xnyan

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by xnyan 1mo ago
I find DeepSeek flash incredible for the price and good in general if it has good plans. I will typically plan using Opus or GLM, then implement with DSF
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by xnyan 1mo ago
Apple often plays a game where they blend security and business interests, but represent it only as a security interest. They own the OS and could do for private relay like what they do for screen recording: when it's in use, overlay a
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by xnyan 2mo ago
> There's no organized political movement trying to tell people that seat belts and speed limits are immoral I rode in a lot of cars when I lived in Eastern Ukraine, 9/10 times or more the seatbelts had been removed or tucked b
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by xnyan 2mo ago
You can only do that if the school completely controls the laptop. You have to have the professor be able to verify that the student was using an approved laptop each class period. Seems like a nonstarter to me.
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by xnyan 3mo ago
It's always a balance of tradeoffs and benefit. That might work, but there are already alternatives. If possible, change the design so that the anticipated load is acting on the x and y axis of the print. If that's not possible, a
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by xnyan 3mo ago
Nazis were invading other places now. The US cut off Japan's oil supply, triggering an existential crisis for Japan that led to a military attack. If United States had joined the Axis powers, leadership very plausibly could have cont
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by xnyan 3mo ago
> other countries have much less firearm ownership. Interesting. Why do you think countries with lower firearm ownership rates have fewer shootings?
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by xnyan 3mo ago
> my phone provider simply refuses to let you call me with it. I don't think it's necessary to go this far. The provider could indicate something like "CANNOT VERIFY NUMBER". I imagine most people would block such cal
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by xnyan 3mo ago
The FCC issued a report on this very subject[1]. TLDR, there have been four exceptions to the SHAKEN/STIR requirements: - Providers that can't afford it implement it - Non-IP networks - Small voice service providers that originate
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by xnyan 3mo ago
> less than the cost of one of these Pis to acquire all of them together. Before RAM went crazy, the Pi 4 was $75 for *8GB and $125 for 16GB. Another consideration is heat and power consumption, I have an OptiPlex micro (also surplus) an
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by xnyan 3mo ago
It's not the GPIO, it's the software ecosystem for anything you would want to connect to the GPIO.
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by xnyan 3mo ago
> All built-in into consumer(-ish) CPUs. Dude, I wish. I run a large homelab filled with consumer and small business grade intel hardware, and would love to have vpro on all my mid-high end consumer intel platforms. I have the experience
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by xnyan 3mo ago
> There can only be one newspaper of record, I'm not sure I've ever heard this before. IIRC the term originates from liberians and can refer to papers of official record and reputational record. The Wall Street Journal is highl
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by xnyan 3mo ago
It was absolutely a hit piece, but what specifically was inaccurate?
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by xnyan 3mo ago
For anyone that read/reads physical newspapers, do this little exercise: try to remember a time that a printed newspaper ad prevented you reading an article or made it significantly more difficult. I can't personally think of a si
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by xnyan 3mo ago
I'm really glad you brought this point up. I used to read physical newspapers, and I never had any problem with their advertisements. If you ask me to think of invasive internet ads, I can give you a dozen specific, frustrating example
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by xnyan 3mo ago
I've done a bit of work with Microsoft and our enterprise firewall. I will bet you any amount you want that you have not blocked all of Microsoft's telemetry endpoints. They are still getting it. The only thing that's happeni
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by xnyan 4mo ago
I’m trying to understand your threat model. Microsoft software is allowed to access the network and communicate with peers on the internet, with the exception of its source of security updates? Struggling to see anything but more risk with
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by xnyan 4mo ago
You're making an apples to oranges comparison. If you can send a signal via a radio between continents, one can send a podcast using that signal with zero infrastructure between the sender and the receiver.
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by xnyan 5mo ago
If you're actually asking the question, I'll give you my answer: I was lucky enough to go to a nice spa resort earlier this year, I just handed a few bills to an attendant who had laid out a towel for me when an older man sitting
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by xnyan 5mo ago
> I use Arch Linux, tell me which of the thousands of packages am I obligated to donate to? The ones that a barely-informed stranger could easily identify as having made you 7+ figures.
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by xnyan 5mo ago
We are the third owner of our Deuter baby/toddler backpack. We use it a fair a bit and it still looks like new. We don't need it anymore, so it's going on to a 4th owner who's going to get an amazing, comfortable, near-n
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by xnyan 5mo ago
A cheap backpack ended up being the most expensive backpack I have ever owned. In 2004 I was very young and all my income came from summer jobs, so I got a backpack from Walmart. It was one of their nicer models, had a lot of features and l
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by xnyan 5mo ago
Fair point, but I have been very surprised by how many normie friends have gotten a VPN since our state mandated age checks for adult content.
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by xnyan 5mo ago
> sythetics (for anything active) are far better: lighter, warmer, better at dealing with moisture. Synthetic fibres such as polyester and acrylic absorb little water, as such they are good insulators but poor at thermal buffering. They
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by xnyan 5mo ago
A large segment of the Iranian political class bet their reputations on the nuclear non-proliferation deal with the US in 2015. They've all now been utterly discredited and the hardliners proven correct in all of their predictions. The
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by xnyan 6mo ago
Where's the Mullvad exit node located? It may just be geographically closer to your travel location than your home is. Even if it's about the same distance geographically, the routing path is different and traffic to whatever data
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by xnyan 6mo ago
> Windows has solved this with the overflow menu for literally decades. I was a huge Windows fanboy, now completely Apple but this was single most annoying regression of functionality when switching and one of the only things I miss.
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by xnyan 6mo ago
> they didn't want to implicitly endorse the lazy/anti-user/Windows-equivalent-UX antipattern of having apps that intentionally made themselves accessible only from a menu bar icon. The single biggest complaint I had when
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by xnyan 6mo ago
> What kind of fucking name is that anyway? “Samsung Magician” - for a disk utility? Who greenlit this? Who sat in a meeting and said “yeah, Magician, like it does magic” I agree with all your points except this. Disk utilities have a lo

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