nottheengineer

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by nottheengineer 3y ago
That happened to me multiple times at work. I genuinely thought I was going mad before I found out that that's just a thing onedrive does.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
That's sad, the fiesta is a fun car to drive. Also very economical, my diesel one uses 4.5l/100km consistently without paying much attention to it. That bring me to another point: Fuel economy ratings. My car is rated at 3.3l of a
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Good old section 1201. The EFF has been fighting it for a while, but hasn't had much success unfortunately.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Lemmy is a perfectly good reddit replacement now that the boost app has migrated. It's starting to reach that critical mass where people become toxic but still much better than reddit. And since it's all federated, you can interac
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Seeing those things and knowing the person bought an objectively worse version of a decent car causes me pain every single time. But the only thing we can do about that is educate people.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Those aren't SUVs, they are crossovers. Mostly based on hatchbacks, but worse in every objective way. SUV means "Sport utility vehicle". The Sport part is straight up BS, but the utility part differentiates them from crossove
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
A lot of german news websites have cookie banners where the options are accept and subscribe to deny. The argument is that denying doesn't prevent you from acessing the site. I recall there's precedent for this being legal, but I
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
The "algorithm" isn't some simple KNN. It has many people working on it, so by now it should at least grasp the difference between two topics that are similar and two topics that are the same.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
A custom solution would only be worth it if companies looked that far ahead instead of maximizing short-term profits.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
He doesn't have ADHD, he's autistic. But for some reason the youtube algorithm assumes they are the exact same thing.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
This is a big part of what made me start using linux. On windows, there's a new way to do basic stuff all the time and they screw around with menus that work perfectly well just to have something new. That means that any tutorials will
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I used to use xposed edge to configure the crap out my gestures, it was great. Now that xposed isn't really a thing anymore, I followed the rest of the world and use my phone with two hands most of the time and use my index finger for
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Windows itself won't, but have you ever tried copying code into a microsoft application and found that it didn't paste like it should and then fixed the escaping? It will fuck the code up so bad that Ctrl+Z and starting over is yo
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
But unfortunately it says nothing that couldn't have been said 10 years ago.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
This seems like a huge problem without an easy solution. Now that grocery stores are starting to deploy electronic price tags, I don't see why they wouldn't implement exactly that. The only ideas I have are to limit how often pric
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
People can generate a few good samples of what they want a character to look like and then interrogate clip to get a more detailed prompt that makes it more consistent. It increases the prompt sizes a lot, but I don't think there'
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Yes, we are currently doing something with T5 for those exact reasons. It could probably benefit a lot from throwing a bigger model at it.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
So are implementation problems of civil engineering the equivalent of prod problems in software engineering?
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
It is an example of who has the most power. If you don't have a different service that does the same for you, you'll have to suck it up or live without the service. This becomes a big issue as soon as all services in a specific ni
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Shortly after DALL-E 2 launched, social media was flooded with images from DALL-E mini that just showed weird combinations of things that shouldn't be combined. This is exactly what AI is good at, so it definitely doesn't need to
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
There's google, which is less infuriating to use than microsoft stuff from what I've heard. Microsoft, google and yahoo regularly block or delay mails from independents[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Then why isn't at least one of those jacks a TRS so you can use normal headphones?
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Paper has two objective advantages over digital: It's reliable and it doesn't scale. That makes it the only option for elections as any compromise of a digital system would instantly decide the outcome. With paper, a bag of ballot
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I find text editing on mobile to be fine, I'd have to try this to see if it's any better. The article did skip over one important QOL feature that every modern keyboard has: Swiping the spacebar to move the cursor. It solves a lot
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I found out that it did the same to me when I installed arch. Windows on one drive, EFI partition on a completely different one that has no reason to ever have an EFI partition.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
The web version of teams works much better than the "native" one. Pressing F5 when it stops working is much faster than restarting an entire browser. But then microsoft just decides to kick its users in the balls again by adding a
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
This is what happens when there is no competition. If microsoft wasn't able to force their way into companies by bundling teams with all the other office crap that non-technical people want, I doubt anyone would seriously pick it over
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
So you can later charge extra for the web version.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I hate to agree with this. Web is the best way to cram loads of features into a limited amount of dev time. But still, whenever I use Teams, something like this happens: I click a button, nothing happens. I wait 10 seconds, because teams so
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
But two weeks of dev time for every municipality adds up quickly. The issue is that germany is deeply federated, different decisions are made at different levels. This could translate well into software by having the higher levels create in

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