ghostly_s

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by ghostly_s 2mo ago
Don't lead people down a fruitless path. From their own FAQ: >Is darktable a free Lightroom alternative?¶ Yes and no. Darktable is an alternative to Lightroom the same way any other raw editor is, since it edits raw files, but it wo
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by ghostly_s 2mo ago
Please don't paste walls of text into the comment field without quotation marks. It wastes all of our time.
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by ghostly_s 2mo ago
I see Lodge is the first entry on their "approved" list: "The anchor of the entire counter-list." Everything I've heard from the cast iron nerds is that modern Lodge is crap because they switched to the cheaper sand
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by ghostly_s 2mo ago
These aren't even self-setting, let alone self-adjusting. They are merely self-winding.
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
His name is Jack, and I would describe him as a deeply weird narcissist. You got the "relies heavily on maintaining a positive social image" part right.
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
You can decide what appetite for risk you are comfortable with, but some people don't have any better option than logging in to accounts on a public computer. The industry is pushing this system as the new universal answer for auth
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
I use Bitwarden on Linux. There is no option to do anything with a passkey I have stored there except delete it.
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
We've all been through at least a couple rounds now of the security industry pressing us to change how we log in, ostensibly in our best interest: impractical complexity requirements, 2FA, "magic links," ridiculously short se
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
Anthropic has been running the exact same video ad in my youtube feed for months showing a guy making the tackiest "impossible" coffee table hanging from chains that I wouldn't even bother clicking on if it were a thumbnail f
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
> I also wonder whether the roof rule was written preemptively or retrospectively -- I hope the former. Presume you're referring to [1], not the page you linked, and one might be inclined to accuse you of __feigning surprise__ but i
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
Good point, consumers should all simply develop their own apps instead of buying a product.
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
I have a couple of these, they are made of a light gauge sheet metal; the inner dimension is ~9.75", wider than the 10" standard hole spacing; and I don't think they would be very structurally sound if you were to remove the
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
> however the big question to answer was : is the radar sensitive enough to tell the difference consistently between a material, and it's same counterpart with asbestos shards and at what concentration ? Unless I missed something, i
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
> For most people, the purpose of college is to get piece of paper that will open up higher salary opportunities More true at an Ivy than anywhere else. > This year, the economist decided that both the midterm and the final exams for
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
I wouldn't. Most uncomfortable earbuds in the market at any price.
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by ghostly_s 3mo ago
The very first paragraph of TFA adequately explains this.
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by ghostly_s 4mo ago
No prosecutor is going to waste their time trying to convict someone based on metadata. Even video is often insufficient for a conviction.
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by ghostly_s 4mo ago
I would guess if anyone wants to use this thing it will mostly be for 12" singles, optimal groove packing is not a concern for them.
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by ghostly_s 4mo ago
> This is the most recent thing I put together (sry it's on LinkedIn, haven't posted the series elsewhere yet) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adenta_episode-1-of-midwest-d ... I’m dumbfounded you had the au
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by ghostly_s 4mo ago
TBH as vapid as it is I think the overwhelming majority of people would call the AI video more entertaining. I mean good lord nothing happens in the first 3 minutes of Lumiere's movie except a bunch of academics waving their hands arou
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by ghostly_s 4mo ago
Push whatever crap to your github you want, but don't waste my time by sharing something that's not ready to share.
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by ghostly_s 4mo ago
Why would users care if you're using the same type checker as them? Surely they're not expecting all their imports to be instrumented for running redundant types checks?
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by ghostly_s 4mo ago
idk why people even post stuff like this without a sample. i also don't get why you would call something like this a "local app" when all the work is done thru commercial apis?
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by ghostly_s 4mo ago
So it's a dictation tool? Then why does "voice to text" barely appear on the page? Why are you describing it here as an AI assistant but the page doesn't say anything about that? "Understands my screen"? Why do
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by ghostly_s 4mo ago
1. I think this is exactly the wrong venue to get valuable answers to this question. 2. Nonetheless, I'll give you mine as a counterpoint to the consensus: A CS degree has never been a strict requirement for entering its field; we coul
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by ghostly_s 4mo ago
The "you" in the title's reference to "your push notifications" is not the user, it is the marketer. That tells you everything you need to know about the value of this piece.
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by ghostly_s 5mo ago
> "what is the best tool for doing x" and I can't trust that the answer is going to be the truth according to all available information, You think AI has some way of assessing the truthiness of "all available informa
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by ghostly_s 5mo ago
Same, but the content on the page they linked for it and the design choices made in the hardware don't give me the impression that they are seriously interested in developing this aspect of the project (unless someone shows up who&#x27
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by ghostly_s 5mo ago
If you're trying to convince people to contribute free labor to your for-profit product, you at least need to disclose what kind of MSRP you're shooting for -- why would someone help you build something that ends up being nowher
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by ghostly_s 5mo ago
If this is something meant for a general audience why are you using "edge-tech?" If this is for industry professionals why are you posting it here? I couldn't even get it to do anything indicating it was functional on my lapt

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