phoobahr

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by phoobahr 4mo ago
LLMs as “AI” is a scam, and a dead end. They might be useful for some things in some situations and they are here to stay… for now. They won’t be the future though.
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by phoobahr 8mo ago
Immaterial - no liberal government in Canada could be said to be “far left”.
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by phoobahr 9mo ago
It's even better with a "AeroPress Flow Control Filter Cap". No dripping, no inversion, and a little extra resistance improves the cup (I think).
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by phoobahr 1y ago
Ah yes. Complaining about brown people in the capital of a decayed empire that spanned the globe. The sun never sets on this crap.
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by phoobahr 1y ago
“The best downloaded for iOS/ipados” is yt-dlp. Install in ashell, view with VLC.
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by phoobahr 2y ago
He spouted every kind of hateful shit, and surrounded himself with even more vile shitstains. Every terrible thing imaginable was put on the table. Some Americans may not have liked the alternative but this election was never about “better”
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by phoobahr 3y ago
spoken as someone who doesn't need health care (yet) spoken as someone who doesn't need schools (yet) spoken as someone who doesn't need reliable infrastructure (wtf?) Better take-home pay only counts if you don't need t
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by phoobahr 3y ago
In addition to this here's one really specific case: ever had a pandas groupby().apply() that took forever often mostly re-aggregating after the apply? With columnar data DuckDuckGo is so much faster at this. For one of my projects
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by phoobahr 4y ago
If you're particularly envious you may want to consider asking how those who can't drive make do in your location. Life's about making choices and seeking different perspectives might help change and/or inform your prior
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by phoobahr 4y ago
Similarly one of my most important projects reads a lot of api calls returning serialized json. Those calls are expensive so I have, over time, tried many complicated cacheing mechanism. These days though it's _so_much_simpler_and_clea
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by phoobahr 4y ago
Similar situation here; I try not to unplug mine :) That being said the heat output is so low my mini lives in a drawer and serves to host time machine, a Jupiter notebook server, media server and a couple parallels VMs. The fact that i
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by phoobahr 4y ago
Covid-19 is a vascular disease. Turns out several organs (not just lungs) have a lot of vascular area. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556303/ https://www.frontiersin.org/article
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by phoobahr 4y ago
Nope - this is a real issue inside our domestic borders. The country has two official languages but only one region that legislates one of them as second class. Additionally - Quebec's insistence on "protecting their distinct and
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by phoobahr 4y ago
I do primarily use it as a laptop... but ~30% of the time it comes off the case and gets carried for data input. Then it's the best tablet I can spend money on, has a very responsive stylus and weighs about the same as a clipboard and
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by phoobahr 4y ago
Sorry, I haven't used it so I can't say.
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by phoobahr 4y ago
I write a lot of python. A fair chunk of inside Jupiter notebooks. Safari is a capable browser for accessing remotes juypter lab servers and there are a couple developers one-upping each other & producing pretty good options for local d
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by phoobahr 4y ago
Blink: < https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... >, or Shellfish: < https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... >,
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by phoobahr 4y ago
Not to mention: media relations, community management & risk exposure are all really really hard problems. Hard problems that an entity like twitter has to sink huge effort into just to be bad at it. Musk brings absolutely nothing to th
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by phoobahr 5y ago
Here's some money to go f--k with another country's capital. This is not a good look.
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by phoobahr 5y ago
Well just try using google in China for one thing. I really don't get the outragefilter here - Apple (take 'em or leave 'em) lays out for the public a system for checking uploaded content for illicit material that everyone el
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by phoobahr 5y ago
The US is a super power built on stolen land with stolen labour and stolen IP that really "came into it's own" on a tide of stolen valour post WWII.
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by phoobahr 5y ago
A less flexible, but _much_ more performant option, is <a href=" https://holzschu.github.io/a-Shell_iOS/">ashell.app</a>
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by phoobahr 5y ago
Guh, this is truly terrible. >CAN EPILERT PREDICT SEIZURES? >Epilert cannot predict or prevent seizures. >Our technology is designed to detect patterns that could be >associated only with motor seizures for now. However, we ar
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by phoobahr 6y ago
"when Dropbox was announced" This. Whenever someone quips "that's a feature not a product" the reply should be "so why were they able to ship this feature and you weren't". Technical debt, opportunity
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by phoobahr 6y ago
This is also what I generally want and we're not alone. There are a few active projects to facilitate this. Personally I like <ahref= https://freemacsoft.net/tiles/">Tiles</a>
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by phoobahr 6y ago
Funny how the reliable services are regulated utilities and the unreliable ones are byproducts of advertising companies.
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by phoobahr 6y ago
This is not a helpful take when there are actual nazi's - right over there - talking about (and doing) nazi shit. And the thing about shit is it does splash damage. When cesspools like twitter and facebook finally give up their add rev
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by phoobahr 6y ago
"right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between
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by phoobahr 6y ago
Probably because the announced hardware is clearly entry level. The only model line that gets replaced is the MacBook Air which has been, frankly, cheap-is and underpowered for a long time. So you have a platform that is (currently) embodie
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by phoobahr 6y ago
And, at that time, a mandatory stylus meant (likely) a resistive not capacitive touch screen.

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