giantrobot

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by giantrobot 2mo ago
> Teenagers who send each other nude photos are creating child exploitation material but you hardly want to put them jail for that. Well rational thinking people wouldn't. A great many using CSAM as a wedge to de-anonymize the Int
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
Yeah as someone else that worked on Snow Leopard I found this article and ones like it a bit silly. They're a lot like the old "debug code" posts on Mac forums back in the day trying to explain why Puma was slow (no, you&#x27
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by giantrobot 2mo ago
But have you considered the absolute existential horror of a user clicking a link and a whole new page loads (modulo cached elements) rather than an entirely client side routing? Such a horrific concept of JavaScript as an enhancement wou
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by giantrobot 3mo ago
Any sort of online service you're logged into is going to have your IP and account correlated with a timestamp. Dropbox, GDrive, and even your e-mail provider. While a device identifier might be more useful it's not like the lac
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by giantrobot 3mo ago
Drink your verification can.
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by giantrobot 3mo ago
My 2011 Mac mini nods sagely. It runs even better today than when it was new because I put an SSD in it a few years ago.
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by giantrobot 3mo ago
I own a Sony Magic Link and you are 100% correct. The UI is the worst sort of point-n-click adventure game memes. Not only do you have to guess what visual elements actually do something you need to figure out what functionality they repres
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by giantrobot 3mo ago
Token generation is nominally bandwidth limited. Prefill/prompt processing is nominally compute limited. For CPU inference on old hardware I don't think q4 offers any benefit over q8 since the AVX unit doesn't support such sm
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by giantrobot 3mo ago
Reads off your SSD don't age it prematurely.
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by giantrobot 3mo ago
Both North Korea and Israel are notable (compared to space) for their dense oxygen rich atmospheres, accessible large reservoirs of water, access to solvents/lubricants, and a generally "shirt sleeves" environment for workers
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by giantrobot 3mo ago
It is and it doesn't. You only get into disk writes if the system starts paging out to disk.
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by giantrobot 3mo ago
I have a retail copy of Photoshop 7 I bought decades ago with hard earned money. A full copy of Photoshop then was hundreds of dollars. I still use it to this day. I learned Photoshop well enough back in the day to do cool stuff and make a
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by giantrobot 3mo ago
I don't know what you mean, I mean I made a million dollars with only a small hundred million dollar loan from my dad! This sort of entrepreneurship is available to anyone in America.¹ ¹ Terms and conditions apply.
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by giantrobot 3mo ago
It is astonishing to me just how bad end user software has gotten over the past twenty years. It's just goofballs. It's not like that point was when software started requiring more resources, the "What Andy giveth Bill taketh
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
Except no one will be able to afford those laptops. The hyperscalers will buy up literally all the RAM and high power GPUs. So you'll be stuck with 8GB of unified memory on anything affordable. A laptop of better capability will cost 5
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
The current administration has repeatedly demonstrated they do not feel constrained by laws or the Constitution.
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
Which requires them to explicitly ask your age outside the bounds of qualification for a job (over 18 etc). Which ends up opening them to age discrimination lawsuits.
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
You'd be right if ISPs didn't do mass DPI and modification of pages to inject their own ads and trackers. They also routinely hijack and intercept DNS responses. They absolutely cannot be trusted carrying unencrypted traffic.
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
> People are bad with computers because "Designers" have been objectively value negative for decades. Instead of paying attention to the reams of scientific data that tells you exactly how to make a UI better, they smoke crack
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
Big whoopsies on that one.
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
Shh, don't remind them.
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
> Oh, and enabling human traffickers. Also the genocides.
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
Flash as an animation tool vs Flash as a web development tool are two very different discussions. There's overlap and they're related but still separate. Flash was very interesting as an animation tool because it was at its core a
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
I set up an isolated network on my LAN with its own WAP to play with my old devices that don't support WPA. I don't leave it on all the time and the network segmentation limits any blast damage. Works well since I have so much old
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
All those thinking tokens wasted on being an asshole wasted a lot of electricity.
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
Nah, it'll never catch on. We don't have the technology.
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
Including but not limited to dual gigabit Ethernet (on a PCIe bus), NVMe slots, and a capable power supply is included in the box. I lucked out having bought a few N95 mini PCs a few years ago. They were even cheaper then with 16GB of RAM o
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
Online services most assuredly billed by the minute. He'll, AOL had a huge marketing campaign offering "free" minutes for new customers. You might also have charges from the phone company but those were independent of the onl
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
For me and most people I knew at the time, VHS didn't have a noticeable quality loss over broadcast unless you were watching LP/EP recordings. Many TVs people already had in the 80s didn't have RCA connections so VCRs were co
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by giantrobot 4mo ago
While DDR3 is cheap er it's still tripled or quadrupled in price over the past two years. I just bought a pair or sticks for an old Mac Pro and it was 4x what i paid just a few years ago.

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