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by dsr_ 5mo ago
Charlie has said repeatedly that this is SF-horror, not a How-To.
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by dsr_ 5mo ago
I'm right handed, so I would pick the bottom left button as the scroll lock, with the top left button as 1, top right button as 2, and bottom right as 3. "scroll button is also usually the middle button" -- these functions ar
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by dsr_ 5mo ago
In X11 (and probably in Wayland, since this is a libinput thing) you can define a button as a scroll lock. So, hold down the scroll lock button and the thumbstick becomes a scroller. That leaves three buttons for left, middle and right.
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by dsr_ 5mo ago
One would think that they could spontaneously offer him a hundred million dollars for it and solve the problem. I half-suspect they threatened him and he stuck to his guns.
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by dsr_ 5mo ago
Does any distro disable ASLR by default? If you were to do it by hand, nginx doesn't come to mind as a likely candidate.
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by dsr_ 5mo ago
MAY is the correct choice. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119
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by dsr_ 5mo ago
Most services have privacy policies that boil down to: - we promise not to share PII (defined as narrowly as possible) - we promise not to share payment information except with our payment system - if you pay us, we promise not to train LLM
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by dsr_ 5mo ago
... and gives me a message on my primary phone: "This number has been used too many times."
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by dsr_ 5mo ago
Because it could eventually be detected as click-fraud, and ad networks hate paying out for click-fraud.
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by dsr_ 5mo ago
It's usually quite possible. Movie theaters make their money on food and drink, so arranging an extra screening for the cost of 50% of the seats in a given room is nicely profitable. Depending on the theater's manager, they'l
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by dsr_ 5mo ago
It is built as a module in Debian. lsmod shows it is not loaded on any of the Trixie or Bookworm machines I have checked, Intel or AMD.
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Presswork 9: Making a Sigil(pandemonium.press)
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
> That article is from 8 years ago, accuracy is dramatically better today. We see a few percent error rate. Your reading comprehension is not good. The 2018 study is for "traditional" voice recognition, followed by a human tran
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
You had it 20 years ago: doctors spoke into recorders, transcriptionists turned that into notes, the docs reviewed them. The first study I cited replaces the "spoke into recorders" stage with non-AI voice recognition. The second s
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
Money.
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
Pre-AI voice recognition (2018), followed by 2 human reviews https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... => the error rate was 7.4% in the version generated by speech recognition software, 0
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
This feels like a market which hasn't settled into long-term profitability and is being subsidized by investors.
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
> successful founders are busier I thought it was supposed to be "passive".
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
Demand at an unsustainably low price does not imply demand at a sustainable price.
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
Remember that the difference between "Flock can do whatever the hell it wants" and "Flock is required to delete your data at your request" is a law. Citizens vote for legislators. If you want this to be a higher priority
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
Which is why Firefox has memorized that this site needs 170% zoom.
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
A thing can be nifty and clever and thus interesting and elicit positive feelings... about the process. I don't think anyone will listen to this for the pleasure of listening to music. AI crap can be much more listenable-as-music but n
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
My custom XFWM theme has square corners on windows without focus and large-radius rounded corners on the one window with focus. The square corners are part of a 2 pixel wide border (one black, one white) because who needs to waste space on
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
Same result, either way.
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
Phone mechanisms which worked for me: - the original Motorola StarTac "Star Trek Communicator" flip. - the Danger Hiptop / Sidekick II rotating screen-over-keyboard - the Motorola Droid slide-out keyboard - the OnePlus 7Pro s
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
There are definitely some vendors who respect an unsubscribe request, and some who don't. No way to tell ahead of time. I won't buy, ever again, from someone who doesn't respect the unsub request.
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
Even worse, most of their products weren't special: - available faster from Amazon - available cheaper from AliExpress - sometimes both faster and cheaper from the manufacturer And Massdrop didn't provide exceptionally good custom
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
The retailer's problem can be solved through diversification. If you sell enough different things, and they are all of good quality, people will come back to shop for other things that you sell. The manufacturer's problem needs mo
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
If this meeting doesn't include devs, I don't know what the context of anything in the article is supposed to be about. There are no major new ideas in business that don't involve software. If it is not the case that "de
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
> "I haven't heard any customers request this." "We can't use Python for that, it's too slow." "That introduces too much complexity." "We tried something like that before and it didn&#x27

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