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by trog 2y ago
I had a Fitbit Sense for a couple years, before it finally died in the shower. It was just out of warranty. I bought a Fitbit Sense 2 which I thought would be an upgrade but it was amazingly a much worse device. A huge part of it was a simi
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by trog 2y ago
Is it more difficult and expensive than finding new land on which to build new residential buildings in Manhattan?
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by trog 2y ago
I think because it works pretty close to 100 percent of the time with only the most basic maintenance and care (like making sure you don't run out of disk space and keeping up with security updates). You can go amazingly far with this,
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by trog 2y ago
We've got Chromebooks we bought for our org three years ago that aren't EOL until 2028 at the earliest. Some of the more recent ones are 2030.
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by trog 2y ago
They are desperately trying to get it entrenched in company workflows, so when they close it off people pay no questions asked. It's not clear to me if people find it useful enough to pay for, and even where it is, I can't make th
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by trog 2y ago
> How is it that its now a problem? Dealing with an average of 200k has been manageable (well, some would argue with this - we still haven't been building enough houses, but leaving that aside). If you look at 2023 specifically the
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by trog 2y ago
Same in Australia. The government keeps making big noise about these 'big' housing plans and then the number is like 30,000 new houses, which is enough for a couple months. There is zero systemic approach to this problem. I feel l
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by trog 2y ago
In Australia we had over 500,000 immigrants in 2023. Much higher than usual to account for decreased numbers in prior years due to COVID. We only have 6 cities with populations bigger than 500k. We let in a number of people greater than the
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by trog 2y ago
> How is that assessment any better? Because it's easy to not know what the signs of depression are, and once it has been flagged as a possibility, it's easy to simply go to a doctor for professional evaluation. > Why is th
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by trog 2y ago
I guess the difference is code is (almost always) totally deterministic. Or at the very least, they're designed so that is a mostly safe assumption. It doesn't seem likely an LLM will ever do that. Maybe at a certain point of soph
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by trog 2y ago
Could not agree more. If the utility of this thing is based entirely on the right sequence of magic words why aren't we calling it "prompt wizardry" or something that better encapsulates the nature of it.
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by trog 2y ago
The opportunity cost of it though, like every major feature decision in a browser, is presumably very significant. What could they be doing that their users actually want? As a dyed in the wool Firefox user, I am of course very used to disa
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by trog 2y ago
I'm in Australia and the only thing I ever remember being able to get delivered, prior to VC funded delivery companies, was pizza. I guess in the UK (at least in cities) they were big and dense enough to support it but it's never
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by trog 2y ago
I suspect pizza has historically also worked because there have been very few other options so little competition.
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by trog 2y ago
It's not a solution to all of Takeout's problems, but if you just care about backing up email within a Google Workspace, check out Got Your Back: https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back It is, I believe, wr
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by trog 2y ago
A bunch of the models still only ship with 4GB RAM today! 8GB is just recently more common I'd say, but still plenty of 4GB ones out there you can buy brand new. We have a few in the office and they are surprisingly OK. Let down more b
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by trog 2y ago
The typical reason for a business to give a discount for paying for cash is so they can then evade paying tax on that income (at least, here in Australia, but it was my direct experience in the UK as well at least sometimes). The discount h
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by trog 2y ago
Was also looking for something like this - I can't find pricing listed anywhere for their API usage, only the free 1,000 credits - or am I completely misunderstanding how this works?
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by trog 2y ago
Wonder how much of this is due to electric cars seemingly being more likely to have giant gumby touch screens and other non-traditional controls. I find cars like this almost ridiculous to drive, though I've never had one long enough t
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by trog 2y ago
I do - if it's cheap. 99% of my driving is < 30km. I'd love to have a small electric car that costs little to buy, little to run, and deals with the vast majority my trips, and have a second car with longer range for the rare t
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by trog 2y ago
In Thunderbird, can't you just move mail from Inbox to All Mail to archive? I don't use archive on my personal inbox in Gmail so not sure how it works.
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by trog 2y ago
FWIW mine fails on the same file. I've tried a few times, including different sessions of Incognito, but seem to repeatedly get the same error with Llama 3 model: "Could not load the model because Error: ArtifactIndexedDBCache fai
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by trog 2y ago
I don't know if there are still a lot of Tesla shorts, but I wonder if they could offer to fund one of these settlements and then pay for any fines for the person to then breach the gag order. Maybe there are not enough FSD customers f
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by trog 2y ago
Half my organisation runs on 8GB Chromebooks. We were testing one of our app changes the other day and it performed better on the Chromebook than it did on my i7 machine with 32GB.
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by trog 2y ago
I don't know much about Proton Mail but presumably they want that so they can actually provide you with a more complete service, other than just being a mail gateway? I would assume that any technically sophisticated users who just wan
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by trog 2y ago
I keep hearing these "I heard PHP doesn't suck any more but I tried it and it still sucks" sentiments but they inexplicably never explain why
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by trog 2y ago
Why is that a problem? I have always considered it as something of a feature. I guess at massive scale it might be a hassle but are there other reasons?
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by trog 2y ago
We ran several quite popular (millions of monthly users) PHP websites for almost two decades and never ran into any issues of this nature, including a lot of local on-server file I/O. I don't recall doing anything specific or part
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by trog 2y ago
Yep. And I don't tell my relatives to buy Windows any more. I'm not a Google cheerleader but Chromebook is my number 1 choice if people need a basic machine to do webstuff and I want to have zero to do with its maintenance.
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by trog 2y ago
I have a Windows binary I compiled I think in 1997 or 1998 and the same binary still works fine on my PC today.

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