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by schappim 4y ago
I was just thinking, the best Pi you can buy is the one you can get… This quote was stolen from another fruit computer company (Apple) sales manager who used it in the late 2000s, when Apple had its inventory issues. Apple Australia directo
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by schappim 4y ago
The amount of ads on this page is nuts.
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IQ of ChatGPT Is 83(twitter.com)
5 points by schappim 4y ago|0 comments
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by schappim 4y ago
Interesting that the Op doesn't come up in the search: https://stylometry.net/user?username=costco
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by schappim 4y ago
>> Please do not under any circumstances support the Better Business Bureau. Totally agree. Remember you can always give the BBB a 1-star review on the "Better, Better Business Bureau".
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MacOCR – command line OCR app for macOS(github.com)
6 points by schappim 4y ago|1 comments
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by schappim 4y ago
This was previously shared in 2021, but given everyone’s interest in Frog[0], I thought you guys might want me to share this again. [0] https://tenderowl.com/work/frog/
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by schappim 4y ago
FYI if you’re on a Mac, I’ve made this similar tool: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
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by schappim 4y ago
Pretty challenging to do vibrato w/ momentary switches (discrete). For vibrato you need something like flexforce pressure sensors[1]. [1] https://www.tekscan.com/flexiforce-load-force-sensors-and-sy...
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by schappim 4y ago
https://archive.ph/nEghe
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by schappim 4y ago
GPT-3 says otherwise: https://files.littlebird.com.au/Shared-Image-2022-11-20-08-0...
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by schappim 4y ago
This c̶l̶i̶c̶k̶chickbait article fails to answer the question on why the programmer crossed the road to become a chicken, and whether they went from programmer → egg → chicken, or just programmer → chicken.
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by schappim 4y ago
- State Rural Fire Service App (showing maps, warnings, and alerts) - App for our national airline - EPG and remote recording app for cable company - MacOCR command line app: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
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by schappim 4y ago
>> "If I was smart, I'd..." Do that and start right away. Great advice! I wondered what GPT-3 would do. This is the output of the prompt "If I was smart, I'd": If I was smart, I'd know what to d
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by schappim 4y ago
>> I love REST but these extra verbs seem redundant. The extra verbs make your URLs less redundant!
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Twitter no longer lets you used the check mark emoji in your profile(twitter.com)
1 points by schappim 4y ago|0 comments
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by schappim 4y ago
Hello! Just drove home from the beach shack in Hawks Nest (beachside town in NSW Australia) to Sydney getting ready for the week ahead. Whilst up in Hawks Nest I had a prehistoric visitor[0] visit our family and hiked a mountain[1]. [0] ht
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by schappim 4y ago
Soon we'll have to use Mechanical Turk[0] to identify existing opensource code similar to what Girl Talk did with "Feed the Animals"[1]. Unrelated, how is it that Mechanical Turk was never truely integrated w/ AWS? [0]
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Ask HN: How much margin are large language model companies (like OpenAI) making?
6 points by schappim 4y ago|1 comments
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by schappim 4y ago
Folks are reporting 40ms on Starlink and 638ms for Viasat. I don’t know what is going on, and I don’t use either service.
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by schappim 4y ago
250ms minimum latency (just for the speed of light), once you add switching that's going to be over 400ms. You have to be pretty apologetic to accept this. I live in Australia (118ms round trip), and whenever I'm in SF, I'm a
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by schappim 4y ago
Yeah, but latency will be suboptimal as viasat's satellites are in geosynchronous orbit. Many laws a optional, but I'm afraid they can't get around the speed of light...
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by schappim 4y ago
Perhaps it is not a client hardware issue, but a lack of coverage at your latitude.
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by schappim 4y ago
How much does it cost to install on my private jet? Or is it a case of if I have to ask, I don't have a private jet?
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by schappim 4y ago
>> Yes, I'm aware of 3x3 but for the most common usage of Ruby which if for Rails apps - there hasn't been anything like the gains PHP saw from 5.x to 7.x. This has simply not been my experience. The jump in performance in t
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by schappim 4y ago
Why? What are the main limitations for precision? US switching off GPS? Glonass not up to the job? Is it a speed thing? Hard to get a position lock? Do you really need ultra accurate precision IMUs to compensate? So many questions…
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Lufthansa confirms ban on “activated AirTags”(twitter.com)
22 points by schappim 4y ago|1 comments
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by schappim 4y ago
>> There’s a massive compounding ecosystem value in AirTags. I agree with you, but I'd agree with you even more if you swapped out "AirTags" for "Find My Network"[0]. >> Anecdotally, I don’t know anyone
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by schappim 4y ago
Putting an AirTag in my passport wallet, has saved me a ton of unnecessary stress, both before, after (and during travel).
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by schappim 4y ago
Just wait until AirTags have accelerometers in them too (capturing all the abuse to bags)! Seriously though, I'll be surprised if Apple puts any serious resources into future versions of the AirTag, given the amount of bad PR[0] they&#

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