monkellipse

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by monkellipse 9d ago
The bit about updates not truly being critical if you’re behind a firewall doesn’t age too well lol
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by monkellipse 2mo ago
Cool, I’ll give it a try! OCR for printed stuff, device sync and character voices (for fiction) would be killer.
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by monkellipse 2mo ago
I see no declaration that this is a machine generated site, but the aesthetic is a dead giveaway. The language on the “how it works” page is unmistakably LLM output. As a total novice in engines this site had the potential to educate me, bu
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by monkellipse 10mo ago
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”
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by monkellipse 2y ago
Lex Fridman had Cronin on his podcast, quite an interesting discussion.
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by monkellipse 2y ago
For further reading, “The Design of Everyday Things” by Don Norman is a great source for a comprehensive look at this subject. I believe it’s probably still required reading for UI/UX folk but also approachable for other people and lay
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by monkellipse 2y ago
Professional product photographer here, primarily jewelry. Can confirm, pixel shift is a thing of pure beauty in this application, at least on the Hasselblad medium format system our studio used for years. Was a pain to wait for 16 captures
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by monkellipse 2y ago
A survey about how motivated the users felt? I am not convinced by this data. Surely we can do better.
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by monkellipse 3y ago
Having just last night gone back and forth with multiple screenshots and careful explanations to guide someone through importing a picture from email to the ios photos app… maybe I’m lazy but it’s just exhausting. I agree that with effort i
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by monkellipse 3y ago
As the defacto I.T. support man for family and friends of varied skill levels… sometimes it’s really daunting trying to get them to do things that seem very intuitive to the technically experienced. I’m not saying we should just give up ok
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by monkellipse 3y ago
Correct, none. I use Pihole for blocking. But the bigger point I think is that security conscious users are hesitant to employ extensions in general, even if some folks are ok with a couple select extensions they are still spooked by the ge
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by monkellipse 3y ago
I love the idea of browser extensions but they don’t appear to be worth the security/privacy risk for my use cases. I wonder how many others are like me and too paranoid to risk extensions at all?
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Optical One-Time Pad Decoding(youtube.com)
1 points by monkellipse 3y ago|1 comments
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by monkellipse 3y ago
This project shows how to make a small view screen that uses light to perform the logical operations needed to decrypt the unbreakable One-Time-Pad cypher. The video presents a little history to provide context, then shows the details of ho
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by monkellipse 3y ago
I was about to sit and gripe that the only shortcoming for me in BBedit compared to vscode is built in ssh combined with python venv… but once I started to type that I realized BBedit almost certainly had a solution there too, I just haven’
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by monkellipse 3y ago
The same way you stop people from using a hammer maliciously?
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by monkellipse 3y ago
Great idea! Also terrifying :) Given how often I accidentally commit the wrong text in vscode, I shudder to think of the damage I could do with this on my shell, hah! What safety measures are there/could there be?
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by monkellipse 3y ago
Their catalog is also brilliant. Often companies seem to struggle balancing marketing desires (“HEY CHECK OUT THIS THING!!”) with serving users what they’re looking for efficiently. Mcmaster leans heavily to the latter in the catalog AND we
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by monkellipse 3y ago
Subspace(“continuum”)… top down spaceships pew pew. Elegant physics, high skill ceiling. Multiplayer only, so many hours spent in 40+ player arenas in Chaos Zone. That game was really fun for chasing high-bounty ships that had survived in a
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by monkellipse 3y ago
“At lago we…” Hmmm… as a forced user of Lago’s product at work, I’m sorry but I stopped reading at that point. Terrible software, terrible support, enjoy your ORM hellscape I’ve flipped the bozo bit.
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by monkellipse 3y ago
I was hoping for some domain-specific insight there. Instead, that was a thin article without much more than a blanket assertion. Could have copy/replaced “accountant” with pretty much any other knowledge worker.
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by monkellipse 3y ago
This was my solution. It feels like overkill at times but I never have to worry about packaging messes anymore. That being said I can understand the desire to solve it on the metal, it’s a mess.
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by monkellipse 3y ago
An informative nitpick, thank you.
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by monkellipse 4y ago
I try generally not to be the vindictive type… but Lego being SUCH HAWKS and sticklers when it comes to brand protection, I can’t help but root for them getting skewered for this. I doubt much will really come of it, though.
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by monkellipse 4y ago
Nice! I also got hooked on the lander thing, really quick to pick up and good replay value! Your autopilot handles a gentle landing well. If I get the lander going sideways at any appreciable speed, then flip autopilot on, a crash is inevit
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by monkellipse 4y ago
Unexpected overwrites of system tools are the problem I’ve faced. Not sure how common that really is but once can be enough to leave a bad taste!
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by monkellipse 4y ago
I really got fed up with Homebrew after something got clobbered, this looks like a nice simple solution to that! Thanks! Curious to know how effective it is in practice. I resorted to abusing Docker for nifty command line tricks on the Mac
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by monkellipse 4y ago
Curves are just plain tricky, and are a skill that requires practice. I recommend tracing a shape in a photograph, especially one that has a mix of soft and hard angles and edges. Be patient with yourself, practice it like an instrument, an
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by monkellipse 4y ago
Yes, exactly. DNS settings on router makes that easy, just give each pihole a static address and point DNS to them. The address are listed in priority.
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by monkellipse 4y ago
Can confirm, pihole is great. I put in two for redundancy, helps make sure nothing gets through. No negative impact on network perf, as it only touches DNS and plenty fast for that.

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