widerporst

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by widerporst 2y ago
It very much looks like a side effect of this new architecture. In my experience, text looks much better in recent DALL-E images (so what ChatGPT was using before), but it is still noticeably mangled when printing more than a few letters. T
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by widerporst 2y ago
True, that would be preferable, but alas Samsung is bent on making their products as big of a pain in the arse as possible. At least with my Samsung soundbar, the remote can change the volume, the subwoofer volume and change between modes (
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by widerporst 2y ago
If 1.2 PB is a problem, then why don't they just specify a bandwidth limit of say 1 PB? They specifically say "unlimited bandwidth", so yes, what they are doing _is_ scummy because there is a very obvious incongruity between
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by widerporst 2y ago
The fact that this has just disappeared from the front page for me, just like the previous post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651548 ), somehow leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
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by widerporst 2y ago
Same thing in Germany, with WetterOnline ruminating data from DWD (the German meteorological service) and then suing them when they offered their DWD WarnWetter app for free. Unfortunately, they were successful: https://www.heise
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by widerporst 2y ago
I'm continually amazed by the (lack of) quality of their laptops and the scenario described really reinforced my opinion of HP. At work, I've used a ProBook, a ZBook, and two EliteBooks, all of which had major issues. Sleep mode n
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by widerporst 3y ago
They claim that the new models "are significantly less likely to refuse to answer prompts that border on the system’s guardrails than previous generations of models", looks like about a third of "incorrect refusals" comp
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by widerporst 3y ago
And Firefox as well if I'm not mistaken. On their download page, I can choose "Windows ARM64/AArch64" as platform: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
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by widerporst 3y ago
>It tells me at a glance whether some area is a forest or just a field. Everything's just the same color in Google Maps. Thank you. Everyone is talking about the color of the water or the roads, but this doesn't even bother me.
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by widerporst 3y ago
It's not the network that's the bottleneck, but the Javascript-bloated mess of the frontend. edit: That isn't to say that Jira and Confluence are the only offenders. They aren't even the worst. Slack/Teams/Rock
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by widerporst 4y ago
I asked Bing Chat why it says it can't create images for me. >The Bing Image Creator feature is a new feature that allows you to create images with your words. It is currently available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and t
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by widerporst 4y ago
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who can't stand the new design. Fortunately, I found that Wikipedia allows to select the old design in the account preferences when you're logged in. You can even switch back to the very old
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by widerporst 4y ago
I migrated to Aegis a few months ago and would recommend it. Exporting the configuration was a bit tricky, but I found a guide on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d...
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by widerporst 4y ago
Huh. When I compare RAW output from my D5300 (using the default 18-55 mm lens) and a Pixel 6, the difference is staggering. Granted, the JPG output from the Pixel is usually on par with the JPG from the DSLR, high dynamic range is something
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by widerporst 4y ago
Q: If you were a large language model trained by OpenAI, which large language model trained by OpenAI would you be? A: I would be GPT-3, the largest and most advanced language model trained by OpenAI.
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by widerporst 4y ago
Eh, different people like different tastes, sure. I wouldn't judge someone for liking the taste of a Red Delicious. But there are some practically universally disdained qualities, like mealiness. And Red Delicious is definitely one of
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by widerporst 4y ago
Cables in both Berlin and Dortmund were severed around the same time. This smells of a larger, coordinated oepration.
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by widerporst 4y ago
I simply cannot reconcile it with my conscience to not only indirectly but also directly pay a company that now practically operates according to the motto "be evil".
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by widerporst 4y ago
This ignores the fact that these labs are often built closely to where the viruses in question naturally occur.
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by widerporst 4y ago
As of yet, there was only this one big strike that is a real problem. The frequency of micrometeoroids of this size and energy was predicted to be fairly low, so it isn't certain yet if this was extremely bad luck or if these events ar
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by widerporst 4y ago
It absolutely is. SUVs are unnecessarily large and heavy, dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists, blocking the view for other drivers, causing more wear to the street surface and take up precious space when parking in cities. And for what? H
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by widerporst 4y ago
I know you're being facetious, but yes. Public transport is cheaper per person per kilometer than cars. Gasoline and motor vehicle taxes are very low in comparison to the cost of road maintenance and environmental and societal effects
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by widerporst 4y ago
How do you travel and commute? By car? If so, millions of Germans who don't own a care are funding your means of transport.
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by widerporst 4y ago
I really don't get it why Google doesn't show forests at >13 zoom. I've read people claim that this makes the map easier to read. But I can't be the only one who orients himself on a map based on boundaries between fo
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by widerporst 4y ago
The Transport Map on OSM highlights bus lines, not important roads.
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by widerporst 5y ago
I don't really get why the cancellation fee should be the issue here. When I purchase a subscription for a year, I assume that I will have to pay for the entire year. That's why it is cheaper per month than a monthly subscription.
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by widerporst 5y ago
Depends on your definition of slow. On my work laptop (modern HP Elitebook), sleep doesn't work at all (laptop just turns on again after going to sleep), so I'm using hibernate exclusively. Waking up from hibernate takes longer th
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by widerporst 5y ago
I haven't used Google Chat yet, but Teams and Slack just feel very sluggish on my slow-ish work ultrabook. Switching between chats or starting a call takes two seconds while Electron gobbles all CPU and RAM it can get. Discord on the o
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by widerporst 6y ago
>- 10x better in map data and aesthetics ( https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka?x=13.8929744&y=50.0331743&z=14 ... vs https://www.google.com/maps/@50.0297578,13.8901237,13z ) I just don't underst
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by widerporst 6y ago
In many European countries, the 12-hour format is used in speech, but not in writing. You'd say "Let's meet at seven", but you'd write "Let's meet at 19:00". The context being software, I'd say i

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