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by gregmac 2y ago
Contrary view: I don't mind, because of two things: 1: I still have a ton of micro-USB cables, and a decreasing number of things to use them for. Some are unused, still in unopened packages. 2: Devices like this don't get moved an
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by gregmac 2y ago
I love the glimpse into topics like this, where one might initially think "what is so hard? Dig a trench and fill it with gravel" but it turns out to be way more complicated: > It is hard to overstate the importance of properly
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by gregmac 2y ago
> You also add test cases to make sure the ML works. But if you already have those test cases, why not just match on them directly? Kind of says it all. At the end of the day if you have a complex product but don't have comprehensiv
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by gregmac 2y ago
This is a problem in general with a whole bunch of products. If I'm paying up-front, the subscription needs to be an optional add-on that provides additional value. The thing should continue working at some base level for its working l
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by gregmac 2y ago
Would you be okay with people reading and questioning your search history, and any activity or messages ever posted on any site? How about your family members, or doctor, or insurer? How about during a job/school/TV interview? Are
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by gregmac 2y ago
As a non-Mac user, I always find it somewhat annoying when I download some .tgz published on Github or something and find .DS_Store littered inside. I guess macos probably just uses GNU tar? It's kind of surprising it wasn't modif
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by gregmac 2y ago
Doesn't preclude charging at home. Just means "swap stations" instead of charging or gas stations. The (major) challenge is what you do with 400-800kg of batteries and a bunch of different vehicle types from different manufac
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by gregmac 2y ago
> With that definition it literally is just the git log though isn't it I think you're right if you go by that definition ("changelog is a raw, engineering driven manifest of everything that has changed"), but there I
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by gregmac 2y ago
I did a very similar hack a while ago, but in my case, I have a Ubiquiti video door bell, and I was having issues with it sometimes rebooting when it tried to ring the chime (after a specific software update, but only when it was cold out.
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by gregmac 2y ago
Fairly static, but I'd cycle the CDs every few months. Even in the 28.8K modem era, people didn't suck down everything they could, partly due to time, partly due to storage space (eg: the reason I used CDs instead of big drives is
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by gregmac 2y ago
In the 90s I ran a dial-up BBS, and at some point, I had acquired a 4-CD changer. It was equally satisfying to hear it randomly come to life changing disks as someone had logged on to download something.
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by gregmac 2y ago
This is my thought, too. I'd bet customer perception is also a factor; there's a risk the old boards (not even made by Intel) die and cause problems, and Intel wouldn't want to deal with press/comments like "This CP
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by gregmac 2y ago
There is a video showing the RF box with DMX input (and USB), and they talk about how they can control it from a standard lighting board. https://i.imgur.com/Di09aD2.jpeg It sounds like each band can be a part of (at least)
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by gregmac 2y ago
This is "Low-Rank Adaptation", "a widely-used parameter-efficient finetuning method for large language models." Not to be confused with LoRa ("long range") [1], an Internet of Things radio technology. [1] http
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by gregmac 2y ago
I hadn't thought about that in movie context before, but it totally makes sense. I've worked with other developers that want to build high fidelity wire frames, sometimes in the actual UI framework, probably because they can (and
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by gregmac 2y ago
And an equal amount of "was correct in 2009 when the answer was accepted but is no longer [the optimal answer | correct at all]". There's usually another answer that's current+correct, often with 1/10th the votes. A
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by gregmac 2y ago
This would work for B2B as well. Sometimes there's a shifting business priority, and guess which wins when the choice is "important customer X is on fire" vs "our developer trial for wizbang component xyz is going to exp
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by gregmac 2y ago
And the time to evaluate for something you're releasing (vs staying in your control on SaaS) is significantly higher. Things that lock you in, especially between your released software and hosted services -- like authentication, instal
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by gregmac 2y ago
Europe has a lot more roads with a lower design speed. Curves, narrow lanes, on-street parking, trees/poles/etc close to the road. These things cause people to drive slower, because it doesn't feel safe to go fast. In North
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by gregmac 2y ago
Users aren't presented with a "barrage" of consent dialogs. There's not even that many of them, and being able to access a serial port is a niche case where it does make sense -- just like accessing a web cam or micropho
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by gregmac 2y ago
Don't know how it works, but I do think that's how it should be. Municipality providers dark fiber from the CO(s) to every house. From there, any ISP can rent rack space, and arrange their own backbone/uplink, and get wired
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by gregmac 2y ago
Depending on your plan, you may be either paying for minutes or they're using up your allotment, which in some cases means you could end up paying a premium rate for going over. If you're on an "unlimited" plan, this bit
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by gregmac 2y ago
> At the Federal Communications Committee, the loudest voices come from the telecommunications operators. There’s an imbalance in the control that the consumer ultimately has over who gets to invade their telephone versus these other int
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by gregmac 2y ago
I don't know about Pandora, but I've always been cautious to use "dislike" in that way, because I don't know the scope. There's a difference between "I don't want to ever hear this" vs "I do
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by gregmac 2y ago
I too listen to different genres of music depending on mood, and I hate when they mix. I used to make mix tapes and later audio CDs like "Alt Rock #" and "EDM #" and I had dozens of those. Since I went to digital music,
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by gregmac 2y ago
I used this years ago to implement SSL for a bunch of customer vanity domains, and as far as I know it's still operating. The best thing is it's declarative: you provide a text file with domains you want in each certificate, and i
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by gregmac 2y ago
The first thing I see when I look at this is "Where are the unit tests?" This is somewhere in the realm of "clever" or "efficient" code: it looks like it could be written in an easier-to-grok way as dozens of l
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by gregmac 2y ago
Regular interlinked alarms don't really allow this, since if one triggers they all alert. You could potentially do this with "smart" alarms, or a traditional alarm system like DSC with each detector on its own zone (the main
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by gregmac 2y ago
Yeah, this is just a continuation of the demise of tv repair shops. Consider from the perspective of an average, non-technical person - someone who has never installed an OS or opened the case. Their $900, 3-year old system "breaks&quo
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by gregmac 2y ago
The vast majority of the time, though, the spam calls are spoofing numbers. So even when you look it up, if it actually has a hit (IME most don't), it's almost certainly not what the call is. Extremely few cases exist that I ever

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