gblargg

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by gblargg 23h ago
I did this the old fashioned way on an Acer monitor a while back, eliminating the 10-second logo when turning it on. I ended up dumping the ROM (8051 CPU), writing a disassembler and mapping out enough of the code to patch it, and threw in
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by gblargg 3d ago
https://archive.is/KF0iH (no annoying popups)
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by gblargg 4d ago
I generally open links in a new tab because browsers never seem to be able to consistently cache the previous page, so when I hit back it has to reload. A separate tab always avoids this. I even have a button on my mouse hardwired to Ctrl-W
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by gblargg 5d ago
Indeed. I'd always put swap near the beginning, then a small root partition, then the rest. This reduced head movement for often-accessed data, and used the higher bandwidth of the outer tracks.
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by gblargg 6d ago
On some channels YouTube consistently remembers my position server-side. On other channels, it reliably starts the video at the beginning if the tab gets reloaded, even if I was half way through. Often the video in thumbnails shows a red ba
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by gblargg 6d ago
The power plant is about 1000 MW BTW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loviisa_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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by gblargg 6d ago
But by a 16 year-old Mexican female?
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by gblargg 7d ago
I'm honestly baffled. Is there something factually incorrect about what I wrote? Ad hominem doesn't help. Also, why so hostile? I meant nothing malicious by it. EDIT: I looked it up, and the legal definition of discrimination is a
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by gblargg 7d ago
At the very least they need to make public accessible all data collected about all employees and owners of Flock, and everyone in government agencies that contract with Flock. This means we can see all photos and videos of these people, eve
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by gblargg 8d ago
Same. I like seeing people who have made great tech houses and seem like nice people.
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by gblargg 8d ago
I've seen the insides of those automatic ones. If you think scooping lumps out of a normal litterbox is bad, try cleaning an automatic one out. Clumping litter works surprisingly well. It's really a minor thing.
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by gblargg 9d ago
That's what the Ask button is for with the summarize option, to not have to watch unnecessarily-long videos. Apparently it does connect to public hotspots, often run by major providers.
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by gblargg 9d ago
I was going to suggest updating firmware initially right after your purchase, but that could also update a list of Wi-Fi credentials so it can continue to connect to the Internet using other nearby access points.
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by gblargg 9d ago
I keep my off-brand smart TV offline as well, partly just because the next update could brick it. I just use it as a monitor. External Google TV box is the way to go if you want smart functionality.
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by gblargg 9d ago
Isn't this because it's not a free market, e.g. the DMCA and other laws that prevent publishing how to work around digital locks?
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by gblargg 10d ago
Redirector is a great browser extension (Firefox and Chrome) to easily automatically redirect x.com links to one of these alternatives, BTW.
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by gblargg 10d ago
Door 1: try to take down sites offering a lite version that people prefer over x.com. Door 2: improve x.com to be better than third-party sites. Which is, Elon?
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by gblargg 10d ago
A situation of life imitating art: all the fictional movie plots feed the AIs, which bring them about.
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by gblargg 10d ago
Yeah, I'm thinking that a cloud isn't just a server, it's a bunch of them spread out. We had servers on the Internet before cloud computing.
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by gblargg 12d ago
People are free to pool their money and offer higher bounties.
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by gblargg 12d ago
If you get down to it, any system that produces output is a "next token predictor". Every compiler, every tool that generates output. Even a web render engine is: next pixel predictor.
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by gblargg 12d ago
Something like 1/30 the energy density of liquid fuel. Plus unlike fuel, a discharged battery weighs virtually the same as a charged one.
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by gblargg 13d ago
It seems insane because it seems like a big point was to have a permanent site for your name. This just devalues all domain names, showing that they can do a rug-pull at any time because they don't want to manage it (how about turn it
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by gblargg 13d ago
The person who thought they cared about the child's welfare turned out to be the actual danger, and made the child's life much worse.
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by gblargg 15d ago
Even better, I switched to the esr release. It gets updates every week or two, but only for security issues. Otherwise the browser has a stable feature set and no new features.
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by gblargg 16d ago
And do this manual justification as your very last step.
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by gblargg 17d ago
Reminds me of how people learning to draw/paint are told to flip the subject upside-down, to bypass their interpretation getting in the way of seeing.
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by gblargg 17d ago
> You can see this in the article: "Google Docs added some kind of delay such that the typing you do into the title box right after you open the doc gets overwritten". That's a developer forming a model of the system. The
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by gblargg 17d ago
If it's good that an OS isn't doing age verification, why are there even age verification laws?
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by gblargg 17d ago
We don't need most laws.

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