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by jval43 5mo ago
I love the Lightning connector, and think it feels better than USB-C. My Intel MPB has terrible USB-C ports where the cables just fall out all the time. But to be fair I've also had many issues with Lightning. A few shorted out and bec
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by jval43 6mo ago
Bungies Marathon series (1994) had the same recording system, as other commenters mentioned due to networking multiplayer. What's totally insane is that the modern engine rewrite Aleph One can also play back such old recordings, for
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by jval43 6mo ago
More like the model knew of the previous, almost identical bug from 6 years ago. Whoever discovered that should be credited.
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by jval43 6mo ago
My parents are retired. How exactly do they come into play? I'm actively avoiding Shorts, Reels, and whatever else with those mechanics precisely because they pull you in and snap an hour is gone with nothing of value to show for it.
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by jval43 6mo ago
> they were just the cheapest labor the company could find who could do the thing. Thats the problem right there. The company doesn't care . No amount of personal certifications is going to fix that. It MUST be on the companies. T
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by jval43 6mo ago
I do this on my iPad with Magic keyboard and I'm a die hard command line user otherwise. I think the reason I started doing it on the iPad is that the keyboard focus is sometimes inconsistent, so clicking or tab-tab-tab-enter is slow
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by jval43 6mo ago
Exporting originals just hangs for me. Opening or switching a photos library is basically hoping the Mac doesn't crash. Edits are locked inside the database, with no hope of ever getting them out. And god forbid you put the library on
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by jval43 6mo ago
Not again ! Had these issues with 2016 Macbook Pro (the touchbar one). That one also wasn't a hardware limitation as it ran my displays just fine in bootcamp, but macOS would just produce fuzzy output all the way. It's infuriatin
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by jval43 7mo ago
I agree. I've known how it works for years, and I think the current setting is a cop-out. In TFA it's set to a measly 2MiB, yet tried to allocate 2TiB. Note that the PG default is double that, at 4MiB. What the setting does is off
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by jval43 7mo ago
Yes exactly. Although I didn't buy a new guitar, but a dozen tuners. It finally clicked when I got one that was "real time" enough to see how the tuning shifts from high to low. This was before smartphones could do it. Doesn&
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by jval43 7mo ago
How can you turn it off without turning off history ("My Activity") altogether? I noticed the "memory" too and it's turned Gemini into a useless syncophant for me, but so subtle that I almost didn't spot it.
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by jval43 7mo ago
Using an M2 8GB Mac Mini, I only ever ran into problems when trying generative fill in Photoshop. There I get insufficient memory errors if the selection is too large.
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by jval43 7mo ago
Old too, and in my experience that was often slightly more work than fixing the bugs in my own implementation. I did swap out a borked module in the build an OS class once but otherwise used my own. I loved those courses, great memories.
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by jval43 8mo ago
Maybe California is a bad example. What I'm getting at is the selection for what you need is usually larger and more applicable to the conditions locally. I see plenty of tourists with winter gear that is either insufficient, or comple
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by jval43 8mo ago
Sounds very grim. I live in a snowy part of Europe and very little of this applies, except the stay dry and warm part. Here are 2 things I learned: 1. Do what everyone else does, when they do it. And don't, when they don't. You co
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by jval43 8mo ago
I've actually come around to the Postgres way of thinking. We shouldn't want or need plan hints usually. Literally every slow Postgres statement I worked on in the last few years was due to lack of accurate statistics, missing ind
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by jval43 8mo ago
If I could go back in time and change what courses I took for my CS degree, it would be the exact opposite. I wish I'd gone more into theoretical computer science, quantum computing, cryptography, and in general just hard math and pr
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by jval43 8mo ago
I had to take some literature classes in high school, and had a truly exceptional teacher who facilitated great and interesting discussions. Really opened up my mind and I only later realized how lucky I was. Those summaries always existed,
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by jval43 8mo ago
If the iPhone wouldn't wobble so much and so loudly when putting it on a table I'd go caseless too. Hoping for the fold to improve on that aspect.
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by jval43 8mo ago
Yes, these are the best of the bunch. Sturdy too, have had one on my keychain for years now.
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by jval43 9mo ago
> Never mark as spam has never worked consistently. For literally 10+ years now, I've always had a few emails per day go into spam even though that rule is in place.
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by jval43 9mo ago
My 49 inch Dell ultrawide is failing too. One USB port is already dead, and the other ports have just now started to develop intermittent issues as well.
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by jval43 9mo ago
This is what happens when the people issuing the orders (assign an icon for every task) are not the ones doing the task. And the ones doing it have no say in how it's done. Being involved and in the loop is how great software is made.
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by jval43 9mo ago
Not only that but also the same short videos keep repeating. I have tons of great suggestions from Youtube on the main feed from creators I like, yet the Shorts feed is almost 90% garbage and AI slop. It's deliberate, I'm sure. Pe
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by jval43 10mo ago
Not the language, but the linter can do it. IntelliJ inspections warn you if you do it: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/inspectopedia/StringConcatena...
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by jval43 10mo ago
I'm still here. But it hurts to see Mozilla shoot themselves in the foot again and again. They just don't get it, and they won't survive. I was even a Pocket user when they acquired it, immediately stopped using it at that po
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by jval43 10mo ago
It's crazy that I'm paying for IntellJ yet can't hook up my own LLM to it. Jetbrains wants to be some middleman instead of letting me use my tools. I won't and I can't use your hosted LLMs, period.
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by jval43 10mo ago
The Photos library "file" is just a big folder, I just sync the whole thing. #!/bin/sh rsync --iconv=utf-8-mac,utf-8 -avh --delete-after --partial --progress /Volumes/myExternalDrive/Photos\ Library.photo
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by jval43 10mo ago
I run a separate Mac Mini that has the full iCloud Photos library on a massive external drive, set to "Download originals". I then rsync that filesystem to a separate Linux box. This works but you must not ever disconnect the exte
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by jval43 10mo ago
If a scientist just completely "made up" their references 10 years ago, that's a fraudster. Not just dishonesty but outright academic fraud. If a scientist does it now, they just blame it on AI. But the consequences should re

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