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by bityard 9mo ago
Not a dumb question at all, but incident management in aviation is all about saving the people on board first and foremost. Saving the airframe during an incident is considered a very distant bonus at the very best. No pilot ever got in tro
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by bityard 9mo ago
I have a considerable backstock of Logitech Anywhere MX (no bloody 2, 3, or 4...) mice in my drawer entirely because they can be powered by 2x AA batteries for months at a time. I like these because when the batteries die, I just swap them
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by bityard 9mo ago
Were the old Rayovac batteries alkaline or zinc-carbon? Zinc-carbon batteries use a "dry cell" chemistry that will never leak, have a low self-discharge rate, and are very cheap to make and buy. You typically find them marketed as
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by bityard 9mo ago
The README, for a start
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by bityard 9mo ago
I don't mind low stakes vibe-coded applications per se, but the readme is LLM slop that I couldn't bring myself to keep reading.
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by bityard 9mo ago
KDE has its own native screenshot tool called spectacle that I find works as least a well, if not better, than flameshot. (No idea about HDR, though.)
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by bityard 9mo ago
I bought a bambu p1s recently and it can be used entirely offline. You can import models to orcaslicer (open source), do your slicing, and export the g code file to SD card. If you want to skip the SD card, block the printer's mac&#x2F
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by bityard 9mo ago
I am very convinced that a number of early X-Files plots (or sub-plots) were inspired by threads on Usenet.
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Traditional Onboarding Excludes the People Tech Needs Most(vetswhocode.io)
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by bityard 9mo ago
Are you sure the beer didn't come first?
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by bityard 9mo ago
Looks fun, but I'm not willing to give out my email address just to play a game. Also, if the creator is reading this, you should know that Tetris Holdings is extremely aggressive with their trademark enforcement.
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by bityard 9mo ago
> but also allowing an attacker to run an offline decryption attack with unlimited attempts. This invariably leads to your main password getting compromised. Do the OpenSSH authors not know about PKBDF2 or similar?
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by bityard 9mo ago
> Recommendations are hugely influenced by what you watched very recently. Ah, well, I don't know that I fully agree. I watch channels that are people building things, repairing tools, or goofing around in an easy-going way without
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by bityard 9mo ago
Well, if you look at the prompts, they are basically told to sound like that. And if you ask me, I think these models were trained on tween fiction podcasts. (My kids listen to a lot of these and dramatic over-acting seems to be the industr
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by bityard 9mo ago
I've used a bunch of the SOTA models (via my work's Windsurf subscription) for HTML/CSS/JS stuff over the past few months. Mind you, I am not a web developer, these are just internal and personal projects. My experience
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by bityard 9mo ago
`---` is already used in Markdown for horizontal rules?
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by bityard 9mo ago
I'm all for colorful writing, and I actually agree with the author, but the writing is so offensive it's actually painful to read.
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by bityard 9mo ago
I'll bet it is, but that link is a 404.
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by bityard 9mo ago
Do you... usually read content in a full-screen window on that thing? I only have a 27" monitor and sit about 2.5 feet away from it and I move my head _slightly_ to focus on different windows. But that's the reason I have a larger
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by bityard 9mo ago
My work does the same thing. Logging into iCloud is not allowed and last I checked, it was actually disabled. So that means no Siri, Facetime, etc.
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by bityard 9mo ago
Okay, but... people with loud phones/voices in public places are absolutely fine with it because they don't care about anybody else's space or opinion of them. And they very likely are not afraid of instigating confrontation
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by bityard 9mo ago
IIRC, shadyurl was the original version of this. Doesn't seem to be around anymore, though.
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by bityard 9mo ago
Sorry, I misunderstood Adafruit's position and therefore your question. It's weird that they would stop supporting anything they sold, even if they now want nothing to do with it. (They still have five forums for x0xb0x for pete&#
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by bityard 9mo ago
I need to write more often, but okay: https://blog.bityard.net/ If anyone has any leads on a comment system that isn't a spam magnet and also works acceptably with a static site, I'm all ears.
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by bityard 9mo ago
Documentation yes, but also Adafruit has very active support forums where customers can ask questions which get answered either by the community, or Adafruit employees, or both.
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by bityard 9mo ago
I would deploy this today to run my backups if jobs could be defined in the UI as well.
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by bityard 9mo ago
The worst job I ever had was working for a manager who literally had a "no Dilbert cartoons in the workplace" policy. Other cartoons, fine, go crazy. But no Dilbert. That place wasn't just kinda like Initech in Office Space,
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by bityard 9mo ago
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to login.
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by bityard 9mo ago
HN only covers a very small slice of interesting things that happen in tech every day. If it's your only source of tech news and information, you are missing out on a LOT. There are plenty of self-hosted models being released all the t
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by bityard 9mo ago
For desktop use cases, sure. But the Pi's target market is makers and educators who want small and efficient and can interface easily with peripherals like cameras and GPIO. Desktop users and low-end home labbers are a distant second.

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