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by socks 25d ago
I've had trains cancelled due to copper theft from rail infrastructure in suburban Australia, which has a very high standard of living.
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by socks 3mo ago
Be wary - I do not have an iPhone, and I once connected my AirPods to my wifes MacBook. They now chirp at me loudly every time I pick them up, automatically try to connect to her phone etc, and I cannot unregister them from her account. I w
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by socks 5mo ago
My colleagues were joking about smoking guns yesterday after noticing that Claude was obsessed with it.
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by socks 6mo ago
Hey ericlewis - this is cool! Can I ask how you figured it out?! Doing this for my PO-33 was on my bucket list. I thought I might have to resort to voltage glitching to get a firmware dump, which is currently beyond my skills.
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by socks 6mo ago
The non-LLM version of this happened to me in a high school English class, back in the 2010's. I was accused of turning in a downloaded story from the internet, but in reality, I had pushed past the incredible barrier I usually felt at
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by socks 8mo ago
At my workplace, a colleague in another team used an AI tool to voice/video clone my companies CEO, CRO and CTO (I assume with their permission) and created a mandatory 30 minute training video that they expected us to watch with these
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by socks 9mo ago
haha wow - it also just straight up copied the .gif files byte for byte - same SHA sum
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by socks 10mo ago
eh? what launch? been using it for years now, it's brilliant
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by socks 1y ago
it screams it to me - wording such as "your concerns are valid", "yes, you're absolutely right..." and "I realize now how important...", and then usage of em-dash
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by socks 1y ago
is this chatgpt? your comments read like chatgpt output
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by socks 1y ago
Reminds me of this old HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4353389
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by socks 1y ago
Pure chance - what should get assigned to me mere hours after reading this article but a ticket regarding SCIM users not being disabled with Entra... > It turns out that Microsoft’s default behavior sends a boolean value as a string >
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by socks 2y ago
Scavenger's Reign was really excellent - but as I was watching it, I had an inkling that I would likely be in a small cohort of people who love it.
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by socks 2y ago
Gravity Falls is another 'kids' show that is absolutely brilliant.
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by socks 2y ago
unfortunately, I have a feeling that in the age of LLMs, this junior on the team will have no impetus to actually put in effort and _think_ about such a problem
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by socks 2y ago
At least in the towns and cities, I believe it is because the utility companies can cut up the roads, but the cuts are never repaired to the same quality, allowing water ingress and creating weaknesses that seem to 'seed' potholes
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by socks 2y ago
their pricing page states > We plan to make money by helping clients secure additional financial products like secured lines of credit, margin, and insurance, all in a fiduciary manner.
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by socks 2y ago
not really. banking systems have firewalls and access controls. quantum computations would be useless.
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by socks 2y ago
I really disliked beer until I was about 25 years old. I kept occasionally trying it, maybe because my girlfriend liked beer, and one day, to my surprise, found a particular beer I really liked. Trying new craft beers is now a bit of a pass
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by socks 2y ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-dominates-rene... "There is also a caveat to China's rapid build-out of renewable capacity because at the same time it is still adding substantial coal-fired
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by socks 3y ago
I used to do this CD swap as a kid - you wouldn't touch the CD - you would put your finger on the mount that you clip the CD onto, and then when it had stopped, pop the CD off.
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by socks 3y ago
this sounds like chatgpt drivel
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by socks 3y ago
it's just whisper and some code that downloads the models from huggingface
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by socks 3y ago
I looked through the source and have to agree with ipsum2... where is the part that isn't just wrapper code?
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by socks 3y ago
> decides to take MDMA/LSD/shrooms (or whatever) every day. He feels amazing and is living his best life every day Gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you've never taken LSD or shrooms... personally, taking them eve
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by socks 3y ago
Thanks for your detailed reply. I am yet to try other EVs other than a Nissan Leaf and an eNV200, but I think both of these fit my driving style a bit more than the MY (I used B mode in other EVs and love regen braking). Giving credit where
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by socks 3y ago
to be honest, imo a test drive isn't enough. I test drove a Model 3 (was given 30 minutes), thought it was interesting, and might have considered buying one. A few weeks later I rented a Model Y for 12 days to go on a road trip with my
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by socks 3y ago
I have had some ideas over the years around home electronics (tools and components) management. I was thinking about building myself a system of QR labelled ziplock bags (inc. antistatic ones) and QR labelled containers. The main concept of
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by socks 4y ago
You just helped me realise (as an Aussie living in Europe) that when some people are saying "air-to-air heat pump" what they mean is what an Aussie or Kiwi would call "reverse cycle air conditioner" - which are extremel
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by socks 4y ago
My favourite one is https://github.com/antoniomika/sish It uses SSH as the method of opening the remote tunnel to the public server.

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