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by varenc 1y ago
> Yeah the Chat router is busted big time... You have to add "Think hard." to the end of the prompt, or explicitly switch to the Thinking model in the UI. I don't really get this gripe? It seems no different than before, e
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by varenc 1y ago
Nope that's not what I mean. iPad OS has a "Limit charge to 80%" in Battery Health in system settings. This is different because it always limits the charge to 80% no matter what. Screenshot: https://discussions.a
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by varenc 1y ago
I have the same frustration. The built in Apple algorithm is far too conservative. The `batt` tool has solved this for me now. iPad OS on recent iPads has a dead simple "limit charge to 80%" option in system settings. MacOS should
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by varenc 1y ago
I use this project which does the same thing: https://github.com/charlie0129/batt and they recently added a basic GUI as well.
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by varenc 1y ago
As said in the article, it's Asian in origin. Probably wouldn't call it invasive since it needs renewal on a regular basis.
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by varenc 1y ago
> You already need very high end hardware to run useful local LLMs A basic macbook can run gpt-oss-20b and it's quite useful for many tasks. And fast. Of course Macs have a huge advantage for local LLMs inference due to their shared
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by varenc 1y ago
I'm doing this now with Home Assistant voice. All the TTS, STT, and LLMs involved run locally on my network. It's absurdly superior to every other voice assistant product. (Would be nice if it was just a pure multi-modal model tho
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by varenc 1y ago
This is a great use for privacy.com generated credit cards! Basically, you create a unique credit card number but set its budget to $1. They won't be able to start charging you until you raise the limit on the card. That's how I t
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by varenc 1y ago
You can setup and initialize an AP with a controller, and that controller doesn't require a cloud account or internet access.
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by varenc 1y ago
truth, didn't mean to imply otherwise.
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by varenc 1y ago
You really don't need a Ubiquiti account. They of course make it the default, but you can check a "local user only" box and then just create a local user with a username and password. I really appreciate this about them. You
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by varenc 1y ago
The "UniFi Protect" NVR server can ingest a feed from a 3rd party ONVIF camera, but I don't believe Ubiquiti's own cameras can expose themselves over ONVIF. Their camera's still seemed locked to their NVR software.
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by varenc 1y ago
Another solution is just to fully turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. (Not "disable new connections" but fully turn them off). I have a Shortcut on my iPad's homescreen that does this. Just keeping Bluetooh off definitely greatly i
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by varenc 1y ago
pmset -g assertions in the shell will also tell you which processes are preventing sleep, and it'll tell you the exact power assertions that are being held. (`pmset` has some other undocumented commands, you can discovery some
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by varenc 1y ago
This seems like it contributes to the problem, but doesn't feel like the root cause at all. Every homeowner, not just the ultra wealthy, has an incentive to oppose new housing. (Though in many metros any homeowner is automatically we
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by varenc 1y ago
This feels like a classic example of a platform provider eating its own ecosystem. There's many custom "GPTs" out there that do essentially the same thing with custom instructions. Mr Ranedeer[0] is an early well known one (3
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by varenc 1y ago
Interesting that it spits the instructions out so easily and OpenAI didn't seem to harden it to prevent this. It's like they intended this to happen, but for some reason didn't want to share the system instructions explicitly
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by varenc 1y ago
It does disrupt the user experience and clobber a site's own home page, but associating a persistent identity to a user is VERY valuable to sites, and normal sign up flows have a lot of friction. They probably figured it's worth t
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by varenc 1y ago
In my working life I've literally never had the chance to program in a functional language...it's been 90% Python for me. And I mostly love it. Though I do remember when first learning Python I was bummed out how limited the Pytho
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by varenc 1y ago
I guess that's my point. With instant loading thanks to preload and smooth view transitions, taking an action, while actually loading a new page, shouldn't feel like loading a new page. Should be indistinguishable from a SPA actio
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by varenc 1y ago
What do you mean by 'interactive like a native app'? The article is focusing on two main parts of making things feel like an app: page view transitions and speed/preloading. To me, those seem like a big part of what makes a
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by varenc 1y ago
I was one of the last batches of students on the old Scheme curriculum. I absolutely loved it! Understanding that all loops could be done via recursion, and what a side effect is, is what fundamentally made me fall in love with CS. I'v
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by varenc 1y ago
This is why the EU law was nonsense. Many of those cookies listed are just because of they want embed things like YouTube or Vimeo videos. Embedding YouTube to show videos to your users is massively cheaper and easier than self hosted vi
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by varenc 1y ago
If the law incentivized practically every website to implement the law in the "wrong" way, then the law seems wrong and its implications weren't fully thought out.
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by varenc 1y ago
> - I use the "Old Reddit Redirect" extension to force the browser to go to old reddit if you make a Reddit account, you can flip an obscure setting so that www.reddit.com serves the same site as old.reddit.com
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by varenc 1y ago
But from my quote, it sounds like federal agencies couldn't actually search the data themselves. Rather the Feds would do something like make a request to the Sacramento PD (random example), and then Sacramento would then search the OP
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by varenc 1y ago
> The OPD didn’t share information directly with the federal agencies. Rather, other California police departments searched Oakland’s system on behalf of federal counterparts more than 200 times — providing reasons such as “FBI investig
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by varenc 1y ago
That makes sense in terms of fairness. But if the utilities are a capitalistic business selling a limited resource (energy), and FB/OAI are willing to pay a higher price for it, then it affects the price for everyone.
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by varenc 1y ago
It's a very dumb device. If you don't put in a separate wifi module it literally has no way to phone home.
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by varenc 1y ago
Cursor isn't building models trained with the outputs of Anthropic models (I think). That's what the ToS is forbidding.

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