archi42

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by archi42 9d ago
Zzzzz, we should have gotten security right a few decades ago. But security costs money and isn't a flashy feature to attract new customers, or cuts into your margin if you're a "real" business producing stuff or offerin
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by archi42 2mo ago
On the more legal side of services was the original last.fm - as a pupil/student I spend days/hours discovering new music there. Not only due to automatic recommendations, but a lot of time by browsing other people's listenin
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by archi42 2mo ago
Ah, I'm aware of the physical limitations (including cooling), but I was under impression that these days we had a good handle on rendering on one device and doing the video output on another (at the expense of some latency). Obviously
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by archi42 2mo ago
Wait a few years, and we're all gaming on decomissioned data center GPUs ;-)
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by archi42 2mo ago
It's a 100" telescope... from 1917. To summarize Wikipedia for you (my words, not a genai): While it was used by famous people like Hubble it isn't used for scientific work anymore. Some adaptics optics stuff happened in the
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by archi42 2mo ago
It still works pretty well in the IR band. I know that one from experience due to storm damage to our roof ;-) A leak only turns invisible if the water has the exact same temperature as the wall and there is no meaningful evaporation happen
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by archi42 3mo ago
Ugh, we have BSH [Bosch Siemens Group] appliances with wifi, but ours add actual features and don't artificially lock any. Both dryer and washing machine: Remote start, start when energy is cheap, notifications when done or on issues.
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by archi42 4mo ago
That's actually a use case that I imagine could work well, if done well. Especially in fully integrated systems like GMail or our corporate Exchange, when the LLM can access enough data to produce meaningful suggestions. IMHO the UX
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by archi42 4mo ago
Yeah, that was one of features that made me try Plex a long time ago. And that's why these days, I run Jellyfin on a VPS for watch parties (similar situation as yours), while sticking with Plex for family use.
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by archi42 4mo ago
It's dumb the apps don't remember that, but I think it's not nice that you're being downvoted for neutrally pointing out a workaround.
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by archi42 4mo ago
I don't get your reasoning? You're agreeing with the author but are not? The author argues that open CTFs are done for because of rampant cheating. You're agreeing with that, don't you? The title is "AI has broken t
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by archi42 4mo ago
The article addresses this: > Rules that ask people not to use LLMs are ignored and almost impossible to enforce in open online events. It's quite sad to see CTFs dying. I never had the time do seriously participate in CTFs, but I a
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by archi42 5mo ago
We got IC cards (ICOCA) in Osaka for 500 Yen each, and used them for 2 weeks travelling across Japan this March. Worked like a charm, only thing that's annoying for us tourists is how it is a stored value card and needs to be topped up
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by archi42 5mo ago
Are you going to localize this? Using US recipes works only okay-ish: I usually have to figure out local substitutions for some ingredients, and transform units. Anyway, amazing idea and I absolutely feel you. Recipe sites (and search engin
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by archi42 6mo ago
krita looks great! I'm not a hugely creative person, so last time I spent time to learn a graphics tool that was gimp in the early 2010s. But I used krita last week to test my convertibles's pen (Dell PN7552W, on Linux of course).
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by archi42 6mo ago
Yeah, the Linkwitz stuff seems relatively affordable to me, yet based on actual science instead of audiophile voodoo. Building one of those is definitely on my list (to replace the early 90s monkey coffins I inherited). 3000€ for a hobby is
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by archi42 7mo ago
Never heared of the site, but judging by the given creation dates, it only launched last year? Mission seems to be game archival and there is indeed a lot of stuff that likely no copyright holders care about anymore. And that is likely of v
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by archi42 7mo ago
Great points. To add: 3. Just imagine being in a car accident, and some idiot in the vicinity didn't realize why traffic is slow, and takes multiple minutes to shutdown their jammer. Or is unable because they're the other party in
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by archi42 8mo ago
For those interested: The SHA512 file lists 4096 files. Each file is 2 GiB. That means 8 TiB (or about 8.6 TB) of storage required.
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by archi42 8mo ago
The text was first linked on HN during September 2020. ChatGPT became public access in November 2022. The paragraph you criticized was part of the original text: https://web.archive.org/web/20200909104647/https:&#x
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by archi42 9mo ago
Nope. That's a misconception. Due to space constraints I don't have dedicated speakers for our living room TV. And I don't think I'm the only one. And I do own two proper dedicated speakers + amps setups. I also know how
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by archi42 9mo ago
It's a siren call for us techies, but reality is less pretty than our fantasies of "cheap base load". I got an offer for a "essentially free" residential turbine including the pylon (8 to 10 meters, the legal limit
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by archi42 9mo ago
This is atrocious. I get it, some things are less trivial than they seem - but I would be ashamed for shipping something like this, and even more for not fixing it.
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by archi42 10mo ago
Huh? S60? Can you clarify? I've driven a 2003 Volvo S60 (plain 5 cylinder, no turbo), which matches your 20 years - and most diy repairs were quite straightforward. I suppose you're talking about some Mercedes or other brand I&#x2
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by archi42 10mo ago
Ah, for me that would have been UT aka UT99. But chances are, I'm simply 3 - 6 years older than you ;-) Though I definitely I was not the intended age group upon release. UT4 would have been pretty nice. I remember building the alpha f
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by archi42 10mo ago
Wait until you learn that some people abuse this to funnel potential subscribers to their OF. And I don't mean the kind that's about the artwork they show off (which would usually be on Patreon these days, I guess?). Most woman do
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by archi42 10mo ago
Hm, if I understand this correctly - awkward function argument syntax: my ($x, $y) = @_; then you might be interested to learn about feature 'signatures' : use feature 'signatures'; use strict; use warnin
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by archi42 10mo ago
Same here. Also happens when navigating there from within the all. Open the website in your browser instead.
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by archi42 10mo ago
Last time I read up on OLED in VR, it was said that pancake lenses dissipate too much light. Might be dated of course, and iirc there is now at least one OLED+pancake HMD on the market.
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by archi42 10mo ago
They're entrenched. They have Telekom-branded stores (resellers) in every other town. They operate the network and hence have the best ability for trouble shooting. Non-technical users don't know what peering means, they just pay

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