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by ricktdotorg 4mo ago
i'd not heard of Slowly; googled, etc. how sort of perversely lovely (i say it in an admiring manner), to meet in a gloriously old-fashioned manner on such a modern platform! love it.
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by ricktdotorg 5mo ago
if this is Cloud Run for my home lab, i am SO in. first read looks good, excited to try.
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by ricktdotorg 5mo ago
powershell: Stop-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 1234).OwningProcess -Force
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by ricktdotorg 5mo ago
wow, i had no idea at all there was a Microcenter in Socal! not too far, i'll be visiting, thank you. i went to a Microcenter in Dallas decades ago and was blown away.
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by ricktdotorg 5mo ago
i would love to know more about this. i live in the largest city on the west coast of the USA and the only stores i've found where i can press keyboards is Office Depot and the like, and at least in the stores that i have visited, they
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by ricktdotorg 5mo ago
is it just me or was the scrollbar purposefully hidden on this site? in chrome on windows, i found it very jarring and user-hostile to NOT know how far along i was in reading the article. i make a judgement call early on: is this worth my t
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by ricktdotorg 5mo ago
hi, this is why Solvang[0] exists. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvang,_California
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by ricktdotorg 6mo ago
this is exactly the same as people who drive their car into a river because google maps told them to.
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by ricktdotorg 7mo ago
Dave's Interesting People email list was a TRUE highlight of the early Internet.
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by ricktdotorg 8mo ago
i have been recently quite enamoured with using both the ChatGPT mobile app (specifically the Codex part) and the Github mobile app, along with Codex. with an appropriate workflow, i've been able to deploy features to some [simple] cus
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by ricktdotorg 8mo ago
thank you for this reply! i've got 6x CASIO watches and have struggled to the time on them synced for over a decade. a quick [small] purchase later and every single one of my CASIOs are synced. i'm so happy. its the little things
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by ricktdotorg 1y ago
25th year anniversary of hotornot.com[1] coming up! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_or_Not
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by ricktdotorg 1y ago
this is great, and right up my alley. i built a customer support chatbot using a google sheet for our CS folks to input & structure their question/answer pairs. that is auto xformed into markdown and fed into the bot for context. i
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
shoutout fellow Mackem! not often spotted on HN!
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
you're right -- there SHOULD be!
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
still no Puzzles within Apple News or News+ in UK :-\
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
where i come from in the north east of England, a "divvy" is a "stupid person", a "moron" etc.
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
totally agree re: structured logging. my intro to that was w/GCP Logging and it changed my mind on when and what to log. proper structured logging and keying metrics/alerts from those metrics is extremely satisfying and legitimate
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
> Sure, let's say that's true. The obvious implication is that these users actually don't care about whether they're running Windows 11 or not, and thus the Windows 11 TPM requirement is utterly irrelevant in their de
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
i bought a Tello eSIM to use for my Rabbit R1, am in USA, was not required to provide any KYC, received a (213) LA area code number, recommend Tello so far.
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
re: EU central registry of assets, here is a Bloomberg Law piece from July 2024, detailing the chairman of the EU parliament's tax subcommittee's desire to get a "European registry of assets". it seems fairly straight fo
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
i'm afraid ChatGPT was wrong about the asset registry. the EU parliament's tax subcommittee most definitely does want such a registry. here [1] is a feasibility study released by the EU in 2024 re: "Feasibility study for a Eu
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
i've used GCP GPU Cloud Run to build an on-demand/auto scaling livestream/HLS video translation --> subtitle generation pipeline with great success. [edit: sorry, not inference, but a great cost-saver]
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
sounds (at least at a high level) similar to EXO[1] [1] https://github.com/exo-explore/exo
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
this is neat! possible to run commands without AI interception using \ prefix, like in bash how you can run OG commands not aliases, etc? me: ls ai: run command ls? y/n me: \ls <list of files>
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
neat! thank you for the 2 options!
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
the voices are even able to speed up their own delivery on command! it's great
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
that does bring a really good point! would it be allowed (that is assuming the show knew it was not a real human)?
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
https://archive.md/vKykx
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
already mentioned in another comment by me but this would/could be a primo use-case of Cloudflare AI gateway. i'm not related/affiliated with them at all, just a user/dev with very little traffic thinking it might help s

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