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by vosper 3y ago
> But there is one thing I hate about it: the bloody Touch Bar and it's phony ESC key. Remap the useless Caps Lock key to Esc in system settings (no third party tools needed) and problem solved?
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by vosper 3y ago
I bought another Macbook Pro because I've used Windows, Mac, and Linux and I like Mac the most. I have an iPhone and I like that, too. I had an Android before. Like you I'm not particularly price sensitive. These are just my prefe
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by vosper 3y ago
There's no published pricing, just "contact sales", if you want SSO. /s
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by vosper 3y ago
I had no idea that a commercial aircraft was manufactured in NZ. Thanks!
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by vosper 3y ago
> I have many uses for a smart, controllable and low-code screen in my house, and barely the time to figure it out myself. I also don’t have time to figure it out, so I’m probably just going to buy a used iPad and put it on the wall. I’l
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by vosper 3y ago
> Google partnered with fitbit last year and now sleep data and other biometrics are shared with the fitbit app Google owns Fitbit, and it’s not clear what the future of Fitbit is as a standalone brand or product line
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by vosper 3y ago
Andrew Huberman’s “Goals Toolkit” is responsible for me finally losing some stubborn weight this year, and I plan to apply it to other things I want to achieve. https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/goals-toolkit-how-to-
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by vosper 3y ago
Please do release a new video! There’s a comment thread about “it’s a pity kindles don’t seem to get jailbroken” so presumably some people are confused (me included)
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by vosper 3y ago
Slay the Spire is awesome, addictive, and can be played for 5 minutes or 5 hours - great recommendation! With very limited gaming time available I’ve been searching for other games like that with limited success, apart from Hitman Go, FTL,
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by vosper 3y ago
Explainer of the ACT-R theory. There’s a lot more at the link than what I’ve quoted below https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/02/15/act-r/ > ACT-R argues that we have two different memory syste
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by vosper 3y ago
Except that the iMessage system belongs to Apple, not to you > The app doesn’t connect to any servers at Beeper itself, only to Apple servers, the way a “real” iMessage text would. https://techcrunch.com/2023/12&#x2F
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by vosper 3y ago
> When the government announces inflation will be 8% This isn’t how it works. Inflation numbers are announced based on what has already happened, not what will/should happen. I do think there’s something to the idea that it gives c
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by vosper 3y ago
If schools were run like Khan Lab School then they’d put students together by subject-matter capability, not age. https://support.khanacademy.org/hc/en-us/articles/1150026831...
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by vosper 3y ago
Weather isn’t fundamentally unpredictable. We predict weather with a fairly high degree of accuracy (for most practical uses), and the accuracy getting better all the time. https://scijinks.gov/forecast-reliability
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by vosper 3y ago
> Migrations on CRDTs are challenging, so it’s important to “get it right” at the beginning. Any tips or dos/don'ts you could share for how to "get it right" at the beginning? I'm hoping to build an application u
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by vosper 3y ago
I think carbon steel is better than stainless. It can be seasoned to almost Teflon levels of non-stickness, just by burning some cooking oil, the seasoning is maintained by cooking, often comes pre-seasoned, is cheap (there’s no reason to b
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by vosper 3y ago
I’m oh-so disappointed that the top comment in these previous discussions isn’t a link to their previous discussions…
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by vosper 3y ago
This study is about whether the rock weathering we’ve seen posted here before (crushed olivine etc) works in dry climates like California. The answer appears to be “yes, but more slowly” > The study found the plots with crushed rock stor
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by vosper 3y ago
> A good bit of today's fraud is conducted on cloudflare How are people using Cloudflare for fraud / how does Cloudflare enable fraud? Genuine question :)
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by vosper 3y ago
How is your business that you plugged different from Bandcamp, apart from being smaller? Sounds like you're both in the same business?
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by vosper 3y ago
LOL you are right, total brain melt from me. I was getting it mixed up with Zambia for some reason.
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by vosper 3y ago
Not Tanzania, but I've experienced what my guide called the "African back-massage" of hours bouncing along corrugated roads into Serengeti National Park. I wouldn't mind flying next time, plus I think it'd be beauti
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by vosper 3y ago
What's "sealing" in this context?
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by vosper 3y ago
Facebook released LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) and it took off from there.
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by vosper 3y ago
Reason #1 why I would never buy an internet-connected camera is all the times people have hacked them. Someone I know recently had a random talk to her out of her cloud-connected baby monitor. The companies who make internet-connected baby
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by vosper 3y ago
> if police were investigating a robbery next door Assuming they’re doing that. It’s not always the case that police are obtaining or using warrants for virtuous reasons (see the Marion County Record raid, for a recent possible example)
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by vosper 3y ago
Amazon forked ElasticSearch into OpenSearch. When deciding which platform to go with (we are an AWS customer) I decided to stick with the company whose future depends on their search product (Elastic), not the one that could lose interest a
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by vosper 3y ago
My company is using vector search with Elasticsearch. It’s working well so far. IMO Elastic will eat most vector-first/only products because of its strength at full-text search, plus all the other stuff it does.
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by vosper 3y ago
But up to that point, which is way down the article, the whole thing is written as if it could be talking about people. “The heart”, “the gut”: without qualifying these (repeatedly) the assumption people will make is that it’s talking about
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by vosper 3y ago
Takes 5 paragraphs to get to "in sheep", then carries on like "in sheep" never happened...

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