cleartext412

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by cleartext412 11mo ago
Your player likely wasn't written in Javascript back then. Playing video on Youtube causes much more cpu load than playing the video with the same av1 (or even more computationally intensive vp9) codec in VLC.
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by cleartext412 11mo ago
Modern internet is build on premise of repeatedly running megabytes of javascript on everyone's machines to avoid a bit of work.
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by cleartext412 11mo ago
For someone using sed often enough inventing prettypath won't make sense. However, if producing correct sed command, be it by remembering the options, reading manual or digging through the shell history, takes some amount of mental eff
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by cleartext412 11mo ago
Personally I only ever needed it once. I was re-implementing javascript function doing some strange string processing by using characters in the input string to calculate indexes of alphabet array to replace them with. Since I was using Pyt
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by cleartext412 11mo ago
If I were to choose between bearing the fruits of 20 years of practicing music and equal amount of time spent playing this kind of games, it would certainly be the latter, and I did try both.
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by cleartext412 1y ago
I don't really get the point of disabling Youtube history just to never visit the main page again anyway. That said, recommendation algorithm is actually a valuable asset and it doesn't seem wise to discard it entirely instead of
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by cleartext412 1y ago
It went from "in 2-3 years" to "next year for sure", so at least it is not constant, like with fusion power.
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by cleartext412 1y ago
Was able to correctly guess it's about Therac-25 from title alone. I can't help but think this specific story is being overtold, while other software-related accidents doesn't get enough attention. Software controlling a safe
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by cleartext412 1y ago
If you are lucky you might get an image that hasn't yet been shown to enough people for the system to learn the "correct" answer, in which case you get a free pass submitting even blatantly incorrect solution.
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by cleartext412 1y ago
The scraping and reuploading issue could be solved by some kind of universal global content identification system, integrated into the micropayments system, making sure no matter where certain piece of content is uploaded, the fee would sti
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by cleartext412 1y ago
This is a default, opt-out behavior: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1296 It's pretty much the same as a phone camera app adding watermarks on pictures, or free email provider inserting
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by cleartext412 1y ago
Oh, so this is what Reader mode does. The few times I actually tried it, it worked badly, with huge chunks of text content missing from the page. Makes me wonder if with modern web the task has became so difficult even a browser couldn&#x27
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by cleartext412 1y ago
> Java's explicit exception system is great at forcing developers to deal with potential failures, but in practice Java developers chose not to deal with exceptions so often that exceptions now get hidden. Every time I see someone b
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by cleartext412 1y ago
I can relate to idea of refusing to switch to a new version because it removes features or breaks usual workflow. By extension, I can understand the idea of switching to an older version after installing most recent one and learning its lim
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by cleartext412 1y ago
Character "⧸" ( https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+29F8 ) is way harder to distinguish from "/" than ん. That said, looking at image depicting a phishing mail in the article, I notice that
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by cleartext412 1y ago
With delicate task like this, if I were to trust a technical solution I would rather have it open source, reviewed by myself, hosted on my terms and with appropriate degree of redundancy. If I were to trust a person or organization, I would
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by cleartext412 1y ago
With appliances like battery pack the explanation could be that Type A ports are dirt cheap compared to Type C with all the speed and power requirements, so even removing four Type A would not save enough for another Type C.
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by cleartext412 1y ago
Sometimes PR contains objective evidence, such as LLM responses left in comments, or even something like " Generated with [Claude Code]( https://claude.ai/code )" in commit message (notable example: https:/&#x
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by cleartext412 1y ago
Note that I didn't say "cheap". If price difference comes from manufacturer's hope of selling its cloud service, then the time and effort required to set it up is not worth the money. If I were to solve one-time task of
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by cleartext412 1y ago
> but what if it fails to start? Since you're mentioning opening laptop's lid I assume you mean literally failing to start, as after power cycling. For that, wouldn't simple hitting the power button be enough? It certainly
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by cleartext412 1y ago
So it is essentially all about money, and meaningfulness of the job is just another bonus, along with medical insurance, prolonged vacation period and anything else that might make you choose less paying job. That said, I can imagine people
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by cleartext412 1y ago
Hacking together something usable out of cloud-first piece of hardware you ended up with is respectable, but I would like to bring up another option to go with if you're choosing a new device: buy camera that doesn't require a pho
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by cleartext412 1y ago
It seem that problem is not the use of water itself, but the fact that datacenters buy drinking-quality water under the same conditions and from the same source as regular citizens. Sure enough they are not doing it because there are no oth
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by cleartext412 1y ago
Judging by this https://vt.social/@lina/113056457969145576 rewriting any even remotely complex project to rust will require making decisions (function signatures, ownership and so on) based on information that might no
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by cleartext412 1y ago
As unexpected as it may sound, I think you should focus on getting a job. When you get some actual experience of solving business tasks, dealing with colleagues and superiors, spending 8/5 at work and so on, it will be easier to make t