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by qwertox 2y ago
I just held it for around 25 seconds on a Pixel 8 and it did nothing (except for starting the assistant). I think if you hold it even longer then it does some kind of reset, which isn't a clean shutdown. I don't mind the repurposi
812.
by qwertox 2y ago
I just watched the power phone on / off preview, and it has the issues which I assumed it would have. Long-press to turn on a powered-off phone is not a standard. Even I don't know how to turn these devices on, so I do a combinati
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38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) Schedule(fahrplan.events.ccc.de)
2 points by qwertox 2y ago|0 comments
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38C3: Schedule of the Chaos Communication Congress Announced(heise.de)
1 points by qwertox 2y ago|0 comments
815.
by qwertox 2y ago
This is... something different. It will be interesting to see how we will integrate our current 3D tooling into that prompt-based world. Sometimes a "place a button next to the the door" isn't the same as selecting a button a
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by qwertox 2y ago
Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model (deepmind.google) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42317903
817.
by qwertox 2y ago
> If you don't, you'll get tired of Cloudflare's "checking if your connection is secure" becomes pretty tiring pretty quickly. Is this really related? I'm on IPv4 and get these "checking if your connect
818.
by qwertox 2y ago
If you further develop this thought, systems might be capable enough to implant core desires into you before transferring the copy into your new body. "You'll love Coca Cola no matter what, and capitalism". The above scenario
819.
by qwertox 2y ago
Server-side rendering of a track onto map tiles, enriched with other information like PoIs, distance marks, colorizing the track according to the speed, and so on, in order to then send it as a summary email to the customer. Skia is the mos
820.
by qwertox 2y ago
I first got irritated a bit by this as well, but then the game Myst came to mind. So I'm willing to accept the limitation, and at this point we know that this can only get better. Next I thought about the likelihood of Nvidia releasing
821.
by qwertox 2y ago
> you essentially end up with a ledger as a directed graph The page contains a comment from Matheus Portela who pointed to a blogpost of his about "Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph" [0]. " I've also had th
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by qwertox 2y ago
I wish these companies were forced to get the nationality of the person or the companies owners and be forced to assign them to IP address blocks which identifies these nationalities. My home DNS server blocks all requests to .ru and .cn, b
823.
by qwertox 2y ago
Sure, it's not solid, but they knew I was a private customer, so what should they do? Do a request to a private credit bureau like the SCHUFA (like Equifax) to check if my provided details are valid? It feels like it's a check to
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Chinese companies poach staff from ASML and Zeiss with three times higher pay(tomshardware.com)
33 points by qwertox 2y ago|12 comments
825.
by qwertox 2y ago
It's most likely a vCPU. So even the caches are shared.
826.
by qwertox 2y ago
When I ordered a VPS at Netcup (a Hetzner alternative) they called me and asked me for the name of the hotel next to my place to check if I really lived at the address I provided. I guess that if i would have needed to look it up, that is,
827.
by qwertox 2y ago
> for other customers who have used much more resources So, "Pi mal Daumen"* this means that US customers have a bandwidth consumption which almost an order of magnitude higher than that of European and Singaporean customers? I
828.
by qwertox 2y ago
Thank you. There's an interesting link in that thread to a PMTiles viewer with the data in it: https://wipfli.github.io/foursquare-os-places-pmtiles/#map=1...
829.
by qwertox 2y ago
What's the licensing of this? I wonder if it could be used to improve OSM. -- To answer my own question > This base layer of 100mm+ global places of interest ("POI") includes 22 core attributes (see schema here) that will
830.
by qwertox 2y ago
OpenTopoMap is what solves that issue for me. The contrast on that map is excellent. It's a mostly a style for OSM with hillshading applied. The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is hosting a web-based "preview&quo
831.
by qwertox 2y ago
I share your perspective. I use Komoot extensively and I use it only on the phone for recording the ride, have it route me through the trip I planned on the web interface, and also to check where some paths I find during the ride lead to. I
832.
by qwertox 2y ago
In the 90s I downloaded tons of Warez. In the 00s I spent thousands of € in software which I properly evaluated and learned to use in the 90s.
833.
by qwertox 2y ago
I'd like to see a tokens / second / watt comparison.
834.
by qwertox 2y ago
> If Gary Tan and YC believe that LLMs will be able to design chips 100x better than humans currently can, they’re significantly underestimating the difficulty of chip design, and the expertise of chip designers. While LLMs are capable o
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by qwertox 2y ago
Having the train use Bluetooth Low Energy advertising to broadcast its location and some other data, like time-to-next station, next station name, would be a nice feature. GPS spoofing should not be done in my opinion until the negative sid
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by qwertox 2y ago
VB was the absolute sweet spot when you used Visual C++ to create performant DLLs which you could then use in VB.
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by qwertox 2y ago
The issue today is that developers would create their own framework, most likely something TypeScript-based running in Node or Deno or some Rust-based thing like Tauri, which all might be OK, but with their own opinionated UI styleguides an
838.
by qwertox 2y ago
Not yet, but it's already big enough to notice the problems it brings.
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by qwertox 2y ago
"Schuldenbremse". "Debt"+"brake", brake as in what forces a car to stop. Keep in mind that Russian's attack on the Ukraine, which lead to the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, didn't happen unt
840.
by qwertox 2y ago
> A nice thing about miles is that people roughly drive 60 miles per hour over long distances, meaning a distance in miles roughly corresponds to how many minutes it will take to drive there. I never thought of this fun fact. Then again

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