heikkilevanto

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by heikkilevanto 8d ago
Interesting article. Pity it was so full of human factors, and so low on actual mathematics.
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by heikkilevanto 13d ago
Happy FairPhone 4 user here. Running 3+ years, only replaced the battery once. Aim to keep it 7-10 years, barring unforeseen events like theft. Not going to replace it just because a newer model is released.
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by heikkilevanto 15d ago
Clever solution, but I am not sure I can see a matching problem
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by heikkilevanto 19d ago
Keyboard driven is fine, when you have a keyboard. But many users are now on phones or tablets, with a severely limited keyboard that takes a big part of the screen. But they have a variety of gestures that regular desktop machines don&#x27
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by heikkilevanto 23d ago
99% of university students will never start a company. 99% of those who do will close down without making any measurable difference to the world. I think the world would be better off if the universities actively discouraged the idea of sta
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by heikkilevanto 28d ago
I would love something like that, except that I play the melody, and it produces proper 3-4 part accompaniment, preferably in good baroque style. Extra bonus if it could also write it into a file in a format suitable for music editing progr
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by heikkilevanto 29d ago
Most comments here point to the owner of operator of the LLM. I tend to agree. But on the other hand, if you drive on the highway and the steering wheel falls off and your car glides to the left and his an oncoming car, it can be argued tha
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by heikkilevanto 29d ago
Shocking that in this time and age, a simple peripheral like a mouse still needs a dedicated piece of software to be installed. In my Linux boxes, I just plug in a standard mouse and get the standard functions. I think the device driver sho
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by heikkilevanto 1mo ago
I keep an old phone in the bathroom, and every morning I use it to file my weight and my peak flow (for asthma tracking) on a web page I host on my home server. The server just appends the numbers into two text files, and plots some nice cu
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by heikkilevanto 1mo ago
But can you make a mere user read and understand that specification?
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by heikkilevanto 1mo ago
I asked it a reasonable question about working hours, and its reply started with "That's the first time today someone's led with actual substance instead of just the day label. I appreciate that." I guess the poor bot wi
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by heikkilevanto 1mo ago
I remember seeing a calendar on my first school year, 1971 in Finland, that marked which Saturdays were school days and which were off. Around the same time, I saw a cartoon about the future labor congress, where a dissatisfied worker asks
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by heikkilevanto 1mo ago
That is the law here in EU. Unsolicited commercial email is forbidden. Even if I have done business with you in the past, you are not allowed to contact me about something else. Unless I have explicitly and freely given my consent, and you
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by heikkilevanto 2mo ago
No, just a retired programmer, and sick and tired of all the spam I keep receiving. Don't have "fantastic opportunities" and am not looking for any.
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by heikkilevanto 2mo ago
Send me a "cold email" or any other sort of spam, and I will never see anything more from you, as your address will be blocked. Spamming is against the law here in EU, and for a good reason.
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by heikkilevanto 2mo ago
I don't like the idea of a persistent id for my machine. Would there be any harm in rewriting the machine-id at every boot? Or just deleting it as part of the shutdown sequence?
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by heikkilevanto 2mo ago
And you need to stop telling everyone what we need! "You might be interested in this <thing> if you have this and that" sounds so much more reasonable.
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by heikkilevanto 3mo ago
... And watch stupid people do stupid things even faster
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by heikkilevanto 3mo ago
I am sure there are reasons why this won't work, but could it really be so hard to show both the faked number, and where the call actually comes from, so I could choose which one to add to my block list.
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by heikkilevanto 3mo ago
Interesting idea. But why audio? I can't be the only one who prefers to read text.
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by heikkilevanto 4mo ago
> Oh no I got 5 emails I better write a post complaining about this massive inconvenience hmph ONE unsolicited unlawful (EU) spam mail is quite enough reason to get angry, block mail, and to complain to the relevant authorities. This s
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by heikkilevanto 4mo ago
> Every interaction I have with a store or site signs me up for some promotional thing, which I unsubscribe from immediately, only to find it's one of 4 different lists I was added to. Luckily this kind of thing is very much illegal
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by heikkilevanto 4mo ago
Sounds interesting. But I suspect my astigmatism would kind of exclude just turning the lenses around
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by heikkilevanto 4mo ago
I am not so sure about the eye tracking and autofocus stuff, but would love a simple focus knob on the frames to adjust instead of changing to a different pair of glasses. I suspect the tracking and focusing electronics must be somewhat clu
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by heikkilevanto 4mo ago
The comments here say that all Android phone manufacturers do stuff like this. I have never noticed that kind of things on my Fairphone. But then again, I don't have many apps and certainly not Amazon.
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by heikkilevanto 4mo ago
I don't buy "Anywhere, anytime, by anyone" - no language can be that. Different people and different projects have wildly different needs. It looks like it tries to provide a single binary offering most of the compiler, debug
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by heikkilevanto 4mo ago
Oh yes, I cut my teeth on a Finnish 1802 based TELMAC in the 1970s. It all of 2 kb of RAM (in 16 chips manually soldered on the board), and room for another 2kb if anyone would need so much, as it said in the instructions. I might almost be
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by heikkilevanto 4mo ago
> It's patently insane to demand that humans alter their behavior to accommodate the foibles of mere machines You mean like stopping at a red light?
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by heikkilevanto 5mo ago
> Of course all governments want to control every move and thought of their citizens. It makes governing easier. We expect that in autocracies. Are you implying that all governments are autocracies? Rather pessimistic view, in my opinion
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by heikkilevanto 5mo ago
Ownership is one question. IMO, a more interesting question is who is responsible when the code does some real-life damage.

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