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by codeulike 6mo ago
My pc, maybe because of the external keyboard I'm using, occasionally decides that Scroll Lock is On and then Excel becomes unusable ... The solution is to bring up the On Screen Keyboard and toggle the virtual scroll lock key ...
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by codeulike 7mo ago
But manually going through your API resource by resource, parameter by parameter, etc. takes a long time. This CLI dynamically generates itself at run time though gws doesn't ship a static list of commands. It reads Google's ow
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Loved the show back in its heyday. From what I remember, the novels are pretty good too
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by codeulike 7mo ago
1992 seems a bit late. Wasn't this first website put online on 20 December 1990?
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by codeulike 7mo ago
But on most of them the power setting just changes the percentage of time the magentrotron is 'on', but while it is on, its full power. So something like 'low for 40s' becomes a game of russian roulette
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by codeulike 7mo ago
This is fascinating because I remember this era when Microwave ovens were a new thing and my parents got one, along with a glossy cookbook with a roast chicken on the front. All of that 'roasting things in the microwave' gor quiet
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Smartphones at least have some semblance of security, whereas iot devices are a free for all
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by codeulike 7mo ago
The central paragraph of this is still really hard to parse: "At its core, OAuth for delegation is a standard way to do the following: The first half exists to send, with consent, a multi-use secret to a known delegate. The other half
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Reads to me like it is not accessing other users mailboxes, its just accessing the current user's mailbox (like its meant to) but its supposed to ignore current user's emails that have a 'confidential' flag and that bit
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Right, but why is it "Clawe" specifically - is that supposed to sound like something trello-ish? What is the e on the end supposed to remind me of?
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Modern chips made via EUV lithography can be thought of as 3d printed. Like the most mind bogglingly complicated 3d printing imaginable. I dont think TSMC make ROM chips using their 5nm process but I think they _could_, if needed. So that w
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by codeulike 7mo ago
The sun expands and gets hotter Yes, in approx 4 billion years. I agree that is a concern but I think we should also pay some attention to some of the problems we will be facing in a timescale somewhat shorter than billions of years.
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by codeulike 7mo ago
I dont understand what its riffing on
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by codeulike 7mo ago
This is not for people
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Always loved the Royal Festival Hall, nice views and things to do. That whole stretch of the south bank really benefits from the ban on advertising.
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by codeulike 7mo ago
hand drawn architectural cross section from the 1960s https://shop.barbican.org.uk/products/pod1049390 edit: misread the title, thought we were talking about the barbican again
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by codeulike 7mo ago
In terms of "qualia", its the other way round probably? Like the way we see colours would have evolved (within the available environment of wavelengths and scatterings and the possibilities with rods and cones) so that the things
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by codeulike 7mo ago
I didn't really get what "a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline" meant, like how is it offline? So I think this is the bit of info I was missing: Every content you visit is cached a
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Exactly
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by codeulike 7mo ago
It recommends Consider Phlebas over any of the other Iain M Banks Culture books - surely thats not right
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Yes its clear as mud
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Lets look at diversification of revenue: meta $164b revenue in 2024: 98% advertising google $350b revenue in 2024: 76% advertising, 12% google cloud, 12% other apple $391b revenue in 2024: 66% hardware (iphone, ipad, mac), 25% services (app
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by codeulike 7mo ago
They have failed to diversify, is what I meant, despite being around for approx 2 decades
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Google and Facebook have failed to do this, so why is that?
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Yes, if you work somewhere that is paying for the right add-ons, it can access all your stuff (messages, calendar, email, documents) and sythesise that all into helpful stuff like 'what am I supposed to be doing today?', 'wha
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by codeulike 7mo ago
Its hard to come up with useful AI apps that aren't massive security or privacy risks. This is pretty obvious. For an agent to be really useful it needs to have access to [important stuff] but giving an AI access to [important stuff] i
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by codeulike 7mo ago
But still, Microsoft is the most diversified of the big players - they have Windows, Office, Enterprise, Xbox, Azure, Surface - they can survive a mess like their current copilot mess and still generally thrive
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by codeulike 7mo ago
I believe you need to pay for an add-on called "Microsoft 365 Copilot" https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365-copilot
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by codeulike 8mo ago
If you're on MS stack, this is all stuff that MS 365 Copilot will already do for you, but with much better defined barriers around what it can and cant access.
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by codeulike 8mo ago
... There are no paragraphs or chapters ... Legendary

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