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by 0x38B 2mo ago
Excellent article; the argument towards the end for allowing distillation for US companies is compelling: > To that end, here’s an even more interesting question around distillation: why exactly is it bad? After all, what are large langu
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by 0x38B 3mo ago
I noticed emojis in the top-right corner the other day; I thought, “oh, that’s interesting”, and continued browsing – even though Indeed has more jobs, like Marketplace (1) has more for sale, I far prefer Craigslist for being simple and eas
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How Claude helped me to find a RCE in XReader/Evince/Atril(medeiros.zip)
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by 0x38B 4mo ago
My Kindle Touch, judging by the plastic, is old, on its second battery. I love that the reading experience has not changed at all in the time I’ve had the device. I never thought of it as a bookshelf, but that’s a great way to put it. In co
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by 0x38B 4mo ago
Different context, but I sent a message like that in Signal the other day to a family member with a link to my IP, pointing to `Python -m http.server` running in a directory with a file for them to try (1). Easier than having them open my S
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by 0x38B 4mo ago
RE: 3D printer as a tool, I recommend Teaching Tech's video (1) as a guide to choosing the right 3D printer. His first question is "Will you use your 3D printer as a tool or a hobby?", followed by the priorities that flow fro
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by 0x38B 5mo ago
To quote Henri Cartier-Bresson: “Composition must be one of our constant preoccupations, but at the moment of shooting it can stem only from our intuition, for we are out to capture the fugitive moment, and all the interrelationships involv
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by 0x38B 5mo ago
I transfer books by running `python -m http.server` on my phone or computer, then opening my Kindle’s browser to my IP and downloading my .mobi book. It doesn’t take long, and I can do it all over Wi-Fi. I can mount it via SSHFS for anythin
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by 0x38B 5mo ago
I read up until the following quote, attributed to an unnamed “industry observer” - something aroused my curiosity: > "In essence, EyeMed is merely an instrument to protect the market share of the Luxottica family of companies, and
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by 0x38B 6mo ago
It says the distance from Earth right now is 154,000km, but the other trackers, including NASA, say 30,000km (numbers rounded). The velocity is different as well, 7km/s vs NASA's 4km/s.
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by 0x38B 6mo ago
More on what astronauts found “objectionable” and “distasteful” with Apollo's system, from the PDF linked in the OP (1): "In general, the Apollo waste management system worked satisfactorily from an engineering standpoint. From th
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by 0x38B 6mo ago
Me and my brother just saw the movie tonight and we stayed for the credits. I thought the images were beautiful.
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by 0x38B 6mo ago
I laughed at this bit, because I've also tried to debug things only to find it wasn't telling me what was wrong with my code (my own error, perhaps - a forgotten --verbose or -v): > Turns out macOS's IOHIDManager silently
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by 0x38B 6mo ago
One of the real heroes in this story: > Victor Cruz Gamez, the leading named plaintiff, has lived in the US for 25 years and has a work permit and protection against deportation. The father of three was nonetheless arrested by ICE in Oct
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by 0x38B 6mo ago
I'm with you! After I lost my gen 1 AirPods a couple years ago, I paid $20 for a pair of Apple's corded EarPods and used them until they failed (1) a few months ago. They had a good mic + music controls, sounded fine, and didn&#x2
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by 0x38B 7mo ago
My sister just ordered a battery & some hinges for her Framework and they practically overnighted it to us here in Alaska. They included a colorful sheet of stickers, too - fun!
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by 0x38B 7mo ago
One of the worst places are company "About pages". I've come across new products, some linked here; interested, I click through to the "about us" page, only to find meaningless marketing fluff that tells me zero abo
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by 0x38B 7mo ago
For me, Framework is super cool as a brand, both for the quality of their product and the ethos that backs it. When everyone else in the coffee shop has an apple or another brand so widespread that you don't even notice it, the gear is
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by 0x38B 7mo ago
Synthetic example: "Вот его, нет, не допустили (сама знаешь, почему)))" My translation: "But him - no, they didn't let him in (of course you know why :)" When I went from texting friends in Russian or Ukrainian back
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by 0x38B 7mo ago
I replaced the battery in my Kindle Touch with one from Aliexpress (1 & 2). It was an easy project; finding a battery with the correct dimensions took more time than soldering. With a new battery, my Kindle Touch is still a great device
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by 0x38B 7mo ago
I have the same Kindle as the OP and very nearly bought the Xteink4. However, they wanted $28 to ship to Alaska, which put me off buying it; my Kindle Touch still works fine after many years and one battery replacement, though it's slo
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by 0x38B 7mo ago
I used to check them out from the military library to read as a teenager – the books looked cool, official in their white bindings, and I loved the facts and descriptions of countries.
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by 0x38B 7mo ago
How is that an unacceptable threat model for a repo of packages that are optional and user-made? One that clearly says, "DISCLAIMER: AUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk." (1) T
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by 0x38B 7mo ago
Some of the ads I was seeing on Facebook and Instagram were why I left them both for good. Losing Messenger and Marketplace hurt, but posts like these remind that I left for good reasons. Why tolerate a network full of junk? Worse, it'
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by 0x38B 7mo ago
Key quote from The Time's article (1) linked in the OP: "I often think back to that conversation with my upperclassman friend. She wasn’t proud of gaming the system and she wasn’t ashamed either. She was simply rational. The unive
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by 0x38B 7mo ago
In Essays in the Art of Writing (1), Robert Louis Stevenson says: "And perhaps there is no subject on which a man should speak so gravely as that industry, whatever it may be, which is the occupation or delight of his life; which is hi
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by 0x38B 8mo ago
I love this part at 25 minutes: "There was a formula in Becker's book for a four-wheel drive vehicle with a powered trailer. Well, Don said, "I played with a formula and quickly found that the most sensitive dimension is the
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by 0x38B 8mo ago
When I'm driving and tell Siri, "Call <family member name>", sometimes instead of calling, it says, "To who?", and I can't get it to call no matter what I do.
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by 0x38B 8mo ago
I lost the cable for my original Pebble and 3D printed a clip on housing with wires bent to contact the pens on the watch. It worked for charging. I haven’t worn it again because I don’t have a band and my battery needs replacing. I loved m
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by 0x38B 9mo ago
> [about W40K] ... while still providing frightening amounts of depth if you're the kind of person who finds "frightening amounts of depth" appealing rather than exhausting. This is me looking at Kenshi, Rimworld, Dwarf Fo

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