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by gigel82 3y ago
I'm calling it now: Word with ads will ship inbox with future versions of Windows :) Maybe the whole Office suite; if you want a PowerPivot in Excel you'll have to watch a 2 minute unskippable ad for hair loss medication. Totally
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by gigel82 3y ago
It already did, as of this July I believe. I was looking at AirBnbs / vrbo (for a vacation) as we prefer that over hotels whenever possible and there were a handful left in Manhattan (most likely operating illegally), whereas last year
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by gigel82 3y ago
I would not trust any of these "opt out forms" with any of my data. All that does is confirm you're an actual person, and if you give them an email address or phone number they'll just confirm that relationship as well.
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by gigel82 3y ago
The speech recognition in their demo is very very bad (~60% in my empirical test, vs. 95% with WhisperCPP). The translation is also very inaccurate. That said, I fully support open releases and look forward to future versions and improvemen
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by gigel82 3y ago
Don't know, I have a Surface Laptop 4 with a cracked screen and it's cheaper to buy the whole laptop on eBay than it is to buy the replacement screen from Microsoft Store.
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by gigel82 3y ago
When will we see some usable containers for Windows from Microsoft? You can't use Nano or Core for building C++ code with Visual Studio / MSBuild, so you're bringing down the whole Windows container (3.4Gb compressed) which i
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by gigel82 3y ago
Not really "from scratch" though, Blink is a fork of WebKit. Sure, it's taken its own path since forking, but it's damn near impossible to start a browser from scratch these days (which is why ladybird is so impressive).
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by gigel82 3y ago
PAT and WEI can allow and disallow whatever the hell they want, there's nothing preventing WEI from allowing ad blockers just like there's nothing preventing PATs from disallowing them. They are exactly the same technology (remote
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by gigel82 3y ago
hey quick question: what the fuck?
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by gigel82 3y ago
Is this related to the "Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act" that popped up today? This is so confusing
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by gigel82 3y ago
I would highly recommend the Ungoogled Chromium fork instead: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium Entirely volunteer maintained, there is no for-profit entity behind it looking to do crypto referra
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by gigel82 3y ago
We're out of time, bud...
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by gigel82 3y ago
It's very obvious that is disingenuous; they will use that as an excuse to make it palatable while planning to silently turn it off in a couple of years. Clearly it's a "foot in the door" technique similar to how Apple t
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by gigel82 3y ago
" Read the full story with a free account. - Sign up with Google - Sign up with Facebook - Sign up with email "
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by gigel82 3y ago
XCode is free? Where can I download it for my Linux PC? XCode is not free, just like macOS is not free; you just pay for them when you (over)pay for your mac hardware.
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by gigel82 3y ago
I agree with comments saying this is basically a 10-line "demo script" everyone could write and it is weird to have big names associated with it. But I heard from MS friends that AI is an absolute "need to have". If you&
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by gigel82 3y ago
I hate air travel. It's gotten considerably worse and more expensive over just the last 10 years. I wish there were real alternatives available; I would honestly pay the same as a flight ticket for a ship to cross the Atlantic if it to
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by gigel82 3y ago
Apple's "solution" was the technical equivalent of Microsoft having Windows Defender scanning every single file on a user computer and attaching a "hash" / tag to it. Then downloading a database of "forbid
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by gigel82 3y ago
It's usually brigading by other Apple fanboys. Their master can do no evil. You could see this alot during the local device scanning controversy, but anytime you try to point out obvious facts (like Apple building the largest Ad empire
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by gigel82 3y ago
What are the hardware requirements for running this locally? llama.cpp or the old-fashioned way, either would work.
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by gigel82 3y ago
34% in the US
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by gigel82 3y ago
First time I heard of Microsoft Allegiance, linked from there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_(video_game) - especially cool of MS to re-license it as MIT for the community, I wish more cool people like that
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by gigel82 3y ago
LOL... they're boiling the frog while we wait for things to get better. Spoiler: we're the frog.
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by gigel82 3y ago
Most new cars come with telematics, some have always-on cellular connectivity for data collection (and supposedly for automatic crash notifications). It's only a matter of time until that becomes required (like the backup cameras becam
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by gigel82 3y ago
It's an interesting experiment; but way too frustrating to never be able to get to a finish...
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by gigel82 3y ago
> I'm not sure I'm privvy to all information but looking at the org chart this part is false. The ads org is much much smaller than E+D. Look at Panos' org and compare to the WebXT org (both under E+D).
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by gigel82 3y ago
Source Depot was still a thing in Office as of last year when they finally transitioned to Git. Windows started transitioning to Git 5 years ago. Also, they have about 10k people working on Windows (and devices) and about 10k people working
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by gigel82 3y ago
None of the big players OneDrive, DropBox, iCloud are E2EE, so what did you expect?
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by gigel82 3y ago
I'm confused about what I'm seeing. That machine has just 4 lanes of PCIE gen3. No details at all about the "daughterboards" / carrierboards for the M.2 drives. Also near the end he's talking about 100Mb/s
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by gigel82 3y ago
What are you going to master if you don't know your tools?

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