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by drpixie 9mo ago
What's amazon's angle on this? Because it's not believable that they wouldn't have an angle. So the real question is - how is amazon going to enshitify drm-free books? Are they trying to wipe out gutenburg, standard-eboo
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by drpixie 9mo ago
As Mr Pratchett says - "it's turtles all the way down".
33.
by drpixie 9mo ago
That's a plus - patch drywall doesn't show annoying, crappy, unwanted ads at every opportunity.
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by drpixie 9mo ago
I always liked the idea of literate programming, but it never seemed to get a toe in the door. A good start would be just commenting code! Almost all the code I've looked into recently has been startling - the only comments are the lic
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by drpixie 10mo ago
Summary of the current situation... LLMs have shown us just how easily we are fooled. AGI has shown us just how little we understand about "intelligence". Standby for more of the same.
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by drpixie 10mo ago
And it's been possible to run android on x86 for years. It's just that nobody wants to, except for app developers ... because you wouldn't/couldn't/shouldn't develop on a phone ;)
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by drpixie 11mo ago
A different approach to the same problem: see https://posithub.org/ or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)
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by drpixie 11mo ago
>> a solution that seems correct under their heuristic reasoning, but they arrived at that result in a non-logical way Not quite ... LLMs are not HAL (unfortunately). They produce something that is associated with the same input, some
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by drpixie 11mo ago
Yes BUT "I paid it back, so nothing bad ever happened" is not sufficient. Someone (or a company) does something bad - yes, pay it back, but there needs to be some punishment for doing evil. Pay back X 100. Or pay purchaser + pay f
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by drpixie 11mo ago
Traditionally, winch cables are single strand steel (fencing) wire - I guess because that's cheap. But they break quite often. Cable falls can be a problem. A cable falling over power lines causes all sorts of fuss! Cable breaks can be
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by drpixie 11mo ago
Winch launches are a lot like a kid with a kite. Run fast (wind in the winch) to get speed and up it goes. At its desired altitude, the glider disconnects and goes on its way. https://youtu.be/YePIJKs5me0 gives you an idea.
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by drpixie 1y ago
>> does not scale linearly It looks like it depends on the stiffness of the material (paper), so scaling it up to human (or bigger) sized will come with "interesting" challenges :(
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by drpixie 1y ago
Really? Those who have had anything to do with gliders know there is plenty that can and will go wrong. Landing on-tow !?!? And what's the benefit - they might save a little in cruise, but they've got to get there (safely) first?
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by drpixie 1y ago
Perhaps you can enable a default local domain on your router? Openwrt certainly lets you choose a local domain and the router then replies to DNS requests for somehost.local names.
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by drpixie 1y ago
UTF-8 is a neat way of encoding 1M+ code points in 8 bit bytes, and including 7 bit ASCII. If only unicode were as neat - sigh. I guess it's way too late to flip unicode versions and start again avoiding the weirdness.
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by drpixie 1y ago
Each cell has 2 transistors and a length of trace. Why not use the 2 transistors as a flip-flop? Then there is no charge decay. Thinking in the same vein - transistors are really small now. Aren't we at the stage where we can drop DRAM
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by drpixie 1y ago
Same. Been running OpenWrt for years now. I select hardware that runs OpenWrt and never (well, only once, truely) have had to reboot a device due crashing. That old "reboot your router" is just not a thing (touch wood). I'm s
48.
by drpixie 1y ago
> This isn’t just a fresh coat of paint. Just how is this NOT just a fresh coat of paint? It is precisely the same controls, providing precisely the same effects, but looking different. And probably requiring just a little more attention
49.
by drpixie 1y ago
No so young, but just as short-term and thoughtless.
50.
by drpixie 1y ago
It's increasingly difficult to get current hardware for which an alternative OS is available, and which is not locked. Right now, it seems to be fairphone or pixel, or old phones which are not easy to obtain. Samsung have announced the
51.
by drpixie 1y ago
Is that really still a problem? I've always had trackpads work straight-off 100%, and find battery life to be way better under linux (perhaps because it's not running a million unwanted services.)
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by drpixie 1y ago
Arrggg- that's the best reason, so far, to avoid Go. Almost nothing is a number. A length is not a number, an age is not a number, a phone number is not a number - sin(2inches) is meaningless, 30years^2 is meaningless, phone#*2 is mean
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by drpixie 1y ago
Naaa ... most "new" languages are just reinventions of stuff that's been around for ... 45 years, by people who should know better.
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The Death of Industrial Design(hackaday.com)
9 points by drpixie 1y ago|0 comments
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by drpixie 1y ago
1. Don't take it personally. They don't know or care who you are. 2. Some kind of rate limiter is becoming essential for servers. Scanning/probing is worse than rude but there's plenty of obnoxious out there. Fail2ban ca
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by drpixie 1y ago
Remember when the justification for cloud was "Your work is not trapped on one device". Well, turns out your cloud data is trapped on one device, AND it's not under your control.
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by drpixie 1y ago
My first thought was that they referred to metaphorically poisonous books, something that scans the catalogue looking nasty books about diversity or gender ... " oh no, more book banning ".
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by drpixie 1y ago
Absolutely - there are so many really bad wheels out there: - wheels that force you to do things that way the maker wants, instead of the way that suits you; - wheels that are fine going downhill ... but nowhere else; - wheels require you t
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by drpixie 1y ago
I'd rather travel with you, than those who insist on always carrying a camera. Everyone sees and feels the world quite differently without a camera. With one, part of you is preoccupied and looking for images, not with being in the pla
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Windows RDP lets you log-in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is ok with that(arstechnica.com)
98 points by drpixie 1y ago|18 comments

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