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by dcrazy 2y ago
Millions of people used AOL but it was not the killer app for the Internet. We are at the beginning of the LLM lifecycle and have yet to figure out what niche it will best fill.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Apple Intelligence is not turned on by default. You are asked after the software update completes if you would like to turn it on.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
`ret` also updates the branch predictor’s shadow stack. Failing to balance `call` and `ret` can seriously impact performance.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
I deny it. Who wants to have a conversation with a computer that’s just stringing bullshit together in the way it thinks sounds most plausibly human? I’d rather talk to… a human.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
In the macOS version of Calendar, “Time Zone Support” is the name of a feature in the Settings window. When you check that checkbox, twi things happen: - the event inspector adds a timezone selector the the Start and End date/time pick
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Since the parent has been rightfully flagged, I can’t tell if the author even considered the possibility that Joanna’s wife is a cis woman. Here’s a NY Times article announcing their wedding: https://www.nytimes.com/2014&#x2
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by dcrazy 2y ago
The article is 2 years old, and predates any of the iOS 18.1 changes.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Note that this article is 2 years old, and therefore predates iOS 18.1, which allows applications to directly access the NFC hardware: https://developer.apple.com/support/nfc-se-platform/
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by dcrazy 2y ago
My health insurance plan publishes a formulary.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
It shocked me to learn that alcohol content wasn’t already a required element of alcoholic product labels. Even knowing that alcohol is outside the purview of the FDA, it seems it would at least be relevant for taxation!
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by dcrazy 2y ago
> Nobody’s speech is restricted in any way. Justice Sotomayor disagrees with you [1]: > Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a brief opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. She stressed that she saw “no reason to assume wi
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by dcrazy 2y ago
The majority of the population doesn’t hang on Gabe Newell’s every word and buy 75 early access Factorio clones at each biannual sale.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Airplane is the only time ours comes undocked from the TV.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Didn’t a third party company design the Switch UI?
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by dcrazy 2y ago
This is a statement that could only be made by an HN commenter. My wife has to drop into Arch to recover her audio every time she connects her Steam Deck to the TV. This is not a product ready for mass consumption.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
“Physically based rendering” does not mean “photorealistic rendering.” After all, PBR was pioneered by Disney for use in their animated films. I would be surprised if Mario Odyssey doesn’t use PBR.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Are you proposing that the United States should operate factories without regard to margin?
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by dcrazy 2y ago
I thought the Tokyo megalopolis was still growing due to internal migration, at the cost of depleting literally everywhere else in the country.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
On a previous trip to Japan I used my CC travel portal (can’t remember if it was Chase or Amex) to book one of the hotels. It took several days of back and forth with the CC company acting as a middleman to clarify whether “twin bed” meant
710.
by dcrazy 2y ago
The aggregators are often buying inventory at below cost. They exist to help fill rooms that otherwise won’t sell.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Kayak was the absolute worst about this to me. I had purchased premium economy tickets to Japan for several thousand USD from Kayak. Japan closed. The FAA made it clear that refunds were to be awarded. Kayak jerked me around and tried to ke
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Yes, but when you show up to your hotel across the world and they can’t find your reservation or they gave your room away because they didn’t know you were arriving after at 8pm, they then tell you to take it up with your third party bookin
713.
by dcrazy 2y ago
Ok, but the alfalfa gets eaten. A lawn doesn’t.
714.
by dcrazy 2y ago
I’ve had mixed success asking to add my loyalty number at check-in, even if I already provided it to the aggregator.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
Some large chains will only give you rewards points or honor your status if you book directly. My wife and I just spent several days finding and booking hotels for a 2 week trip with several stops. We searched on aggregators (Booking’s “kin
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by dcrazy 2y ago
You phrased your comment as a contradiction of mine. I elaborated on my comment, focusing on the distinction between Apple II and Apple IIe, including the IIc which came between, and citing my source.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
> it’s #eee I’m going by reading the CSS. > both are slightly above "minimum contrast" That’s simply not true.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
It sounds like you’re referring to drought measures. We’re no longer in drought, so many drought measures have been lifted.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
It’s still within contrast accessibility guidelines. I find it much more pleasing on the eyes than full black on white, which causes a lot of eyestrain on an emissive display like a monitor.
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by dcrazy 2y ago
According to Wikipedia, the original Apple II ROM had Integer BASIC. Apple licensed AppleSoft in response to customer demand for a floating point BASIC, and it became the in-ROM BASIC for the Apple IIc and IIe.

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