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by bscphil 1y ago
> the result is GPL-3 The result can only be distributed under the terms of the GPL-3. That's actually a crucial difference: there's nothing preventing Kitten TTS from being Apache licensed, soliciting technical contributions
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by bscphil 1y ago
> Humans who have heard of Monty Hall might also say you should always switch without noticing that the situation is different. That's not evidence that they can't think, just that they're fallible. At some point we start
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by bscphil 1y ago
> The current tools just can't replace developers. They can't even be used in the same way you'd use a junior developer or intern. It's more akin to going from hand tools to power tools than it is getting an apprentic
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by bscphil 1y ago
Rather annoyingly, the compositor support table on this page seems to be showing only the latest version of each compositor (plus or minus a month or two, e.g. it's behind on KWin). I assume support for the protocol predates these vers
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by bscphil 1y ago
Given that the context here is talking about terminals, they probably are literally thinking in terms of bitmap based rendering with integer scaling.
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by bscphil 1y ago
Right, I didn't mean to imply an across the board policy of always taking Uber, never walking, wherever you go. But there are a ton of situations in the United States where walking + public transportation can't take you where you
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by bscphil 1y ago
I mean, we're talking about a literal crime here, getting banned from Uber is not an adequate punishment for threatening someone with assault.
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by bscphil 1y ago
> Why would you want to continue using a service that is ripping you off? For the same reason that I'm going to continue using Uber despite them ripping other people off, as described in this very thread. People systematically ove
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by bscphil 1y ago
Good question, I checked just now and I am indeed getting only a /60. At some point in the past they gave me a /56 but no longer. I didn't notice the change because I have fewer than 16 networks, and networkd handled delegati
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by bscphil 1y ago
I'd be rather surprised if IPv6 hasn't done some damage to the idea of IP blocking on the whole. It's possible, even as a residential Internet user, to request a /56 or /48 automatically with DHCPv6 Prefix Delegatio
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by bscphil 1y ago
Looks like someone is reading Hacker News comments and editing the page - archive.org captured the page probably mid-edit, and it says "324" in one place: https://web.archive.org/web/20250527202300/https:
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by bscphil 1y ago
> you can tree-shake the runtime and use the AOT compiler to ship a go-like native binary. The OP talks about doing this for mobile platforms, but could I take e.g. the OP's source code (he co-wrote Celeste) and trivially compile an
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by bscphil 1y ago
There are definitely some Unity games I've really liked - the Ori games, Hollow Knight - but the engine has never been a positive of my experience with the game. They're full of jank and physics bugs, and in a weird hard to descri
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by bscphil 1y ago
> The ideal collection amount is the size of the fine multiplied by the actual occurrence of the offense. I don't think that's a logically self-consistent idea. The "actual occurrence of the offense" is not an inevita
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by bscphil 1y ago
I would prefer web developers not track me at all without a good reason and consent. Yes, I also block JS on a per-site basis, use an ad / tracking blocker, and block all third party cookies entirely. I'm not naive - I know that i
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by bscphil 1y ago
The issue isn't primarily about JS being disabled, because at least if you have it disabled, it's (a) obvious you're hitting an Anubis page, (b) you don't endlessly refresh the page over and over every 0.25 seconds until
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by bscphil 1y ago
A huge proportion of sites (a) use cookies, (b) don't need cookies. You can easily use extensions to enable cookies for the sites that need them, while leaving others disabled. Obviously some sites are going to do shitty things to trac
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by bscphil 1y ago
It's even worse if you block cookies outright. Every time I hit a new Anubis site I scream in my head because it just spins endlessly and stupidly until you enable cookies, without even a warning. Absolutely terrible user experience; I
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by bscphil 1y ago
I think that's part of the point they're making, hence "They should've simply redone the test."
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by bscphil 1y ago
Unfortunate - they didn't pin the version of Three.js they were using for the interactive viewer at https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/star/star10m_tour.html And as a result it's been broken since May 202
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by bscphil 2y ago
> players telling other players how fun the game is I wonder if we've collectively been trained to perceive addictiveness as fun. It's good that the developer isn't being directly monetizing eyeball-hours, but when users h
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by bscphil 2y ago
The SE had a pretty huge bezel though. That's an annoying feature of it, but at the same time it means that the screen was actually much smaller than the 16e's screen, and therefore (depending on how you hold it) easier to use one
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by bscphil 2y ago
It's especially disappointing to see that they killed off the SE with this release, as it was the previous inexpensive and smaller option. The screen alone on this new 16e is larger across the diagonal than the entire device on the
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by bscphil 2y ago
Prices seem to have risen a bit since I bought mine. Here's a similar model with a Ryzen 5 7530U for $355: https://www.ebay.com/itm/156626070024 It is certified refurbished and has a two year warranty. It has a SO
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by bscphil 2y ago
And some of these Lenovos are relatively upgradable too. I'm using a ThinkPad I bought refurbished (with a 2 year warranty) and upgraded myself to 40 GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD (there's another slot too if I need it). It cost me $35
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by bscphil 2y ago
I was astounded by how iffy my ability to even ABX tracks at 96 kbps in Opus was. I can't imagine needing anything else for music listening, although obviously I keep FLAC copies around as backups.
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by bscphil 2y ago
> A song in a more modern format like AAC or FLAC might be double or triple the size of an MP3 That's a bizarre statement regardless. Most streaming services that use AAC are 256 kbps, same as most MP3 downloads. Spotify's paid
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by bscphil 2y ago
In addition, the idea here is one of commodification of culture. An idol of religious significance and a spear used for fishing are the same kind of "stuff" from the point of view of a collector or someone visiting a museum. They
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by bscphil 2y ago
> I have to look up the commands to fetch the keys and/or verify the blob every single time. I have no doubt that this is true, but I very much question whether any alternate UX would solve this problem for you, because the argument
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by bscphil 2y ago
> I’ve never made them obnoxious or deafening This reminds me of how cigarette smokers famously don't know how horrible they smell to everyone around them, and think it's "fine", something they do to bring themselves

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