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2y ago
Yeah, maybe I should have forfeited being on video for the sake of audio, didn't think it would be this bad. I do attribute at least half the problem to the removal of headphone jacks though, I don't remember this being that big a
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2y ago
Does it not also run on macOS? It could be useful if you want to tweak usage of the mic array yourself, rather than relying on proprietary magic that gives you the output it deems best
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2y ago
Due to some unfortunate circumstances I had a customer call on Google Meet once while walking across Paris. I ware barely understandable while holding the earphones' mic in front of my mouth... Good hardware definitely beats software t
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2y ago
As someone who made the mistake of putting a webcam cover over the tiny little microphone hole above the screen (it picks up very little besides impact noises now), it wouldn't be hard to have a mic hole facing in both directions to so
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2y ago
> Placebo effect is not getting stronger over time Isn't that what the study says that is linked from the article? I'm curious why the off-hand dismissing of a study. Direct link for reference: https://journals.lww.c
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2y ago
Saving others a web search for some random name... > Linguistic relativity asserts that language influences worldview or cognition. [...] Various colloquialisms refer to linguistic relativism: the Whorf hypothesis; the Sapir–Whorf hypoth
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2y ago
And this is why we can't have good spam filters: people will flag anything unwanted as spam, no matter if they signed up for it a while ago (like a newsletter email), or didn't enjoy a comment related to AI on an AI comment thread
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2y ago
Same number of keys in any other browser: Ctrl+LC
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2y ago
How does one "copy a webpage"? Do you mean taking a screenshot or the equivalent of Ctrl+AC?
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2y ago
That's why they don't look at 1 person but at aggregates. If the world was made of twins and triplets and they lived identical lives (nutrition, stress levels, air quality, ...) besides the 1 factor you're interested in (fire
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2y ago
Could not find the answer, kept getting general pages about how much current a wire can pass (without the result even containing the keyword I looked for, like temperature or heat or warm). To still have some indication of whether this is
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2y ago
I first tried dragging the year label -- and the second time as well, for some reason I guess I find that very intuitive, or perhaps the thing we're actually meant to drag doesn't look as much like a slider? Dunno. In case that he
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2y ago
Yeah I'll never understand the people that go to the store daily or bidaily to see what's for dinner tonight, that seems like a big waste of time with increased exposure to whatever flu is currently popular. On the other hand, the
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2y ago
So when you have the pack of cheese on the table at 19°C for 45 minutes for perhaps a week before it's used up... you should drive to the hospital? Most of the continent does this as far as I know (having lived in and visited friends a
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2y ago
> The average fridge loss is estimated at $300 per outage Holy crap, I don't think our fridge fits 300 dollars' worth of food. We have trouble fitting a ~140€ grocery run into the fridge and probably at least half of that is
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2y ago
Hmm, I was thinking about that while writing the post but I'm not sure that a data structure is the same as a cache, at least not in the standard meaning of the word where you save a pre-rendered version of something like a website (li
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2y ago
ArchiveTeam also has a project to back up USA governmental data: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/US_Government From a quick check, this includes data.gov that the article mentions, as well as www.ncei.noaa.gov (
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2y ago
I didn't know what you meant so I looked up micro frameworks. Wikipedia has a page named Microframework and lists 23 examples. I don't have time to dive into each of them and most items aren't links (so not sure how relevant
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2y ago
What data is cached in there? And you're almost certainly still caching it to RAM, not sure if you're aware that the kernel keeps in-memory copies of recently-read/written pieces of files
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2y ago
I agree, although it also depends on the context. If a page needs to fetch lots of data and takes 3 full seconds to load, the middle case (4x improvement) makes it go from an amount of time where you glance at your messages to on par with t
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2y ago
> throw out "we should add a caching layer" as their first instinct, without considering whether it's really appropriate or not Could be worse: you could have met me! I used to laugh at caching and thought that if your web
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2y ago
If sessions die when your system reboots, that means you can't reboot the system (update the service) without breaking whatever any users were currently doing on your site or in your software. That does sound bad to me and like a bad f
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2y ago
New word for me: vibe coding > coined the term in February 2025 > Vibe coding is a new coding style [...] A programmer can describe a program in words and get an AI tool to generate working code, without requiring an understanding of
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2y ago
In case it's relevant, I'm using Firefox
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- When you press the refresh button, it loads data from huggingface.co/api, doing the same request seemingly 122 times within one second or so - When I select "no dedicated GPU" because mine isn't listed, it'll just
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2y ago
Then I'm not sure what we're criticizing China for, if no country has such fundamental rights for the people under its control. The warrant system exists for a reason. I'm not more likely to be carrying something illegal when
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2y ago
The part that stood out to me, copying from the automatic transcript: > they're sitting there with these like blank A4 Bits of Paper writing down everything I'm telling them like you know bits of interest and it's exactly
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2y ago
> I’d be wary of building your whole app architecture around AWS. Yep yep, we're on the same page here, just that it sounded a bit like you recommend people to use EC2, managed Postgres, and S3, when that seems a bit like that defea
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That sounds to my self-hoster ears as an expensive way to do self hosting. Isn't at least half the point of AWS to use their SaaS thingies that all integrate with each other, I think people now call it "cloud native software"
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2y ago
> it just means the source is open, viewable That's called source-available, unless "use it as per the licensing" includes further freedoms
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