mFixman

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by mFixman 1mo ago
You could say the same of PE, maths, literature, or almost anything learned in school. Few adults need them in their lives, but they provide good habits and virtue to students. People who don't read and write anything outside social me
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by mFixman 1mo ago
And now instead of teaching disabled students how to improve their handwriting to improve their lives regardless of their circumstances, we lowered the bar and made all students have bad handwriting.
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by mFixman 1mo ago
Removing AI watermarks is still easier than doing a school assignment. The only way to prevent AI cheating is to make the assignments in class in pen and paper. To be honest, I don't understand why schools moved away from that in the f
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by mFixman 2mo ago
I have been successfully using the Consent-O-Matic extension [1] to auto-decline all cookie and GDPR banners. As much as I'm not comfortable giving potential access to every website to some extension developers, this improved my intern
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by mFixman 2mo ago
Lumon is currently hiring new candidates willing to undergo severance :-)
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by mFixman 2mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the EU and ISPs are funding fibre to remote locations _because_ of Starlink competition. Taxis and minicabs all over the world were unreliable, expensive, and unsafe before Uber came along with some healthy c
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by mFixman 2mo ago
The killer feature of Organic Maps and OSM is the POI markers for small things. If you are cycling, knowing where the nearest bike rack is to your location is crucial. Google Maps is very good at showing car parking spaces, which is the req
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by mFixman 3mo ago
What's the status of banking apps, Google / Microsoft authenticator, and Google Wallet? Those were the things preventing me from abandoning stock Android.
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by mFixman 4mo ago
Nobody in the chain of command thought this was a real emergency situation. The point of turning Bluetooth off or having to turn around the aircraft was to follow the airline's rules on terrorism, which likely tell them to abort a flig
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by mFixman 4mo ago
> Example: Point at a date in an email to instantly set up a meeting, find good spots to meet up, or draft a reply. This is actually a good use case for AI. My university sends a lot of newsletters with several events in free text format
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by mFixman 5mo ago
It was originally going to be scrapped by a Web 3.0 app-only proprietary events system, but we did a small campaign inside the university to keep the site on. As far as I know, the changes will now only be on the backend.
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by mFixman 6mo ago
The Cambridge list of talks at https://talks.cam.ac.uk is unbeaten. The site loads in less than a second, you can do anything intuitively with a single click, all pages have a lot of useful information with zero fluff or clickba
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by mFixman 6mo ago
I used to slay with this in code golfing competitions from TopCoder, where you had to implement a function to solve a particular problem, thanks to C pointer maths and the gcc generally putting function arguments in order in the stack. Turn
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by mFixman 7mo ago
My impression was that the EU did it to prevent people doing visa-free layovers from claiming asylum, while the UK did it to negotiate a dual exception with the EU in the future. ETA is a visa to the entire world in all but name. I'm n
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by mFixman 7mo ago
> We’re also adding a fill tolerance slider, giving you control over how precisely the Fill tool applies color. To get started, select the Fill tool and use the slider on the left side of the canvas to adjust the tolerance to your desire
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by mFixman 7mo ago
Is this the first type of sum-type option choosing statement present for C++ unions? I've been waiting for this feature since the year 1978. Still, it's a wasted opportunity not to have a language-level overload to the `switch` st
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by mFixman 7mo ago
Why do we need a log viewer at all? My browser can handle tens of thousands of lines of logs, and has Ctrl-F that's useful for 99% of the searches I need. A better runner could just dump the logs and let the user take care of them. Why
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by mFixman 7mo ago
Good place to ask: I'm not comfortable with NPM-style `uses: randomAuthor/some-normal-action@1` for actions that should be included by default, like bumping version tags or uploading a file to the releases. What's the accepte
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by mFixman 7mo ago
I found that "Agentic Search" is generally useless in most LLMs since sites with useful data tend to block AI models. The answer to "when is it cheaper to buy two singles rather than one return between Cambridge to London?&qu
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by mFixman 8mo ago
If you go to Settings -> Personalisation -> Memory, you have two separate toggles for "Reference saved memories" and "Reference chat history". The first one refers to the "memory updated" pop-up and its b
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by mFixman 8mo ago
I've been impressed by how good ChatGPT is at getting the right context old conversations. When I ask simple programming questions in a new conversation it can generally figure out which project I'm going to apply it to, and write
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by mFixman 8mo ago
You can tell that they consulted 0 scientists to verify the clearly AI-written draft of this video. The target audience of this tool is not academics; it's OpenAI investors.
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by mFixman 9mo ago
Because there is only so much programmers and companies will pay for AI coders. The big prizes is AI-generated TikTok. The entertainment industry is by far the easiest way to tap into global discretionary income.
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by mFixman 9mo ago
I was very disappointed with Supernova in the East. What started as a telling of the Pacific War from the point of view of the Japanese empire morphed into the usual "war is bad but American soldiers are heroes" that's very c
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by mFixman 9mo ago
Robin Pearson ended the 1000-year long epic of The History of Byzantium earlier this year: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ The podcast started as a sequel to Mike Duncan's classic The History of Rome, and in my opin
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by mFixman 9mo ago
The thing AI miss about the internet from the late 2000s and early 2010s was having so much useful data available, searchable, and scrappable. Even things like "which of my friends are currently living in New York?" are impossible
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by mFixman 9mo ago
You -> Gear icon -> Revanced Settings -> General -> Navigation Buttons -> Hide Shorts. You need to also hide them from the feed and a few other places. You are not stupid; Revanced has too many options and the settings and la
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by mFixman 9mo ago
Search "YouTube Revanced" on Android. It's a bit of a pain to install, but it lets you customise your YouTube app and add or remove as many features as you want. These kinds of customisations should be standard for apps peopl
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by mFixman 9mo ago
Don't forget Consent-O-Matic if you live in the EU+UK, to auto-reject all cookie and GDPR forms.
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by mFixman 9mo ago
I pay for YouTube Premium and I still use ReVanced on mobile. Being able to remove Shorts from the app and to revert Alphabet's many incoherent design decisions makes the whole thing usable.

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