nyarlathotep_

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by nyarlathotep_ 6mo ago
As the rate of 'hallucinations' seems to have dropped dramatically (at least IME as regards non-existent flags and the like), I'm more concerned with usage. I often use grep.app/GH code search to look for usage examples
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by nyarlathotep_ 7mo ago
> My last Linux desktop was fabulous. Happily drove a 4K display, I loved living in XFCE every day. There was one issue that was extraordinarily frustrating: if the machine sat unused for somewhere around 24-72 hours it would enter a ver
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by nyarlathotep_ 7mo ago
(Un?)ironically enough, Mr Kling was one of the people that (indirectly) first got my attention wrt LLM coding. I watched some of his streams on the development of the JIT compiler (what this change set seems to replace) on one of his strea
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by nyarlathotep_ 7mo ago
In my teens/20s, I would have advocated for legalization of marijuana and thought any argument against it was some antiquated, puritanical nonsense. In the decade+ since, there's no way I'd do so. I know three personal friend
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by nyarlathotep_ 7mo ago
Indeed, YouTube uses some sort of stripped-down Chromium (Cobalt I think it's called) with the client UI authored in HTML (and friends) for all of their clients and it's not deficient in performance compared to others. The Prime c
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by nyarlathotep_ 8mo ago
This was my (hopeful) first thought on seeing this; his recent posts have been Quake-related. I do hope this is a harbinger of another installment. His others have been excellent.
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by nyarlathotep_ 9mo ago
Previous employer issued Macs with all sorts of Jamf spyware stuff on them but I could more or less install things as needed via brew (both internal-vended "taps" or whatever the term is) and "normal" end-user stuff with
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by nyarlathotep_ 9mo ago
This mirrors my experience as well, when using things like ThreeJS. Any SOTA model can one-shot something that looks pretty similar to something from Three's examples, but things go south quickly when attempting to increase the complex
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by nyarlathotep_ 9mo ago
Things like media playback via a web browser (and really browsing in general) are so superior to iOS it's not even a fair comparison.
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by nyarlathotep_ 9mo ago
> It also often loads icons slowly; sometimes loading them in one by one over time, sometimes all at once after thinking for a second. This is frequent, if not constant, on iOS for me. I never witnessed it before the 26 update. How can i
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by nyarlathotep_ 9mo ago
Underrated comment.
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by nyarlathotep_ 10mo ago
https://slickdeals.net/f/19004236-select-micro-center-stores... MicroCenter has(had? OOS near me) M4 Minis for $400! A remarkable bargain, even more so considering the recent hardware price hikes.
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by nyarlathotep_ 10mo ago
Mr. Sanglard's blog is one of my favorites. I hope the recent posts on Quake are indicative of his intent to write a Game Engine book on Quake. His others were excellent.
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by nyarlathotep_ 11mo ago
What hardware are you using? I'm not seeing near my advertised (and previously achieved, via Acer 'Gamer Router') with IDS on. IDS is probably overkill for a home network anyway. I recently replaced said router with a Dream R
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> I actually like TVs as a hardware concept, and am a happy paying customer of several VOD platforms, so I would seem to be the perfect customer for all these sticks and mini boxes and smart TV thingamajigs. But the UX is just so horribl
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> I wonder if the Vega stuff will be much better. There's really nothing to like about the Fire TV sticks. I had one for a bit for the purpose of sideloading FreeTube via adb (I think it was called). That's the only good I can
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> The modern Apple experience is defined by removing the head phone jack, the silent switch, and worse, the home button. I only "upgrade" phones every 4 years or so, typically to a new old-stock model off eBay and I've bee
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Dealing with files is nightmare (yes, people still dare to use files in a year of our lord 2025). This is one of the largest detriments for iPhones for me, personally. On Android phones I can just connect via usb and drop ebooks, mov
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> The terminal menu driven interfaces were archaic but a dream. MicroCenter (by me, at least) still uses what looks like some terminal interface for checkout and such in stores. It's a riot cause it's all young kids and all the
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> I've wondered sometimes what software would look like if a crisis took out the ability to build new semiconductors and we had to run all our computing infrastructure on chips salvaged from pregnancy tests, shoplifting tags, cars,
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
>, I discovered that NewPipe, an alternative YouTube client I installed through the F-Droid store, is actually much more reliable at downloading videos than the official client. NewPipe is so good and so useful. It can even play 4K and w
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> On the desktop it breaks once a month, on Android NewPipe stopped working recently, and soon you won't be even able to install third party clients. yeah, I often download things via yt-dlp to watch later and I'm encountering
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Hello fellow 2000s era Urban Dictionary reader.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> I’ve been running pihole for 10-15 years, don’t even remember. Will take a look at Technitium. Looks like they have a Mac build, so I can just try it before attempting to replace pihole. Likewise. I remember setting it up first in the
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I think one of the third party user.js projects does that. Maybe https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Honest question: after all the reports of co-mingled inventory, plain fakes etc. being sold by Amazon - for years i might add - do you really consider Amazon being a reliable source for anything that is not some unimportant trinket? Fo
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Is this a "left brain vs right brain" type of thing? Do most HNers prefer Androids? I can also just plug my Pixel into my Linux machine (I think I needed some other program to do this on Mac, bit it's still easy enough
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> This drives me nuts as well, the number of times I close a tab with C-W, or select all with C-A... I've lost countless SessionManager terminal sessions this way on Windows and Linux.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> What was the point of doing this prior to selling a subscription to unlock it? There are/were legitimate considerations for this too--I've had a few GTIs that ended up 'tuned.' Typical failures on tuned cars, past a
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> In some ways, tech progress has been pretty disappointing. AIM had lots of delightful sounds. Can't say the same about Slack or Teams.

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