bedstefar

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by bedstefar 4d ago
And even if we did manage to limit/cull hardware development, what would keep people from continuing to find ever more efficient models runnable on contemporary hardware?
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by bedstefar 15d ago
That sounds really, really fun! Cool niche! I'll keep you in mind for future reverse engineering endeavors. Any chance it might work on Android?
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by bedstefar 26d ago
I didn't imply people in the past were idiots, but how on earth would anyone know what an _agent harness_ is, say?
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by bedstefar 26d ago
If this dropped just five years ago no one would understand what on earth this software does . In many ways I still don't. Incredible the development we've seen lately, wonder what will stick and what won't?
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by bedstefar 1mo ago
Wow! Gotta try that out! I'm from outside the USA, hopefully it'll work too with SI units
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by bedstefar 3mo ago
I do. I used it in the late noughts for my cryptology BSc because I was too lazy/busy to learn TikZ proper
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by bedstefar 3mo ago
Were these ever sold outside the USA? This is the first time I hear about the product.
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by bedstefar 4mo ago
> Modern (as in, since the 1980s) terminals are very capable of multiple fonts and font-sizes. I usually use a non-proportional font for coding myself. Is that really true? Can I, in one terminal window, have prose with a serif font and
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by bedstefar 4mo ago
Yeah, but as far as I'm aware you get to pick one font and one size as long as the UI is laid out with literal ASCII spaces and newlines. You can't have tooltips with a smaller font, or code and prose together with monospaced&#x2F
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by bedstefar 4mo ago
I don't really get the TUI craze. Would love it if someone has some perspective that I'm lacking. Display technology has seen so much progress in the past decades. Apple marketing has taught us about "Retina" displays wi
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by bedstefar 5mo ago
That's a good tip, thanks. What I meant to say was that there's probably at least a handful of self-hosted services you could run to offset that $20/mo. Another one could be Bitwarden, although I don't host my own passwo
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by bedstefar 5mo ago
This looks like an excellent platform for running a "homelab" in the cloud (no, the irony is not lost on me) for lighter stuff like Readeck, Calibre-web, Immich. Maybe even Home Assistant too if we can find a way (Tailscale?) to g
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by bedstefar 5mo ago
... in exactly one of this planet's countries
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by bedstefar 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_Un...
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by bedstefar 1y ago
Not trying to account for the parent's claim, but generally check diskprices.com for the latest deals on Amazon (.com, .co.uk, .de, .es, .it etc)
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by bedstefar 1y ago
I worked in the Arctic for the better part of a decade. There's Starlink now, but I've been TRULY OFFLINE for weeks (with plenty diesel generated power) as recently as 2018. Technically we could use Iridium at like $10 per MB, but