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Comment #49232330
The voice actors usually try to match the timing of the mouth flaps in the animation. It's hard to do that while also conveying the meaning of what is said correctly (enough) -- an…
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Comment #49169932
I do something similar with Redirector, but a bit more involved (to also redirect mobile links to the regular pages + a few other cases): { "description": "Wikipedia Mobile -> Regu…
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Comment #48929133
> it pulls around 400W Try dropping the power cap on your GPU if it supports it; you can often get much lower energy usage with minimal loss of tok/s (particularly during generatio…
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Comment #48641965
The permanent solution to this is: *Run a local model.* Why the fuck are you renting your hammer , carpenter, from assholes who will capriciously take it away from you when you nee…
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Comment #48298695
> AI for product development and management would be far more impactful than automating rote coding tasks [...] Yeah, if this stuff actually worked that well already, OpenAI et al.…
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Comment #48211129
27B is the dense one. Try the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B variants for the MoE release. That's what I'm running on a Framework Desktop and I get ~50 tok/s plus or minus a few. The dense one is…
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Comment #48162953
I appreciate the sentiment, but this law looks counter-productive if I'm reading it right. This is OBVIOUSLY going to push companies to make games into a subscription service to by…
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Comment #47912502
I don't think GitHub has made a single UI change since ~2023 (when it went JS heavy) that I've liked. (Admittedly though, I've moved away from it for everything I have a choice abo…
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Comment #47821057
> The notation ExMm denotes a format with x exponent bits and y mantissa bits. Shouldn't that be m mantissa bits (not y) -- i.e. typo here -- or am I misunderstanding something?
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Comment #47631446
> it's better anyways and surely close to a decade after coming out, we'd expect devices to support it well enough. A lot of people, myself included, are still using quite old hard…
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Comment #47609642
Iron and platinum have different melting points. If you melt the alloy, then spin it to concentrate the platinum, couldn't you coax the platinum to separate out as solid clumps by …
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Comment #47608634
Could you use a centrifuge to separate the elements instead of vaporizing it?
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Comment #47523302
~$100M/unit isn't exactly cheap to replace...
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Comment #47467164
> Normal people can not install an OS. Of course they can. They might be too lazy or ignorant to do so, but it's not really any harder to learn to install Linux than it is to learn…
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Comment #47251860
> The real problem is that many banks are deprecating their browser-based interfaces and are turning app-only. What bank does that? If my bank did that, I would find a new bank imm…
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Comment #47239668
Hiring people is still fucked in 2026 in my experience. HR processes are extremely dysfunctional at many organizations...
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Comment #47239563
> $120K isn't going to cover the fully loaded costs of an SRE who can set up and run that. > Hiring 1 person to run the infrastructure means that 1 person is on-call 24/7 forever. …
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Comment #47163833
> The one place where OpenAI does have a clear lead today is in the user base: it has 8-900m users. There is no way that number is an accurate reflection of the number of actual hu…
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Comment #46942153
The price of electricity where I am in California is pretty cheap for the energy itself -- I pay about $20/mo for generation -- but the cost for electricity delivery is absolutely …
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Comment #46327639
> I appealed the decision, but I’ve been waiting for over six months with no resolution. Sue them.
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Comment #46285164
Hmm. Has anyone ever flown a pirate radio blimp?
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Comment #46282840
You say that, but the crazy people at Microsoft put a COPILOT function into Excel already... https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/copilot-function-...
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Comment #46282323
Giving away? It's currently screaming in the ears and flogging the ass of everyone to get the fuck out and stay out .
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Comment #46085775
> Imgur has lasted longer than most They did a big data purge years ago, and were already enshittified almost a decade before that.
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Comment #45975154
> Especially now that .NET Framework was donated to Wine... Do you mean Mono, or did I miss something?