mo ago
I'm reminded of something I've read somewhere "Nothing is more boring than listening about someone else's dreams". I think it tells a lot about AI-generated art. People prompting the AI find it fascinating because t
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by avian 6mo ago
No idea about Upwork, but I had about the same situation about some other company sending me mail I cared about for a reason and their mail was not getting delivered to me because their DMARC check was failing. They said "thanks, we&#x
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by avian 6mo ago
Just this morning I opened up my RSS reader and found that it was flooded by weird, twisty prose exalting the virtues of online gambling. Since I follow a few blogs that post long form content I first thought this was satire or something, b
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by avian 6mo ago
> We solved this at our startup by running names through a simple LLM filter - if the name is gibberish like Px2846skxojw just block the signup. I hope "LLM thinks your name is gibberish" won't become the new "your na
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by avian 6mo ago
> The goal [...] to flood the victim’s inbox with so much noise that they can’t find the emails that actually matter. > While the victim is drowning [...] the attacker is doing something else. In the past months some personal mail acc
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by avian 6mo ago
I suspect the text comes directly from some poorly OCR'd article since it's full of such errors.
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by avian 7mo ago
> In theory we could have a popup box that tells you that both your computer and other device support higher speeds/more power, but your cable is limiting it. I'm pretty sure my old Dell XPS laptop with Windows 10 had pop-ups j
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by avian 7mo ago
https://xcancel.com/heynavtoor/status/2037638554374099409
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by avian 7mo ago
What's with the hundreds of comments like "This was the answer I was looking for." in that GitHub thread? They also seem to be spilling into HN [1]. Runaway AI agents? A meme I'm to old to understand? [1] https:/&#
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by avian 7mo ago
Thanks. That's interesting. I haven't paid particular attention to the fonts. I do draw quite a lot these days but I don't have a particular eye for fonts. I personally have on occasion added software rendered fonts into hand
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by avian 7mo ago
Can you point out what made you think the images were AI generates? I suspected they were (before reading in this thread everything is AI generated), but I couldn't find any of the usual signs. I thought they were AI because I suspecte
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by avian 7mo ago
Is there really a microcontroller in there? As in a general purpose microprocessor core executing machine code in ROM? Any references for that? I find it baffling that this would be cost effective. Maybe by dropping in a CPU core and softwa
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by avian 7mo ago
As a current user of the said item of furniture I'm curious what makes it really bad as a book shelf. It's a shelf and in the past few years it has not yet failed at holding my books.
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by avian 7mo ago
A while back I bought a Motorola phone (one of the Moto G-something series) for a family member because I used to have one and had a good experience with it. I regretted that decision because soon that phone developed a bunch of warts that
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by avian 8mo ago
I don't see them listed on the announcement page (BX* products), so I'm guessing storage boxes prices will stay the same.
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by avian 8mo ago
Yes, built-in camera app. Maybe image processing is region dependent? On several separate occasions in my life drawing group I tried to take pictures of the drawings and they always came out tinted - not full color, but enough to look prett
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by avian 8mo ago
> Best-in-class camera I own a Pixel 9a. It's the first phone I used that made me question how many of the pixels going out of the camera app are actually coming the sensor and how many from some AI model. Don't get me wrong. I
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by avian 8mo ago
Because for every one person that finds the recommendation system bad there must be ten others that find it so spot on that they spend 8 hours watching and clicking. It's the only explanation that makes sense.
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by avian 9mo ago
My first blog was made with NanoBlogger, which was what you would call a static site generator today. It's made in Bash. I remember setting up a few of these back in the day. https://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/
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by avian 10mo ago
You mean the cook who will in the same unendingly patient and helpful manner sometimes confidently suggest putting glue into your dishes and serving your guests rocks for lunch?
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by avian 10mo ago
Is it though? To me the animal on logos used by Firefox [1] always looked more similar to a red fox [2] than a red panda. Note pointy nose with the bottom colored white. Even the latest logo that shows more of the side of the face lacks the
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by avian 10mo ago
This is surprising to me because not long ago I bought a Roomba i5 specifically because it was one of the few robot vacuums that could still work fully off-line (in the "just vacuum everything reachable" mode, but I don't nee
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by avian 10mo ago
> but everything I've bought feels well made No comment on Anker quality, but the "feels well made" feeling is something that has been known and gamed (for example, by including dummy weights in devices) in the hardware in
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by avian 1y ago
> grab a coffee and ride it out The way things are today I'm thankful the coffee machine still works without AWS.
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by avian 1y ago
> The point is a destructive test to failure. If that's the point, just chuck the thing into a boiling vat of acid and declare with a condescending voice "whoops, looks like they still haven't quite managed that boiling va
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by avian 1y ago
It has the corporate letterhead vibe. I guess for some that is a feature.
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by avian 1y ago
Recently I've received an email from my eye specialist addressed to all her patients urging people not to look at the sun. At the same time I've also seen a similar public warning published in local media. Apparently there has bee
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by avian 1y ago
I don't think YouTube needed to do anything. The change influenced creators' bottom line so they are motivated on their own to mobilize their viewers against this change.
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by avian 1y ago
The vape comes with a miniature laser-engraved WEEE crossed-out trash can symbol so everything is fine.

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