snerbles

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by snerbles 4y ago
We have our Big Macs and Netflix. For now. Of course, that relies on the bread of the bread and circuses staying cheap enough to keep the plebians pacified. If not...a recent example would be the Arab Spring.
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by snerbles 4y ago
It looks like it took social media shaming and backchannels, similar to the occasional desperate post on HN for support for locked accounts and such.
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by snerbles 4y ago
I've been through the whole gamut. Homeschooling to private middle school was rough, mainly in my social circle going from a polite mixed-age group to a crass morass of the local rich kids. 18 months of that did more for my toilet humo
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by snerbles 4y ago
Much of Shakespeare's content would be considered harmful by ChatGPT's filters.
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by snerbles 4y ago
> read the Wikipedia plot synopsis, say "ah what a great story that was, so glad I read it" I have unironically done this for movies/books/games/media I've elected not to consume but otherwise desired to kno
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by snerbles 4y ago
I'm not sure. Losing over a year of in-app progress was massively frustrating. The cute error message added a sarcastically saccharine layer to the whole experience, one memorable enough that I probably would have forgotten about it no
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by snerbles 4y ago
Waze losing my entire account with a "Bad News, Bucko!" was pretty infuriating. I still occasionally use it in vehicles without built-in navigation, but I've never registered another account with them since.
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by snerbles 4y ago
History has shown us repeatedly - the next generation will only learn when the heel of the boot they cheer for is crushing their own throats.
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by snerbles 4y ago
With Tortoise TTS you can add input voice samples from different people to produce new voices that vaguely sound like a combination of the two. It's a bit of a crapshoot, sometimes resulting in wild things like a female voice morphing
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by snerbles 4y ago
I use AVENTER-UG's docker-matrix container for Synapse, and a separate VM for PostgreSQL. Element-web I currently upgrade straight from the tarballs. Upgrades are fairly seamless, and it's been well behaved for the past 24 months
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by snerbles 4y ago
I've been self-hosting a federated Matrix homeserver since 2018. It's small (about 20 active users), but it was enough like Discord and Slack that the less technically-inclined in the group have had little trouble adjusting to it.
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by snerbles 4y ago
Unlike previous Sidewinder iterations with a single-sensor thermal seeker, the AIM-9X has a thermal imaging seeker - it was used to shoot down the much larger balloon last week. https://www.navair.navy.mil/product/AIM-9
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by snerbles 4y ago
Their private tracker ratio is at an acceptable level now.
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by snerbles 4y ago
Participants in the general war threads on /pol/ fill every permutation of the above, including pro-war/radical pro-NATO involvement and anti-Russia elements as well. Overall it's been more of an ideological bar brawl th
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by snerbles 4y ago
My endocrinologist tested for thyroid antibodies - there mere presence of those alone was enough for a diagnosis of Hashimoto's disease. My actual T4/TSH levels were on the low side of normal - so a typical GP would likely have ig
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by snerbles 4y ago
While I was in undergrad I toyed around with abusing the branch predictor on a few different machines, compiling something like the following with optimizations off - it performs an identical computation regardless of branch outcome:
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by snerbles 4y ago
With a budget of $7,000
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by snerbles 4y ago
Hopefully your progress gets saved in time when the spot instance inevitably gets terminated in the midst of training.
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by snerbles 4y ago
It's better now, but it was quite common for forms to permit only one selection and have no "Other". Having to repeated explain the existence of multiracial people to admins and H.R. types was...tiresome.
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by snerbles 4y ago
Given the OPM breach, I'm not too keen on the competence of governments holding records either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management... > Approximately 22.1 million records were affected
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by snerbles 4y ago
Some car collectors absolutely do rent out their vintage cars, for a variety of purposes including film, ad shoots, events, etc.
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by snerbles 4y ago
Time to research the market for sassy automotive AIs.
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by snerbles 4y ago
> where the internal battery has begun to fail Assuming the default failure mode of the battery is degraded capacity. Over the years I've had an alarming number of lithium-polymer batteries puff out in consumer devices ranging from
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by snerbles 4y ago
Growing up playing with BASIC on an old DOS machine, in my childhood solipsism I had this notion that everyone would love writing code as much as I do and it would be nothing special. In the decades since I've come to believe that actu
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by snerbles 4y ago
Some are upset by the "Senate Launch System" epithet, but it applied a decade ago and still applies today.
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by snerbles 4y ago
It can get even more ridiculous as a transfer student. I had to re-take two physics courses at a California State University school that would have otherwise transferred from a junior college due to minor catalog year changes. Ironically th
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by snerbles 4y ago
This seems similar to Cognex's spreadsheet programming model in their industrial smart cameras.
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by snerbles 4y ago
You can throw up what-ifs and counterfactuals all day long - gsibble was the one who wrote the software.
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by snerbles 4y ago
Not mistaken. There were both circular trackpads and a couple of trackballs. Like this: https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8466/8080447493_c11ce3c520_b.j...
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by snerbles 4y ago
Fax machines are still regularly used for business purposes in Japan. While uploading some trip photos at an Akihabara cafe in 2018, I noticed that my laptop at the time (a used Dell XPS from 2015) appeared significantly newer than the lapt

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