sjcoles

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by sjcoles 6mo ago
There's a subtle modulation that happens on all of the samples. It sounds almost like some kind of harmonic or phase shift? This is something I notice with every AI generated speech out there.
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by sjcoles 2y ago
KDE has far too much surface area to test and support (as in end user support) effectively. Gnome may not be as flexible but it makes for a much smaller target to be able to reproduce and triage issues. If people want KDE they can install i
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by sjcoles 3y ago
Tax the hell out of them to pay for upgrading. There's zero reason why a 2500lbs vehicle should pay the same tax as a 7000+lbs one. Giant SUVs and Trucks for non commercial use should have been effectively regulated/taxed out of e
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by sjcoles 3y ago
I agree with you here. For boilerplate stuff I can never remember it's fine. With more advanced use cases I find the LLMs better at exploring a problem space and possible solutions rather than providing a solution full stop. Being able
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by sjcoles 3y ago
Add onto that the fact the 8th and 10th gen Intel low power mobile parts are, well, kinda garbage (low perf/watt, very little boost time, low core count) and were quickly obsoleted. I'm not sure why Msft put that CPU and RAM combo
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by sjcoles 3y ago
It's been a nightmare for my org. We have several people with T-Mobile and Verizon home internet and it's always a game of "What shenanigans will I have to use this week to get VPNs to work?" Sometimes it seems like thei
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by sjcoles 3y ago
The 5400s and 5410s had tons of issues with power, heat, and general acpi funkiness but the 5420s and 5430s have been rock solid for my org. I really want an AMD 14" Latitude but I don't think that's happening any time soon.
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by sjcoles 3y ago
Your best option is to dump the displaylink dock and go to a dp alt mode dock or tb3/usb4 dock if your device has a compatible port. Dell WD19S or Cable Matters USB C docks (201055, 201056) have been flawless for my org all with Fedor
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by sjcoles 3y ago
Wow this looks amazing. I am eagerly awaiting a Linux version. We have ~150 Linux desktops and training or collaborating via one sided google meets can be limiting.
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by sjcoles 4y ago
> Everytime I see anything related to the open source world bubble up into the public I am only reminded of high school and college level social drama. This is engineering/technical communities in general. You get a lot of strong op
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by sjcoles 4y ago
It's open source! Don't like it fork it! Simple as that. You're not forced to work with anyone you don't want to for any reason. This always feels like a self tell for people with a very authoritarian mindset. Just becau
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by sjcoles 4y ago
Part of what bothers me with the current webdev approach is irreducible complexity. How many layers of 'magic' to facilitate devs deploying do we really need and is it wise to depend on so many?
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by sjcoles 4y ago
That sounds like an awful idea to be honest. Good way to damage your kidneys or flare up an diagnosed previously mild condition like hypotension. Even so if your electrolytes become imbalanced when you do hydrate after the fast it's a
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by sjcoles 4y ago
Dead in the water without EUV just like OG Intel 10nm. The number of masks required to etch these chips without EUV makes it a non-starter for anything with a larger area than the BTC mining chip that they produce. I am very curious the yie
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by sjcoles 4y ago
You can find clearance name brand things there for 50-75% off of MSRP in the returns section. A BBBY is right next to a Target I frequent so I look every couple weeks. I got a 12" Staub skillet for $80 and a 4qt Le Cruset dutch oven
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by sjcoles 4y ago
Yet on the official Discord just as of a few days ago he was begging for sales and pitching for people start reselling the devices. George is bright but not a stable leader. Every month it's some new scheme or feature that will "s
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by sjcoles 4y ago
> My friend and I in college were trying to do our own Roguelike, and went through two platforms, and four languages, rewriting and standing on the shoulders of, well, not giants, but the ruined wasteland of our previous attempts each ti
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by sjcoles 4y ago
NaughtyDog was able to do amazing things with their in house lisp GOAL[1]. I expect SPJ's work to be in a similar vein. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
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by sjcoles 4y ago
Really suggest not doing this with -6 sph or stronger. The higher your prescription the greater the risk of halos and starbursts. I was at -9 and -8.25 (OS OD) with slight astigmatism (0.25 cyl) and still have halos 8 years later. Mind you
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by sjcoles 4y ago
Juuls use a silica wick which, while possible to absorb something as thick as Vit A the vaporization process would happen too quickly for the pod to perform properly. You'd have to wait 10+ minutes between puffs and the vapor productio
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by sjcoles 4y ago
I think we're going to see this view change quite a bit with legalization. Consuming large amounts of THC (regardless of delta 8 or 9) on a daily basis is not well understood. If you're eating 100+mg a day you will have physical
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by sjcoles 4y ago
Those were cannabis cartridges. This is the exact misinformation that gets vapes banned unfortunately. Vitamin A is far too thick to vape in a Juul type pod system. The only use it has is as a thickener for concentrates which use a whole di
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by sjcoles 4y ago
That just sounds like public transport with more steps.
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by sjcoles 4y ago
The Aptera is trying to be something like this.
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by sjcoles 4y ago
Aphantasia[1] My partner has it to the point where her dreams aren't even visual. I am on the other end of the spectrum. It's hard to describe but concepts are 'seen' and then monologued not the other way around. It&#x27
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by sjcoles 4y ago
Three journals/sets of docs: Active - Currently doing/note taking on current task. The idea is not to recall later but for the task at hand. This is physical. Reflective - After completing a task take the active notes and refine a
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by sjcoles 4y ago
11th Gen+ Intel all support 64gb+ of RAM. If the laptop mobo supports 32gb dimms is another question all together.
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by sjcoles 4y ago
Actionscript was the catalyst for me going from script kiddie to SWE. I made a decent living from 17-20 doing medical show kiosks and complex Flash sites for said medical providers. By the end of it I had a nice little data loading and UI c
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by sjcoles 4y ago
Has to do with the limitations of radar. Radar will fail >40mph for stopped vehicles or detect them too late to stop. Honda and Tesla are working to remove radars and go vision only for speed control. If you have a car with a AEB or CMBS
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by sjcoles 4y ago
There is some news about it but it tends to be pretty local. The US is gigantic. Where I live there is tons of PFAS in the ground from air force fire fighting practice at a nearby airport. In the past few years its only recently got attenti

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