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by pixelbath 1y ago
It was simply "Ghost" before Norton bought it and made it more terrible and bloated over time. We (at a computer shop I worked at) used Ghost to build a pre-OOBE image for several common Windows configurations and then just image
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by pixelbath 2y ago
TFA addresses this directly: > For the crows, the spikes seem purely structural, a material used to fashion a solid foundation. In both crow nests, the wires were incorporated into the base–interwoven with the points facing inward, below
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by pixelbath 3y ago
It's not interesting in a "wow, Macbooks can finally support two external displays" as much as "this does make this intentionally-small form factor slightly more tolerable." Comparing the port count/capabilitie
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by pixelbath 3y ago
And if you'd like to read it later, bookmark it! You can organize bookmarks into groups, give them custom names, and they don't require the browser to be constantly hoarding multiple gigabytes of RAM.
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by pixelbath 3y ago
It seems to me that one of the strengths of LLMs is their ability to _not_ differentiate between (human) languages, because to a statistical model, (for lack of a better term) people gonna people, no matter their culture or background.
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by pixelbath 3y ago
Figma's press release doesn't mention it, but they've now got an extra $1bn from the merger termination fee to bank, so presumably they could reinvest that into the company and stakeholders.
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by pixelbath 3y ago
You appear to be linking to heat shrink tubing for the printer, rather than the printer itself.
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by pixelbath 3y ago
Holy crap, I tried to read this article but could not get over the constant motion in the corner. Can you please add a way to suppress this?
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by pixelbath 3y ago
> One happens to be heavily used This does not matter in the slightest; your only obligations to other entities are self-imposed. Using a developer's piece of code does not confer an additional right to that developer's time. &
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by pixelbath 3y ago
It is less processed, but TFA points out that it is definitely not RAW, particularly in the section titled "Log is Half Baked."
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by pixelbath 3y ago
So if aces are considered "1", how do you think a Royal Flush works? It wraps back around to 1?
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by pixelbath 3y ago
And the repo doesn't ask you to pipe curl output directly into the shell? Neat!
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by pixelbath 3y ago
> it is an issue, and a waste for people to maintain multiple iCloud accounts, purchase multiple machines, and have notes and other materials scattered across machines and accounts It is an issue, and security concern, for employees of a
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by pixelbath 3y ago
And sharing the link with other people (a desire stated on the website itself) makes it wrong...how?
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by pixelbath 3y ago
Your presumption is correct. Valve was working directly with id Software after licensing the (still closed-source at the time) Quake engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc
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by pixelbath 3y ago
Author has not tried the product, and their main points seem to be: 1. Meta makes VR headsets and failed. 2. Vision has a lot of fancy tech, but I don't understand how that helps Apple. 3. People who are excited about Vision al
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by pixelbath 3y ago
Ah, yes. The closed-source, single-platform, invite-only browser made by a company nobody's ever heard of outside the startup ecosystem.
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by pixelbath 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Giraffed...
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by pixelbath 3y ago
That article is stunningly light on actual substance, other than "you can generate QR codes with this repo" with a link to a repository that doesn't exist anymore. The best case they give for "issuing commands" is e
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by pixelbath 3y ago
Ok, taking this story at face value _despite_ it being from the Daily Mail...if your phone can "instantly download malware onto your device, stealing your location and personal information" without any prompting or further user ac
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by pixelbath 3y ago
> Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that some staff had uploaded sensitive code to ChatGPT. Which, honestly, is a better article and states the issue outright: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-02&#x2F
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by pixelbath 3y ago
Oh, man, thanks for this. I've been lamenting that Cmd is essentially dead without remapping it, and this is the last blocker for me adopting TheCore.
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by pixelbath 3y ago
From the link you posted: > our French lawyers (for a French company, and a French account) > PayPal Luxembourg is now claiming that the CSSF has no jurisdiction over them, because the accounts are French / HK / Australia Ho
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by pixelbath 3y ago
How is the future bad data different from the current bad data?
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by pixelbath 3y ago
Interesting. I get 362 ±15 running Vivaldi (Chromium-based) M2 Macbook Air.
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by pixelbath 3y ago
Yes, echoing the input prompt is a feature of the API, which most people don't turn on by default, likely because it eats more output tokens: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/completions/c..
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by pixelbath 4y ago
Wow, both you guys were (a couple of) my heroes back in the Actionscript days. Thanks for all you did back then, because it gave my coding skills a heck of a boost in my early career.
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by pixelbath 4y ago
It does stay on the device; the iPhone passcode is entered and authenticated locally, then the iPhone authorizes the AppleID password change since you're "authentic."
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by pixelbath 4y ago
It's Valve; you know there will never be a third iteration.
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by pixelbath 4y ago
> Creating your own ad-hoc pattern matcher instead of using the ubiquitous one built into your language GP was using LINQ, which is a first-class language construct in C#. I'll grant that it may not be _as_ optimized as Perl's

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