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by rtsil 3y ago
I have this distinct impression whenever I watch Youtube from my TV's app and Youtube serves me 6 different unskippable ads on a 10-minute video.
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by rtsil 3y ago
> your file was in 100 pieces, and if you lost one of them, you were just fucked. That is, until Parchives were invented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
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by rtsil 3y ago
It can always be a coincidence, but I would get colds regularly (twice a year at least) and pollen allergy, sometimes severe ones, for decades. Plus some coughing and other transmissible sicknesses. That all that has stopped since 2020 at t
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by rtsil 3y ago
I still use them (and masks). I haven't had a cold, the flu or any of the usual seasonal sicknesses in 3 years, and this spring my pollen allergy was nowhere to be seen. My quality of life is significantly better ever since I started u
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by rtsil 3y ago
Piano keyboard is easy to memorize since it's a repeating pattern of 7 white notes interspersed with five black notes, and you have exactly one note per location and one location per note. Guitar fretboard is more complicated because t
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by rtsil 3y ago
If you know the intervals, then you know where all the notes are on the fretboard! You're like Monsieur Jourdain, who mastered prose without even realizing it.
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by rtsil 3y ago
Until Google decides to retire Google Voice...
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by rtsil 3y ago
1105 according to Keepass. Although at least a third of these are no longer active.
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by rtsil 3y ago
You're right, and the "Give a bot a fish" method is supposed to be the most reliable. I hope all the apps and platforms that rely on ChatGPT have solid legal disclaimers in place as the liabilities could be quite serious.
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by rtsil 3y ago
And yet average users fled IE en masse as soon as they had a (back then) good alternative. There is still hope!
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by rtsil 3y ago
Firefox mobile allows me to use uBlock Origin. That alone for me is worth more than any other browser features combined. Now, if I can find how to make it stop opening a new tab every time I enter an URL in the address bar instead of reusin
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by rtsil 3y ago
This is about the previous generation. The article says that 2 in 3 cases develop in adults over 55, and ony 1 in 8 in people younger than 50.
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by rtsil 4y ago
I don't see stating that it "may be much better than re-usability, we will see in the in the future" as absolute laughable nonsense, I see it formulating an assumption that one approach might potentially better than another,
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by rtsil 4y ago
Ten years before that, I rented a cheap dedicated server and learned to use Webmin and Virtualmin. And it wasn't particularly complicated, Virtualmin gave you everything you needed with minimal configuration and you could find plenty o
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by rtsil 4y ago
Some TVs (LGs for instance) allow you to turn off the screen while keeping the audio on. Perfect for podcast or songs.
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by rtsil 4y ago
Or just replace them with electrical outlets. Why we are using high-risk systems in public infrastructures when low-tech, low-risk systems exist is beyond me.
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by rtsil 4y ago
That technology exists. It's called newsgroups, it's fast, distributed, hard to censor, without a central authority and based on community of interests. It's also pretty much dead except for sharing pirated contents.
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by rtsil 4y ago
> With access to the internet and all websites This has me wondering... Does ChatGPT honor robots.txt?
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by rtsil 4y ago
If I have to check each reference, what's the added value compared to just giving me a list of links (i.e. a good old search engine)? Chat search tools are only useful if (when?) they achieve a 99.99% reliability (I'm fine with on
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by rtsil 4y ago
It is so massive that I can't help but think about what happened with Google Maps API a few years ago where they had extremely low pricing for years then hiked the price by 1400% once enough people were locked into applications based o
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by rtsil 4y ago
What if it's not an independent service, merely a perk of the actual service? Where do we draw the line? Should Apple be asked to spin off iCloud because email, photos, documents should all be independent services? Note that neither Pr
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by rtsil 4y ago
Most of these are either vanity credits, or just a way for the star to participate in the profits beyond salary and royalties.
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by rtsil 4y ago
The entire academic system forces them. Hence the phrase "Publish or Perish".
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by rtsil 4y ago
> At least with Twitter, it was a corporation with rules and procedures. "Rules and procedures" that didn't prevent a teen from hacking them a couple of years ago. The teen tricked Twitter employees to give their credentia
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by rtsil 4y ago
But there is (was?) a popular argument that Tesla is a tech company that happens to build cars, not a car manufacturer. So how do they compare to the tech sector?
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by rtsil 4y ago
Option 5 already does this by prefixing the top-level selector with @nest. It would be my choice of all 3, if SCSS-style nesting is not possible.
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by rtsil 4y ago
> Someone who preferred the security, privacy, and simplicity of a walled garden is potentially losing that choice. That someone could still use Apple's app store and just ignore the alternatives, just like the large majority of And
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by rtsil 4y ago
That assumes that life as we know it is the only possible form of life.
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by rtsil 4y ago
You can replace it with a monitor + a pair of stereo speakers.
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by rtsil 4y ago
the /maps URL worked for a while, but I never noticed the redirect from maps.google.com (but I wasn't paying attention to that).

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