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by 0xfeba 24d ago
> Propose ASCII drawings to explain complete systems. LLMs are very bad at ASCII drawings. https://medium.com/data-science/why-llms-suck-at-ascii-art-a...
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by 0xfeba 6mo ago
I separated around the same time, and at about the same age, also in a new city. It was rough. A city I never wanted to be in. I'd never find friends there. A few years later, I have a couple friends that like you, I can just call them
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by 0xfeba 7mo ago
Or, when I have fingerprint and PIN enabled but my lid closed, whenever it asks for escalation it shows the PIN entry for a moment, then I look away and start typing but fingerprint had loaded up and steals focus. Then I have to click back
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by 0xfeba 9mo ago
I use this on my work machine, with Cortile for tiling.
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by 0xfeba 10mo ago
> I might just be getting old, but more and more I see people not using indicators and not understanding the rules of junctions. Tail gating also really annoying. Same. I've also noticed that people entering the interstate seem to _
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by 0xfeba 10mo ago
> Lately, I see a lot of drivers who turn on their brights and just leave them on and this includes cars with the older halogen and even incandescents. This is a change in behavior. This is one of my pet peeves. I've categorized it
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by 0xfeba 11mo ago
I have Win 10 LTSC, and it came with none of that. But it is behind on feature updates.
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by 0xfeba 11mo ago
Intersection of cloud compute power being plentiful combined with existing LMs. As I understand it, right now, it's really just throwing compute power at existing LMs to learn on gigantic datasets.
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by 0xfeba 1y ago
the name reminds me of Microsoft's RDC, Remote Differential Compression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Differential_Compressio...
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by 0xfeba 1y ago
> And even if proper passwords are used, many sites/apps use this pattern for account recovery if the password is forgotten so effectively this is the only security as an attacker has “forgotten” the password and just uses this flow
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by 0xfeba 1y ago
> Forscan for Ford vehicles also has to run under Windows. I've successfully run it with WINE. Thought, my Forscan executable was 3 years old or so and that may have changed, but I doubt it.
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by 0xfeba 1y ago
Companies aren't going to invest 4+ years to get a supply-chain setup in the US when they can just wait for the next administration to roll these back. It's just needless economic turbulence.
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
Reminds me of Nissan dot com lawsuit: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
> The speed limit is a LIMIT not a requirement. But after traffic analysis by engineers, the final number is set by politicians.
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
I've had logging slow down a concurrency issue enough to cause the race condition to never appear when logged, but setting a breakpoint (and stopping all threads) prevailed.
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
It acquires bugs, security flaws, and obsolescence from the operating system itself.
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
hey gotta do something on the toilet
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
Wow! I had a copy Cool Edit from a CompuServe CD, IIRC. That got me into audio editing and making my own ringtones and whatnot.
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
I just made one last week that cracks me up still: // We are liiiiiving in a material world, and I am a ma-ma-material org. const materialOrgs = await db_read<Org>(organizations, { type: 'materials' });
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
How do you pronounce the name?
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
as someone who divorced and didn't want to be the 'mac and cheese dad', I found an older edition of "Williams Sonoma Cooking at Home" a really good beginner book. It goes over basic ingredients, seasonality, cooking
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
I've been at it for over a decade. Home router has firewall exceptions for SSH (not port 22 though), TLS IRC, and 80/443, which are forwarded to my home server with fail2ban. I run SSH (requires PKI outside local network), IRC, ne
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
You still can. I did it just now with this text field form. Hit pause, and then the next event (focusing the text field) caused it to break.
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
You'll know we hit it big when malicious actors start developing more threats against Linux.
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
Ha, MS has Recall which is like this ... but obviously it's had problems.
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
I don't think you can generalize it like that. Hunger comes from signals originating in your stomach. Without a stomach, you're brain would lose energy -- and I'd wager the symptoms would be more like oxygen deprivation than
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
It wasn't so much "science was settled" as much as the plastic industry lobbying to improve their image and put the burden on consumers to "recycle" plastics, despite knowing it wasn't going to help things. And
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by 0xfeba 2y ago
I have moved to Arch Linux 100% for work and personal use. I too have a Windows 10 machine for gaming -- but it runs LTSC, which is _much_ more super user friendly, less user hostile.
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by 0xfeba 3y ago
What a refreshing article. One I can understand for a change.
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by 0xfeba 4y ago
Considering it was government contracting, it was as good as it was going to get. The offer I got was from a near-tech company.

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