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by com2kid 8mo ago
I never managed to get file sharing working on my self hosted discord instance. Needing to setup DNS entries and subdomains for every little feature got tiresome and I gave up. Also the default of "save all shared files on the server&q
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by com2kid 8mo ago
A 64GB Mac mini can run a local model at speed that solves the majority of every day user queries. It won't rewrite a large code case (although the local coding models can do small functions) but it can do a kid's homework or rew
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by com2kid 8mo ago
Also the elderly and poor who cannot afford the prescriptions. GLP-1 drugs range from $100-$200 a month from mail order compounding pharmacies, or $500 a month on "discount" plans from the drug makers. This change to FDA enforceme
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by com2kid 8mo ago
It reminds me of the huge infra investments in Sun and Cisco during the first .com boom, and then 5-10 years later those fancy Sun boxes were out performed by Grandma's Windows XP box.
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by com2kid 8mo ago
If Moore's Law had fully kicked over twice more we'd all have 64GB GPUs, enthusiasts would have 2x64GB, and data center build outs wouldn't be needed. Eventually GPU memory is going to creep up and local models will powerful
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by com2kid 8mo ago
The funding of the American revolution is a fun topic but most people don't know about it so I don't bother dropping references to it. :D
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by com2kid 8mo ago
It is complicated. I am a big supporter of public schools, but I also understand that only allowing rich parents to opt out of public schools can lead to some very bad outcomes as schools don't have to respond directly to public pressu
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by com2kid 8mo ago
If done right, one step closer to actual AGI. That is the end goal after all, but all the potential VCs seem to forget that almost every conceivable outcome of real AGI involves the current economic system falling to pieces. Which is sorta
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by com2kid 8mo ago
They've admitted the US education work was a mistake. They are hardly alone in making that mistake, improving education in the US is hard. Their work to clean water and cure diseases has saved millions of lives. They know what they are
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by com2kid 8mo ago
Open source has always been political. Freedom of speech is political. The right to privacy is political. Letting people on to the Internet without censorship is political. Government policies that support startups are political. Threatenin
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Plenty of brand new displays are still sold that only go up to 60hz, especially if you want high quality IPS panels. They aren't as common now, but when making a list of screens to replace my current one, I am limiting myself to IPS pa
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by com2kid 9mo ago
I remember years ago I bought a clock that advertised it set itself using the atomic clock broadcast. Which it did. The very first time it was plugged in, and then never again after. The clock also kept horrible time, it lost a couple minut
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Microsoft was like that in many orgs. There was a real problem of QA becoming bloated and filled with less than qualified people. The really good engineered would transfers out to SDE orgs and so the senior ranks of QA tended to be either t
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by com2kid 9mo ago
I managed to get 2 pixel devices in a row that have known issues of just dying. My CC company refunded one of them. :/ I also had a Nexus 5 (boot looped of course).
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Important to note MS used to have 2 types of QA: 1. SDETs (software design engineer in test) - same pay scale and hiring requirements as SDEs, they did mostly automated testing and wrote automated test harnesses. 2. STEs (software test engi
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by com2kid 9mo ago
I've never had a pixel phone survive through its support period. The hardware always dies first. Tbf some pixel models have proven reliable, my mom's pixel 4 lasted long enough to be out of support and then it got owned and her ba
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Each round of Chinese tariffs had an exception for smartphones. That wasn't by chance. iPhones going up in price 50% would kill Apple very quickly.
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Seattle has its equivalent in Harborview. It is where you go to watch loved ones die, where you stand by the bed as life support is unplugged, where you sit and wait as doctors attempt heroic life saving measures. Often enough the doctors d
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Yeah devux is just short for developer experience. The apple app store had an amazing initial devux, vs the blackberry app store which famously was a huge pain just to apply to and all the tooling was horrible.
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by com2kid 9mo ago
It is called DevUx and it is certainly a thing. If the tooling sucks and the entire ecosystem is hard to understand, people won't adopt a technology. XML was forced down everyone's throat for a decade! The second something else
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by com2kid 9mo ago
I remember spending hours just trying to properly define the XML schema I wanted to use. Then if there were any problems in my XML, trying to decipher horrible errors determining what I did wrong. The docs sucked and where "enterprise
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Pixel 10 pro has "pixel snap" which works with most mag safe attachments.
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Back in 2005 it was mostly in C++ and it was blazing fast. IMHO VS 2005 was the most performant edition. I never liked VS 2003, felt bloated in comparison.
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Back when MSDN subscriptions where a thing and people still used Visual Studio, the tools were a lot better. Debuggers worked and did impressive things (time travel debugging! Rewind your entire program state! Step through from your websi
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by com2kid 9mo ago
People forget that there was a period of time during which the Java runtime installer tried to install actual adware. You had to jump through hoops to deselect adware from being forced onto your machine, it was infuriating. Setting up a new
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by com2kid 9mo ago
I switched to VSCode because it has a free editor with a really great jump to file hotkey. I remember when the big VS added jump to file but it was so damn miserably implemented as to be useless. Having worked at Microsoft for a decade, the
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by com2kid 9mo ago
Back on /. (way back when!) I read an article about optic nerve regrowth in mice. IIRC a lattice was built, stem cells shot onto it, and some other stuff was done, and a new optic nerve ended up growing. It involved removing the poor m
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by com2kid 9mo ago
> Whenever I am moving a car backward to park or unpark my car, I ask everybody to stand at a specific place where I see them, regardless if they are adults or kids. How does that help other people walking down a sidewalk?
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by com2kid 9mo ago
The rear window in trucks and SUVs is above the head height of a small child. w/o a backup camera there is literally no way to see if a small child is behind you. So many parents ran over their own child that backup cameras are now m
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by com2kid 9mo ago
I use a Mac daily, have for years now. I did not recognize that the icon in the article was for "pages" until it came to the icon with the word pages on it. The icon is horrible and generic and has failed to leave an impression on

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