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by pwinnski 4y ago
Yes, it's a waste of time. It works, kinda, sorta, but only after shutting down every other app, and even then occasionally it seems to fall over. The model is larger than 8GB in memory, so it's agonizing.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This is bad faith nonsense. You can do better. Be better.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Many office buildings have a single bank of toilets per floor. If a given floor is subdivided into n apartments, n-1 of them are probably not proximal to the existing toilet plumbing, so it's an expense, at least.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
So many answers seem to be rooted in the 50-year Cold War period, and none of them seem to address the 30 years since. If you have two evils, you choose the lesser of two evils. If you eliminate the greater of the two evils, all you're
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think the assumption that the US is a preferable superpower--likely true at one point--is what led to the US behaving increasingly badly, taking the wrong side of those trade-offs, to the point that I can think of several candidates I wou
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Under many circumstances, even most, this is generally true-ish. However, experimenting with Stable Diffusion in recent weeks has shown me that when you need to load something in memory that's greater than 8GB, only physical memory gre
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by pwinnski 4y ago
They use words. Explicitly. Apple holds events several times a year, observable by the public. Many, many people tend to watch them. In those events, they tell stories, they show ads, and they talk about the past, present, and future of the
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You literally said you would keep using passwords. The dichotomy was established by you.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> They’re effectively independent projects. Unless you care about interoperability, which for a product like this is essential.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
After I wrapped it in quotes to workaround zsh safety mechanisms: % curl 'http://example.com/;'$(gt=$(perl$IFS-E$IFS's//62/;s/62/chr/e;say');eval$IFS''cowsay$IFS
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That is simply objectively untrue. They are primarily encouraging us to give them our money. But they are also encouraging us to be more healthy, spend more time outside, etc. They can do both, it turns out.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Oh, duh, don't need to rely on a generally-available remote friend. I disabled iMessage on my phone and send SMS to my partner while watching their phone. Had them respond. In both cases, sub-second delivery. There is normally no delay
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That is very much not my experience. At all. I just tested it again, in case something had changed recently without my notice, and a friend with whom I only use SMS responded within five seconds of me hitting send, so clearly there was no d
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Indeed, that is entirely the point!
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That's not just sloppy, it's incorrect! The top-line claim of the author is flat-out demonstrably wrong.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I have an iPhone X (2017). My partner has an iPhone 12 (2020). The difference is very noticeable across those three years. I think often a single year's improvements are negligible but real, so any given two year's improvements ar
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That says something about the people you know, but not much about people in the USA. I have never used Facebook Messenger and don't know anyone who does (although... how would I, since I don't have a Facebook account?), but I use
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm not seeing it. I can text phones running Android just fine. I can't use new carrier-dependent features when texting Android phones, but Verizon Android users couldn't use those new features either until a couple of months
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Every thread like this, people pop up in the comments and say, "Nobody in my country texts at all, we all use XApp," but amusingly, XApp varies by thread/country/day. Sometimes it's WhatsApp, sometimes Signal, somet
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by pwinnski 4y ago
RCS does not provide end-to-end encryption, and requires a phone number. That's two things iMessage does that RCS doesn't do.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
If it enables Google to sell more ads, they will port anything to any platform.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Does RCS work for devices that do not have a phone number? My reading suggests it does not, that there is still a carrier dependency. iMessage has no carrier dependency, no phone number dependency at all. Kids all over the world use iMessag
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by pwinnski 4y ago
NeXT mail was amazing, and is probably what you're remembering.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Right, the color the bubble is to remind us that features are missing, it's not a missing feature itself. RCS still doesn't support end-to-end encryption, and still requires carrier participation. There are still carriers that don
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by pwinnski 4y ago
To which business practice are you referring? a) developing a messaging product, then not porting it to your biggest competitor? b) declining to implement a mediocre standard at your biggest competitor's behest? The last major US carri
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That video demonstrates the problem exactly. The "before" shot shows a clip from Lightyear which takes place in the black of space, and the screen is filled with high-contrast bright colors on a completely-black background. The
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Your overuse of the word "technically" puts me in mind of a defendant in a courtroom saying, "Technically, your honor, I was swinging the bat to loosen up my shoulder muscles. He could technically have gotten out of the way,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
And I'd be happy if they weren't, but people would be more upset over that than torrent clients.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
According to hn.algolia.com, the first mention of anything like you describe is from Jan 8, 2020[0], which isn't before Christmas 2019. The first US case was announced two weeks later, and "this giant pandemic" came a bit aft
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Apparently many people didn't notice anything disappearing, because they shifted their eyes around the video. I also noticed things changing, but if you'd stopped the video before the big reveal and asked me to list them, I woul

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