charlie-83

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by charlie-83 11mo ago
I completely agree with you. While I got a piece of paper at the end, I also learned lots of really useful things and met a lot of interesting people. There are still lots of passionate students that want to learn as much as they can. But t
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
The situation in higher education at the moment does seem pretty dire. However, I do have some hope that a new system could emerge from this which would be better. The purpose of higher education should be to learn things that will be usefu
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
Would you be willing to give an example of a typical app/tool like this that you made?
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
I think the solution here is to just code stuff where AI is not useful. Go write embedded code (not arduino), write a compiler, create a network protocol, write a game that runs on an actual gameboy etc. There are a lot of projects where AI
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
I completely agree with you but I'm not sure I can really think of a solution for the RF baseband problem. I really don't want to live in a world where everyone's wifi signal is terrible because lots of stupid software devs d
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
No worries. Hope it didn't come off too negative. It's an interesting project and I would hate for it to not be as successful as it could be just because of the website and other minor things that can be easily fixed
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
No, I don't think I need to waste my money trying out snake oil to point out it's a scam. But if you do want an opinion from someone who has tried it and is much more knowledgeable about coffee and the coffee industry, James Hoffm
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
I think that this could be marketed a lot better. The website has no information at all and it's not possible to work out what the project is from it. The github readme does contain a lot more information but it's still not presen
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
I'm fascinated by people like this. Why would you give up the ability to have uninterrupted interactions with family and friends in exchange for running Walmart? I know the answer is money but I would assume that, at a certain point, y
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
It's such a pointless thing to exist. Most of what is sold is fake, everything that isn't comes from animals force-fed in cages, and every coffee expert who tries it is completely unimpressed. It only exists so that rich people ca
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
The silhouette software is proprietary but I am using Linux + inkscape + https://github.com/fablabnbg/inkscape-silhouette which works perfectly (except I can't get the Bluetooth to work but that's probably a
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
These are cool. For anyone in the market for a vinyl cutter I would recommend against Cricut though. Very cloud-subscription-user-hostile software that tried to limit the number of times you could use the machine you bought unless you had a
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
Listings like this are usually just a way of showing off or promoting the store. If it was actually worth that you wouldn't be selling it on ebay
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
There are forms of science that don't involve "arms". Why don't we see a single research paper involving research entirely undertaken by AI? AI development and research itself doesn't need "arms". Why don&
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
If this is true then almost all of the jobs in the world would already be replaced by AI. Sure, the model might be better than most people at lots of things but there are still tasks that human children find easy and AI struggles with. I wo
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
It feels like any time scale on AGI is basically just made up. Since no one has any idea of how to get there, how could you possibly estimate how long it will take? We could stumble on some secret technique that unlocks AGI tomorrow or it c
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
There are always situations where an advert is useful and we remember those. However, when an advert causes you to spend more than you would, you have no idea it has happened. Maybe you truly are above the influence of advertising. However,
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
So for Linux, generally you are installing packages from your distro's repo so they are signed by the repo itself. I would have assumed that it would be the same on Mac with brew/macports/etc signing the code, but from what y
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
It certainly can be for newer printers. I guess my point was that, at some point, you will run into a problem. It might not be connecting a printer but, with an Arch based distro, there is a high likelihood you will need to do some cmdline
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
That makes sense. I think for most people the main, or even only issue, with LibreOffice is the switching cost of compatibility with their existing documents and then the ongoing annoyance of dealing with MS files people send them. Unfortun
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
Relevant/personalised ads doesn't mean ads that benefit you. It's means ads that are better able to extract money from you. It means that, when you need a new dishwasher, you will never see the actual best dishwasher for you,
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
You could always just build it yourself from source if you are concerned.
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
What were their shortcomings with LibreOffice?
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
If all you want to do is play steam games then I'm sure steamOS is going to be the best experience possible. If you want to use it as a regular PC it probably works reasonably well but a user who doesn't want to use the terminal i
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
This feels useful even if the software don't directly tranlate to how "predatory" the game is and if scores can't be compared between games. Sure, being unable to pause the game isn't necessarily the developer being
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
For some good examples, check out what people have achieved on the PlayDate handheld with dithering on its 1-bit screen.
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
Fdroid
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
I find it hard to believe that charging people is the only way to stop people people from making multiple/spam accounts. It seems like it's just the easiest and most profitable. And, if it is the only option, then why does an acco
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
Higher bands are coming. Probably a long time before you will see it in a consumer device though.
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by charlie-83 11mo ago
I guess I wasn't really thinking about it in the context of jobs since the post was about kids. I was thinking about the kinds of "non-techie" people I often help with computer stuff (often older people). They don't even

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