LinuxAmbulance

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by LinuxAmbulance 2mo ago
That's very helpful, thanks! The KOreader UI is... Rough. Love all the options, especially the ability to use folders on the device storage as the primary way to organize my books, but trying to figure out where a setting is and change
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by LinuxAmbulance 2mo ago
The irony is not lost on me!
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by LinuxAmbulance 2mo ago
> All the AI companies are retaining the messages we're sending to their agents to train the next models. I wouldn't be surprised if the agents will be able to do what I'm doing in a year or two. Some things are very easy
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by LinuxAmbulance 2mo ago
Is there a particular structure to it, or just whatever is at the top of your mind?
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by LinuxAmbulance 2mo ago
> I found it interesting that not even this article thinks about it that the US mainland ever can be attacked It can be, but it would be very, very difficult for anything short of lobbing ICBMs around. You'd have to have a fleet of
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by LinuxAmbulance 3mo ago
What are the odds of this passing successfully? A grim day for 3D printing if so.
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by LinuxAmbulance 3mo ago
Was not expecting anything terribly useful from this with such a generic title, was pleasantly surprised.
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by LinuxAmbulance 4mo ago
We abrogated getting traffic to our websites to Google long ago. Mostly because Google was so good at it that the alternatives became significantly less useful. Now that Google is focusing on becoming 'self contained', so to speak
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by LinuxAmbulance 4mo ago
That is a pretty strong argument for Go!
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by LinuxAmbulance 4mo ago
> Need to lay off 10% of staff because you think the workers are getting too good of a deal? AI. I think we're seeing a ton of that right now, and it's not slowing down any time soon it seems.
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by LinuxAmbulance 4mo ago
AI has made my work about 5-8x quicker, just because I'm able to have it cover a lot of the grunt work (update 42 if statements in 32 different files) that took time, but no particular skill. I think the use cases where AI makes an eco
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
The problem is running a SaaS product costs a lot of money. Mega corps can fund that, but even large numbers of devs on small budgets don't have the money to do the same. So any commercial project will inevitably trend towards supporti
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
I think that's incredibly optimistic to the point of unrealism. Github, outages and all, is a known commodity with a reputation they can make money off of. Any replacement would have to offer not just compelling feature improvements an
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
Github is an ecosystem and its biggest moat is the number of people that use it. To make a replacement, not only do you have to improve on support for every major use case at a technical level (no easy task, to put it mildly), you also have
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
The bit about how semiconductors could only have been made in America because only America had the specific combination of freedom of speech, irreverence, pragmatism over dogmatism, meritocracy and welcoming outsiders is definitely an inter
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
I love bonsai, but it'd be nice if one could start a bonsai tree that looks like a mature tree in miniature without spending decades on the process. Is there anything that is fast growing, or is the only option buying a multi-decade ol
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
As far as I can tell, YKK has quality tiers now where not all YKK zippers are created equal. Rather unfortunate.
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
"It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste LLM stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
I picked up a Crumpler Brazillion Dollar Home bag about a decade back to carry all my photography gear, as there were no other bags on the market that would allow you to pack a large format monorail camera in them. That bag is built like a
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
It's not so much the owner's financial situation, but rather that it'd be cheaper to build new homes than to retrofit a ten floor+ building's plumbing. You'd also have to install a bunch of showers, which could be a
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
Yeah, good luck with that. I'm sure he'll follow up with bailing the ocean.
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
As far as I can tell, this submission is just an ad.
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
Funny how it sounds when you go to the logical conclusion of that statement - "Consumers should be forced to pay the highest prices possible for cars."
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
You guys are treating dev machines as trusted?
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by LinuxAmbulance 5mo ago
Commercial buildings can't be easily converted into housing - notably, plumbing is not designed for smaller units and can't be retrofitted.
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by LinuxAmbulance 6mo ago
"Good" is a bit of a stretch, as it asks a few short questions, but doesn't answer them in any useful fashion.
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by LinuxAmbulance 6mo ago
A LLM has about as much free will as a calculator. Which is to say, zero.
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by LinuxAmbulance 8mo ago
I am curious what the odds are of it being in orbit for significantly longer than three years, given how far the lifetime of the ISS was extended beyond its initial decom date of 2015.
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by LinuxAmbulance 8mo ago
The MoMA has some of the best art pieces I've seen out of the hundred plus museums I've been to. It also has by far some of the absolute worst art pieces I've seen in my life - in person, or otherwise. One of them was literal
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by LinuxAmbulance 8mo ago
I've been doing this for a little over a decade now and nothing bad has happened due to not keeping up with the news. In fact, my stress levels have declined significantly. It turns out knowing about events that you have no power to in

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