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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
The simplicity and efficiency of Visual Basic UI programming relied on several assumptions that became obsolete in 2000 when LCD and high-DPI displays became widely available. Everything in the VB UI editor was based on a fixed layout. Ther
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I'm not being sarcastic. I'm predicting a trajectory of never-ending increase of regulatory requirements for any human activity which I don't like. Only big players have deep pocket for lobbyists and lawyers to avoid them or
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
Following this logic, I suppose that, in the future, cars that cannot automatically detect the presence of a child in a wheelchair and prevent the engine from starting will be banned.
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
It's not even active yet, and I have already started to have an icky feeling when using things like WhatsUp. Who will watch the watchers?
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
He wrote his science fiction novel "Cat's Cradle" before Slaughterhouse-Five, and I consider this novel to be his best. It is essentially an intelligent parody of the madness of scientists who are eager to make a breakthrough
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
Assuming the AI coding tools progress at their current rate (which is probable but not guaranteed), 90% of the code generated by AI will become commonplace for certain types of projects. An LLM is essentially a statistical text engine that
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> Those languages have existed for 20+ years so if they were ruled out as part of the original decision making then they probably still aren't applicable. There are huge C++ code bases that are 15+ years old and are still actively m
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
One of the main reasons the AIX workstation machines continued to be used even after the Windows NT workstation era began was the CAD software CATIA V4 from Dassault Systèmes. CATIA V5 was the first version to support Windows NT. However, i
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
Thank you! I don't even know what a "quantized version" is, but I was expecting answers about NVIDIA graphics cards and their memory. My computer has 24GB of memory, but I'll go for 64GB to run this locally on a new comp
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
I would argue that this case also demonstrates the aforementioned problem. Apparently, an older version of the Windows OS was tolerant to this specific bug, and the game worked just fine. Future users might not be even aware that an updat
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
It's a nice website, but when I click on any music genre label, my Firefox asks: "Allow music.ishkur.com to use your HTML5 image data? This may be used to uniquely identify your computer." ...but why?
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
Can anyone suggest what's the cheapest hardware to run this model locally with a reasonable performance?
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This shows that having a legal way to run outdated operating systems is always important to guarantee that old software runs exactly as intended. Online activation schemes make this problematic. The solution seems to be installing and ful
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
In case you didn't know what Meshtastic [0] is: Meshtastic® is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructur
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
Without a doubt, Suno Studio boasts some impressive features. One of the introductory videos features a voice-to-saxophone demonstration. The result sounded surprisingly good to me and was perfectly usable. I wonder how AI-assisted music pr
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> with frameworks for all layers Not only that. Those frameworks are constantly changing. Old APIs are left behind while new, incompatible APIs are introduced swiftly. Fortunately, the Linux desktop is now perfectly usable despite all th
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> humans each model will produce fairly similar results on each prompt, but it helps having 8 billion different models running Yes, that was my point. We don't have 8 billion AI models. Furthermore, existing models are also trained
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
From many perspectives, the creativity of AI is hugely overrated. If AI were so capable of creating original, innovative content then asking the same question all over again would produce an endless list of very unique outputs. But this i
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
For a comparison, the "similar" computer from 2006 [0] had a maximum configuration of 4xCPU @ 1 GHz and 8GB of RAM. It weighed 60 lb (27 kg) and looked like this: https://imgur.com/fc7BWTc But Raspberry Pi 500+ ha
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
It is astonishing! It's especially impressive when you realize that the motherboard itself is so small that most of the keyboard interior is basically empty space [0]. [0]: https://assets.raspberrypi.com/static/259
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
This is nitpicking. The project was called Quantum, and the goal was to gradually replace Gecko components with Servo parts [0]. [0]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Quantum-Servo
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> Mozilla actually dropped Servo at a time when they drastically reduced their efforts in a lot of projects which were considered non critical to their mission. Like the new browser engine is not critical to the mission of providing an i
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
Mozilla dropped Servo after realizing that it would take at least 10+ years to make it a viable replacement for Gecko. I'm sure that as soon as Servo can do everything the Gecko can, the Firefox will adopt it first. The Rust is a nice
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> Symbian phones from early 2010's are more capable... I suppose there was no need to mention Symbian. It was a hellish system to develop for, and once smartphones had a little more RAM and CPU power, Symbian had absolutely no futur
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
The core sentence from the article: “We are exiting on a compressed timeline people where reskilling, based on our experience, is not a viable path for the skills we need,” chief executive Julie Sweet told analysts on a conference call.&quo
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> Title: "Rapsberry Pi 500 Review" It's actually Raspberry Pi 500+ review. Difference includes mechanical keyboard, LED lighting, 16GB of RAM, and NVMe SSD storage. Anyway, this finally looks like a nice ARM64 Linux deskto
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
> That's the debris toggle, I guess No, unfortunately I don't think so. Startlinks are there even when you "disable debris".
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This is really nice! I wish there was a Starlink on/off layer switch, though. Since there are so many Starlink satellites.
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
Stop shipping to EU? Didn't work for Russia [0][1], will not work for the EU either. [0]: https://msk-apple.ru/ [1]: https://apple-com.ru/
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by thw_9a83c 1y ago
It's very nice and interesting, but the font editor is... brutal. There is no way to undo, redo, or move the anchor points. At least you can delete the last line segment by clicking on the last point.

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