ishvanl

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Let's Write a Simple JPEG Library (2017)(koushtav.me)
2 points by ishvanl 3y ago|0 comments
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by ishvanl 3y ago
Bugger. I was hoping for him to die in office, causing an executive power struggle and sending his media empire into calamitous decline.
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by ishvanl 3y ago
Well, the original post isn't about how particularly efficient ChatGPT is at stripping all of the character and large amounts of information from a perfectly good source. The original post is about railway ballast, and as such, this co
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The Art of Waiting (2014)(rookiemag.com)
2 points by ishvanl 3y ago|0 comments
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by ishvanl 3y ago
I'm doing fine on Safari. Sitting around 30 fps for me during moves etc. (Safari 16.1 on MacOS Ventura; M1 Pro)
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by ishvanl 3y ago
As a rust programmer... etc etc.
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by ishvanl 3y ago
Do you have a source on the MacBook audio thing? That's something I'd very much like to have a look at.
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by ishvanl 3y ago
Yes, but where would the world be if people didn't share things with each other?
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by ishvanl 3y ago
Is it? I'm Australian & haven't heard a thing about this.
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by ishvanl 3y ago
Honestly I'm not surprised to hear GM doing something this ridiculous. GM's primary business has been finding new footguns for itself since at least the 1980s; at this point, the only thing going for the company is that their cars
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by ishvanl 3y ago
Here’s an interesting and perplexing point about MacOS cursors tangentially related to this article. Final Cut Pro, Apple’s flagship video editing software, overrides the default MacOS cursor with a nearly identical, but slightly different
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by ishvanl 4y ago
I think this example really illustrates the leaps and bounds made between [Chat]GPT-3 & GPT-4. The first text sounds like some slightly shoddy marketing copy, or perhaps a high schooler's C-minus attempt at a creative writing class
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by ishvanl 4y ago
There is an idea bouncing around my brain for a pipe-dream science fiction book I could write, about the rise of the first truly sentient (or sentient-appearing) AI & its effects on the world. It is beginning to get to the point where I
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by ishvanl 4y ago
> Bandcamp has a clear path forward to future success, and it starts with our union having a seat at the table. Not sure whether this is saying that Bandcamp has already established a cooperative stance with the union, or if it's sa
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by ishvanl 4y ago
"Thou shalt not... elevator... buttons may not be... oh whatever, just put something in there about adultery."
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by ishvanl 4y ago
I second this. My thing is pottery. I started in January of 2021 and have been doing it ever since. It cost me 50 dollars for a few hour-long courses at a local studio and it has been an absolute godsend. The pure cosmic joy of seeing and f
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AWS Snowmobile: How Amazon uses 18-wheelers to transfer big data to the cloud(cnbc.com)
1 points by ishvanl 4y ago|0 comments
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by ishvanl 4y ago
> a soup-to-nuts walk through of popular, lynchpin open-source codebases This sounds fantastic. I'm a self taught developer in largely the situation you describe and this book sounds like something that would be amazing for someone
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Strategies to reduce unhealthy smartphone usage(healthyscreens.com)
5 points by ishvanl 4y ago|0 comments
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by ishvanl 4y ago
I want my money back.
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by ishvanl 4y ago
Consider that underpaid BIPOC and undocumented immigrants are less likely to be able to own a car and are thus, as pedestrians, more at risk of injury from reckless drivers. Also consider that a $200 fine, while still unfortunate, is a hell
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by ishvanl 4y ago
"We said we were going to do something, and then we didn't." Isn't that the textbook definition of false advertising?
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by ishvanl 4y ago
Wow, you did neocities? That's become a genuine social fixture in many ways in a number of the circles I'm in.
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by ishvanl 4y ago
This is outstanding.