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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> JetBrains kills X11 Absolute BS: > On Linux, WebStorm now runs using Wayland by default. This change should provide better high-resolution display scaling and more reliable input handling. The IDE will fall back to X11 if your envir
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
Good times... i once used a 1.44mb floppy as a springboard to boot Linux from a parallel-port ZIP drive. It was slow as molasses but it worked. The ZIP disks cost something like 100 DM (approx. 50 Euros) each at the time for 100 (120?) MB.
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
i'm not sure if the site is broken or i'm mis-using it, but clicking on "Training" shows me a directive card which does not respond to any clicking or otherwise appear to do anything. Likewise, the dots to the right of i
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
The reason, i opine, that so few people switch from Windows to any Unix flavor is that Windows users are waiting for the two productivity suites which make Windows at least marginally usable (cygwin and msys) to be ported to any of the Unix
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
A tip for the author, if they're here: those big flashing cursors at the top and bottom of the page make it exceedingly difficult for some of us to read the nearby text. Human eyes have evolved to follow the flashiest thing around, so
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> I agree it came off a bit clickbaity Not clickbaity, but downright misleading and, for all we know about the XHR traffic, potentially malicious. > But i need a way to marketing this intially. Posting a site which blatantly fakes sta
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> I like that it's an SD-card based RPi: something known to fail under completely normal usage FWIW, my pi-hole server has been running 24/7 on a Pi Zero with the same micro-SD card for some 4-odd years.
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> lol @ the fake realtime "just searched for" toasts on a setInterval in the bottom left. There is intermittent XHR traffic, but it's most definitely not returning any such information and it's posting what looks (in
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> Instead, if I had AI that could write in my voice as well as me, I'd use it to help me dramatically improve the quality of my writing. I'd keep my effort constant, and the quality bar would go way up. That's distinctly d
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> If you mean you had 1.1.1.2 as a secondary, and don't want it to have a different configuration, you can use 1.0.0.1 along with 1.1.1.1 instead. i had no clue which one was active. It was, for me, just a checkbox at the time. This
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> It cannot then inspect further traffic but it certainly can log your IP address and all URL's a given IP ever hit. Correction: they can log host names/IPs, not URLs. The path of any given URL is part of the HTTP header, invis
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> I'm excited for when AI is good enough to be able to do this well. Any writer who admits that they are actively working towards having a machine write their material has lost me as a potential reader. Spend some time talking to an
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> (I'll stop now. I'm really sorry, but come on, it's Sunday). FWIW, you made an eggceptional attempt :).
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> Sites should think seriously hard about server side rendering... The rise of AI crawlers makes that ever less appetizing. Moving the workloads to the client is, among other things, a form of DoS mitigation.
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> people would need to know how to effectively include dependencies in a way that allows them to be tree shaken Is the need for tree-shaking not 100% a side-effect of dependency-mania? Does it not completely disappear once one has ones
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> Why not do some compile time #ifdef SUPPORT_ES3? Rather unfortunately, JS has no native precompiler. For the SQLite project we wrote our own preprocessor to deal with precisely that type of thing (not _specifically_ that thing, but fil
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> why do you use Cloudflare on your pi-hole? Because "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." i'm not one of those users who want to endlessly tweak their ad blocker. i want to set it up, clicking as few checkboxes as
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> This should have been a problem with a much more efficient solution given the advancements in the AI, data analysis and OCR space. There's got to be a "it's a chicken/egg problem" joke in there somewhere, but i
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> Estimated token cost $1,591 > Confirmed egg receipts 589 > Total egg spend captured $1,972 > Total eggs 8,604 ... > I can’t wait to see what 30 years of eggs looks like. At $2.70 per receipt, i'd be in no hurry to
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> 1.1.1.2 is their malware-blocking DNS, and 1.1.1.3 is their parental-controls DNS. ... TIL, thank you. Time to go tweak my pi-hole server...
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
(...does this thing to check own profile[^1]...) > Old man raising fist at, and yelling at, clouds. Get off his lawn. [^1]: not really - this is speculation (so... kinda the same thing the LLM is doing) but is possibly an accurate repres
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> but I wonder - is it rare in Vegas? If you're asking me, i can't say: we left Vegas in 1982 and i've not been there since 1997. If not aimed specifically at me... i also can't say. Either way, can't say.
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
FWLIW: as an native-born Las Vegan, i approve! :-D This brings back some early-1990s nostalgia.
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
Slight correction: > StringBuilder works off a single mutable character buffer. One allocation. It's one allocation to instantiate the builder and _any_ number of allocations after that (noting that it's optimized to reduce all
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> I don't understand the complaints about Wayland. The last time a distro tried to sell me on it, it left me unable to drag/drop browser tabs to reorder them (a fundamental part of my daily workflow). Thankfully, Mint still has
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> As a ~20 year old this feels so weird to read. I'm still considered young in ~10 years? One of these days, maybe as early as your mid-/late-40s, you will be consulting with your a medical doctor and realize that you are the o
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> As a ~20 year old this feels so weird to read. I'm still considered young in ~10 years? An anecdote for you... In Summer 1997 i was 24 at a family reunion, listening to my grandmother and several other seniors talk about some rece
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
> It's incredibly pervasive on SaaS marketing pages. That would explain my ignorance of it - such sites are in the bottom negligible percentage of sites which i might accidentally visit but never purposely do.
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
The poster seems to be implying that this effect is prevalent across the web, yet i'm seeing it for the very first time on that post. (And, indeed, it's annoying. My eyes can't read when there's animation going on nearby
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by sgbeal 7mo ago
Patches to remedy that would certainly be thoughtfully considered.

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