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by sdflhasjd 1y ago
Google (not saying it's a good search engine, but people use it) puts putty.org at the top of search results. The results shows as: Download PuTTY - a free SSH and telnet client for Windows. PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, dev
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by sdflhasjd 1y ago
I think I remember Windows 7 (and maybe even Vista) supported UEFI natively.
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by sdflhasjd 1y ago
I've got my own personal story about a cold call revealing my personal phone number had been leaked by Lusha, a "GDPR Compliant" B2B tool that sourced data from shady apps. On a day off work, I got a cold call to my personal
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by sdflhasjd 1y ago
Ebay do something similar too. You can immediately provide positive feedback, but you have to wait 7 days to add negative feedback. This is ostensibly to encourage sellers to address issues to retain reputation. Sellers can also get negativ
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by sdflhasjd 1y ago
BS546 is very uncommon now, but can still be found in some relatively modern british homes and businesses where the sockets are used to "code" for connected appliances. For example, the 5A socket may be wired up to a switched ligh
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
The thing is, I'm not talking about my 6th cousin twice removed, it's my literal siblings. At least in the UK, it seems nobody born after 1990 will use anything other than WhatsApp to message people.
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
The thing is that shunning WhatsApp and Facebook doesn't put you back to a time before they existed, it cuts you off completely because they've dispaced what used to exist. Before Facebook there was email and SMS, before that ther
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
Not MiniDisc sized, but there's M-DISC which can be had in Blu-ray capacities (~100GB). They're a different chemistry than the old organic dyes from CD-R days and should last a pretty long time under some reasonable conditions.
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
I did some testing with the new Gemini model on some OCR tasks recently. One of the failures was it just getting stuck and repeating the same character sequence ad-infinitum until timing out. It's a great failure mode when you charge b
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
I remember removing the IR filter from a cheap webcam and seeing everything in a new light (haha, pun intended) was fascinating. One of my black coats that didn't get hot under the sun and appeared more reflective and. I remember some
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
My previous phone had a scheduled "night time mood" which put the display into greyscale. Without this there's an intensity to the screen that reducing the brightness doesn't fix.
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
My I also mention the Nyancat Progress bar for Jetbrains IDEs? https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8575-nyan-progress-bar
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
My thought is that Expo prioritises web compatibility too much to the point that it leans into conventions with things like navigation that are web-oriented and these contribute towards an app not feeling like a native app.
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
Probably the first "we adopted x" blog post that I can find relatable and spot-on. I think it's one of the big misconceptions that React Native is _the_ path to get your web devs or even existing code onto mobiles. That'
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
Hackernews isn't a problems & answers forum, the process is just as important as the conclusion.
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
They fixed it in the sense that there's an opt-in offline-only print mode and they do work without a connection. It still requires you to do an initial setup using the mobile app, so if you're an offline-first kind of person, thei
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
For making enclosures, I use my 3D printer. It's not a replacement for sugru, but let's you get a lot of the same tasks done in a different approach.
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
This costs money, requires some agreement signing and can "dox" developers, so not everyone wants a cert.
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
I used an A7C2 + Sony FE 50mm f2.8 macro. The lightbox was a custom build based on the design that I found linked on HN recently: https://jackw01.github.io/scanlight/ . This was then mounted vertically on the toolhead o
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
I see you mentioned using a 3D printer for scanning medium format film. I did something similar, but took the opposite approach. I placed the film on a lightbox and mounted that to the printer, then had that move around in front of a camera
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
These "antique" scanners give out such good quality, but it's a shame they're so awkward to use. I was too scared of a reconditioned hand-me-down and having to deal with missing trays and emulated windows XP. Instead, I
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
It would be interesting to replicate this with a shorter wavelength. I tried doing some stuff with UV LEDs but was frustrated by how inefficient they were. Bog standard 385nm "UV" LEDs emit so much blue light that weak fluorescenc
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
>During boot, for example, even modern Windows boxes show a BIOS screen followed by a brief blinking cursor before the Windows graphics mode takes over. This hasn't really been the case for more than 10 years now. EFI based systems
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
"infostealer" is a well established term referring to trojans that scrape things like session cookies and saved credentials from a victims computer.
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
The license is pretty specific, if the API counts as a "service". i. If you distribute or make available the Llama Materials (or any derivative works thereof), or a product or service (including another AI model) that contains
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
Here's a bit of a quirk: I uploaded a webcomic as an example, all the dialog was ALL CAPS, but the output was inconsistently either sentence case or title case between panels. I also tried some real examples a problem I'd like to
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
It's interesting that service complaints are so popular on HN. I always feel a bit bad that my most popular HN contribution was me complaining about a popular service
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
I wish Jetbrains could save me from Xcode. Please.
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
.app is my text editor that struggles to run on a workstation; it just auto-updated, but turns out it was funded by a VC and it's now begging for me to subscribe for £12 a month.
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by sdflhasjd 2y ago
I would guess because .exe has nostalgia and meme qualities .app does not.

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