MissTake

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by MissTake 26d ago
A myriad of small businesses also use Facebook as their public facing website.
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by MissTake 1mo ago
As with seemingly all AI these days - it seems to fail with prosody and simply speaks the very next word with zero regard to the nuance or cadence that author intended, or an understanding of any the words being spoken. When AI achieves the
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by MissTake 8mo ago
>I t's a bit like using c# or powershell on Linux… but I wouldn't consider it a first class citizen. C# is very very much a first class citizen on Linux. It may not be native, but you can run binaries on Linux without needing t
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by MissTake 10mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html >We try not to delete entire account histories because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. However, we care about protecting individual users and take car
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by MissTake 10mo ago
Or just using a laptop or a desktop pc…
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by MissTake 1y ago
And when the other 2 are blocked…?
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by MissTake 1y ago
Not sure $12.00 a month for a spinnable VM on top of my other AI costs is worth it myself. Would like something where I pay for my own architecture.
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by MissTake 1y ago
This is about the Thundermail service - not the email client.
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by MissTake 1y ago
Is it just me, or is Sandstorm just not maintained any more? The most recent closed issues were self closed rather than as the result of development, while meanwhile the open issues continue to pile up with virtually no code changes made to
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by MissTake 1y ago
https://archive.is/10GAi
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by MissTake 1y ago
https://archive.is/koHVt More like Meta’s demands are unworkable. > However, Clegg said that their demands to make technology companies ask permission before using copyrighted work were unworkable and “implausible” becau
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by MissTake 1y ago
Neither solution is guaranteed to stick around for 20 years. As we’ve seen before, it takes one VC investment to change a source available license into something not so friendly and forks are never guaranteed.
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by MissTake 2y ago
> You could make the same argument for Bernie Madoff, who probably isn't a danger to society considering his fraud is out in the open. Pretty sure Madoff isn’t currently a danger to society because he’s been dead for almost 4 years
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by MissTake 2y ago
I’m simply stating that for something to be objective it has to be an absolute irrefutable fact. Anything else is subjective. A UI can never be objectively bad because it is based upon how someone sees it. For me, Gimp has a subjectivity ba
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by MissTake 2y ago
> When designing readable interfaces for different vision capabilities, the WCAG guidelines recommend the following contrast ratios So, they’re recommendations, not facts. A fact is not a recommendation. You can cling to this until the c
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by MissTake 2y ago
“minimum ratio” Which is what? Is it a well defined fact?
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by MissTake 2y ago
“objectively bad” No, it’s subjectively bad for you. It really grinds my gears when people use “objectively” when being objective is to deal purely in unbiased observable, repeatable facts. Your justification starts first with screen contra
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by MissTake 2y ago
It’s hard to feel enthused by this when there’s been no traction for nearly a year now on the project. PG17 support was promised last July but has yet to materialize. I know OSS authors owe us nothing and it’s their choice to do what they w
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by MissTake 2y ago
Not to be pedantic, but… Acorn Computers started off much earlier (I owned an Acorn Atom when it was released) which begat the Electron, then the BBC Micro and then the Archimedes. At that time ARM was just an architecture owned by Acorn. T
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by MissTake 2y ago
(2022)
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by MissTake 2y ago
> which, for most of the SMS services, is a strike against the spammer Citation needed. All the vendors we use have STOP functionality baked in as it’s the correct way to ensure we can unsubscribe folk. Even the FCC[1] seems to agree. [1
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by MissTake 2y ago
That was only because Elon wanted to get his billion dollar payday.
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by MissTake 2y ago
Owned by Yipit - a credit card data analytics company. https://www.vice.com/en/article/free-email-apps-spying-on-yo...
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by MissTake 2y ago
Can’t vouch for the veracity of this[1] but, if true, it’s a pretty damning indictment on the Cyber Truck’s popularity. Just watched one YouTube video where the hosts daughter was bemoaning that they were no longer the only Cyber Truck in t
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by MissTake 2y ago
When you get Karma of 501 or more…
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by MissTake 2y ago
Dupe of your post 12 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41797428
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by MissTake 2y ago
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by MissTake 2y ago
https://archive.is/kHj8e
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by MissTake 2y ago
I gave up on this method because the system rejected every single photo attempt, even though I met all the requirements. Ended up going to AAA for the photo and 10 minutes later at my local USPS my application was done. I quite honestly spe
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by MissTake 2y ago
Good luck finding speed limit signs in the USA. I’ve lost track the number of times I’ve exited a construction and not known what the hell the speed limit is because previously it changed somewhere within the zone before the construction st

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