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by newsoftheday 4mo ago
> On the other hand, with the “safe and modern” uint8_t prototype, the function call gets more complicated, as you need to add a type cast To me, that is a feature, not an issue.
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by newsoftheday 4mo ago
AI is nothing like religion. People behave similarly to AI when debating their favorite sports team, or for Java coders, Checked vs Runtime exceptions. Religion is about faith and what people feel and sense as much as believe.
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by newsoftheday 4mo ago
I retired last year but I too had to use a Mac for a year. It was the first and last time I ever used a Mac. I hated it. So many quirky behaviors, window controls on the wrong side, just wow I had a whole list I could have articulated last
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by newsoftheday 4mo ago
The average Joe? My wife has used Linux since the mid-2000's. Her career was in Sales, far removed from anything technical. She loves Linux compared to Windows, her new laptop came with Windows and she bugged my for months to upgrade i
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by newsoftheday 4mo ago
> $330k/year For a traditional software engineer? I retired last year after 3 decades and my salary was about the same as it was in the early 2000's at the last company I was at. Maybe I should have negotiated more but I though
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by newsoftheday 4mo ago
> fallback to running when the system comes online. That isn't something I'd want to happen, it sounds like it creates a potential queue of scripts that will flood the system on start, if it works the way you described. I prefe
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by newsoftheday 4mo ago
I'm sorry, I tried Googling the word "tolates" but I can't find any definition that makes sense? > runs the service as soons as the system is available. cron has the @reboot option which I use for a few scripts and wo
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by newsoftheday 4mo ago
I am using nVidia yes. I've preferred their GPU's for a long time for gaming.
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by newsoftheday 4mo ago
Please do not drop X11 in Kubuntu, Wayland performs poorly and weirdly. X11 rocks.
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by newsoftheday 4mo ago
> Outside of rare special cases, yes, they will still work using the Xwayland compatibility layer. It does a great job of providing compatibility for most X11 applications Not on my 4 year old PC. Wayland performs poorly and usually in w
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
They started doing that tracking where I worked until last summer, stress so high, GERD kicked in worse than it'd ever been and that's going back to the 1980's. I retired, and I do thank God I was able to. I now just dabble e
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
For my selfhosting, I use local remotes the same as if I were using Github or Gitlab, as part of my CI tools chain, using a git hook script to kick off the Jenkins build on the remote directory. Everything is backed up daily and monthly (se
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DIY F1 Racing Steering Wheel Controller Using a Raspberry Pi(instructables.com)
2 points by newsoftheday 5mo ago|0 comments
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
As a layman, bringing up a purely income based argument with Denmark, seemed to be an odd juxtaposition.
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
It sounds low to me, I worked at a Fortune high number a few years ago and they had more.
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
We use $200 inexpensive Lenovo laptops with 4 gigs of RAM and run KDE Plasma and Chrome as our streaming devices in the LR and MBR using air mouse device to control them. I also installed ZRAM on them. We could use Chromebooks but I like th
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Gulp – We have been made aware of a potential incident and are shutting down all(old.reddit.com)
3 points by newsoftheday 5mo ago|1 comments
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
Wow...that seriously may change my long standing anti-Mac disdain to pro-Mac advocacy, very interesting, even Gemini confirmed what you're saying.
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
My theory is that, since I'm going to do things like banking in my browser, I want one that has a lot of skin in the game. Chrome being backed by Google has trillions of dollars on the line should they ever do anything truly evil. Thou
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Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers(old.reddit.com)
639 points by newsoftheday 5mo ago|252 comments
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
> she dropped out of the primary when her impending loss became obvious That is how voting and elections is supposed to work, not by saying people of a certain age, color, race or creed can't hold office because young people today a
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
> old folks have much more money I retired last year, lead software engineer, never got into management as a civilian, did software for over 3 decades. My salary was lower than it was as a mid level 20 years ago. What old people have &qu
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
I just learned from this Reddit post about the On-Device AI setting: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t536x6/psa_chrome_... "On-device AI" can be disabled. At least, it is in Chrome on
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
This is what I've done after spending some time to look into it, this is for Linux Desktop: Delete Chrome's silent 4 GB AI model file and AI In Chrome, go to: chrome://flags Search for and Disable these: Enables o
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
They do that anyway, so it's in addition to that which is the parent's point.
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
> If you believe the latest M3 does not perform better than machines you’ve used in the 80s That wasn't what I was trying to say, I apologize, I should have been clearer. What I intended to say was that I've been using various,
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
The article says to regularly run prune, how regularly? Currently I run the following once per day from cron: docker system prune -a -f docker volume prune -a -f
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
I had to work on a Mac M3 for a year, it sucked, it did not feel snappier than any Windows or Linux machine (including this one) that I've ever used and that is going back to the 1980's.
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
The article is dumb, "why do you have an API endpoint that deletes your entire production database?" irrelevant, the AI did what it did, period.
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by newsoftheday 5mo ago
Does that mean the prompt should include: "...and don't delete my production database."?

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