tredre3

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by tredre3 4d ago
BE FAST should be taught to everybody. Because for most people living alone, the odds of a wellness check being done fast enough to rescue you are slim to none. So it's important to go unlock the front door and call 911 whilst you stil
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by tredre3 4d ago
Zoom also works on all browsers. Clearly you had a hot take, people corrected you, and now you're doubling down by suggesting, of all things, a Google product.
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by tredre3 4d ago
Enough with the knee jerk reactions. They have to record in some cases. You don't have to like those features, but plenty of people want those features. - The television has voice control. - The television has a manually triggered spee
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by tredre3 4d ago
I agree with you that accusations need to be backed by proofs and the kneejerk reactions on HN are embarrassing to read and unhelpful. Big bad evil corp, every single time. I mean those reactions are all over social media, but I just expect
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by tredre3 6d ago
I don't know why you emphasize rogue and non-state actors. It seems equally likely to me that it would be done by America. America is the only country who deployed nukes (Japan) and chemical weapons (Vietnam) on massive scales. I can a
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by tredre3 6d ago
> Gitea is protected against both of these issues. Is Gitea's immunity just incidental because it was written by a different person, or is it due to a deliberate defensive system that prevents such bug/mistake from occurring?
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by tredre3 6d ago
What you say is all well and good, but the reality is that most gas appliances do not work without electricity. Your stove is about the only thing that can work on gas alone. The furnace, the water heater, the dryer, they all need electrici
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by tredre3 6d ago
> or you'd need some additional metadata in the directory entry to store how many files there are, requiring additional storage accesses for adding and removing files. Most unix filesystems use inodes. inodes have the same format wh
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by tredre3 6d ago
> Why isn't the game industry moving to it then? Bc it just cannot compete at volubility with C++, among other things. I have no opinion regarding rust suitability as a game language, but your answer doesn't sound right. The ac
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by tredre3 6d ago
The things that unsafe enables are arbitrary pointers, FFI, and accessing union members in a C struct. It seems highly unlikely to me that unsafe would fix any beginner's problem. .clone() on the other hand is indeed an easy/quick
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by tredre3 7d ago
> Car insurance companies have their problems, but pricing risk is not one of them. If pricing risk was an exact science, you'd get the same quote from all providers (given similar coverage). Yet if you try that, you'll find th
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by tredre3 7d ago
I took banning alcohol to mean lowering driving BAC to 0%, not banning alcohol society-wide. It would be a lot easier for drivers to have the following thought process: "I drank tonight, I can't drive home" rather than "
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by tredre3 7d ago
> something around 20% of the site is from the bay area, where that is a somewhat middling salary, so yes. What the hell, 500k after tax in california is likely close to a million before taxes. This isn't middling, even in the bay a
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by tredre3 7d ago
It's not really fair to compare a used phone price to a brand new one. The SE 3 sold for almost 500 when it was released. Is this foldable 4x better than your SE 3? Almost definitely, by every metric, except size if you're into sm
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by tredre3 7d ago
> Videos are also obviously better on the inner screen. How? Most foldables I've seen have an inner screen with a ratio so bad that the full screen video results in mostly black bars and the image is barely bigger than watching it o
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by tredre3 7d ago
I got my laserjet secondhand 10 years ago. It was already 10 years old at this time. It's been low on toner since the beginning but shaking the toner cartridge is usually enough to get usable prints the few times a year I need it (retu
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by tredre3 8d ago
Do you have a source for 1-2.5kWh for 10s of content? It takes about a minute or two to generate, so you'd be talking about a GPU consuming 30_000W-150_000W, it's just not possible. Even if it was distributed (which I don't t
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by tredre3 8d ago
App-only mode on android tv has a giant ad banner before the apps icons. It's much better than regular mode, but it's still a giant ad. It's been the case on all my Android TV devices. If you don't see it then I guess it
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by tredre3 8d ago
GP said the benefits of walking barefoot are "feels good, increases your connection to your surroundings, and slows you down." In that context it seems like barefoot shoes would still work. They are essentially foot condoms, so yo
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by tredre3 8d ago
> Can anyone explain why Windows even makes this possible? Because, as much as we nerds might hate it, it's convenient to a large number of people. They plug in their device and the companion software to fully use all its features j
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by tredre3 8d ago
> I won't seek nearest and safer airport because that will be expensive in fuel costs If, and that's a big if, a pilot did choose a less safe airport because of monetary cost to his airline, it would be because those are the gu
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by tredre3 9d ago
The flood of low effort AI-contributions makes accepting anonymous contributions impractical nowadays. They'd waste hours reviewing things of no value. I know because it happened to several of my moderately successful projects. At some
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by tredre3 9d ago
I think you're being a bit pedantic. A go-to thing means it's a sensible default choice and has no little to no downsides (versus not using compression), it doesn't mean it's the best for everything. Until now the go-to
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by tredre3 11d ago
I'm willing to keep an open mind but the only example you've shared of such a success story and debunk was a LLM clearing the technical debt of a codebase that was fully LLM-written from the very first commit? If LLMs are so good
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by tredre3 14d ago
Emojis have been over-used by javascript developers for decades. Long before LLMs, the README of any javascript project was filled with emojis. A non trivial amount of projects even add emojis to their git messages! As unpleasant as emoji
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by tredre3 14d ago
VSCode at least has the excuse of being a full web browser, explaining (but not justifying!) its bloat. What's Sublime's excuse for needing 300MB to open a text file?
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by tredre3 15d ago
I'm under no illusion that google doesn't know I own my multiple accounts. They most certainly do. I usually use the same user agent (with containers) on the same IP, after all. But my goal is to avoid a stranger gaining access to
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by tredre3 16d ago
LosslessCut gives you the option to cut at the nearest keyframe, or to re-encode the small portion from the chosen timestamp to the next key frame (at most a few seconds). Sounds lossless enough to me.
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by tredre3 18d ago
Whoever controls the AI, as per the article we're discussing. Debian isn't a free-for-all, they don't accept fly-by-night contributions, there needs to be a real and serious person behind every contribution.
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by tredre3 19d ago
The write speed of the PS5 SSD is indeed quite bad but it's still way faster than gigabit ethernet, it can't be the bottleneck. It also can't be the bottleneck with load times, it still reads at 5000MB/s even though it w

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