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by pm215 1y ago
I feel like the problem here is the "see below" part, rather than the email thread part -- that is where the sender has done zero effort to contextualise or summarise the situation or explain why suddenly you are the person to pul
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by pm215 1y ago
It's actually still pretty heavily used in some niches, which mostly amount to "running legacy binaries on an x86-64 kernel". LWN had an article recently about the Fedora discussion on whether to drop i386 support (they decid
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by pm215 1y ago
At least in the UK, one advantage of the credit card is that it puts the transaction under the consumer credit act. That means that for purchases above 100 quid the credit card company is jointly on the hook with the supplier if, for exampl
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by pm215 1y ago
In an X11 window manager, the classic use case is "printing the title of the window in its titlebar". Programs like Firefox put the current tab's title in the titlebar text, which can have any random unicode in it.
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by pm215 1y ago
I see that this article says they were already giving 1.50 euro bonuses for this; on the other hand this other article from just a few months back says they "categorically denied" paying commissions for oversized bag detection: h
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by pm215 1y ago
The MH and nmh mail clients used to directly look into FILE internals. If you look for LINUX_STDIO in this old version of the relevant file you can see the kind of ugliness that resulted: https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cg
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by pm215 1y ago
With that kind of "separate specialist school" setup I think you would also need to be careful when analysing outcomes to avoid confounding effects from "the parents are actively interested and engaged in their childrens&#x27
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by pm215 1y ago
It also felt to me to be weirdly concentrated in particular small areas. I spent a few weeks in various places in northern Japan which varied from "very quiet" to "tourists but not too many"; but in Tokyo, Akihabara was
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by pm215 1y ago
I think another aspect here is that museums don't have infinite display space. So if famous items X, Y and Z are on permanent display that's less space available for other, less famous but perhaps equally interesting, items that a
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by pm215 1y ago
Yeah. I do agree with lovich that there's a lot of stuff about management that's just not fun (and that's part of why I've always carefully avoided it!) -- and one thing about AI is not just that it's management but
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by pm215 1y ago
No, I really don't think that prompt engineering is the same thing. Anything I put in the prompt may help this particular conversation, but a fresh instance of the LLM will be exactly the way it was before I started. Improvements in th
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by pm215 1y ago
I was there when people were building a cross distro consensus, and the discussion was as I recall basically about hardware. By definition the software deployed was built using the previous set of distro baselines, and this being Linux the
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by pm215 1y ago
I think there's still a difference even if you look at it as "supervising a bunch of juniors". I'm happy to review the output of a human in that case because I believe that even if they got some stuff wrong and it might
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by pm215 1y ago
Yeah. I think the "signed case" also has some distinctions compared to a typical software easter egg: - the effects of it are clear - there's basically no chance of unexpected side effects (I suppose in theory it could struct
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by pm215 1y ago
Yep -- the DDC link which is the comms part of VGA/HDMI/DVI is basically an i2c link, and that's how the OS queries the EDID in normal operation. As the article notes, the rpi has an i2c controller wired up to those hdmi port
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by pm215 1y ago
I do wonder how much the fetch-source-and-build-all-dependencies approach contributes to the poor perception of compile times -- your very first experience of "how long did cargo take to build this project" will be terrible becaus
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by pm215 1y ago
It took a little while, but the window isn't quite as wide as it might at first seem. Before solid smooth paved and floored surfaces are ubiquitous, wheels on luggage are of only limited use, and if you are carrying your own luggage yo
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by pm215 1y ago
I couldn't find anything with better image quality, but youtube seems to have some 2014 footage of the clock in action (so pre restoration work): https://youtu.be/ix0IxTqgavE
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by pm215 1y ago
Similarly, I like it when I occasionally see little bits of on the job training when I'm a customer -- the barista this morning teaching another about pouring latte art, the senior dentist nudging the trainee into what the right diagno
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by pm215 1y ago
That's funny, but also interesting that it didn't "sign" it. I would naively have expected that being handed a clear instruction like "reply with the following information" would strongly bias the LLM to reply
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by pm215 1y ago
The most recent LN is volume 13, which came out in November 2024; it's on my shelf but I haven't got round to reading it yet. (The big gap between volumes was between 11 and 12: frankly I'd assumed that the author intended th
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by pm215 1y ago
Yeah, I use an app specific password with Gmail, like the setup suggested by https://git-send-email.io/#step-2 Exchange historically had a tendency to mangle emails sent through it (whitespace changes, line wrap, etc), whic
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by pm215 1y ago
You seem to be reading more into the phrase "human failing" than I intended by it. All I meant was the ordinary variations in human behaviour where we sometimes fall a little short of what we hoped we would or could do. We seem to
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by pm215 1y ago
Looking at the manual, Anki seems to let you manually set a new card limit, and also to set a review limit (after which it won't show more reviews even if they exist), but I didn't see anything for "given that I want a daily
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by pm215 1y ago
This is an area where I feel like there's scope for improvement in the SRS space. All the SRS systems I've seen essentially assume the user is a perfect robot who will do their reviews every day without fail. But most people will
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by pm215 1y ago
Your experience makes me wonder if it hit the same way for some of the US WW2 soldiers mentioned in the article who got a copy sent to them...
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by pm215 1y ago
There's definitely scope for doing more of that. But notice also that of the 200 students who also got that opportunity alongside him, 195 stopped attending those lectures after just a few weeks; we don't know about the other 4 b
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by pm215 1y ago
But how often do you boot a modern laptop in the first place? I feel lke the time I save in not waiting those 5 seconds occasionally is all going to be spent again in the minutes wasted having to look up how I stop the instant autoboot (or
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by pm215 1y ago
Yes, I was in Haneda terminal 3 yesterday and it doesn't force you through a shop: https://tokyo-haneda.com/en/floor/terminal3/3rd_floor.html When you get through security/customs/etc you find
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by pm215 1y ago
My experience was actually the opposite -- a package I used broke because somebody did an automated "bump the python version this package uses" change without noticing that upstream for the package hadn't yet made a release w

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