theon144

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by theon144 7mo ago
Given that pre-paid plans are the most popular way to subscribe to Claude, it quite plainly is a "the less tokens you use, the more money Anthropic makes" kind of situation. In an environment where providers are almost entirely in
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by theon144 11mo ago
I have troubles calling something a "cash grab" when it's been arguably the single most influential project in the hacker/maker/DIY electronics space. I don't doubt the boards could've been sold cheaper, b
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by theon144 11mo ago
I feel like this has to be a toolchain issue, there's no reason the pin number -> register table couldn't be resolved at compile time, similar with conditionally compiling certain things based on the CPU features. I'm not
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by theon144 1y ago
Huh, I got 9/10 for GPT-5, and I was pretty convinced I was picking 4o in several questions based on the style. Interesting! The questions were pretty much unlike anything I've ever asked an LLM though, is this how people use LLMs
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by theon144 1y ago
I actually have no idea what you mean with the example, all the toolbars on the page fit 4 or more buttons, I tried viewing it in various window widths, can you be a bit more specific?
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by theon144 1y ago
They do, `map` and `and_then`. As for the article, I'm also a bit confused because I'm really not sure whether people write that sort of code at the beginning "very commonly" - match and `ok_or` to handle None by turning
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by theon144 2y ago
>It was also developed by the United States Navy Cool, sounds like an organization that is heavily incentivized to make their communication hard to intercept and eavesdrop on.
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by theon144 2y ago
Somewhat tangential, but there are much better options if you're looking for opportunities for optimization. It's literally trying to improve efficiency by skimping on safety features, like trying to save on vehicle weight by re
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by theon144 2y ago
The post you're probably talking about was hidden under "Show Probable Spam" on my end.
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by theon144 3y ago
The project met the exact same end its predecessor (the PirateBox) did, and for pretty much the same reason. However, the project is quite old, and the focus on reflashing portable routers was a necessity then, but not so anymore - specific
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by theon144 3y ago
>I don't believe QOI will ever have any sort of real-world practical use Prusa (the 3d printer maker) seems to think otherwise! https://github.com/prusa3d/Prusa-Firmware-Buddy/releases/tag...
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by theon144 3y ago
Okay, but your one file type is more likely to be included in the 1600 that libmagic supports rather than Magika's 116? For that matter, the file types I care about are unfortunately misdetected by Magika (which is also an important po
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by theon144 3y ago
>It would be a red flag if you were interviewing for react and decided to bring up vue or svelte or angular or whatever else as well. ...why? Seriously, why on earth? I don't follow this train of thought at all; if they demonstrate
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by theon144 3y ago
Just higher than 80Hz should be enough via Nyquist's theorem, or no?
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by theon144 3y ago
I have no clue as to the I/O requirements of the AGC, but I imagine that with ~500x the performance, a simple I/O expander could fill the gap?
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by theon144 3y ago
Not sure what you mean; Windows doesn't force mouse acceleration.
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by theon144 5y ago
>one sr front end dev who started doing $10 mn ARR [...] all by his lonesome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by theon144 5y ago
>I am aware that a number of websites featured in this list rely on operating under obscurity, and that this list could potentially contribute to their demise through excess exposure. I'm sorry about that - I just like making lists.
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by theon144 5y ago
>The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code. An increase of .35% This is horribly misleading; most of these lines of code are drivers, which this patchset doesn't even concern. It's still a massive change that onl
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by theon144 5y ago
And the Wii was different to motion controls of the past, but you don't exactly see that flourish these days. It's not really about the improvements in technology, rather than the inherent limits in its use cases - there's on
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by theon144 5y ago
AIUI the decision was made via standard procedure (a Request for Comments sub-page), and it was the consensus of the editors (that is, the ominous "they" in your comment) that it is unreliable as a source. Now there is an obviou
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by theon144 5y ago
Right, like Visual Studio and VS Code, which are completely separate products with vastly different use cases; named as if they were different versions of one thing, and in probably the most confusing way possible (Code? Isn't that wha
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by theon144 5y ago
>The most common would be to screen _record_ prior to opening, that usually isn't detected — or alternatively, for us rooted users just use a screenshot app which ignores those soft-blocks. According to other comments in this thread
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by theon144 5y ago
>* Never looks up how to do the basic gestures To me, it read like it just didn't work, not that he didn't try or look it up. >* Complains about the size, when it's comically obvious what the size is from the constant a
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by theon144 5y ago
Now I like to make fun of cryptobros like anyone else, but... Isn't it ironic that this one joke site actually helps solve one of the most commonly quoted issues people have with NFTs, i.e. that "you only own an URL which can be t
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by theon144 5y ago
>Ever had a script that's compatible with both, Python 2 and 3... The article is literally about this scenario, which is why I'm also confused. Yes, `/usr/bin/env python` is a bad idea IF your script depends on a
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by theon144 5y ago
Also known as "facets". Sometimes you might want to browse "year/album/artist" too (think Various Artists / compilation albums), instead of the more common "artist/year/album". Or even
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by theon144 5y ago
Liquidsoap is great! It's hugely flexible, I can hardly imagine a broadcast-like use-case that wouldn't be covered by it. Strange timing though; according to the liquidsoap slack channel, the "hopefully last beta" of 2.0
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by theon144 5y ago
Right, but how popular is diet soda? Anecdotally, there's huge differences between soda consumption in USA and Europe.
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by theon144 5y ago
There absolutely is, per the last comment in the thread: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/14489#issu... However, that also means disabling protection against cryptominers and a host of other

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