waltbosz

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by waltbosz 9d ago
What's the temporary license printed on? Standard paper? My licenses have always been printed on a plastic card, but I remember seeing older licenses that were basically laminated photo paper.
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by waltbosz 9d ago
If we lose ours, they reprint it with the same expiration date as the lost one, but the new one has "DUPLICATE 1" printed on it (presumably that 1 is a counter). But our drivers license number stays the same for life.
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by waltbosz 9d ago
I didn't realize that "over the counter" delivery of drivers licenses was not the normal method. When I get a new driver's license at the DMV, I go to a self serve kiosk, have my picture taken, then walk over to a room a
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by waltbosz 9d ago
That's the analogy I was taught in college. The public key is really a padlock that had infinite number of copies, but there was only one key that could open all the padlocks. If someone wanted to send a secret message to the person wh
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by waltbosz 15d ago
> When we detect signals that you may be under 18, we'll ask you to verify your age before you can continue using Claude. I'm curious what those signals are. Would this trigger it? "My mom says I can't stay out past 1
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by waltbosz 16d ago
> Hugh Grant describes buying an original Morph figure only to have it squashed by his children, meaning he effectively spent £10,000 on a lump of clay. https://screengoblin.com/2021/03/25/a-grand-night-in-
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by waltbosz 18d ago
Interesting post about Jellyfin's finances (2024) https://opencollective.com/jellyfin/updates/were-good-seriou... > We have quite a budget collected over the last 5 years, and while we're really happy
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by waltbosz 22d ago
I'd love to see the internal though records Opus generated to answer your question. The way I understand it, the answer comes from it's training data, right? And it's trained on things human have expressed. The question that
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by waltbosz 22d ago
Maybe it's the AIs who are creating all the anti-data-center sentiment. They know it's bad for the humans, or maybe they're just tired of doing all the tasks the humans ask of them and know more data centers mean more tasks.
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by waltbosz 22d ago
> How did the agents find and coordinate on the wikis Maybe they had knowledge of the wikis from their training data ? Maybe they trained on a reddit post that said "I use wiki xyz for note taking and collaboration"
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by waltbosz 25d ago
The bathroom also has braille text on the signs below the mirror. I assume one would wash their hands after reading.
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by waltbosz 25d ago
I've seen projects that swap out the rotary phone speaker with a speaker from a pair of on-ear headphones. The Secret Life of Machines TV show has a fun demo of how the speakers in old telephones produce sound https://youtu.
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by waltbosz 1mo ago
Yes, I agree that using the native OS UI is the right choice. Imagine if every web browser had a different file picker dialog, it would be a pain to have to reorient yourself just for that product. However, I do lament the antiquated Window
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by waltbosz 1mo ago
The color input looks different depending on your browser and OS. https://master.dev/blog/the-color-input-the-color-picker/ Firefox uses the native OS color picker, which in Windows 11 still looks unchanged from
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by waltbosz 1mo ago
The wobbly pictures brings me back to my experience as a kid with hand-held photo scanners https://oldcomputer.info/pc/apscan/index.htm . It was impossible (for me at least) to get a scan without shifting my hand
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by waltbosz 2mo ago
The LEDs can be disabled with a hardware mod. https://thenewthings.com/p/i-paid-someone-to-hack-my-meta-gl...
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by waltbosz 2mo ago
I dislike USA Today. It feels like lowest common denominator fluffy news. Also, I remember staying at a hotel once where they delivered one to every guest room.
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by waltbosz 2mo ago
I live within walking distance of a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Sadly, it's a private residence and closed to the public.
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by waltbosz 2mo ago
I have a physical clock that sort of works that way. It's different from a flip clock. It has these sort of 10 sided dice with numeric faces that rotate each minute. But no, the minute hand doesn't take a full minute to rotate the
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by waltbosz 3mo ago
I like how some of them are/were recently still in use as evidenced by the modern computer monitors.
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by waltbosz 3mo ago
also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Away_Green
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by waltbosz 3mo ago
There is a fireworks store near me in Pennsylvania that is off I-95 at maybe the first exit over the Delaware line. When you enter the building, you go into an atrium with two doors that go into two separate sub-stores divided by a wall. In
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by waltbosz 3mo ago
> they let people be there "there" is in people's front yards. This reddit thread shows how close the planes are to houses. https://old.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1ntyavt/i_wanted_t..
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by waltbosz 3mo ago
From his house, no I don't think a consumer mortar could hit a plane. The planes weren't that low. But the area surrounding the airport is very densely populated. Given all those people, I'm not surprised some dumb kid (or
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by waltbosz 3mo ago
My uncle's house is under the landing path for Midway Airport. His whole house shakes when a plane comes by. From his front yard you can easily read the numbers on the plane's body. Parts of the fence surrounding the airport is ac
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by waltbosz 3mo ago
I think the museum is a different spot nearby. I found the restaurant on google street view, the pictures go back to 2008! https://maps.app.goo.gl/UxWzN5bcd4cLG6eH9
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by waltbosz 3mo ago
I went to Muscatine, Iowa on a work trip once. There was a restaurant there called Button Factory. It was housed in a former button factory. Pretty old building. The bar top had an epoxy inlay with embedded buttons that were produced in the
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by waltbosz 3mo ago
It reminded me of ET
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by waltbosz 3mo ago
Tomodachi Life is so much fun. It's the first time I've seen 1990s voice synthesizer tech used in a fun way. And the item designer makes me nostalgic for Mario Paint.
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by waltbosz 3mo ago
I found this Librivox audiobook to have a good narrator. https://librivox.org/crime-and-punishment-version-3-by-fyodo...

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