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by washadjeffmad 4mo ago
You're focusing on the barest sliver of the pie. They and their ideas are entering politics, the clergy, influencing regulation and policy at national and international levels. Success anywhere is an initiation to a network of brotherh
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by washadjeffmad 4mo ago
Console games today are routinely >50GB, and more frequently >100GB for the most popular titles. On common residential plans, it can take upwards of an hour before installation even begins. I'm not a gamer, but I hear with how of
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by washadjeffmad 4mo ago
Can't hear Fidonet without recommending BBS: The Documentary (2005) youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7nj3G6Jpv2G6Gp6NvN1kUtQuW8QshBWE
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by washadjeffmad 5mo ago
They're last recorded snapshots, not live feeds.
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by washadjeffmad 5mo ago
Plex has become a platform, and I imagine a certain number of their customers are revenue generating providers. Emby still offers lifetime for $119 with a 30 device limit, but I'm not sure what it offers over Jellyfin. Are there any ad
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by washadjeffmad 5mo ago
I played games online over dial-up, a few asynchronously via email, in the 1990s. Until the modern era, if some sort of direct TCP/IP connection wasn't built in, then an add-on usually supplied everything needed for private multip
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by washadjeffmad 5mo ago
There are quite a few, now, and more coming out regularly to surprisingly little fanfare. Tencent's Hunyuan3D ( https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan ) is a single/multi view photogrammetry replacement, which image-bla
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by washadjeffmad 5mo ago
E=MC^2+AI
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by washadjeffmad 5mo ago
Variations might be better for underwater or surface impact detection, but for now, congrats to them on the reinvention the 1950s Zenith ultrasonic remote. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/385428-fi...
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by washadjeffmad 5mo ago
When CNN was sold to Time Warner, we lost the last voice in cable news from outside of New York.
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by washadjeffmad 5mo ago
Not that many years ago, Facebook tried to broker a deal to provide free internet to India if all of their web traffic and communications would happen within the Facebook ecosystem. It's long been the dream of more than a few American
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by washadjeffmad 5mo ago
Based on 20g rdv, they could be estimating ~40kg of rendered fat for 2000 servings. I can't tell from the wording whether they don't know the population and are implying that's a possible maximum or are just trying to relay t
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by washadjeffmad 6mo ago
While contributing to a friend's Remembrance research, I was pretty surprised when Gemini Pro suddenly refused to answer any more questions about photos from the Höcker Album after it spotted an "SS" insignia. Ironically, the
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by washadjeffmad 6mo ago
>How 2 men claimed an absurd record by driving an old 3-wheel car the length of Africa That's one long car.
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by washadjeffmad 6mo ago
That's understandable. I went through a period of chronic pain and, had it continued, I likely wouldn't be alive today. The mechanisms protecting us from non-existence by millions of years of evolution can be eroded by pain. It&#x
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by washadjeffmad 6mo ago
Logs to troubleshoot, for starters.
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by washadjeffmad 6mo ago
Not appreciably, and not before a 5-yr AppleCare+ warranty expires. Out of our >3000 currently active Apple Silicon Macs, failures due to non-physical damage are in the single digits per year. Of those, none have been from production sys
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by washadjeffmad 6mo ago
I'm heartened that so much tape is still around. The lot of digital is often binary - it exists or it doesn't, but even a shred of flaking analog media can retain complete information. I was a member of a few tape sharing communit
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by washadjeffmad 6mo ago
It helps with LLMs to ban personal pronouns. Give yourself a name, give the agent a name, and speak in third person. Reiterate this in the system prompt. If you say "you" or "I", LLMs universally can not distinguish betw
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by washadjeffmad 6mo ago
Mine did, once, and it hasn't been requested again. It was also, until recently, accepted by age verification services as indication of non-minor status.
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by washadjeffmad 6mo ago
Nonconformists often wrankle, but sometimes they're the only ones who can get people to align to do something different.
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by washadjeffmad 6mo ago
Side stepping a little, but the Twitter and Reddit exoduses brought in a lot of people with established culture and communication dynamics at discrete periods. I considered writing an extension that collapses comments of accounts based on k
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
I'm sorry, that can be difficult, and I'm glad she was able to break free before it became an addiction. A girl I was seeing developed a major dependency on ChatGPT, and over just a few months, her lens grew increasingly insular a
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
I think latency is the wrong focal point (more important for gaming, plus Macs don't support eGPUs anymore). There aren't a lot of general workloads that require high sustained throughput, but the ones that do can benefit from TB5
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
I should have said 'buying'. We've all got something fun we run on ours.
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
>Regardless of OS, they all seem extremely fast, and feel faster and faster as time goes on. One analogy is that the distance between two places in the world hasn't changed, but we're not arriving significantly faster than we b
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
Gaming isn't what people are using Mac Studios for. Thunderbolt also isn't a substitute for OCuLink.
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
My friend recently sent me a screenshot of her Arlo detecting her backside as a 'vehicle'.
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
They're your own, personal Jesus. Someone to hear your prayers, someone to care. Reach out and touch faith.
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by washadjeffmad 7mo ago
I wonder if this could be solved by student worker unions?

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