gapan

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by gapan 1y ago
Can you point me to the directive/regulation that states that? I am in the EU and I'm not aware of any such thing. I have two cars that are 2006-2008 models and I am not planning on replacing them.
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by gapan 1y ago
You're right, but mp3 is still even more widely supported. It is also good enough, most people can't tell the difference between original files and around 128kbps ABR mp3 files, let alone higher bitrates. And there are huge person
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by gapan 1y ago
Some of us never did. Well, it's XMMs in my case, but that's besides the point. A complete music library with stuff that I actually like only takes a very part of my storage. It's even possible to carry everything on my phone
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by gapan 1y ago
I don't think there is anything ambiguous about it. How else are they going to "personalize" their services, if they don't consume your personal data?
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by gapan 1y ago
Whataboutism. Look it up.
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by gapan 1y ago
That works despite twitter though, not because of it. It is ultimately an argument against twitter.
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by gapan 1y ago
> States should come together with their neighboring states to start passing identical model legislation for this sort of stuff... Yes! Make a union of states! How should we call that? States Union... Union of States... United States! Ye
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by gapan 1y ago
You can take it as another data point. Here's another one: it works for me on Firefox/Android too. It might imply that the issue is probably not with that specific combination but something else. Maybe disabled cookies? Just an id
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by gapan 1y ago
> Bittorrent and a personal page. So, no, there isn't.
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by gapan 1y ago
> An LLM would only be able to "polish" a non-native speaker's writing. Are you really suggesting that all native speakers write perfectly and their writing never needs any corrections whatsoever? I consider that far from
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by gapan 1y ago
> The exception would only be those who are not native English writers, in which case the LLM might improve grammar, etc. So, only just the vast majority of people in this world? I'm not sure I would call that "the exception&qu
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by gapan 1y ago
> Like Apple/Mac? One could argue that apple is the only exception to the rule. And let's not forget that apple almost went bankrupt in 1997, only to be rescued by Microsoft.
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by gapan 1y ago
Well, actually, the Commodore 64 is a lot faster with respect to input latency than any modern machine.
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by gapan 1y ago
> Emoji are good to highlight information. A red cross stands out in a list of green ticks much better than a [failed] among the [passed]. Rendering [failed] in red and [passed] in green would achieve the same. It's not emoji vs tex
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by gapan 1y ago
> Maybe, but better if the trademarks were released to the public domain (however that could be achieved). How would that work? So anyone could release anything under the Commodore brand? That would be awful.
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by gapan 1y ago
There were others too. At least the Olivetti Prodest PC1 [1], which I had, and the Sinclair PC200 [2], which a close friend had. Other friends had the EuroPC, some had the Amstrad 1512 and other different PC compatible boxes. I remember my
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by gapan 1y ago
> Superior hardware with terrible software. Funny how that was the other way around just a few years ago. Macs had inferior hardware, but they were supposed to have better software. At least that's what the Mac users claimed.
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by gapan 1y ago
> TUI? Text User Interface
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by gapan 1y ago
The Namecheap email forwarding service quietly drops all email it thinks is spam. And their spam filter is too aggressive. There is no way to know that an email was dropped. I missed a lot if emails until I figured this out.
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by gapan 1y ago
> naming your potentially mainstream software after a imprisoned, tortured, and eventually murdered sex slave maybe isn't the best idea either? Honest question: Why?
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by gapan 1y ago
Yeah, what has science ever done for us? https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ
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by gapan 1y ago
Of course, how could they have known? Doing a basic web search before deciding on a name is so last year.
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by gapan 1y ago
That will be several years down the line, when everything has bit-rotten to death and nobody in the team remembers how the old setup worked.
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by gapan 2y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with the "good old times". It is a problem that's introduced as soon as a storage medium is used. Sure, you could shutdown your C64 anytime, but even then, if you did it while it was w
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by gapan 2y ago
It's not a matter of using websites so little. It's a matter of not understanding how stuff works and most people don't. Most people open "the internet" (their browser defaulting to google), type "facebook&quot
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by gapan 2y ago
I don't know about that. std::unordered_map<std::string, int> myHashMap; looks a lot uglier and stranger to me.
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by gapan 2y ago
Oh, Douglas Adams would have had a blast with this. Carslen: "But you can't disqualify me! This is outrageous! I've been planning for this tournament for months, and now you're telling me I can't play because of my
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by gapan 2y ago
> They literally built a styrofoam wall on front of the band as they played until at one point you can’t even see them. I never had the chance to go to a Pink Floyd concert, but I saw Roger Waters a few years ago and the huge wall was th
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by gapan 2y ago
Depends on where you live. In Greece, I don't think a single movie other than kids cartoons were ever dubbed on VHS. Everything was subbed. On the other hand, in Germany or Poland, almost everything was dubbed.
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by gapan 2y ago
Ah, facebook then.

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