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by bityard 2y ago
Dogs can absolutely learn sign language for basic commands. There are books about it. We had some success with ours. The main difficulty is you do have to use some kind of sound to get their attention if they're not looking at you. (Pe
902.
by bityard 2y ago
Perhaps off-topic, but we had a dog that knew swearing when she heard it. Most dogs are well-attuned to both positive and negative emotions. In particular, when a human starts yelling and throwing things, they get the hell out of dodge. So
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by bityard 2y ago
I was an LLM skeptic for a long time. I still have a hard time trusting it to the same extent that most HN'ers appear to. (I would never use an LLM as a substitute for my own "voice" when writing, or put any AI-generated code
904.
by bityard 2y ago
I don't think Gmail/Outlook offer that yet. (But I might actually use it if they did!)
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by bityard 2y ago
I was playing with a self-hosted model a while back and instructed it to only give answers that were unhelpful, vague, and borderline rude. It worked surprisingly well a lot of the time! But most of the time it also kinda broke the model in
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by bityard 2y ago
> and I didn't want to sound rude I think it's interesting how this has changed. If you go back and look at politically correct corpo-speak from decades past, it was bland and impersonal but aimed to be direct, clear, and reaso
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by bityard 2y ago
I don't think dang can do anything about it, I'm sure HN gets scraped all the time. I routinely get spam from cryptocurrency startups to (obfuscated) email addresses I have posted on HN years ago on "Who Wants to be Hired&quo
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by bityard 2y ago
So I'm going to do something I don't normally do and defend Amazon only a little bit... What likely happened was that somebody had an old and broken Rode mic and decided to scam Amazon. They purchased a new one, put the old one in
909.
by bityard 2y ago
It depends on what those magic numbers are for. If they represent pure data, and it's obvious what the data is (perhaps a bitmap image), then sure, it's open source. If the magic values are some kind of microcode or firmware, or s
910.
by bityard 2y ago
> but trained on inferior hardware for a fraction of the price Do we know that this is actually true?
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by bityard 2y ago
(If you have `uv` installed in your $PATH.) Also, uv will install the dependencies, but I am not clear on whether or not it will automatically install a Python interpreter for you using this method.
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by bityard 2y ago
The FCC doesn't revoke ham radio licenses except in egregious circumstances. Most of the time, it's someone who is deliberately interfering with public safety or commercial frequencies, and is told to stop, and doesn't. Even
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by bityard 2y ago
I don't understand the question. KDE Plasma is easily on par with the two leading commercial desktops, except it is also vastly more powerful and configurable.
914.
by bityard 2y ago
From a salescritter's perspective, that is frankly not their problem.
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by bityard 2y ago
I feel like you may have a misunderstanding of what DRM is. Talking about DRM outside the context of media distribution doesn't really make any sense. Yes, someone can fork this and modify it however they want. They can already do the
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by bityard 2y ago
Please put a priority on making it hard to abuse the web with your tool. At a _bare_ minimum, that means obeying robot.txt and NOT crawling a site that doesn't want to be crawled. And there should not be an option to override that. It
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by bityard 2y ago
How many watts does it pull at idle?
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by bityard 2y ago
I'll admit when I first saw this, I was put off by the idea of having a separate tool to do something that _should_ be baked into the filesystem. But honestly, this a pretty close to a very Unixy way of solving the problem. Have a sepa
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by bityard 2y ago
My version of that is, "metadata curation is a fun hobby but search is king."
920.
by bityard 2y ago
Would you be willing to share the details of this either publicly or privately? (My email is in my profile.) I'm trying to do the exact same thing on my 2021 Highlander and have not been able to find any info. I found threads where peo
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by bityard 2y ago
Is there anything like this for Toyota DCM? We bought a second-hand 2021 Highlander and thus did not sign any contract allowing our family to be tracked by Toyota. I went on a hunt recently for information on neutering the DCM but have thus
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by bityard 2y ago
Sorry, but there's a roughly zero percent chance that Amazon (a company who loves money, as a reminder) decided to close operations in a major city purely out of spite. Either it was already unprofitable, or was going to become unprofi
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by bityard 2y ago
This is true, except in the usual case where early employees are made offers that include some presumption of partial ownership of the company through stock grants or options, often with a corresponding decrease in salary that scales invers
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by bityard 2y ago
Where in Europe? I haven't toured the _whole_ continent but I've been to restaurants in Germany, the UK, and Ireland and did not find their portions to be any different than what you'd get at the average corner restaurant in
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by bityard 2y ago
I had to use an LLM to find out what a Christian Apologetic was. Apparently this means people or groups who seek to actively defend Christian beliefs (presumably against skeptics, atheists, etc) through formal reasoning and evidence.
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by bityard 2y ago
> you'd call the Sega Hotline on a premium phone number I remember the ads for that but I've never met a single person who did that. (Or whose parents would be okay with it.) Cheat codes were either shared by word of mouth amon
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by bityard 2y ago
I use middle-click paste VERY heavily in day-to-use of my laptop. It's getting hard to find a laptop that still has a middle button at ALL. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when they finally remove it. (The constant march to
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by bityard 2y ago
I used to do this but frankly it's easier to run a system-level unit as whatever user you want and keep all the files in /etc instead of scattered around /home. The user-level units are most useful when running an actual mult
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by bityard 2y ago
I fit a fully assembled entertainment center in mine. Only an inch or two to spare in every dimension but it fit!
930.
by bityard 2y ago
How long did that last? I have a Prius that's at 100k right now. Repairing the battery is within my abilities but I'm concerned that if one or two cells fail, more will be right behind it.

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