qingcharles

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by qingcharles 4d ago
That's interesting. It's not just left-handed people, you're right. It's whole countries with LtR or right-bound standard for book opening, e.g. Middle-East, Asia etc.
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by qingcharles 4d ago
It is if you hold it half-open like a book -- you can't get your finger into the middle. Apple has added some sort of support for this scenario in iOS that they were demoing for the Duo.
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by qingcharles 4d ago
It's literally the quickest way to burn money. Making PPC ads work is an enormous skill and some small business deciding to throw their keywords into Google Ad Manager is a sure fire way to lose your shirt. It is very, very, very har
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by qingcharles 4d ago
They're not deliberately misreading it, they are simply just not reading it and just assuming they know what it says.
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by qingcharles 4d ago
Wild that I put my street address in some of my posts. Those were different times indeed.
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by qingcharles 5d ago
Design is so personal. I love Material 3 Expressive personally. Each to their own :)
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by qingcharles 6d ago
It's not massively helpful for a court case, IMO. This has been handled the same way since the invention of photography: ask the photographer to swear under oath they took the photo. (technically, laying a foundation for the evidence
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by qingcharles 6d ago
I hope you had a warning sign that said "Beware of the leopard".
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by qingcharles 7d ago
I coded one of these for whatever was the latest Nokia handset ~2005. Live on-stage reveal and demo to the world's press by CEO IIRC. The software on the phone was supposed to run off our co-host server, but bugfixing down to the wire,
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by qingcharles 7d ago
I would too. Google Ads are the absolute quickest way to lose your shirt. You need masses of experience (or a straight scam) to run a profitable ad campaign. Their agents will hound you to the ends of the Earth the moment you start reducing
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by qingcharles 7d ago
Yeah, USPS is a weird one. We need a .QUANGO domain for stuff like that :p
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by qingcharles 7d ago
The sad thing is if you go through that final step you'll probably receive a permanent ban. But if you go on Swapd right now and pay a Meta employee $500 while it's still in appealable state you'll get your account unlocked i
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by qingcharles 7d ago
Friend owns a construction company. Been at same address for seven years. Suddenly their Google Business Page not working right. Google says to delete it and reverify, only solution to try. Four times my friend had to take a video: you have
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by qingcharles 7d ago
It's not the trailers most people are mad about, but ads for products that they stick before the trailers even.
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by qingcharles 7d ago
I really enjoyed the movie. Had some really, really funny moments. I was hoping for more of the legal aspects to be explored, but that doesn't happen :)
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by qingcharles 8d ago
Claude and GPT are absolutely horrible for doing any research which might remotely be considered on the edges of copyright infringement. You can't prove to the AI that the copyright wasn't renewed on this book, or that magazine, o
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by qingcharles 8d ago
I've been testing it today. It's fine. It's like base-level GPT or Gemini. I actually kinda like the cute thing it does where it emoji reacts to your messages before it acts on them. Grok Bot needs to steal that.
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by qingcharles 8d ago
I'll be interested to see what access it gives you to Meta products. Grok Bot doesn't have direct access to Twitter like Grok on x.com does, for no good reason, but it does have an API plugin which gives you free $20 credit if you
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by qingcharles 8d ago
Only for about a week. Then they saw sense and started rolling it out to the peasants too. I use it every day now, having it look a few times a day for glitched pricing deals and hunting down useful directories to list my projects in.
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by qingcharles 8d ago
You joke, but then you remember his cow obsession: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G0kHOxFcaHA
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by qingcharles 8d ago
If you're not seeing a downvote button your account is probably in some hole :p
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by qingcharles 9d ago
Surely the Astras and Fables of this world would make light work of setting up a WebOS build environment and be able to create practically any changes you can think of, especially if there is a way for them to iterate the development.
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by qingcharles 9d ago
There needs to be a crowdfunded jailbreak of all these TVs firmware so all of these dystopian features can be hard disabled. I'm guessing the mainboards of these things have zero protection from someone clamping on their flash ROMs or
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by qingcharles 9d ago
> The “urine-no,” a hostile antiurination surface
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by qingcharles 10d ago
Absolutely deserves a donation too. How it keeps running is beyond me, especially as he/she/they keep adding more paywall bypasses on the backend.
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by qingcharles 10d ago
Just donated. Appreciate the reminder.
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by qingcharles 10d ago
I don't know if it is still the case, but when I was writing some Wikipedia articles I discovered the British monarchy seemed to use Twitter exclusively for some purposes.
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by qingcharles 10d ago
Was always a great source of original parts for prop replicas. Found a ton of exact Ghostbusters proton pack greebles there. The other main source is the hazmat special: https://apexsurplus.com/ (careful coming back through
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by qingcharles 10d ago
The DP Review page is worthless, but it links to the museum here which is a nicely designed page, but written by LLM, so be warned: https://calibrite.com/us/50-years/
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by qingcharles 12d ago
It's mostly pretrial detention on GPS, so unconvicted.

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