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by smcnally 2y ago
> the former chief creative officer of Leo Burnett US, recalls one agency trying to lure her in the ’90s with a stunning oceanfront house in Rye, N.Y. That’s quite creative or a great troll: Rye, NY has no oceanfront. It does have a Play
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by smcnally 2y ago
“Banned” means someone else decides what’s considered advertising. Does it include Monday Night Football brought to you by MSFT Surface? The MLB World Series powered by GOOG? Or Pepsi’s American Idol? Stop buying things from advertisers and
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by smcnally 2y ago
AI anti-ad blockers are part of that same future. Brought to you by the same company who brought you the ad blockers!
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by smcnally 2y ago
Amazing to watch Herbie Hancock approach the synth / sampler keys as its own instrument distinct from piano or rhodes or clav. He’s very comfortable with the stylus and touchscreen ui, too. They fit snugly into his workflow to where it
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by smcnally 2y ago
Without steps 2) - 7), the shops still have massive logging problems. Doing those steps has the shops closer to defining the problem and showing insights and possibilities. Step 5) quantifies costs for a solution that works. > 6) Start r
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by smcnally 2y ago
Thank you for this post. I’d read it in ~June and it helped quite a bit with manual ‘nvidia-smi’ runs. I just recently created the systemd service description and am still delving related power and performance possibilities.
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by smcnally 2y ago
much more difficult to recall without the aid of a passwd manager
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by smcnally 2y ago
The xkcd password requires the use of spaces as legal characters. For some reason, this is still an issue with the majority of orgs with complex password requirements.
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by smcnally 2y ago
> I would much rather use TOTP than be forced to use a phone number. Phones can break. Phones / SMS is also less secure than TOTP. It’s odd that most orgs that require 2FA yet accept only phone calls or sms as the second factor are
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by smcnally 2y ago
Until starting to work with local LLMs, I’d used nouveau / libre drivers for years without major issues. It’s sort of amazing how much troubleshooting and wrestling is involved getting CUDA working with older, newer or middling hardwa
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by smcnally 2y ago
One day I’m going to share stories here of how the "Columbia House Record Club" worked to watch people assume the foetal position and rock themselves to horrified sleep.
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by smcnally 2y ago
I don’t begrudge them requesting an authorized user account for some cases. YMMV. They balance this against allowing more open access to other projects, features and functions. Their balanced approach seems reasonable.
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by smcnally 2y ago
… and once that was done, it started harassing me to install Windows 11. “Harassing” like full screen takeovers with buried “no thanks” buttons and secondary “ARE YOU SURE?” screens once I found and clicked the close buttons. That hasn’t st
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by smcnally 2y ago
I just bought a Dell with blank-slate Windows 10 install. Windows Update came up on first boot. Most of the things billg said in this 2003 email remain true. e.g. > This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to downl
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by smcnally 2y ago
> Crows are monogamous, so I see the same pair flying together all the time. We see hundreds of crows every morning and dusk. Even close up, I’m hard pressed to distinguish most of them from one another. Perhaps ours in Southern Californ
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by smcnally 2y ago
Meta data like tone, timbre, amplitude also communicate intent and meaning beyond ‘dah’s and ‘dit’s.
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by smcnally 2y ago
That repo’s not listed https://github.com/orgs/HVision-NKU/repositories
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by smcnally 3y ago
Agreed re stewardship & hope for long-term viability. Operation + updates ~3x / year for the iOS, macos and Linux clients I use daily and also for Android and Windows. Freemium and paywalling hasn’t infringed on utility yet and the
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by smcnally 3y ago
Static builds of nightlies and releases are available https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/
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by smcnally 3y ago
“American Football is a game of centiyards, not feet.” — Official Hand-egg rulebook
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by smcnally 3y ago
There must be something in the water this week for kids who grew up in that era -- posted earlier about Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Sesame Street documentaries "Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street" & "Won&#x
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by smcnally 3y ago
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” kicks off with Fred at the piano and is a good documentary throughout. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7681902/?ref_=nm_knf_t_2 (That’s IMDB’s ‘ref_’)
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by smcnally 3y ago
“RAS syndrome” is a good PIN number.
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by smcnally 3y ago
And “the most-popular encoder on at least two planets” as Mars Rover Perseverance runs it. https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/lpz3l7/the_mars_2020...
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by smcnally 3y ago
Like “truthy.”
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by smcnally 3y ago
In Spanish, too — and other subject–object–verb languages
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by smcnally 3y ago
All thanks to Ho-Ho’s vision for it in 1963: https://youtu.be/0HbGY6teMKU
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by smcnally 3y ago
“List mode items can now be dragged by the name“ not just the icon — very helpful https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/c3dfe1e2...
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by smcnally 3y ago
Going analog after long stretches of being digital is a good forcing function to take breaks and get physical. Even just strumming and knob twisting is enough change-up to get different juices flowing. This Push looks even more fun with con
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by smcnally 3y ago
Thank you for your service. Solaris felt more considered and reasoned than AIX and microchannel Linux I was learning in ~95 and so helped me learn more.

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