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by ramses0 6mo ago
Look also "way down the page" on the original website. They link to: https://github.com/arturaugusto/display_ocr?tab=readme-ov-fi... and https://github.com/Shreeshrii/tessdata_ssd which
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by ramses0 6mo ago
"How to be Unix-y in Eleventy Billion Steps" http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/the-unix-way-comm... TLDR: standard list of long options < https://www.gnu.org/prep/standar
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by ramses0 6mo ago
We need to talk about The Cone of Backups(tm), which you and I seem to have separately derived! Props for getting this implemented and seemingly trusted... I wish there was an easier way to handle some of this stuff (eg: tiny secure key mat
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by ramses0 6mo ago
rsync.net and rclone are great, my brain understood restic easier than borg for local backups over usb (ymmv), and plain old `rsync --archive` is most excellent wrt preserving file mod times and the like. There is 100% a difference between
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by ramses0 6mo ago
There's approximately a zillion devices with 7 segment displays, and half a zillion cameras that you can point at things. It's non-invasive and simple to understand. "Just disassemble it and solder in some extra wires"
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by ramses0 6mo ago
https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~auerswal/ssocr/ - "Seven Segment OCR" ... likely very old-school software, but literally just an `apt install ssocr` away!
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by ramses0 6mo ago
`rclone serve webdav` is a superpower!
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by ramses0 6mo ago
Often, holding down "Shift" while making mouse selections will "break through" and let you get at the O.S. copy/paste/selection mechanism. Highly terminal dependent, though!
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by ramses0 6mo ago
I'll throw my hat in on the feedback... looks great! https://github.com/openscad/openscad/pull/4478#issuecomment-... My pet use case is: "My naive approach as a programmer would be: `pen := new Pen(
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by ramses0 6mo ago
My old thief in high school: "I use my 'Appraisal' skill on the situation..." :-D DM: "Umm... not very good..." (became a running joke)
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by ramses0 6mo ago
A+! They even had an iOS version a while back: ` https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-battle-for-wesnoth/id14507... ` (this may be the "Mac" version, see: ` https://www.reddit.com/r/
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by ramses0 6mo ago
https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Prime-Line-1-3-8-in-Door-Lock-...
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by ramses0 7mo ago
"Please summarize this essentials of this discussion in a way that future agents will understand and put it into AGENTS.md" ...and replying to a sibling; yes, I did add it to `.gitignore` (but that's not a guarantee of it goi
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by ramses0 7mo ago
I'd been using cursor at work for a year or two now, figured I'd try it on a personal project. I got to the point where I needed to support env-vars, and my general pattern is `source ./source-me-local-auth` => `export SO
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by ramses0 7mo ago
"""I have an idea for a movie club, where two movies with a tenuously connected theme are watched (separately) and then discussed. If you've seen the movies "XXX", and "YYY", tell me what is similar a
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by ramses0 7mo ago
You're invited to my party!
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by ramses0 7mo ago
"""Hey ChatGPT, I've heard you make a good book club partner. I've just read [Three Musketeers|Count of Monte Cristo] and want to have a discussion about it. Ask me what I think before you tell me what you think,
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by ramses0 7mo ago
Tell me about the 3M ones? I've been considering the AM/BT with AA batteries but they seem sliightly derpy, and I've been happy with the SteelSeries Arctic Nova w/swappable batteries and 2.4ghz for my office work. AA bat
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by ramses0 7mo ago
Email2000 is the only answer: https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html TLDR: Mail storage is the sender's responsibility. The message isn't copied to the receiver. All the receiver needs is a brief notification that a message
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by ramses0 7mo ago
I asked this question a while back (the "only train w/ wikipedia LLM") and got pointed to the general-purpose "compression benchmarks" page: ` https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html ` While I u
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by ramses0 7mo ago
README => AGENTS.md HOWTO => SKILLS.md INFO => Plan/Arch/Guide REFERENCE => JavaDoc-ish I'm very near the idea that "LLM's are randomized compilers" and the human prompts shoul
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by ramses0 7mo ago
I worked at yahoo during its (in retrospect) decline. It used to be hard to be "web scale" and available, now that's either k8s or a few checkboxes in AWS. Yahoo used to be able to "coast" on the compellingness of t
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by ramses0 7mo ago
Very true, but you're a decade or two late for that. IIRC Cash4Clunkers put like a $3k floor on used car value (~$5-7k in today's dollars) meaning you'd never sell your old car for $2k to an individual when you could sell it
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by ramses0 7mo ago
But imagine a beowulf cluster of them... /s ...but seriously... there was the "up until 1850" LLM or whatever... can we make an "up until 1920 => 1990 [pre-internet] => present day" and then keep prodding the
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by ramses0 7mo ago
I want to pitch to my local makerspace "log-10" manufacturing. Basically there's a ton of traction at the zero-to-one (making the first prototype) and then you start looking at how to "scale" your manufacturing (ie:
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by ramses0 8mo ago
Temperature_C != Temperature_F != int8 It's apps hungarian v. systems hungarian all over again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation#Systems_Hun...
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by ramses0 8mo ago
For a while I really dug in to multiple player (and teams-of-players) ELO calculations. I got into an argument with my friend about whether second place was any better than last place... specifically in poker, but applicable to multiple ga
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by ramses0 8mo ago
"""under perfect play all chess games be a the same single one outcome of the following (we just currently don’t know which one, “A” playing the white pieces): Mr. A says, “I resign” or Mr. B says, “I resign” or Mr. A says, “
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by ramses0 8mo ago
I've always thought of it more as "Co-Pilot", but formally: "Autopilot" might truly be the better definition (lane-keeping, distance-keeping), whereas a "Co-Pilot" (in aviation) implies more active control
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by ramses0 8mo ago
This topic would be incomplete without mentioning "bropages" => "Example-focused snippets" eg: http://bropages.org/diff ...you need "man" pages for moderately-comprehensive options explanati

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