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by varenc 1y ago
It's intentional. They don't want you engaging with content off their site. I hate it.
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by varenc 1y ago
Absolutely! Thanks for bringing this up. I remember one of his points is that people have a tendency to hide behind obtuse language to try to make their insight seem more impressive. I think about this constantly when I see writing that cle
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by varenc 1y ago
I had the privilege of taking Winston's communications/AI seminar class in college. It was an odd format. The class outwardly presented itself as a seminar class where you just read and discuss AI papers. Several of the papers inv
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by varenc 1y ago
IMHO this is a play that happens across industries. For example: - Land Rover building reputation with their rugged Defender and then cashing in on that by pivoting to a far less capable luxury SUV. Same with most off road cars. - North Fac
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by varenc 1y ago
I believe this is the real paper for those curious: https://pure.lib.usf.edu/ws/portalfiles/portal/40758246/Adeq... This new rating system uses the old system and 2 new rating categories Wind (from
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by varenc 1y ago
I think you’re in total agreement with the authors of this new system. They’re simply making a new categorization system that is closer to a 1:1 mapping between the classification and what local authorities are saying about potential dange
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by varenc 1y ago
Damnnn, wonder what hardware you need to run DPI on a nation's internet.
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by varenc 1y ago
Is it the protocol that's blocked as a result of DPI, or just the default 51820 UDP port that's blocked? If the latter, just changing your Wireguard server's port might work.
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by varenc 1y ago
> In the OpenAI API, “GPT-5” corresponds to the “minimal” reasoning level, and “GPT-5 (Reasoning)” corresponds to the “low” reasoning level. (159135374) It's interesting that the highest level of reasoning that GPT-5 in XCode supp
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by varenc 1y ago
Chrome Dev tools, and hopefully others, have a performance monitor option that lets you throttle the CPU and throttle the network. It should be plenty possible to test performance of sites on simulated 10th percentile systems, but this just
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by varenc 1y ago
Agreed with this sentiment. It's a very thoughtful modernization of Arial. A commenter below made me realize that their re-design nicely supports the tabular (monospaced) font variant. Shows attention to detail.
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by varenc 1y ago
I hadn't noticed that! Playing with CSS, the Areal font seems to have a serif on that `1` because of this CSS property: `font-feature-settings: "tnum"`. I assume this is some advanced font feature that original Arial doesn&#x
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by varenc 1y ago
For fun, here's a gif alternating between their new 'Areal Variable' font and my browser's default Arial: https://i.imgur.com/B5UcBRK.gif the difference mainly seems to be spacing?
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by varenc 1y ago
It's 'available' for download here: https://www.are.na/_next/static/media/9844201f12bf51c2-s.p.w... (but definitely don't think the license permits free use)
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by varenc 1y ago
Given the types of folks on Are.na, this much energy on a slightly new typeface is very much on-brand for their designer heavy crowd. Know your users! In other news: are.na still hasn't disabled Introspection on their GraphQL API endpo
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by varenc 1y ago
I use scrypted! It's 'open source' but not free. Was just talking about getting detecting in the Unifi Protect NVR (which is pretty nice I admit)
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by varenc 1y ago
I meant to say that ' If your binary is supposed to live in `/Applications`, by all means put its config in `~/Application Support` ' is moot because CLI binaries aren't in /Applications ever
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by varenc 1y ago
> My personal practice when writing command line utiities for macOS is to use the macOS API to write settings (previously known as “preferences”) into ~/Library/Preferences This would mean that essentially all edits to the co
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by varenc 1y ago
Agreed! but mostly moot. As a general rule, CLI utilities which are just single binaries should not go in /Applications. That folder is for app bundles which are folders with a .app extension, an Info.plist file, etc. And its not on th
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by varenc 1y ago
If can support detection events on 3rd party ONVIF cameras, but you have to buy a seperate ubiquiti hardware product to run the detections. Either an AI Port or an AI Key.
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by varenc 1y ago
Changing the rules is definitely more work than maintaining status quo. Imagine a giant bureaucracy and all the things that are would need to adjust. And granting prisoners even limited internet access is fraught. A close friend of mine tau
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by varenc 1y ago
In my childhood I definitely thought Greenland was a much physically large place than it is, because of the mercator world map the hung on the wall in home room. Was dumbfounded when I learned it actually fits within the continental US.
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by varenc 1y ago
> I hope someone attaches Bluetooth speakers to their shoes and locks every cart in target, so they have to remove the system. Friends did this college in like 2005. Cambridge area, Shaws Market I think. I imagine the hardware setup was
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by varenc 1y ago
Here's some other US federal agencies that also have annual budgets bigger than most of the world's militaries: - Food and Nutrition Service (USDA) (~$142B) - NIH (~$47B) - Tenant-Based Rental Assistance / Housing
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by varenc 1y ago
digression: I use Google Fi as my carrier but it's an MVNOs that's largely on T-Mobile. I don't believe Google Fi is selling my location data (they already know it via other ways), but since it runs on the T-Mobile network, t
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by varenc 1y ago
Are AI crawlers equipped to get past reCAPTCHA or hCAPTCHA? This seems like exactly the thing these services were meant to stop.
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by varenc 1y ago
The Apple Watch already requires an iPhone for setup.
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by varenc 1y ago
Here's a simple thing that will fix cheapo electronics with this problem: https://www.tindie.com/products/edison517/usb-chyna/ (it just connects CC1 + CC2 with the appropriate 5.1k resistors)
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by varenc 1y ago
Anyone got this to compile on macOS yet? The homebrew binary doesn't yet (and probably won't ever) include the --enable-whisper compile option.
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by varenc 1y ago
> the US already has "facial recognition vans" on the road in the form of Waymos that will provide video to police upon request. These seem meaningfully different than UK's facial recognition vans. The government has to r

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