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by devsda 3y ago
They were fined for breaking laws and them making a profit out of the act is irrelevant and secondary(though its the main driver). If profit is the only benchmark then companies can use some creative accounting practices to reduce their exp
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by devsda 3y ago
> Universe knows, there are many bells and whistles you could have tacked on, possibly dooming this project to stay in the "project shelf" for a much longer time. If you click on the logo, it shows placeholders for many other t
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by devsda 3y ago
Interesting but for me reading the article left more questions than it answered. If you are curious about the internals, the referenced blogpost[1] has a detailed explanation of object file reperesentation(s) and I cannot recommend it enoug
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by devsda 3y ago
Humans are defined not just by their abilities but by their limitations too. We celebrate our achievements because sometimes they surpass the limitations of an average human. Our collective human limitations(physical, mental and temporal) a
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by devsda 3y ago
Linking between notes in the default note app is not possible without an icloud login. Creating subtasks in the reminders app is not possible without an icloud account. There are no _real_ technical or functional reasons (that can't be
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by devsda 3y ago
Does anybody have a reference/example of a lab notebook for software engg ? If I'm forced to log my thoughts/actions it comes out as either too terse(everthing feels obvious) or it's too verbose and it's often diffi
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by devsda 3y ago
> Apple is a consumer devices company and may not be able to justify a high royalty price and still meet certain consumer price points. Do we know the total BOM cost plus the amortized cost of development & other expenses for an Appl
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by devsda 3y ago
> Beginning in 1928, a small statue of the popular cartoon character Felix the Cat was featured in television test broadcast transmissions So, cats have been dominating the airwaves from the beginning of broadcast video. The article says
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by devsda 3y ago
Had the same thought. It might already be known to those keeping track of AI tech but I wish the article mentioned what LoRA meant atleast once. For those in the similar boat, it apparently means Low Rank Adaptation (for Large Language Mode
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by devsda 3y ago
This approach is sometimes referred to as literate programming. Emacs's org-babel package implements it for a variety of languages but only within org-mode files (.org). You might be able to find a 3rd party package/script that wo
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by devsda 3y ago
Interesting. I know IDE snippets are not the same, but I wish that they can do more than token replacement and have features that enable us to do the same. Neovim has few snippet plugins that are powerful enough(after setup) to do similar c
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by devsda 3y ago
I believe Firefox does but it includes only the domain name and omits the path.
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by devsda 3y ago
I'm unable to edit. So quick update: As per [1], the chrome.declarativeNetRequest.onRuleMatchedDebug is available only for unpacked extensions i.e. local extensions with a specific permission. So, I'm not sure under what context t
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by devsda 3y ago
The requirement is not without side-effects. From the chrome developer group[1] > The devmode switch also enables other features e.g. chrome.declarativeNetRequest.onRuleMatchedDebug which may severely reduce the performance of the conten
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by devsda 3y ago
My guess is that whatever clever network optimizations that Google has are probably interfering with their traffic. By building their own network stack, they are skipping them and also wireguard might be better equipped to dealt with occas
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by devsda 3y ago
Ours are not named with a common identifier and this also needs constant effort to maintain while refactoring and there's still scope for a mistake. *ideally* devs should not have prod access or their credentials should only have limit
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by devsda 3y ago
> I've found I manually type out certain subsets of URLs where possible If you are doing this often enough, may be adding a custom keyword search might help. Both chrome and Firefox support it. Very useful with random JIRA and othe
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by devsda 3y ago
History search is not an option when my browser is mostly in private window. For me, Google has a mind of its own and has not been reliable in giving out related links even when I search with the exact page title from memory. Happened a lot
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by devsda 3y ago
For many people, Google is sort of their bookmark manager. Want to open Facebook? Search 'Facebook' and click on the link. Want to open your bank site ? Again google bank name and click on the link. I've see even tech people
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by devsda 3y ago
Documentation is still WIP and incomplete. As per https://grimoire.pro/docs/roadmap sharing, import, export, bookmarklet and browser extension are on the roadmap. Offtopic: I've heard the word Grimoire only from
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by devsda 3y ago
One of the popular sentiments here seems to be that training AI should not be treated any different than a human understanding & learning the source material. Going by that logic, can the AI here be considered a "person" perfo
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by devsda 3y ago
I think it only records the terminal output(along with other metadata like timing) and not what you type(input). If you enter a password in a prompt that does not echo/display it back, it shouldn't be recorded.
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by devsda 3y ago
Sure one can refuse to participate in the "market" altogether but like I said, it is a luxury that not everyone can afford to have due to various personal/social/economic reasons.
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by devsda 3y ago
> It’s infinitely easier to avoid the companies you don’t like than it is to vote out any part of government. If you can avoid a company, the fact that there is an acceptable alternative itself says that the market is not monopolized and
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by devsda 3y ago
It is not ads that people are against when it comes to Facebook. The common concerns are about its algorithmic feed, recommendations, research experiments etc that allow subtle manipulation for commercial and political gains. You can still
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by devsda 3y ago
Should be Chrome and Android. It is very difficult for a new player to grow in these areas. Both Chrome and Android are being "improved" with features that are beneficial for Google to build a moat around its search, ad and othe
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by devsda 3y ago
If it can be 3D printed, is (commercial?) 3D printing more affordable/efficient for such low volumes ?
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by devsda 3y ago
Apart from being a rescue os, what are some common usecases where it helps ? One, you can have your data/software literally in your pocket assuming that's the threat model you are dealing with. The other scenarios I could think of
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by devsda 3y ago
> This attempts to hide inter-keystroke timings by sending interactive traffic at fixed intervals (default: every 20ms) when there is only a small amount of data being sent. It also sends fake "chaff" keystrokes for a random in
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by devsda 3y ago
> Maybe they want a unixy desktop with working sound ? In my experience, this has not been an issue for the past 10-15 years atleast. Before that there were some problems with few (external) soundcards or random cpu spikes with the mixer

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