wiether

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by wiether 2mo ago
Aren't all DC equipped with gas generators as backups? And they have to run it for an hour every quarter to make sure they work?
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by wiether 2mo ago
> The smell of fried croquettes I have this on my way back how, well, fried potatoes/chips actually, and I hate it. But yeah, this description matches the city I live in here in France.
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by wiether 2mo ago
> I want a job without unnecessary friction, without interpersonal drama, even one that's low stress. That's part of how I see an "easy" job. Where I can focus on working on the actual tasks at hand. Doesn&#x2
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by wiether 2mo ago
I discovered it recently, and I find it quite funny I'm not really into botany itself, but I enjoy their rants about how people manage "green" spaces
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by wiether 2mo ago
> They also, for reasons I simply cannot fathom, go out and buy a green Range Rover. I associate people driving green Range Rover with Dennis, so I'm not surprised that the people you're talking about love it. https:&#
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by wiether 2mo ago
I see lots of small consulting companies doing weekly/monthly lunch/dinner events with "everyone" and then boasting about it on LinkedIn, with pictures of the tables. You can clearly see who are the consulting people, an
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by wiether 2mo ago
> for example, you wouldn't hire a 70 year old writer for your commercial project no matter how brilliant they are If you hire them, then you own the work you paid them to do, no?
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by wiether 2mo ago
The next closest region is Tel-Aviv, I guess it's pretty obvious they won't put their workload here. And after that it's Mumbai, 2500km away. That will easily double your latency, which is someone that you can feel in usage.
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by wiether 2mo ago
Seems to be the idea to me: don't use a no longer supported +10yo laptop as a daily driver, but convert it to something useful for free. Being a laptop, the power draw is almost negligible and it doesn't take much space.
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by wiether 2mo ago
That's what I meant, yes! I always have a hard time with this one because, in French, it's not a towel that is thrown: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jeter_l%27%C3%A9ponge The French version version naturally
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by wiether 2mo ago
Thanks for the explanations around the Remote Watch Pass thing! It was nice having a chat here because you felt more nuanced than in the article and we basically agree overall!
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by wiether 2mo ago
I currently have 10Tb of 1080p content and rescans takes a few seconds. The only thing that actually takes time is the intro detection on new content, but it's because I don't have a lot of compute power on the server hosting my P
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by wiether 2mo ago
Thank you for your reply I can see how scary the price increase on the Lifetime pass looks, and I see it as a deterrent to push people to something like the 5 years plan which looks like a good deal to me The pricing around Remote Watch Pas
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by wiether 2mo ago
It means that I haven't slept enough to not make mistakes!
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by wiether 2mo ago
Weird article. Not only does it acknowledges that Plex is still far better than Jellyfin with its whole ecosystem, but it also depict pretty nicely the entitlement of the users overall. On one side, they paid $75 more than five years ago fo
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by wiether 2mo ago
> and has full Postgres support from the get-go I was like: why should I care? Then I went on siloserver's website and I was even more confused. What made the success of Plex is how easy it is to setup, how nice it looks and
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by wiether 2mo ago
I hate how I feel about this: the sole contributor's account is not 2 month old, and yet they have created an org for this project, with all the bells and whistles in the README. To me, a project that young, with a unique developer at
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by wiether 2mo ago
https://git-fork.com/ on MacOS/Win https://sourcegit-scm.github.io/ on Linux
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by wiether 2mo ago
I've tried (all?) the AI stuff they published, it was awful; but I was able to easily uninstall/deactivate those features once I realized it was not helpful. On my MBP M4 or my Linux laptop, I never get the impression that it&#x27
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by wiether 2mo ago
Funnily that's the one feature I dislike in IntelliJ and thus relies on another GUI Otherwise I like having everything in one place: code, containers, databases, remotes...
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by wiether 2mo ago
I'm in France using a French VPN and I'm being blocked by imgur (been going on for a few years now)
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by wiether 2mo ago
> I’m also surprised to see that even Terrence Tao seems to use it in a way that resembles, in progression, how I use llms in my area of expertise I didn't understood anything about the thread, but reading Terrence's me
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by wiether 2mo ago
We'll have to wait a few years before they receive their first fine Meanwhile they'll have time to grab billions
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by wiether 2mo ago
> There is a high likelihood that many countries of the "west" (the "global north"?) will outlaw, restrict, or otherwise control LLMs and the tools that enable them. Why? Based on what? I've seen absolutely no in
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by wiether 2mo ago
Then they'll shift the goalpost: it's not free, someone is paying for it, which is every taxpayer. Then you'll ask for receipts of what they pay to use the roads and they'll be out. Regarding free transit, I think part o
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by wiether 3mo ago
I've never seen "group emails" working, even when amongst technical people. Part of it is just how emails work, part of it is how each clients work, part of it is people not knowing/caring. You'll have: - the
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by wiether 3mo ago
Buying a new computer at +$500 just to have iMessage access feels insane to me. OpenClaw supports all the mainstream (and free) chat apps like Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram... None of them requiring a MacOS machine. Is it a lack of kn
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by wiether 3mo ago
Even the new ones are awfully loud. But, yeah, they don't smell like the old ones thankfully
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by wiether 3mo ago
On the other hand, when I was a teenager, some friends posted content referring to me with pictures on a popular local platform at the time. I either lost contact with those friends or they lost access to their account, so I tried multiple
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by wiether 3mo ago
Having had this discussion many times, the conclusion we often come to is that part of the popular success of football is the scarcity and simplicity. In most sports, you have a world championship every year, meanwhile, a World Cup happens

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