daedalus_j

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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Third party starts to look a lot more appetizing then it's not a clear cut sane-vs-lunatic scenario. When there is no lesser of the two evils people will go looking elsewhere rather than take the easy path. It gives me a LITTLE hope th
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
The original of this game is probably the thing that made me a programmer. When I realized I could edit the game to do things like change the banana speed or explosion radius all hope was lost, and I've been writing and editing code
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I see this comment a lot recently and it perplexes me every time... I don't see how LLMs are search tools. Am I using them wrong? I've asked them for information with sources and they've hallucinated entire answers includin
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Just run Firefox in HTTPS only mode. [0] You'll get a warning for any site that CAN'T be upgraded to HTTPS, but any site that supports both you'll just go straight to the HTTPS version. [0] https://support.mozilla.
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
If you play music on a half decent car stereo, or home sound system, yes, you can 100% tell the difference. Spotify "high" sounds absolutely flat compared to a lossless rip of the same track. (and doesn't have anywhere near t
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I saw a suggestion somewhere once that I've never nene modeled and would be interested in: checked bags are free, carryon bags cost. Make it more desirable to simply board the plane and sit down. As someone who flies all carryon, I hat
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
There's a lot of customers still to be served, especially once you have laser-comm interlink between the satellites. Currently a user has to have a view of a satellite that has a view of a ground-downlink station. Once that limitatio
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
You're right, but they're currently at what looks from the outside to be at pretty severe risk of losing their FCC spectrum license, much requires them to have a certain number of satellites by a certain date. That, compounded by
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
By launch volume they are their own biggest customer with Starlink. However, if Amazon wasn't so up their own ass about not using Spacex rockets, they'd probably be buying almost as many launches to get their project Kuiper conste
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Just a for-the-record counterpoint: I have a laptop that is running an Arch install that was first installed in 2011. It runs great. It has, to my memory, twice required manual intervention. (to be fair, it once required manual interventi
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I use a split keyboard (UHK) with the two halves on either side of a notebook. FWIW I have a mousepad/deskmat that sits between the halves and allows me to tuck the cord under it. This keeps it from moving around, with an added bonus o
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Assuming that the "barbenheimer" effect is what made people shy away seems to miss the occam's razor possibility: It's really not a great movie. Okay, maybe that was just my opinion. Let's back that up. The Barbie m
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
just to n=1 in the other direction: We had tons of issues with AT&T. Incorrect billing, getting random charges that weren't ours, and a huge pile of "you have full bars, but absolutely no data and calls can't go through&q
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I'll admit I didn't look into it, but Helix sounds like something like LunarVim ( https://www.lunarvim.org/ ) Personally I much prefer that the editor NOT ship with something like that by default, especially when it
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
n=1 here of course, but: I was told a similar thing by a primary care doctor in the late 90's. When I finally got fed up with my allergies again in 2014 or so and went to an allergist they were quite confident it was no problem at all
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Really depends on what you're trying to do, the hobby has so many different facets. If you're interested in low-power stuff or doing remote mountaintop SOTA type stuff, KX3 and a Buddipole make a great kit. The usual Kenwood/
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I really don't understand this one. I turn down clients with projects I don't want to do all the time. How is "I don't want to make your crypto-scam website." substantially different than "I don't want to
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
https://archive.is/JMr3t
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I'm intrigued by this. I own a 2017 forester and it is rock solid. I, my family, many friends, have all owned Subarus extensively, and build-quality/fit-and-finish have never been an issue, including on some quite old vehicles.
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
My business depends on my phone and computer too. My Pixel 4a, and ThinkPad T480 (running Linux) are ancient, venerable, and have never failed me. Your experience /may/ be the outlier. MBPs do have fantastic battery life though.
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Look for the "sponsorblock" browser extension. The arms race is already well underway.
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
True, and I'm all for punishing the platform. When we do so we're also punishing ourselves however. They're losing potential monetary value, we're the ones losing knowledge. (I'm assuming they have full backups and
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
This works, and I certainly respect your choice to do so, but if we ass start doing this it removes a huge amount of the value from the platform. For example I just recently went searching for a solution to a problem, and found 3 reddit pos
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I have had multiple problems with ISPs throttling/prioritizing traffic, such as games. In one case I had ping times to the steam servers that were so bad the game DC'd about every 5 minutes. Popped everything into a VPN endpoint
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
> Really?? And these content creators willingly post their content on the site so that Youtube can steal from them? Many no longer do because of this. YouTube "demonetizing" videos they don't like, while continuing to show
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Not OP, but: I have no desire to steal from /content creators/, which is why I support them via other means. (Patreon etc) YouTube on the other hand, is an untrustworthy middleman who's going to to their level best to profit
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
I will give them credit, it's gotten somewhat better in the last few years, but we went a LONG time with: * badly broken group chats * problems with long multi-part messages (sending and receiving both) * REALLY bad compression
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Paywall, so couldn't read more than the first paragraph, but every one of these articles that doesn't put "because Apple intentionally breaks SMS usability, and Google is barely better" in the first paragraph is automati
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by daedalus_j 3y ago
Similarly: I cannot convince Swiftkey to stop correcting "whole" into "whore". L and R are next to each other on the Dvorak layout, so I get it, but it does not matter how many times I tell it to never correct to whore
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by daedalus_j 4y ago
I don't think it was as simple as "Booty shaking? Ewww.", it's just that the booty shaking scene serves as an excellent proxy for "this show isn't what we expected, wanted, or like". By all means, write di

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