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by bityard 4mo ago
To play devil's advocate, this starts to get into the territory of, how do you define a computer? If the analog circuitry is using sensors and passive components to inject fuel at spark at just the right time under varying conditions,
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by bityard 4mo ago
I need to turn this into a blog post at some point: Some of my early bad experiences with Linux arose because I installed software in ways that broke the system quite impressively. This taught me that with most Linux systems, you are not re
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by bityard 4mo ago
> moved completely to systemd isolation On MacOS?
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by bityard 4mo ago
You are going to have a bad time when your / filesystem fills up, regardless of the filesystem type. This is one of the reasons for separate /usr, /var, /home, etc that many seem to have forgotten. Smaller blast radius w
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by bityard 4mo ago
Companies are beginning to gate previously existing features behind the requirement to connect their devices to the cloud and/or install an app on your phone. Dishwashers, refrigerators, even (and perhaps especially) cars. "Just d
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by bityard 4mo ago
None of what you said is actually how furnaces work. "Spinning it to bypass the safety" is not a thing. Please don't spread FUD.
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by bityard 4mo ago
I thought I described it pretty well, but if you really need more detail to prove I'm not making it all up, here is the GitHub repo: https://github.com/cu/doneski I didn't include it with my comment because I
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by bityard 4mo ago
I don't know what those people are doing, but I built a personal day-to-day notes manager at work, for work, for under $20 in credits. Yes, I could have just used text files but this is less friction which means I'll actually stic
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by bityard 4mo ago
> We kept shrinking it and shrinking it and it kept getting more and more powerful and here we are with AI and it's only going to be 100x more efficient with time. It's definitely an exciting time, but in terms of advancements
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by bityard 4mo ago
When I upgraded from Debian 12 to 13 on my personal laptop running KDE, I knew that the switch from X11 to Wayland would happen and was braced for all kinds of issues, like every other time I tried to switch to Wayland in previous years. In
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by bityard 4mo ago
Nor the Cartoon Network show (and later movie) Aeon Flux.
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by bityard 4mo ago
Strong disagree. One of the core strengths of LLMs from the beginning is that they are very good at NOT changing meaning, as long as your model isn't so small that it starts to get "dumb" and as long as your input fits in the
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by bityard 4mo ago
I get lots of spam/scams after posting to Who Wants to be Hired. Posting here is not really going to fix it, it's just bots. I use a new temporary email whenever I post in those threads so I can tell my mail server to reject them.
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by bityard 4mo ago
I don't believe Anthropic and OpenAI are any more fearful of local AI than Google or Microsoft are of people hosting their own email. Local AI capabilities are growing at a rapid pace, but so is hosted AI. While you can do a surprising
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by bityard 4mo ago
Not answered in TFA: What does it mean to "install" a web app in Chrome?
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by bityard 4mo ago
It was a joke...
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by bityard 4mo ago
To get around the crappy display/keyboard/touchpad issue, one could also buy a used x86 Chromebook and install Linux on it and get very nearly the same (or better) experience.
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by bityard 4mo ago
Selection worked for me on mobile, but doesn't show a highlight. Probably a simple CSS fix.
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by bityard 5mo ago
If your house had the capability of adjusting the temperature and airflow for each individual person or room, your HVAC controls at home would look more like those in a traditional car. (And as others have alluded to, a house is a much more
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by bityard 5mo ago
As TFA indicates, clearly a lot of experience on how to make a car reliable and easy to use has been lost, one way or another.
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by bityard 5mo ago
Lots of cars don't combine the rear-view mirror and backup camera into the same thing. (And shouldn't.)
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by bityard 5mo ago
In the timeline I remember, Microsoft and Windows were routinely criticized for producing bloated and buggy systems. Especially from those who previously used an Amiga or Mac. A new version of Windows inevitably meant buying a whole new com
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by bityard 5mo ago
Start spamming far-left YouTube videos to the public channel at the same time, according to the general theory of nutball political physics the two should cancel each other out
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by bityard 5mo ago
Shallow take: They made an LLM that uses fewer emdashes. Cynical take: They made an LLM that can bypass existing AI slop detectors. Realistic take: They found a research problem they found interesting, dumped a bunch of capital and sweat eq
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by bityard 5mo ago
Well, fuck. One of the main reasons I switched to Vivaldi a few years ago was that it allowed and even advertised a "classic" browser experience. By which I mean: tabs that behaved like tabs, visual separation, not a lot of useles
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by bityard 5mo ago
I have issues with sites on Vivaldi but it's never due to Vivaldi itself. It always ends up being that case that either uBlock Origin or Vivaldi's own built-in ad/privacy blocker ended up blocking some javascript library that
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by bityard 5mo ago
It's crazy, but in 2026, websites still check the user agent string and will simply refuse to work if it's not one that they like. Financial and enterprise software is the worst for this. It's one of the reasons Vivaldi switc
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by bityard 5mo ago
Well, the pickups and a few other things (like having volume controls), but yeah. That was a fun watch and confirmed much of what I had previously suspected. But to be fair, overall quality involves more than just sound. The big one for me
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by bityard 5mo ago
I am looking to get back into playing bass and have been completely out of the loop for about the last decade. When I started looking around to see what was available, it seems to me that guitar and bass prices are attached more to brand&#x
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by bityard 5mo ago
I'd argue that after 25 years, he waited FAR too long for his hobby to somehow turn a profit and would probably be in a much better place now if he'd had gotten a real job a couple decades sooner. "1. Write a bunch of code. 2

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