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by michalf6 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)
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by michalf6 10mo ago
Not a Linux machine, but 14 and 16 inch MBPs with something like the Vivid app do really well in sunlight in light mode. I enjoy working outside on mine.
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by michalf6 11mo ago
I was looking for a 40-43in 4K TV for PC monitor use, considered the LG C series, but it wouldn't work in my bright room. I went with Samsung QN90C instead and I'm super happy with it. It's very bright, fights glare well, and
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by michalf6 1y ago
This is pretty decent, at least the first half: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrOVKHg_PJQ
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by michalf6 1y ago
Nick Land kind of took this line of reasoning to its ultimate conclusion, I recommend giving his ideas a read even if they sound repulsive. "Nothing human makes it out of the near-future."
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by michalf6 1y ago
Aren't AI GPUs a drop in the bucket compared to consumer electronics? Nvidia sold ~3M blackwells in 2025: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-has-sold-over-three-million-blac... Compare that to laptops which sell in tens of mi
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by michalf6 1y ago
What was that Microsoft alternative called?
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by michalf6 2y ago
>Exactly my thoughts. I really admired the design and how far WSL1 got. It is just sad to see it abandoned. But why was it better, other than aesthetic preference?
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by michalf6 2y ago
Ragas also has a feature to generate ground truths and queries: https://docs.ragas.io/en/latest/getstarted/testset_generatio... Although simply prompting an LLM with chunks of source documents might work bett
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by michalf6 2y ago
>The universe is trillions of times larger than we currently think it is Why do you think that?
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by michalf6 2y ago
Use Ice instead: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice
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by michalf6 2y ago
ARM Windows seems to be able to run x86 apps, though. I use an ARM Windows on an M1 mac to run BMW E-Sys and it works well enough.
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by michalf6 2y ago
I cannot find the mac app anywhere. Is there a link?
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by michalf6 3y ago
There are thousands of porn consumers with destroyed reward circuitry per every porn actor, of which few are mistreated and the majority are compensated very well. Producing a neverending supply of wireheading-like addictive stimuli is the
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by michalf6 3y ago
The ability to exert power and influence over things you value continues to scale with money. There's more to life than consumption.
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by michalf6 3y ago
Złuda roughly means "delusion" / "mirage" / "illusion" in Polish, given the author is called Andrzej Janik this may be a pun :)
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by michalf6 3y ago
Why a trackpoint without the middle click? How do you scroll?
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A Review of the Top Tools for Generating LLM Structured Output(monadical.com)
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by michalf6 3y ago
Just make sure you're getting enough lux, commercial SAD lamps are so dark it's borderline fraudulent. You need a LOT of light.
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by michalf6 3y ago
What's the country? I'm in this situation in Poland and I'm running a company (sole proprietorship). I'd say the majority of IT work is done this way here for tax benefits, even within the country. You may be doing the e
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by michalf6 3y ago
Yup, they switched to piezoelectric injectors in N53 which are crazy expensive and regularly fail.
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by michalf6 3y ago
I'm shopping around for a B48 powered car, and there have been instances of stretched chains at like 180000km. It's worse in B47, which carries over the same timing parts as N47 and it's generally acknowledged it's best
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by michalf6 3y ago
BMW got much better since the switch to B series engines, N series era was horrible. Timing chains between the engine and gearbox are a pain point though, they need to be replaced with mileage.
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by michalf6 3y ago
And then there are companies like Dell and Lenovo which dispatch a serviceman to your address on next day and fix or replace the device on the spot.
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by michalf6 3y ago
Not the Cherry MX type, click and actuation are separate events. True with buckling springs though.
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by michalf6 3y ago
The concept of this website (sixcolors.com) is bewildering to me. I sincerely hope the authors are being handsomely paid by Apple behind the scenes, otherwise they just spend their lives doing free advertising for a trillion dollar corporat
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by michalf6 3y ago
Me and my friend found our jobs through HN, and the HN common cultural context helped me in that job. It's definitely a value add for my life
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by michalf6 3y ago
The user absolutely is the product here, HN is a marketing and recruitment funnel to YC and YC-backed companies.
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by michalf6 3y ago
Both surprising news and unsurprising news are valuable, you just update your confidence in certain beliefs in opposite directions.
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by michalf6 3y ago
Sorry, I understood that one as irony.

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