cbdevidal

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   by cbdevidal 4mo ago

   > The fourth thing is that I am trying out marketing ads on social media and that includes posting ads on Facebook and Reddit. I'm doing a smaller ad spend at first to see if it is worth spending extra money on advertising on certa
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   by cbdevidal 4mo ago

   The jumping grasshoppers at the bottom really surprised me :-)
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   by cbdevidal 4mo ago

   At a three person LAN party in 1998, I didn’t have an Ethernet card. The owner of the house had two phone lines. I connected my modem to one of his phone lines and dialed across the room to his dial-up server on his Win95 machine. We played
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   by cbdevidal 4mo ago

   The little bit I knew about the guy, coder with bad social skills does seem to be a fit.
5. 35.▲
   by cbdevidal 4mo ago

   Pardon my ignorance but could they not switch to a cheaper model? Honest question.
6. 36.▲
   by cbdevidal 4mo ago

   I couldn’t even tell you the last ten I’d read recently, and I thoroughly enjoy reading.
7. 37.▲
   by cbdevidal 4mo ago

   Beats my worst interview. For some reason I mentioned that I like reading. The guy then demanded to list the last ten books I read. I just named ten random books that I had read at some point in my life, even in childhood. Pretty bizarre. G
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   by cbdevidal 4mo ago

   I agree. Love older cars in the way they look, but I consider them only a little safer than a motorcycle. And plenty of people drive motorcycles and old cars every day without incident. Just from a percentage basis it’s not as safe.
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   by cbdevidal 4mo ago

   What prevents car manufacturers from taking a normal-looking body style and electrifying it? Seems popular with the aftermarket mods. Every hybrid and EV I can think of looks like a suppository. Edit: I asked AI the same question and it rem
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    Doesn’t appear they were successful, seems self driving taxis are still allowed. From my understanding, they have better bargaining rights for companies intending to switch to automation, but nothing preventing a scrappy upstart with only d
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    This happened to me, as well. Ironically, it was a Ferrari. The 1986 Ferrari Testarossa felt to my teen self to be a cheap Countach. But it grew on me.
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    Fun fact: Large businesses are often tapped to write the laws intended to target large businesses. The process is called “model legislation.” Fox and henhouse.
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    Maybe rent a cheap VM for Docker? I often think to myself when using my iPhone, there is no way I could get desktop work done with this. Can’t recall right now why I have said so but I think it had to do with keeping multiple apps open side
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could…
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    I guess that must be other devices. I honestly don’t notice on the Nook. Maybe it was designed for it. Shrug
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    I have faith in you!!
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    Of course they tested Doom :-D They might also run Linux kernel 3.7, that supported i386. Gray386linux is still maintained, and runs a patched 3.7 kernel. https://github.com/marmolak/gray386linux
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    It is still possible to remove DRM and export to PDF or epub. Not point-and-click easy, though. https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1q1uza4/successful...
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    I do both, actually. But I don’t notice the difference personally.
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    Thanks for the heads up. I had a brainstorming session with Gemini about this (I can’t believe I just typed that sentence lol) and the plan is to switch to two local LLMs; a lightweight, fast 3B model for autocomplete, and a slower 14B mode
21. 51.▲
    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    There’s a new plan? Ugh. I signed up about five months ago.
22. 52.▲
    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    Can even buy more premium tokens for more Claude use, which I have done once. But most of the time the tokens included in the plan are sufficient.
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    I’ve been quite content with CoPilot’s $10/mo plan. Still offers access to Claude models (limited tokens) but has no time limits like the $20 Claude plan, so no interruptions in work flow. I use one of the free models for the more pede
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    Same here. I read your comment from two inches away lol
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    Crap like this is why I 1.) export my Kindle books to plain PDF 2.) use a Nook Simple Touch. They work perfectly well 100% offline and are CHEAP now. Primarily use two of these for a prepper book cache. (Two is one and one is none.) The bat
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    Not sure if you’re joking but is it possible to even do that? I understand some books are kept on their cloud servers and only some get downloaded.
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    I don’t. Also from my optimist side :-)
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    The optimist in me hopes this means developers will pay more attention to memory usage in their apps.
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    Yeah 2010-2015 all had that issue—or I should say it is far more common in that generation. In 2016 they finally fixed it and the fourth generation is really the best one, though the fifth might prove to be as good or better given enough ti
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    by cbdevidal 4mo ago

    My whole draw to hybrids is low overall cost and longevity. Just two days ago I bought my son a 2007 Prius with 194k miles for $6k; and three weeks ago, a 2008 with 225k miles for my sister for $2.5k. Both should last another 200k if they d