danudey

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by danudey 10mo ago
I googled how to disable ACR on my new Samsung TV. Followed the instructions only to find out that it was disabled already. That, combined with a built-in physical microphone switch (which I noticed in the quick start guide before I'd
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by danudey 10mo ago
The tech company playbook: 1. Defy the law (and ethics) so that you can grow rapidly without the constraint of regulations, and provide things cheaper without the overhead of compliance 2. Get so ubiquitous as a result that if government st
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by danudey 10mo ago
LLMs by their inherent nature cannot be relied on to be true and correct, which by coincidence are the only traits that matter in accounting. If you want better software, then sure, maybe a coding assistant can help you write it faster, but
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by danudey 10mo ago
FWIW MyPy is not very conformant: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/python/typ...
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by danudey 10mo ago
Paramiko v4.0.0 (the latest) gets past the version string, it seems, but dies instantly on failed KEX, which is another convenient incompatibility. It does mean that even legitimate SSH bots in Python will fail though.
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by danudey 10mo ago
The opposition party is falling apart because, despite being a Liberal government, the Liberal party is being a better Conservative party than the Conservatives were while the Conservatives have no platform or plan other than 'Liberals
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by danudey 10mo ago
> I don’t like the language and I do not want to see it continue to propagate through the software I use and want to control/edit/customize. This is how I feel about C/C++; I find Rust a lot easier to reason about, modify,
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by danudey 10mo ago
On the contrary, you can also search for items with easily the least useful search I've ever seen. Pizza pockets? Okay, anything that mentions pizza, or pockets. So frozen pizzas, in-store-made pizzas, pizza flavored pringles, pants wi
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by danudey 10mo ago
Perhaps you can clarify something for me, because I think I'm missing it. > Norwegian PNs have your birth date (in DDMMYY format) as the first six digits So presumably the format is DDMMYYXXXXX (for some arbitrary number of X's
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by danudey 10mo ago
> when I'm in my local store it seems like cell connection goes to shit for some reason It's a giant steel and concrete box, that's probably the reason.
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by danudey 10mo ago
> Other stores have figured this out. Not CostCo though! I open their page and immediately 'Can Costco.ca use your location?" I say yes and then it asks me what province I'm in. I tell it, and then it defaults me to a stor
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by danudey 10mo ago
I'm just happy that Best Buy recently added the ability to filter out items they cannot actually sell me. The amount of searches I would do where I had to scroll through page after page of 'not available online' 'not ava
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by danudey 10mo ago
The author discusses his efforts in trying caching; in most use cases, it makes no sense to pre-cache every possible piece of content (because real users don't need to load that much of the repository that fast), and in the case of bot
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by danudey 10mo ago
Honestly did not see that one coming.
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by danudey 10mo ago
You're right. I should have said 'maybe China's new HDMI replacement will be managed better and take off'.
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by danudey 10mo ago
> The problem your encountering is downstream from point 1. Basically your keyboard thinks due to the way most people construct a particular sentence, you're gonna want to type "bold" next, despite "hold" clearly
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by danudey 10mo ago
Mass-market compatibility. It's already difficult to find TVs with four fully-compliant HDMI ports; often you'll get a TV with one HDMI 2.1 port and three HDMI 2.0 ports, and sometimes the 2.1 port will also be the only eARC port
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by danudey 10mo ago
Look, if the CEO of a five trillion dollar company investing hundreds of billions into AI can come up with some custom agents to handle every aspect of the CEO's work, surely your average Microsoft 365-subscribing corporation can do th
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by danudey 10mo ago
Honestly, I can't tell if you're being sarcastic and it actually does disable the button, or if you're being jaded and cynical and it just hides it for six hours then it comes back. Either option seems equally likely at this
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by danudey 10mo ago
"Move fast and break things" is fine if you're a social networking site and breaking things means people can't get their racist memes or browse marketplace for twenty minutes until you push a change. It's less fine
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by danudey 10mo ago
50% of our code is being written by AI! Or at least, autocompleted by AI. And then our developers have to fix 50% of THAT code so that it does what they actually wanted to do in the first place. But boy, it sure produces a lot of words!
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by danudey 10mo ago
Imagine a circumstance where Windows Search was as good as Apple's Spotlight, and could integrate with cloud services to index documents, browser bookmarks, web history, maybe podcasts, etc.) Hey Copilot, where is that document I was r
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by danudey 11mo ago
Out of the box, my Unifi Security Gateway runs Debian, as did my previous Unifi AC access points. I just checked and my new Wifi 7 APs don't run Debian though, they... admin@BedroomAP:~# cat /etc/os-release NAME=&qu
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by danudey 11mo ago
This is something that infuriates me to no end - companies forcing software decoding on my devices rather than shipping me a codec my device supports. When I'm watching something on YouTube on my iPhone, they're usually shipping m
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by danudey 11mo ago
Dell is dropping it to save 4 cents per device, so users will have to pay $1 to Microsoft per user instead. Go figure.
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by danudey 11mo ago
I've heard that same anecdote before, that hardware decoding was front of mind. Doesn't mean that you (we) are right, but at least if you're hallucinating it's not just you.
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by danudey 11mo ago
> a very narrow behavioral problem that parents have to deal with Let's not define autism in relation to what other people have to deal with. For years, autism has been discussed not in terms of what the autistic person experience
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by danudey 11mo ago
When I was visiting Jerusalem in 2001 I got used to the sound of what was apparently helicopter gunships firing on... I dunno, something, off in the distance. Definitely not the same as sleeping under an F16 or whatever, but it's amazi
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by danudey 11mo ago
Nice "both sides" argument, very subtle.
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by danudey 11mo ago
As are we all, with these people in charge.

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