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by com2kid 1y ago
My old HP 500c was incredibly reliable and it didn't have any of the print head cleaning shenanigans that are needed now days. It was however dog slow. I am not sure why modern inkjets need print head cleaning whereas old ones did not.
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by com2kid 1y ago
I grew up during the 90s, which was the height of home made greeting cards. Magazines ran huge spreads comparing different programs for how well they could make banners and cards, how good their clip art collection was, and how easy they we
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by com2kid 1y ago
The entire market is focused on productivity ones that all have the same feature set, no real originality in the offerings IMHO. There are a lot of low hanging fruit that can be tackled. From helping people stay focused to managing househol
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by com2kid 1y ago
> That's the moment when you let "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions" go to work on a difficult problem and watch it crunch away by itself for a couple of minutes running a bewildering array of tools until the problem i
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by com2kid 1y ago
Font rendering code is a nightmare because the problem is really damn hard. Font files are complex, and actual real world usage is even worse. Any code that involves parsing old school binary file formats is going to look ugly to modern day
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by com2kid 1y ago
If you rename your wife on your contact list to "my wife" it'll work! "Test <name> and say I'll be late" works fine. Sometimes the message gets sent, sometimes a request for confirmation is asked first. I
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by com2kid 1y ago
> In general: use your sneaker This is indeed the 1st, 2nd, and frequently 3rd, suggested strategy from any good self defense teacher!
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by com2kid 1y ago
Compared to today's documentation it is amazing. One of my internships was at a company writing an example app for SQL server offline replication. Taking a DB that had changed while offline and syncing them to a master DB when reconnec
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by com2kid 1y ago
Windows phone 7's kernel was amazing. It was a complete rewrite from the old kernel and had incredible performance, minimal resource usage, and an amazing power profile. IMHO the reason for Microsoft's failed phone venture was mov
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by com2kid 1y ago
People now days don't understand how genius MS was in the 90s. Their strategy and execution was insanely good, and I doubt we'll ever see anything so comprehensive ever again. 1. Clear mission statement: A PC in very house. 2. A
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by com2kid 1y ago
Americans can order their own lab tests for pretty cheap as well. In regards to pricing, the overhead for billing is about 1/3rd of the price, though not relevant in the poster's situation. It is part of why some prices here are s
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by com2kid 1y ago
Does OpenAI on azure still have that insane latency for content filtering? Last time I checked it added a huge # to time to first token, making azure hosting for real time scenarios impractical.
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by com2kid 1y ago
Learning how to throw a punch isn't that much work and gives you a huge multiple on power output. Also throwing a bare knuckle punch against someone's head has a large likelihood of the puncher breaking multiple bones, though depe
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by com2kid 1y ago
The equation editor in Word straight up supports LaTeX now days. It also supports UnicodeMath, which is an actual standard and a pretty cool one at that. Sadly it has almost no adoption outside of Word.
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by com2kid 1y ago
Eh, popular sci-fi is zero sci. Star Trek makes 0 effort to explore the impacts of its technology on people. Some good books have been writing exploring what post scarcity means, but ST in general does nothing with the premise except make t
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by com2kid 1y ago
I'm of the belief that the TV and movie sci-fi are a completely different genre than book sci-fi. There are occasional faithful adaptations, but none of the far out stuff ever gets adapted. But even discarding cinema (Star Wars famousl
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by com2kid 1y ago
99% of science fiction settings are historical fiction but now In Space(tm). I'm not saying that is a bad thing, and some fiction explores forms of government that haven't been tried on earth, and also explores systems of governm
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by com2kid 1y ago
> The thing about strict-utilitarian-morality is that it can't comprehend any other kind of morality, because it evaluates the morality of... moralities... on its own utilitarian basis. I can comprehend them just fine, but I have a
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by com2kid 1y ago
> they're discounting the people around them heavily compared to other people This statement of yours makes no sense. EAs by definition are attempting to remove the innate bias that discounts people far away by instead saying all li
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by com2kid 1y ago
> the ends justify the means” which most popular moral philosophies reject with strong arguments. This is a false statement. Our entire modern world is built on the basis of the ends justify the means. Every time money is spent on long t
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by com2kid 1y ago
I'll go one further - Forcing LLMs to output JSON is just silly. A lot of time and effort is being spent forcing models to output a format that is picky and that LLMs quite frankly just don't seem to like very much. A text based D
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by com2kid 1y ago
Microsoft used to have a location advantage, the Seattle area was a lot cheaper than the bay area. They've long since lost that advantage.
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by com2kid 1y ago
At one point source depot was Toincredibly advanced, and there are still features that it had that git doesn't. Directory mapping being a stand out feature! Being able to only pull down certain directories from a depot and also remap
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by com2kid 1y ago
IMHO we are at the point now where ambient computing is fully possible using locally self hosted AI and LLMs. I explore the ideas more in a post at https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some-actual-... but the tl;
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by com2kid 1y ago
I used to spend time writing regex's do to this for me, now LLMs solve it in less time than it takes me to debug my one off regex!
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by com2kid 1y ago
Microsoft's phi models are trained on a much smaller dataset. They generally aren't as amazing as the models that get talked about more, but they are more than enough to get the job done for npc lines in a game.
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by com2kid 1y ago
I thought so, but my Pixel 9 USB-C port falls out of place now after less than a year. :(
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by com2kid 1y ago
2000 was rock solid stable once it was up and running. It took a lot of one off patches to get my k7 system to that point, but iirc I never had the os crash.
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by com2kid 1y ago
I'm not related to them at all. I've written about this field independently - https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some-actual-... The idea is a fully personal AI that can control ones devices to accomp
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by com2kid 1y ago
Not their device, look at their OS work. Complete AI control over a personal phone. Anything a user can do the AI can figure out how to do. That is the end game for everyone right now - a new class of ambient AI powered personal computing.

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