blep-arsh

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by blep-arsh 6d ago
I'm not OP but: - wired: Philips SHP9500; open-back, so not an "office" model. The single-sided 3.5mm jack is convenient and lets you plug in a 3rd party boom mic. I know these are priced way below any audiophile-grade stuff
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by blep-arsh 8d ago
Maybe? Transformers and neural networks in general can do lots of interesting things for sure. But an image with the default ChatGPT aesthetic mindlessly produced by a generic prompt isn't one of them.
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by blep-arsh 17d ago
I'm guilty of dismissing useful messages sometimes, so I'm running a program, RetroClip for macOS, that records the last 30/60 seconds of screen capture into a ring buffer in RAM (with compression, but the CPU/GPU/p
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by blep-arsh 1mo ago
Yeah, I've lost track years ago. Still, if there is a "modern" one (WinUI 3, I guess), it should be possible to build a nice weather app in it. Anyway, I've just realized they ship a HTML-based UI in order to be able to
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by blep-arsh 1mo ago
QT and GTK are as native (and solid, I guess) as it gets, since there's no "default" UI toolkit that's shipped along with the kernel, unlike e.g. Windows or macOS. Speaking of Windows, why do they even ship browser-UI ap
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by blep-arsh 1mo ago
Headsets (including Bluetooth ones) were already a thing back then, so they'd have to go back another couple of decades, I guess. Using the speakerphone mode in public would attract some looks though.
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by blep-arsh 3mo ago
I've asked my bank's support agent about an issue with an app, it also didn't stumble producing a thorough and convincing answer. Entirely wrong, though. Using an LLM to reverse engineer the app turned out to be a much more p
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by blep-arsh 5mo ago
You might be confusing "conviction" with sociopathy
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by blep-arsh 6mo ago
CrowdSupply isn't geoblocking visitors as far as I know.
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by blep-arsh 6mo ago
I very much appreciate it when people use wired headphones with a decent mic for calls. Speech clarity is just so much better even with Earpods compared to tws earplugs.
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by blep-arsh 6mo ago
I also prefer open-back over-the-ears and there just aren't many wireless options for that.
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by blep-arsh 6mo ago
Some games are reliable enough. I found out the DRAM in my PC was going bad when Factorio started behaving weird. Did a memory test to confirm. Yep, bitflips.
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by blep-arsh 7mo ago
/r/subredditsimulator was entertaining enough way before LLMs.
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by blep-arsh 8mo ago
Shanling uses a custom OS although it feels very primitive compared to iPods (e.g. the iPod Nano had VoiceOver for touch navigation). So I'm not really a fan of these dedicated single-function players; modern media player apps can be f
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by blep-arsh 8mo ago
I've had some experience with both Meshtastic and Reticulum, and Meshtastic software was mostly unusable for me even with 3-node networks. E.g. a node sends a message and gets a successful delivery notification from the receiver but th
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by blep-arsh 8mo ago
I'm always amused by these occasional "you still don't have any viruses" popup notifications from Defender. Well, good to know, thank you very much, I guess.
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by blep-arsh 8mo ago
I don't generally use tiny fonts and I hopefully don't sit unreasonably close to the screen yet fringing is very apparent to me (even on window borders, i.e. it's not a font rendering quirk in my case). Just another anecdotal
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by blep-arsh 8mo ago
There are specialized computation kernels compiled for NPUs. A high-level program (that uses ONNX or CoreML, for example) can decide whether to run the computation using CPU code, a GPU kernel, or an NPU kernel or maybe use multiple devices
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by blep-arsh 9mo ago
Forums also didn't have personalized content recommendation engines... usually, I think
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by blep-arsh 10mo ago
I also have a splitter which lets you power an USB device from a separate power supply (i.e. D+/D- lines are connected to a host and +5V comes from a separate plug, ground is shared though). And optical TOSLINK is a nice option where a
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by blep-arsh 10mo ago
I have a similar FiiO gadget and it makes less sense for me than a direct wired connection to the phone. It's a relatively bulky device that needs to be charged way too often, also it reduces voice call quality (like any other BT Class
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by blep-arsh 10mo ago
One can't be a real infosec influencer unless one blocks every IP range of every hostile nation-state looking to steal valuable research and fill the website with malware
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by blep-arsh 1y ago
And people who are financially interested in letting users side-load apps (malicious or otherwise) are good at what they do. I mean, even Russian banks that are banned from the Apple App Store are still finding ways to distribute iPhone app
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by blep-arsh 1y ago
I have a stereo system with a DSP which I've spent quite a bit of time adjusting with tools like REW. I do care. I'm obviously adjusting my expectations because the laptop is indeed small but it really does sound great and I pref
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by blep-arsh 1y ago
Laptop OLEDs aren't usually the best wrt color accuracy and uniformity. I've tried two. One had green splotches across the screen, the other just displays a certain range of gray shades with a green tint (so e.g. a black-to-white
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by blep-arsh 1y ago
Yes, I've bought a chinese ("Acasis" brand) TB4 hub which has three TB4 downstream ports and an USB 3.x hub with three downstream 10 Gbps USB-C ports. There are also weird combos like one downstream TB3 + three downstream USB
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by blep-arsh 1y ago
Apple-Apple Bluetooth speech codec is a variation of AAC, I believe. AAC-LD if I remember correctly. But still, having microphones in one's ears is suboptimal. There's a lot of processing required even though the codec is no longe
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by blep-arsh 2y ago
I can deal with all the warts but I'm not really having a blast.
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by blep-arsh 2y ago
Depends on the product. Notion, for example, has a "press Space to AI" prompt in the editor. I think it can only be disabled for enterprise accounts.
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by blep-arsh 2y ago
Force-feeding 100s of different AI features (90% of which are useless at best) to users is what's wrong with the approach.

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