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541.
by veidr 4y ago
but i hate summer and love winter (but NorHemi FTW whooooo000000!!! )
542.
by veidr 4y ago
I am pretty weirded out by all the fellow software engineers I meet who just like, use git (the CLI program) directly. It seems crazy to me, like just writing every loop in assembly language because, you know, it's a loop, might be p
543.
by veidr 4y ago
The TL;DR of the video is that 5.1 can render foliage (trees/shrubs) better, and that is a significant advance. It's not that it's a bargain, or a good value for the price. The title of the video is "Why Unreal Engine 5.
544.
by veidr 4y ago
Oh I should add that I track my family members with it, and it is fucking superb. Like when my wife (iPhone) is coming home by taxi, or my kid (hand-me-down Apple Watch) is coming home by subway, it's almost like one of those fake Holl
545.
by veidr 4y ago
Seems to work for me in Japan, although the "u left ur ipad behind broooo!!!!!" feature is not useful (100s of notifications; never actually left unintentionally). AirPods specifically: annoying alerts in airports, like 20 minutes
546.
by veidr 4y ago
therefore... what?
547.
by veidr 4y ago
That is right, and I did try it, but they made it so that if you enable that then voice input no longer works. (T_T)
548.
by veidr 4y ago
OK, I can't keep reading this website any more tonight, but for fuck's sake you do realize that the submission you are commenting on is a completely open and self-hosted solution that is on the market, right?
549.
by veidr 4y ago
With all due respect, I find that thesis absurd. Maybe you meant it like, "the voice assistant space isn't going to generate huge profits, and thus giant corporations will lose interest". But even that is absurd. They will st
550.
by veidr 4y ago
OK, I see. Really interesting, but I guess not surprising. We talk a lot about inherent/implicit bias these days, and that's probably an example of it. I wonder if the Mycroft project people are aware of the issue?
551.
by veidr 4y ago
Would love to read about experiences actually using this (I mean Mycroft in general) — good, bad, or otherwise. Also, though: why don't we have "text assistants"? Seems to me the process of deciphering spoken text is (or shou
552.
by veidr 4y ago
> sexism in the voice recognition What does this mean? Mycroft prefers taking orders from dudes?
553.
by veidr 4y ago
For me, it was the second application I ever released, when I was a student at university and still didn't really know how to program properly. The application was Dash Board[1] for Newton OS, and it only ran on the final generation of
554.
by veidr 4y ago
Agreed about the performance. I even think this feature is cool (I don't use Copilot to write code, but happily pay the $120/year just for the time saved writing docs (the kind colocated with code, like rustdoc, JSDoc, etc) and un
555.
by veidr 4y ago
> devote the bulk of his wealth to fighting climate change Fine, or at least OK, but that seems to me the kind of thing that $100,000,000,000.00 isn't enough to move the needle on. He'll probably have better luck by continuing
556.
by veidr 4y ago
Sorry, we're changing that. The only question is whether we (proponents of gender-nonspecific and plural-nonspecific "they") will beat them (people who misspell "lose" as "loose" — remember, it only ta
557.
by veidr 4y ago
There is considerable debate[1] about whether or not the US is, in its contemporary form, an oligarchy (including, I suppose, your (parenthetical) refutation of that notion above). Personally, I'm persuaded by the argument that it is a
558.
by veidr 4y ago
This particular technology initiative does appear to be an effort to build a system that harnesses unpaid volunteers as fact-checkers. However, according to today's front-page Washington Post[1] article, they are also still paying peop
559.
by veidr 4y ago
Yes, it is pretty common these days. Most decent to high-end desktop PC motherboards seem to include it these days, and it can also be added easily now via USB 3 dongle or newer USB/thunderbolt docks (e.g. on laptops, where it seems to
560.
by veidr 4y ago
Oh, the TLD that went down for many hours (more than a day IIRC?) that one time a couple years ago — forcing all the companies like the one I work at, who host their own stuff on .io and use statuspage.io, to really scramble... fun times!
561.
by veidr 4y ago
I definitely prefer wired Ethernet, not only because it is more reliable and requires less setup and software configuration than Wi-Fi — but it is also just faster. 10Gbps hardware is still kind of expensive, but 2.5Gbps hardware is dirt ch
562.
by veidr 4y ago
We use the "PLUGABLE 2.5G USB-C AND USB TO ETHERNET ADAPTER"[1] on M1 Max machines without problem (and I would consider the need to install any extra software a problem). We've used this plugged directly into the Mac, and al
563.
by veidr 4y ago
The "normal people don't want federation" sentiment is really just a misstatement of "normal people don't want bad and/or complicated UIs". Easy to conflate, because (yes, email aside) there are essentiall
564.
by veidr 4y ago
I'm American, so — you know. It does make logical sense to do so, but I've never known anybody who keeps a safety vest in their vehicle. Is this something like the metric system?
565.
by veidr 4y ago
You're definitely right. If so far you've only cared about PHP, until finally Node became dominant, then... Yeah. You should just wait until 2035, then check again if Deno is relevant. If so, might be time to take another look.
566.
by veidr 4y ago
Programming languages don't succeed/fail on their own merits; popularity is driven by externalities, the main one being "what can I do with this language"? Dart seems fine to me; as a person who doesn't really use i
567.
by veidr 4y ago
Only if you are willing to fuck with it every week or two to keep it alive. They changed their free tier recently and they now turn off your project if it’s not “active”. (They don’t delete it, but your have to log in and turn it back on.)
568.
by veidr 4y ago
This announcement quintuples the huh? factor on the question I already had, namely: the fuck hell is the difference between USB4 and Thunderbolt 4??
569.
by veidr 4y ago
Yeah, that's why I remain optimistic about the browser's future. My ranting was mainly about JavaScript itself. We are already seeing real world web apps using WASM. (What I have seen is indeed mostly Rust, but in theory there are
570.
by veidr 4y ago
For blogs, sure, JavaScript is "fast enough". But in the context of applications , JavaScript is slow as dog shit . It takes "seconds" to open my spreadsheet? That is an absolutely deplorable regression. Personally, I&

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