leoedin

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by leoedin 3mo ago
> Ok so 99.99995% of all Mikrotik RouterOS devices do not end up in peoples labs. Mikrotik make all sorts of equipment, including home routers. The hAP ax3 is shown on their homepage. It runs Router OS 7. > Asking RouterOS to be more
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by leoedin 3mo ago
My issue with Mikrotik is that the UI puts all the complexity up front. A good UI should guide the user and reveal relevant information only as it's needed. Mikrotik doesn't do that. For example, the most common reason I want to c
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by leoedin 3mo ago
It's not a complaint. It's a comment. That would never happen in the UK - so it's interesting to see a different approach in different countries. It's obviously higher risk - there's no door to stop someone jumpin
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by leoedin 3mo ago
There's also something wrong with the map alignment. I think the tiles are being rendered with the wrong placement - the underlying map doesn't match reality.
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by leoedin 3mo ago
Mazda managed to avoid the touch screen plague until relatively recently. Their latest models seem to have adopted Android based infotainment with touchscreens though. I've got a CX-5 that's 3 years old and it's pleasingly to
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by leoedin 3mo ago
Excluding whatever's going on in China right now, there's just not that many small brands left. You only have to have a passing interest in cars to be aware of pretty much every global car brand - excluding high end supercars, kit
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by leoedin 3mo ago
I recently upgraded to a car with CarPlay, and it's actually a worse user experience than just having my phone on a really solid Brodit phone holder. For example - when using Google Maps on my phone I can pan around the map to look at
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by leoedin 4mo ago
I've spoken to a lot of people outside of software development who feel this way. It's mainly a sense of "what is this for?". It's obvious that the presence of AI means everyone has to use it, but it isn't obvi
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by leoedin 4mo ago
Is it a Dubai thing that everyone's parking expires unexpectedly in 2 minutes? I didn't really understand that - perhaps a lack of local knowledge.
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by leoedin 4mo ago
The whole TLD is blocked by my work firewall. I imagine you don't get complaints because the few people who are blocked just don't know what you do. How would they even complain if they can't access your website?
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by leoedin 4mo ago
The problem I've found is that enough people don't feel strongly about it. I've had plenty of conversations recently where people say "yeah, but social media is harming kids. Banning it is good". People broadly see
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by leoedin 4mo ago
If you're being detained for the rest of your life while your money languishes in a hole in Timbuktu, it has been taken from you. Money is only valuable because it has utility. If you can't use it, it's not yours.
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by leoedin 4mo ago
> From perspective of your tenants, that money still goes into a void, no matter how nice you are. Surely that's the case for all sorts of services we pay for. Renting a house is paying for a service. The money disappears and in ret
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by leoedin 4mo ago
There must be 10s of millions of x86 PCs with unlocked bioses in the UK. The issue won't be running an open device. The problem is software - what does someone running Linux do if the government mandates online services require proprie
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by leoedin 4mo ago
This page is kind of mad. https://mxcl.dev/homebrew/ So much repetition. I'm guessing it's targeting AI training sets? The guy really wants you to know he created Homebrew!
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by leoedin 4mo ago
In the short term, compute becomes an appreciating asset. In the medium term, everyone ramps up production. Huawei and other Chinese companies work really hard to develop in-house alternatives. At some point, the hype cycle will peak and le
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by leoedin 4mo ago
This is such a misuse of the word poor. Have you actually been to a poor country? The UK is poorer than the US - sure. But it's wealthier than most other countries in the world. Not just in terms of GDP per capita or average household
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by leoedin 4mo ago
I think GDP per capita can also be misleading though - the GDP per capita of Luxembourg or Brunei is high, but they're such small countries that it's kind of irrelevant. Setting aside the special cases (tiny, oil money, weird fina
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by leoedin 4mo ago
In peak covid video chat time I had a call with someone with a Portal connected to their TV. It was so much better than laptops and webcams for family videocalling. I would have bought one immediately had it not been a Meta product. It&#x27
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by leoedin 4mo ago
I'm not convinced by this. I've had good managers and bad managers. Generally the manager isn't "doing the work", so much as setting the direction and smoothing the path. The current state of AI tools still need &qu
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by leoedin 5mo ago
I quit AI Pro earlier this year for the same reason. I went to use it one day (I don't think I'd even used it much in the preceding week) and found that my limits had been reduced overnight and my usage was already too high. I had
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by leoedin 5mo ago
Oof, yeah. I was expecting a thought piece on why the internet has turned to shit because of AI slop, and instead I got AI slop. The internet now truly has turned to shit!
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by leoedin 5mo ago
You can't just redefine useful to mean something it doesn't. Useful = able to be used for practical purposes. As an extreme example, most effective weapons are useful to the person using them, but aren't necessarily a net ben
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by leoedin 5mo ago
This kind of breathless hyperbole is spreading everywhere. "The thing nobody's talking about" is basically never an appropriate phrase for a deeply technical article. But it's everywhere now. I'm in two minds about
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by leoedin 5mo ago
> extremely strong evidence that they are not in fact that useful. Surely you can't argue in good faith today that LLMs aren't useful? It was a valid argument a year ago, but the latest models are absolutely useful at solving
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by leoedin 5mo ago
Yeah, I think the important part is the process to convert the model to silicon, not the actual implementation itself. Whether it succeeds now depends a lot on the rate of improvement of model architecture. They're betting on model des
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by leoedin 5mo ago
> Having kids is a financial and ecological disaster. As an outside observer it's remarkable to me people are still having any kids at all, which speaks to the strong subjective factors overpowering whatever objective considerations
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by leoedin 6mo ago
The early lives of my grandparents (in their 90s) are so fascinatingly different to that of mine. But even by the time my parents were growing up in the 60s, life was not so different in the west. The real differentiators in living standard
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by leoedin 6mo ago
Did you do any kind of AI assisted proofreading or grammar? So much of the structure of the article screams AI. Stuff like this: > Each one of these, on its own, is just a bug. Together, they’re a culture. And the headings starting with
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by leoedin 6mo ago
You can't force change, sure, but that doesn't mean you can't be part of it. Individuals can and do join political parties and become influential within them. Political parties win elections and ultimately set policy which ca

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