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by bisby 1y ago
Have you ever watched a video of a highly skilled tetris player? Where they fill the screen most of the way to the top and then suddenly they just combo the whole thing down and everything wraps up cleanly, and then they start fresh. The fe
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by bisby 2y ago
There are compelling reasons to share data. Whether or not it's enough to compel you isn't really the point. Most companies that are harvesting data are using it to offer some sort of service to the users' benefit, on top of
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by bisby 2y ago
Women didn't think they needed to hide their periods from the government. Until the rules changed and suddenly period tracking apps become a vector for lawsuits against women. You don't always know what you're doing now that
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by bisby 2y ago
Thank you. this is much more what I was trying to convey by "read what you enjoy". I meant less "enjoy" as in "read because you enjoy it" and more "because you want to". If you WANT to read a book tha
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by bisby 2y ago
It's especially important coming from someone like Terence Tao. If one of the best and brightest mathematicians out there can get a paper declined, then it can happen to literally anyone.
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by bisby 2y ago
I also dislike the mindset that reading == intellectual. I know plenty of people who read a LOT but it's all Twilight or 50 Shades of Grey type stuff. And I know people who never read books, but are constantly watching documentaries or
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by bisby 2y ago
Thanks for the update, I look forward to the next release.
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by bisby 2y ago
I've used xdg-ninja. And it does feel futile. Which is why my original comment comes across a bit more as frustrated/exasperated bug report than an HN comment. Right now everything that xdg-ninja finds are all things with a .prefi
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by bisby 2y ago
That's not even the words I used either. > I absolutely hate having stuff automatically create anything in my home directory like this. Which is > I absolutely hate <action> like this Which is not > I absolutely hate &lt
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by bisby 2y ago
In both modes it creates a ~/Grayjay directory, even when launching from ~/tmp/grayjay/Grayjay.Desktop-linux-x64-v2/ so ~/Grayjay was inevitable. In portable mode it makes the directory and does nothing with it
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by bisby 2y ago
I was very blunt and impersonal. People worked hard on a thing and my first reaction was criticism, without even the added overall view of "I love this thing, but here is a small thing that bothers me." I could have been more cour
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by bisby 2y ago
Sorry, to be clear, I dont wan't Grayjay data in my user directory AT ALL. Portable is basically what I want, I'm just very untactfully dropping feedback about where the data is placed. Even with the "Portable" file, it
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by bisby 2y ago
Launching the Linux release and noticed in the logs: Directories:User Directory: /home/bisby/Grayjay And there is a directory there now. I absolutely hate having stuff automatically create anything in my home directory like t
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by bisby 2y ago
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2024/05/28/illinois-ch... Apparently 5 stores nationwide are being allowed to keep the animatronics.
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by bisby 2y ago
I prefer Signal, but a lot of my friends are iPhone users and just use iMessage amongst themselves. Android RCS to iMessage is a step up over SMS (RCS doesn't result in super low res videos and pictures). The thing about social interac
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by bisby 2y ago
Some days I don't shower and I look like a gremlin and I just want to get work done without worrying about my appearance. I don't work in a position where appearance actually matters for anything. Also, what is the value in having
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by bisby 2y ago
I generally don't try to get answers for things I don't already mostly understand anyway (sounds like you did this as well), because if what I get back is a hallucination, I don't want to spend added time figuring that out, a
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by bisby 2y ago
So far, I've never had Copilot "solve a problem" for me. It has regularly autocompleted what I was going to type anyway. It has saved me typing time more than it has saved me critical thinking time. Which has value, but not i
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by bisby 2y ago
This one is also a Elon Musk deepfake crypto scam.
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by bisby 2y ago
NDAs are the way companies DEMAND a reporter not to report on a thing. Again, Valve is not trying to turn this into a legal mess. There were no repercussions to the Verge other than losing access to the beta. I don't think that compani
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by bisby 2y ago
> a popular new game by Valve is properly newsworthy to report upon If you've been explicitly asked to not report on a thing, and then you do. That's a jerk move. There shouldn't have to be legal incentive to do the right
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by bisby 2y ago
> with particularly dangerous temperatures forecasted for cities such as Chicago, New York, and Boston > A heat dome that descended on Portland, Oregon, > FastCompany is an American company American companies tend to write for Amer
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by bisby 2y ago
Path of Exile hosts their own wiki now. poewiki.net > This is the official Path of Exile wiki, maintained by the community and hosted by Grinding Gear Games. But for duckduckgo if you use the !poe bang... It takes you to the fandom page,
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by bisby 2y ago
https://libredirect.github.io/ LibRedirect has an automatic Fandom redirect option, so if someone sends you a fandom link, or you otherwise click one without realizing it, you won't wind up on fandom. You still give th
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by bisby 2y ago
Then don't release those things. id open sourced the Doom3 engine, but didn't open the game assets. People ported it to linux. If you wanted to play doom3 on linux, you still legally needed to own the game to get the assets, you j
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by bisby 2y ago
No one mentioned LLMs. We know that there are things that computers can flat out do better than humans, because there are limits to human brains. If computers continue to grow in power, then the fact that someday there might be an AI (actua
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by bisby 3y ago
Generally yes, but it's a perfectly reasonable assumption that a natural source could generate a signal that is beyond the bounds of what we can record. Any real signal generated by a computer is going to fit within the constraints of
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by bisby 3y ago
Which is the point. A discrete fourier transform can never recreate a square wave unless you have infinite samples. It can only recreate the finite sampled signal (which is only an approximation of the square wave, and not a real square wav
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by bisby 3y ago
In my engineering courses, Fourier transforms were taught in the context of discrete fourier transforms. Because sampling is a thing that matters (computer audio is discrete data points, not an actual wave). The Fourier transform of a discr
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by bisby 3y ago
> One doesn't need an example from just a few months ago to see why this is a bad idea. Acting like the internet is so different today than 5/10 years ago so you can try to dismiss good examples is silly and acting in bad faith

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