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by majewsky 2y ago
I read that as the model just keeping on generating as LLMs tend to do.
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by majewsky 3y ago
Friendly nitpick, because I had a double-take when reading the second paragraph: Be careful to differentiate between "install base" and "base install". In both cases, you are referring to "installed size of the data
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by majewsky 3y ago
As a German observing the political debate in Germany, it appears to me that either the relevant politicians are literally unaware of the equity option, or they are ideologically opposed to it for some reason. The same applies to political
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by majewsky 3y ago
There are countries where English is not the main language, and these countries do in fact have software developers.
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by majewsky 3y ago
I am usually just a backend developer, but for a little reporting application that I built, I couldn't get the UI team to do a UI in the short time that I had to build it, so I had it output some basic HTML. About 10000 list items. Ren
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by majewsky 3y ago
> It loads slowly because MS have a huge incentive to keep adding telemetry and ads and almost no incentive to optimise it Fixed that for you.
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by majewsky 3y ago
> I bought an expensive PC just to play my stupid my 3D Steam games. Depending on which games those are, you might able to get by on Linux just fine if you have them on Steam. I'm gaming on Linux multiple times a week and it's
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by majewsky 3y ago
(Translating UI strings from German.) When I have the automation open, the first two settings are "Automation" (set to "Execute immediately") and "Notify on execution" (set to off). That seems to work. But not
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by majewsky 3y ago
FWIW, I have an iPhone SE (2nd gen), and the Automations feature described by OP works fine. So iOS is not necessarily a dealbreaker.
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by majewsky 3y ago
But who monitors the monitor?
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by majewsky 3y ago
If you follow the link in the second paragraph to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaprekar%27s_routine , there are some statements on how this routine plays out in different bases. For base 8, there is no fixed point with
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by majewsky 3y ago
> It is LITERALLY in the libc. Technically yes, in the sense that libc also includes a libcrypt.so, but the one in glibc is hot garbage, so most distros disable the libcrypt part of glibc these days and ship libxcrypt instead.
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by majewsky 3y ago
> If you're ambitious/hungry enough You spelled "exploitable" wrong.
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by majewsky 3y ago
We have a labelmaker in our hackerspace. The box containing it has a label on it "Please do not print unnecessary labels". Below it is a label reading "ok". :)
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by majewsky 3y ago
> Big players can afford protection even when a product isn't profitable $1 doubling each year would be over $1 million after just 20 years, and over $1 billion after 30 years. Out of the big catalog of circa 30-year-old Disney cont
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by majewsky 3y ago
All of them after you convert it into fiat through an exchange.
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by majewsky 3y ago
The kind of web that Cory Doctorow describes as "five websites each containing screenshots of the other four".
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by majewsky 3y ago
The final recording is now available at https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12144-back_in_the_driver_s_seat_...
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by majewsky 3y ago
Considering that they were applying to a job that pays less than $20 per hour, it's probable that this was not just "pocket change".
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by majewsky 3y ago
I mean, I use self-checkout and generally like it because the queue moves much faster, but "worth a lot" is too much IMO. At regular checkout, I'll pause my podcast and pull out one of both earphones when the person in front
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by majewsky 3y ago
This article is reporting on the attack that GP's link is the authoritative source for.
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by majewsky 3y ago
As someone who played on a Switch for a significant time (mostly Zelda and Mario games) and then transitioned back to PC games, I'm going to guess that by "video games for Xbox, Playstation and PC", you mean the big tentpole
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by majewsky 3y ago
Just because something has had lots of positive effects, doesn't mean it isn't worth discussing the negative effects.
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by majewsky 3y ago
Including Apple! They were found in 2017 to force their recyclers to shred old iPhones and Macbooks to ensure that the parts cannot be reused. https://www.vice.com/en/article/yp73jw/apple-recycling-iphon...
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by majewsky 3y ago
> "Centralization" is a vague term that isn't inherently bad. Use specific terms, identify specific problems, and it'll be easier to find solutions for them. Thank you for reading the RFC and succinctly summarizing it
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by majewsky 3y ago
Not a native speaker, but for what it's worth, "resow the seeds" has a strong connotation of "just try the same thing again" to me. As in, "Last year's crop has been destroyed by a drought. We'll reso
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by majewsky 3y ago
There are other ways besides subscriptions and ownership: Patronage is a big and popular one, through platforms like Steady or Patreon, or even just direct bank transfers. Another big one is commissions, though that's usually more of a
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by majewsky 3y ago
They most likely still would have done it. Books like this usually have a short shelf life in the public consciousness. Harry Potter being an exception to the rule is in large part based on the hugely successful long-running movie series.
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by majewsky 3y ago
There are only two hard problems in software development: naming, cache invalidation, and not having Copilot hallucinate a third thing.
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by majewsky 3y ago
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+1D400

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