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by high_priest 3y ago
I've recently learned how extraction of funds from gift cards and hacked accounts works. What I've come to understand that obfuscation of monetization model, with simple info for the creators "beyond this many discoveries, we
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by high_priest 3y ago
Why call it "Perplexity clone" when this is much more than what Perplexity offers? Btw. This is the first time I hear about Perplexity, which after 10 minutes of experimentation, looks like a worse clone of Phind.
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by high_priest 3y ago
Many single radio phones can either receive sms/calls, or transmit data. My relative owns such a device and cannot use internet during calls or receive/make calls during streaming like YT video playback.
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by high_priest 3y ago
So many posts mention years '98 & '99 as the "peak of civilisation". Them being years of my birth, these mentions & my experiences, enforce in me the feeling that I was born into a falling civilisation. Not that
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by high_priest 3y ago
Quite recently I have come to a machine scheduled to do video transcoding, with a notification "We have updated your operating system" and Handbrake being closed.
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by high_priest 3y ago
Tesla could do this, because at initial strges, they relied on Lidar, Radar and other high precision, specialized sensors, because they were used for mapping the terrain. After millions miles driven, these sensors no longer need to serve th
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by high_priest 3y ago
Holy crap this feels so real. Excelling at school & career at an early age, while being absolutely trashed at home/family time, gave me the anxt from sticking my head out of the room. But, at the same time, while out and about, alr
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by high_priest 3y ago
This man really knows what he is talking about. I am one of such customers, either looking for that Peripheral / Tech with exact criteria, or I am just browsing around for new releases and recommendations (mostly on blogs & tech fo
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by high_priest 3y ago
Haven't we always attributed creations to people, to motivate our own egos to pursue higher achievements in the name if "glory"? With vision of wealth attributed to fame? Forgive me for being cynical here, but this is how I a
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by high_priest 3y ago
Mixtral looks interesting, but I haven't dabbled in locally hosted LLMs. Would you mind linking to a concise text which could lead me through setting up Mixtral on my own machine?
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by high_priest 3y ago
Copilot has such a narrow input space, that it is not going to help in this case. Here, just saved you $$
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by high_priest 3y ago
Incredible how complicated people can make a simple list or relations structure. It feels like a complicated data exchange system, way beyond the task of "task management". How does it improve my life beyond a tasks list in my fav
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by high_priest 3y ago
Querying crt.sh helped me identify a dev service I was supposed to take down, but forgot about it. Nice alternative use case :D
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by high_priest 3y ago
What about Caddy, me and my friends have moved onto Caddy over a year ago and haven't experienced any issues.
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by high_priest 3y ago
Won't freeze, but extreme temp. difference might lead to long term damage. Also, I don't think prehistoric humans, living in colder climates, had to endure long term exposure to direct wind at ~8m/s, used machines that create
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by high_priest 3y ago
Or pay the scalper tax, buying second hand.
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by high_priest 3y ago
> Domain-limited auth > GitHub account that has multiple email addresses tied to it I am sorry, but I am oblivious to the case you have described. You've experienced a Domain-limited auth to refuse accounts with e-mail with the r
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by high_priest 3y ago
Now that I think about it, the government in my country has been experiencing a sudden boom in IT infra quality in recent years. The government tied authentication system works pretty well for all the government related tasks. Although qual
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by high_priest 3y ago
I love what Phind has done in this matter & at the same time I hate what Microsoft has done with Minecraft. Phind lets you authenticate ONLY with GitHub (even though they don't really use any other github features). It's beaut
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by high_priest 3y ago
As all things in tech, it was born out of a grand vision of unified identity (in this case) & was squashed by corporate greed into using IDs of commercial tools for authentication into other commercial tools. I've dreamed many time
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by high_priest 3y ago
Software has zero marginal cost, that software engineers can imagine. My workstation runs all the time and I don't care that it consumes this 100$ of electricity a month. Who cares about amortisation of new hardware? New, shiny is new,
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by high_priest 3y ago
After two reads, this looks like a session recorder for we applications, but descsibed in a convoluted "remote debugger" way, to avoid legal issues. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can correct me, where is the line between '
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by high_priest 3y ago
More and more games being churned out just for profit of a corp is also a major reson for large flops. You can't get a good product without passion.
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by high_priest 3y ago
What's up with the recent blow up in popularity of this simple rhythm game woth sound generated obstacles, that is neither groundbreaking technologically and not even impressive gameplay wise, with unaccurate obstacles not matching any
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by high_priest 3y ago
Yes, you always should be available for work outside your current company. Staying in one bubble for long periods of time leads to brainwashing.
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by high_priest 3y ago
Well, it is a dispute as old as the Millenial generation. It all boils down to "When I was getting into computers, the most publicly pushed OSes were Windows and MacOS. Now we are used to working with Windows and if we are a corporatio
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by high_priest 3y ago
I am a person that has actively chosen to live without a car, despite work in automotive industry. Recently I wanted to take my vintage computer in a large crate, to a LAN meeting, but I would not be able to transport it without a car. Whic
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by high_priest 3y ago
The thing about being or not being able to point out differences in audio quality is that it all boils down to pattern recognition. If you know anything about pattern recognition, you understrnd that you can't have pattern recognition
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by high_priest 3y ago
If you think about this "aliasing" as in, what occurs in 3d graphics, then you can understand this. What these 3d fiters do is either remove infirmation with blur (FXAA) or use information that is not available in the image (MSAA
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by high_priest 3y ago
170 flights in a year averaging 200 minutes in air for... kim kardashian? What the heck does she need to fly for so far every other day?

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