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by gertlex 3y ago
Is that "same direction travel divided between autonomous trucks and all other traffic"? Or "only on highways where traffic directions are separated by a median"? The former sounds like a massive (understating it probab
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I tested it myself, like `ssh git@rando.github.com` and that didn't work. That was my interpretation of the original comment. (reading it again, it seems like it was indeed saying what I typed below) It seems like the reply was saying
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by gertlex 3y ago
Might be referring to top "business plan innovations".
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She's well-known in this context, not a random exec we've never heard of, so there's no doubt about the pronouns to use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell
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by gertlex 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if our RFID reader is bad, too. But it was also a brand-new fridge... Wife never followed up on getting warranty service for it, so we'll live with it! (would love to do a tear-down/self-repair, but f
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by gertlex 3y ago
This assertion doesn't match my experiences. I can't recall the last time a site gave a clear complaint about "we don't support firefox". I remember doing useragent modification 10-15 years ago, but more recently,
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by gertlex 3y ago
I have issues, but rarely. (but I'm tech savvy... wouldn't want to tell my mom to try a different browser...) My sense of what sites don't work properly (not necessarily 100% of the time, joy) are some big corporate, non-tech
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by gertlex 3y ago
Indeed. Seems like the title should be "how to run hackathons to get github activity". And the "in 2024" part... A few ways this can be interpreted: - How things are going to be different from prior years. First thing
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by gertlex 3y ago
I'm glad our GE fridge will continue to dispense water... because the fucking thing doesn't read the replacement filter cartridges' RFID tags, it seems. (they're genuine, not ordered from amazon, etc.) We just live with
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by gertlex 3y ago
You are not wrong. But I get a good bit of satisfaction of having gleaned a pretty functional understanding of setting up PXE/netboot (Ubuntu installs; with a Ubuntu PXE server via DNSMasq + nfs + tftp). I even did some grub menu user
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by gertlex 3y ago
Just commenting an adjacent UEFI problem solved: My workaround at work with some old test robots that I still use, but don't have UEFI... Put iPXE on a flash drive, and use that to chain-boot into the uefi-only PXE setup. (there'
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by gertlex 3y ago
It seems to me that that depends on which problem you're solving. (1) No power from renewables overnight? Sure, nuclear works (2) (Planning for the eventuality where) Entire grid's demand is available from renewables during parts
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by gertlex 3y ago
I remember circa 2005 that E3 seemed to be on its last legs? Maybe it paused for a couple years. Particularly, in English class, there was some prompt (possibly involving time travel) where my answer was "It would be cool to go to E3 i
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by gertlex 3y ago
Yes! Someone else talking about this computer use scenario! In my case, I put an apple magic mouse scrollball between Esc and F1 on a keyboard a decade ago, and still use this. (google `apple scroll ball keyboard` if interested) (A recent o
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by gertlex 3y ago
We had a fun one a couple years ago where a kernel bump turned our USB touchscreen monitors into trackpad monitors... (i.e. touch input behaved like your laptop trackpad) Thankfully I was able to figure out a udev rule via trial and error
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by gertlex 3y ago
My microwave is less than 2 feet from my wifi router :D (but yeah, mostly use 5GHz channels for wifi) I have no issue listening to podcasts in the kitchen while the microwave is running. I'm using Logitech H800 headphones (modified wi
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by gertlex 3y ago
Maybe my wording could have been clearer. The hardware within the hubs listed (which you linked and I'd already seen)... I'm assuming there's something in common among them, for a library to work broadly with them. I know oth
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I've got experience with this... `reboot` won't work, as it doesn't cut power, but if you can do `rtcwake -m off -s 30`, the power to the USB ports gets cut in between the computer being off and booting back up again. (I even
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by gertlex 3y ago
Hmmm. Readme unfortunately fails to note what the required hardware is (that apparently has a common/shared control interface) which makes these USB hubs controllable.
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by gertlex 3y ago
> The idea that some inexperienced people are shipping software using this tool is insane to me. I really think you're trying to compare apples and oranges, in multiple ways. For one, we can test the software by running it, which i
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by gertlex 3y ago
Writing specs is a key bit here that I'd generalize as: I think by typing. The hardest problems I troubleshoot are worked through with best quality if I am typing up a worklog of stuff tried, rather than taking no notes at all. And l
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by gertlex 3y ago
Cool, thanks for the extra insights! With (high power) hearing aids, it's reasonably easy to know if you have a gap in the mold: I'll get a feedback loop (annoying noise, naturally) if one is loose or a poor fit. Interestingly, f
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by gertlex 3y ago
I've been wearing BTE (behind the ear) hearing aids since I was a kid. So I have the custom molded ear plugs (with hole for tubing) like you mention. I enjoy that they're a magical always-ready pair of earplugs. But recently tryi
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by gertlex 3y ago
You're misinterpreting the comment, almost certainly. The claim is more specifically: "Per given amount of energy generation, renewables are requiring employing more people, likely causing higher energy costs than other methods m
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by gertlex 3y ago
It was probably more reference to tmpX7dMeXU's pointless rambling response than a desire to not hear actual arguments.
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It blurs together at this point. I've been using GPT-4 for a few months now, was just using 3.5 for months prior to that. I'm also not doing too much, volume-wise; maybe about a script/week. I'll keep this in mind in fu
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by gertlex 3y ago
To me it sounds like what's described is similar to my own interactions with ChatGPT where: 1. Write a prompt, get a full script in response (good! as I expected) 2. Realize something missing in the prompt, or want to improve a specifi
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by gertlex 3y ago
I recently had the realization... I've carried this enjoyment onwards into how I store parts for hobbies. While I use compartmentalized containers for things, compartments are still a mix of parts. I can search for quite a while witho
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Hmmm. Citation needed. Am an active player. All the whales in the communities are adults. Maybe you mean a generation of children as in children in the 90s), but even that's not true, as there's plenty of folks > 40yrs old, to
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by gertlex 3y ago
I'm playing with it, but not for work stuff, and not for everything. Really haven't done a ton, but has given me some useful insights. I'm normally a vim-only guy, so this has been a doubly-useful bit of experiment with usi

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