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by jwr 3y ago
I did.
902.
by jwr 3y ago
Just sign up and use the developer console. It works just fine in the EU.
903.
by jwr 3y ago
Hmm. I'm running decent LLMs locally (deepseek-coder:33b-instruct-q8_0, mistral:7b-instruct-v0.2-q8_0, mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1-q4_0) on my MacBook Pro and they respond pretty quickly. At least for interactive use they are fine and c
904.
by jwr 3y ago
Perhaps, instead of spreading FUD, it would be worthwhile to mention these "certain temperatures", so that people can make an educated decision of whether it applies to them at all. I'm looking at the datasheet for my Fujitsu
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by jwr 3y ago
Descent and Descent 2 were among the best games I've ever played. They were also very good for game parties — I daresay they were more enjoyable than FPS like Doom, Quake and similar. The fully-3D environment and the complex rocket mec
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by jwr 3y ago
I spoke from experience.
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by jwr 3y ago
A word of warning, though: the series is dark and extremely depressing. I would not recommend it for people struggling with depression.
908.
by jwr 3y ago
> What are you actually proposing here? Any Ubuntu/Debian distribution contains hundreds or thousands of packages and transitive dependencies - it's unreasonable to expect corporations to contribute, even financially, to all of
909.
by jwr 3y ago
It's bad news and not because of the "fear of subscription" (if you think you aren't paying for a subscription now, you are deluding yourself). The problem is that most acquisitions go wrong and that larger companies gen
910.
by jwr 3y ago
Read the small print. Your messages are encrypted, but you are syncing your entire contacts list (phone book) to FB/Meta.
911.
by jwr 3y ago
What I find amusing is that all of those WhatsApp users don't know or don't care that they are uploading their entire list of contacts (with phone numbers) to Meta/Facebook and syncing it every day. That "end-to-end encr
912.
by jwr 3y ago
It should be a big story, as should be the fact that Russia invaded a peaceful neighboring country and keeps murdering, raping and torturing its residents. But somehow much of the world pretends not to notice and only does whatever is conve
913.
by jwr 3y ago
Relevant: "Louis' front door goes BOOM courtesy of UnitPackPower battery" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCaDz_2YcGQ Lithium Ion (and especially LiPo) are not to be trifled with, small things might matter (
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by jwr 3y ago
Already counting the days until this inevitably gets killed. I've been burned too many times to rely on Google for anything, except tracking me and pushing ads, which they indeed do better every day.
915.
by jwr 3y ago
Lots of confusion here. I really can't force myself to believe that training my grip strength with a small spring-loaded tool will extend my life and make my brain work better. What I do know , though, is that my grip strength is fant
916.
by jwr 3y ago
All true! I guess more precise definitions of "popular" could be constructed, but that's the simplest one and I went with it, especially as it isn't particularly invasive or creepy (we're just counting how many peop
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Most popular hobby electronic parts(partsbox.com)
4 points by jwr 3y ago|4 comments
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by jwr 3y ago
I'm the founder of PartsBox, which is used by thousands of hobbyists/makers to manage their electronic parts inventory. PartsBox is and will be free for hobbyists/makers. I figured that with so many people using it, I might a
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by jwr 3y ago
That really depends on where you live, but for me in the EU the fuel/energy cost per km is about 2.5-3x lower with a home-charged EV than with a gas vehicle.
920.
by jwr 3y ago
I have a VW (ID.4) and they took the touch craziness to another level. There are things that don't look like buttons, but are touch-sensitive, and there are also buttons, that apart from being pressure-sensitive, are also touch sensi
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by jwr 3y ago
I have a large and complex (ERP/MRP/inventory system for electronics) ClojureScript application and I was worried about my compiled code size being around 2.45MB. This puts it into perspective. I heard complaints about ClojureScri
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by jwr 3y ago
> Chat history I don’t know anyone that cares about it so maybe your expectations are just different there The general expectation of, at a first approximation, absolutely anybody who has ever used WhatsApp, is that things do not disappe
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by jwr 3y ago
Will we get an ability to backup on iOS? Most people don't even realize that if their phone dies today, all of their Signal chat history (photos, etc) are gone.
924.
by jwr 3y ago
It's also a pretty useful device if you are into electronics. Or need backups of your access cards. Or of your silly garage key fobs. There are many great uses of this thing. I'm also annoyed by the script kiddies, but I do like t
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by jwr 3y ago
I should probably post the code for my n-gram fuzzy search with an inverted index. Without tests, the entire code fits on a single screen (I love ClojureScript). It works on the backend (JVM) and the frontend (Javascript) and has been in pr
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by jwr 3y ago
Yes, the employers pay, but you do not lose your healthcare immediately after being fired. The state provides it for you as part of the social security net. I don't know specifically about Germany or Denmark, but I suppose it's
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by jwr 3y ago
Flipper Zero complies with all regulations, it's a certified consumer device. That it can record and replay a radio signal is not something that should be regulated. We have laws for stealing cars, we don't need to ban specific to
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by jwr 3y ago
It's not specifically Indian. Canada just banned Flipper Zero devices because the little radios can replay car key fob signals and older cars are susceptible to replay attacks. Stupidity is everywhere.
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by jwr 3y ago
It depends how you define "good". I care mostly about my distributed database being correct, living up to its consistency claims, and providing strict serializability. (see also https://aphyr.com/posts/283-jep
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by jwr 3y ago
FoundationDB is an impressive achievement, quite possibly the only distributed database out there that lives up to its strict serializability claims (see https://jepsen.io/consistency/models/strict-serializable fo

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