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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
Yeah, it's pretty much to support backwards compatibility with old smart TVs and the like. They already enforce stricter rules on new hi-res content, and once those old devices cycle out of service you can expect the support to go away
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
They might be using Claude as a translation app and not realizing that the AI style stands out in English.
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
Note this is about the City of London, an entity much smaller and older than the modern city known as London. It's land area is about 3 km^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London Title should probably read
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
Every time a building fell apart due to earthquake, fire, flood, war, abandonment- the good material was taken for reuse and the bad material became rubble which was often smoothed out and used as a foundation.
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
> What we should have the ability to rapidly scale production. How should the US make the manufacture of, say, the primers for artillery shells "rapidly scalable" in a way that is different from building a large stockpile? Be s
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
I do have a pair of $250 leather riding boots that have lasted me many years so far and I'm pretty sure will last that long, but they also require cleaning and polishing a few times a year....
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
I use an ergodox EZ, due to a severe injury in my 20s. Frequently used symbols are on some of the extra keys, less frequently used ones are accessed via a shift combo. By week 2 I was faster on it than a QWERTY keyboard. I don't game o
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
Yeah, we make quite a bit more than that even at IC level. The best jobs are typically not send out for recruiters - people check their networks first, and only go to a recruiter if nobody in their network is available.
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
This was literally a plot element in "Big Brother" - the protagonists use modded xboxes to create a mesh network to avoid government surveillance.
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
You'd be surprised. I live in a state most SFers consider the middle of nowhere, and my friends and I make more in absolute terms than most SF companies offer (excepting the top tier). 90k is not much more than entry level IT pay here,
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
> If all the workers are off shore I forget that HN forgets that many companies don't sell software yet have SWE teams.
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
You only need one person stateside to review and sign off on the work and that person can be outsourced to an accounting firm.
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
> If software engineering is not special and can be done by anyone, so can any other role in a business. Indeed, however other business roles have a significant physical presence or face to face component. Sales & marketing, legal, H
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
A lot of the solutions are buried in places AI can't scrape or train on. Like inside people's brains or inside private codebases or chatrooms not open to bots. However you can find these people and the products and services they&#
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
Presumably because they all traveled there for a temporary part of their lives. And after university, they presumably scattered to the places where they built their careers and families.
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
In my experience: 1. Start building stuff that is hard to build that requires touching these niche topics. Especially stuff you don't know how to build 2. As you encounter problems, you'll have to scour for solutions (AI doesn&#x2
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
This is exactly the kind of conversation I can have with some coworkers and in some Discord channels. Aren't people awesome?
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
Yup the Stream URL is a valid HTTP media!
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
I find it handy for streaming videos from my Jellyfin server with good subtitling support, then casting to a TV!
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
Yes, the bigger fonts are easier to read.
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
Tab crashes sometimes, other times my browser gets slow and I restart the whole thing
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
Kagi has this as a website https://kagi.com/summarizer and as a browser extension. Really handy for deciding if a long video is worth watching.
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
Firefox and Chrome use the same agent.
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
Been crashing for me and friends for about a week now, mostly on youtube
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
HIV has become a manageable disease in my lifetime. The main issue today is access to medication as I understand it.
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
> Is MacWhisper a $60 GUI for a Python script that just runs the model? Yes, a large genre of MacOS apps are "Native GUI wrappers around OSS scripts"
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by trenchpilgrim 11mo ago
> Start a new session with a blank context Why would I use a blank context with Claude Code? I have it dump the stuff I want to save in CLAUDE.md and it reloads it in future sessions.
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by trenchpilgrim 1y ago
given enough time we all become disabled
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by trenchpilgrim 1y ago
No I just sometimes use my phone while lying down lol

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