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by semi-extrinsic 5mo ago
Tridactyl is alive and kicking for Firefox today?
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by semi-extrinsic 5mo ago
I have a brand new TV where if I plug the HDMI into my M4 MBP, MacOS ceases to have any functioning WiFi capability. Unplug the HDMI and internet returns instantly.
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by semi-extrinsic 5mo ago
FWIW, I had a 4K monitor from 2016 - 2019 that I had to run at 24 Hz due to hardware limitations in a KVM switch. I used this for my day job and experienced no noticeable side effects, even for CAD work. Then again I always disable all anim
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by semi-extrinsic 5mo ago
You can already do this with apps like Kira. I believe it is especially good on the iPhone variants with LiDAR.
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by semi-extrinsic 5mo ago
Not immediately clear to me, is this limited to ghu_xxx type OAUTH tokens? And it's only relevant for PHP projects that use composer in GHA?
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by semi-extrinsic 6mo ago
The people who drill a hole in the ground and then a valuable product literally flows out of it, make more profits when prices of that product go up, compared to the refiners and resellers of the valuable product. I don't think this is
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by semi-extrinsic 6mo ago
Robots are good at things that are "simple" but where human precision is not good enough, or where people would get bored and make mistakes.
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by semi-extrinsic 6mo ago
What part of zero knowledge proofs is problematic for the neighbors?
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by semi-extrinsic 6mo ago
Parents are massively on board. And they are probably moving to a system where you need to link your device with a government issued cryptographic ID (i.e. passport) using zero knowledge proofs. With a system that ensures an identity can on
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by semi-extrinsic 6mo ago
The tech bro CEOs are used to bossing around people much smarter than themselves by virtue of adopting a posture that displays their confidence in their own reproductive organs. They are planning that the AGIs will be the same thing writ la
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by semi-extrinsic 6mo ago
> That isn’t happening with how we make computers today. Keep here in mind that computers today have features approaching the size of a single atom, switching frequencies where the time to cross a single chip from one end to the other is
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by semi-extrinsic 6mo ago
The battery costs $7-$12 to produce and ship to your location, so kind of strange to say $70-$120 is cheap. It's a philosophical thing, sure. But the EU is taking the approach that businesses should make honest money by selling quality
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by semi-extrinsic 6mo ago
This stuff is great for anything savory. Just don't tell your kids what it is. And don't let them smell the raw shrimp paste.
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by semi-extrinsic 6mo ago
Even though some minerals on the Moon contain oxygen, it doesn't mean the dust can't oxidize further when exposed to a gaseous atmosphere with high oxygen partial pressure.
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by semi-extrinsic 6mo ago
Every month when there is a new Chrome release, there is a handful of CVSS 9.x vulnerabilities fixed. I'm always curious about the companies that require vendors to report all instances where patches to CVSS 9.x vulnerabilities are not
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by semi-extrinsic 7mo ago
LLMs are useless for this type of thing for the same reason that the Anarchist Cookbook has always been. The skills required to convert text into complicated reactions completing as intended (without killing yourself) is an art that's
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by semi-extrinsic 7mo ago
They are not a distraction when they are also the command runners.
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by semi-extrinsic 7mo ago
We run everything NPM related inside Apple containers, and are looking to do the same with Python and Rust soon. Bwrap on Linux does the same. I like to think of it like working with dangerous chemicals in the lab. Back in the days, people
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by semi-extrinsic 7mo ago
I don't understand what is fuzzy about "lodpi". I've been using it for 8 years on a 4k 43" screen with 1x scaling. Can't say I noticed any difference when switching several times per day between Linux and an M1
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by semi-extrinsic 7mo ago
We run TurboVNC from macOS to beefy Linux servers on the daily. Just tunnel the connection over SSH. It's been solid for 5+ years.
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by semi-extrinsic 7mo ago
My cellphone provider offers a limited kids cell subscription. Things like "can only call 5 different pre-approved numbers, no data traffic". I think the business model is that after a period of time, people bump into the limitati
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by semi-extrinsic 7mo ago
I "made" something like this 7-8 years ago for our first kid. When I say "made" I mean I bought a "fixed wireless terminal" for $40 on eBay, a classic landline phone for $30, and a cell phone subscription for k
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by semi-extrinsic 7mo ago
> They let the neurons self assemble, and "train" via reward or punishment signals (unclear to me what those are). From the video, my impression was "we have yet to figure out an effective way to reward/punish, this i
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by semi-extrinsic 8mo ago
> And if it can't be copyrighted that means it is in the public domain from the instant it was created and can't be licensed. I don't think this follows? If I vibe code something and never post it anywhere public, I can st
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by semi-extrinsic 8mo ago
> the software giant can’t risk getting more hatred towards their expensive investment in Copilot, especially since Microsoft’s head start in AI is starting to be overshadowed by competitors like Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and maybe eve
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by semi-extrinsic 8mo ago
The actual effect transforming the audio is a neural network. The beauty is that you can record someone playing guitar through an ultra-rare amp/filter/whatnot (both clean signal and output) and then train the neural network to re
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by semi-extrinsic 8mo ago
For comparison, I live in a Scandinavian country where childcare is subsidised, and here a family with two kids living at the poverty limit spends 8% of their income on childcare.
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by semi-extrinsic 8mo ago
> We could potentially do ID checks that only show exactly what the receiver needs to know and nothing else. A stronger statement: we know how to build zero-knowledge proofs over government-issued identification, cf. https://z
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by semi-extrinsic 8mo ago
a thousand times this.
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by semi-extrinsic 8mo ago
What is even the point of having a website for a preprint paper? Unless the point is to give a live demo or similar, as is common e.g. for computer vision methods papers, it just smacks of vanity. Or at the very least significant academic i

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