daemin

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by daemin 4d ago
You give a button pushing machine buttons to push and are surprised when it actually pushes them.
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by daemin 4d ago
It is a very rare occurrence when corporations and the people running them are punished for killing people. I mean the whole concept of a corporation was created to shield the owners of it from being liable for damages caused by / visi
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by daemin 4d ago
I'd say the bigger issue is not the way it listens for the wake word, it's the recording and processing it does afterwards for a significantly long period of time, recording for much longer than people anticipated, and with a micr
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by daemin 4d ago
I would also bet that they didn't actually have any alcohol in their drinking vessels at the time of filming.
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by daemin 4d ago
Not only that but to read every single related T&C from the whole chain of partners, and to keep track of it when it changed, is basically impossible. This sort of malicious compliance of using T&C to enable bad behaviour by corpora
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by daemin 4d ago
The problem is when a helpful friend or family member decides to connect the TV to the Internet for you, they have good intentions and think they are helping but have in fact screwed up your carefully considered plan. Same thing goes when s
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by daemin 9d ago
Because it's there and available should they ever want to use it, and most people would not know that the HDMI cable is potentially another network cable.
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by daemin 9d ago
But once you've innovated that first bit, you're in a mature industry, do you do the hard thing and innovate again or do you just stay there slowly becoming irrelevant, or do you optimise what you have and figure out more income s
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by daemin 9d ago
Simplest thing to say is: find all the people responsible for this, from the bottom to the top, and charge them with the same crime as an individual would be. I would include everyone in the chain from the programmers that implemented it, t
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by daemin 9d ago
For a corporation there's always more money to be made, until it makes all the money in the world.
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by daemin 9d ago
Doesn't HDMI have built in Ethernet these days? So any HDMI cable of a certain specification is also a network cable. I remember these things being discussed a while ago on here, how TVs use their own hard coded DNS ("for safety&q
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by daemin 15d ago
I don't know of any that use LLMs and my educated opinion would be that there won't be any in the next decade or ever. The main reasons are that games already run with tight margins of both frame time and memory consumption, and t
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by daemin 15d ago
The one that sticks out to me is the last quote lamenting the fact that you can't talk about AI in games any more since the term AI has been hijacked to mean LLM instead. I wonder how long it will take for job ads in the game industry
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by daemin 24d ago
Writing your own game engine makes you realise that no game engine is written well (when it is written to ship a game).
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by daemin 1mo ago
What I see is that you'll get low end chips for embedded applications, because you tend to specifically build and compile programs for things as small as that. You'll also get the large sever and massive super-computer scale syste
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by daemin 1mo ago
Is it actually a backup though or only a cloud sync? Given how the other major provider behaves I have to assume that it's a cloud sync, not a backup, and that your photos will no longer be yours but instead stored on someone else&#x27
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by daemin 1mo ago
Speaking of subsidies it is often the case that fossil fuel industries are very heavily subsidised, yet they are still losing out to solar panels.
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by daemin 1mo ago
If any place should be mostly filled with native application developers it should be Microsoft. No test engineers any more but there should be plenty of native application developers.
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by daemin 1mo ago
I checked this on my computers: On Windows 10 the Weather application uses 2-4MB when not active, which climbs to around 490-550MB when active. On Windows 11 the Weather application doesn't appear to be running at all when not active a
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by daemin 1mo ago
If you want to read that book I would try and find a second hand copy of the original print. I bought a more recent print from Amazon and it seemed like it was a non-edited OCR'd scan of the original, plenty of words that should have b
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by daemin 2mo ago
An interesting parallel to this is parallel construction, where a side knows X but they know it through illegal/illegitimate means, so how do they create a trail of evidence for X through ordinary and legal means. This applies to legal
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by daemin 2mo ago
I will probably be installing that on my servers soon. Luckily I don't need to use it as a desktop machine any more.
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by daemin 2mo ago
Unfortunately these days bank apps are required by the banks for "security", and good luck getting anything done without the bank app installed on your phone. The only other alternative available is SMS but that is being phased ou
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by daemin 2mo ago
The article's point of view is that using unique_ptr to implement a PIMPL idiom is inadequate since it doesn't allow copying of the outer type without implementing your own dedicated operators. Hence the new type which does act mo
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by daemin 2mo ago
Do you have the code shared somewhere, via a blog post or code snippet somewhere?
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by daemin 2mo ago
Ubuntu is still annoying with it's daily popups asking to update the system and then most times requiring a system restart. In some ways it is worse than Windows.
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by daemin 2mo ago
It was used extensively at a former workplace of mine where each class that wasn't a message or data type was a pimpl. They had implemented their own private pointer class to handle it. It worked well enough to avoid pulling in lots of
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by daemin 3mo ago
Same sort of reason that way more people use Microsoft Teams than Slack, because it's already there in something that you've paid for. Personally I would not encrypt a whole disk, only the files I actually care about protecting.
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by daemin 3mo ago
I believe users are given an option on Windows setup to encrypt the drive with Bitlocker or not. I've done an install in the last few months and seen it. They should also be given an option of storing the keys in the cloud service tied
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by daemin 3mo ago
That's why I understand businesses requiring full disk encryption on their devices and on contractor devices, because in their case they are fine with losing data as they have many copies of it elsewhere.

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