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by lol768 3y ago
> The final product is free. They're charging for the production repo/file access. Yes, and no. You used to be able to download the final cut in nice 1080p/4k. Sintel, you could download the final thing in completely unco
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by lol768 3y ago
> This kind of crap's even worse than when you get a 'stale' tag for inactivity. Sure, true, nobody else has said anything, but why does that discount my buggy experience or whatever? I would understand if it was because I
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by lol768 3y ago
Why does GitHub provide no way for a repository administrator to self-service a git gc? I seem to recall reading a blog post that suggested GitHub had invested a bunch of engineering resource in making cleaning up unreachable objects much m
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by lol768 3y ago
Don't necessarily disagree, but also there's a lot of conspiracy theorist nonsense here for something that could well simply be explained away by "Cheap Android off-the-shelf tablet used as a UI for something". It would&
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by lol768 3y ago
You can download an extract of your country from Geofabrik, run it through Tilemaker ( https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker ) to get a nice mbtiles file, and then use the built-in Ruby server to give you something you c
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by lol768 3y ago
I also get the wrong answer with GPT 4 https://chat.openai.com/share/4373c945-88b8-4742-8a2c-76fff2... > You should push the door. The word "push" written in mirror writing indicates that the instructions
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by lol768 3y ago
> ChatGPT Plus (which I assume is what they're competing with) is the same price - £18.99. Odd - they're billing me $20 in USD, which works out at about £15 something. I'm using a card with no currency conversion mark-up.
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by lol768 3y ago
Title may be (unintentionally) misleading if, post-subscription, it consistently 404s for everyone! I'll be interested to see some independent comparisons against OpenAI's models, but like everything AI-related Google has done rec
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by lol768 3y ago
> It’s not big things. It’s spacing, fonts, choice of pictograms and their locations. Some is opinion, and some is just functionally better. Thunderbird had a great looking (in my opinion) proposed new UI from the designer for the Supern
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by lol768 3y ago
Require the super scary "break app sandbox" entitlements to be activated behind an adb-command-mutated flag (or whatever the iOS equivalent of adb is) after jumping through the USB debugging hoops?
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by lol768 3y ago
You tell the user what entitlements or permissions are being requested at the point of the app trying to use them, stop treating the users like stupid children and let them make an educated decision about how to use the hardware that they
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by lol768 3y ago
Welp, that rules out anything like F-Droid. > The gatekeeper shall allow and technically enable the installation and effective use of third-party software applications or software application stores using, or interoperating with, its ope
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by lol768 3y ago
It's not malicious, but if you're expecting to be able to use the SVG in the context of an <img> element, or on a site with a strict (in line with security best practice) Content-Security-Policy, this is just a sharp edge th
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by lol768 3y ago
Does it warn you? This sort of "magic" could do with a giant disclaimer really..
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by lol768 3y ago
CSP, not CORS. CORS is for allowing other origins to read resources (and send special requests/special headers). It's not really relevant here.
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by lol768 3y ago
Mozilla's position on these specs is nicely outlined publicly and transparently as part of their standards-positions project: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/100 I'm kinda glad
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by lol768 3y ago
This seems to be a poorly disguised consultancy ad, rather than an insightful article. > Most developers don't speak to users Maybe so, but I really don't believe it's beyond most software engineers today to spend a bit
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by lol768 3y ago
Any engineer at ICL who was present when these prosecutions were going on, and *knew* there were problems with data integrity and quality of the system in general should've blown the whistle and shares (some) responsibility for these r
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by lol768 3y ago
> The longevity of the issue is also troubling. Even low-level Fujitsu employees, aware of the system's flaws, remained silent. Despite widespread media coverage and a string of wrongful convictions, leading even to suicides, not a
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by lol768 3y ago
Unfortunately the PDF generation ecosystem seems to be full of libraries that aren't permissively licensed, but there are some alternatives: .NET: PDFsharp: MIT License, benefits from transitive dependency exception in ImageSharp (othe
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by lol768 3y ago
As a fellow Leaf owner, I agree it's really perplexing and frustrating. I was looking at what else Nissan are doing, and while they've gone for CCS on the Ariya (and also got the active battery thermal management), frankly I don&#
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by lol768 3y ago
TfL/Boldyn/telco's roll-out of mobile coverage in London across LUL and the Lizzy line has been frustratingly slow, and dates have slipped repeatedly. There's a forum thread chronicling the project and the successive pre
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by lol768 3y ago
Cats have been domestic pets in the UK since at least the times of Roman civilisation, and have been allowed to roam free for much of that time. It's odd to me that there's such a contrast between attitudes towards cats roaming in
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by lol768 3y ago
If I consult a solicitor about data protection regulation and they tell me what I need to build to satisfy the requirements of soft opt-in under PECR, that does not make them a product manager!
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by lol768 3y ago
> The developer teams, who else? You build it, you need to know what you are building, right? I find it fascinating that the dev community that gobbled so easily "You build it, you run it", doesn't question why we are not
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by lol768 3y ago
Engineers should ideally be working directly with in-house counsel or external specialists under these circumstances. This isn't just applicable to some niche organisations working within e.g. finance (though there's likely to be
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by lol768 3y ago
It's bizarre though; despite the apparent lack of friction I don't know anyone who uses RCS or SMS (and frankly I'm unimpressed by its design - why involve carriers at all? Your mobile network should be dumb and provide you w
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by lol768 3y ago
This isn't a technical problem. Nobody really uses iMessage enough in the EU, but in the USA where people seem to shun use of third-party messaging apps like WhatsApp, the solution would be to deem Apple a "gatekeeper" under
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by lol768 3y ago
It's very easy to see the banding if you have a half-decent monitor. You don't even need to view the images fullscreen - and I say that as someone short-sighted with deuteranomaly.
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by lol768 3y ago
I also found it distracting, which is a shame, because the actual core of the argument the author is making is an important one.

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