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On the more legal side of services was the original last.fm - as a pupil/student I spend days/hours discovering new music there. Not only due to automatic recommendations, but a lo…

Ah, I'm aware of the physical limitations (including cooling), but I was under impression that these days we had a good handle on rendering on one device and doing the video output…

Wait a few years, and we're all gaming on decomissioned data center GPUs ;-)

It's a 100" telescope... from 1917. To summarize Wikipedia for you (my words, not a genai): While it was used by famous people like Hubble it isn't used for scientific work anymore…

It still works pretty well in the IR band. I know that one from experience due to storm damage to our roof ;-) A leak only turns invisible if the water has the exact same temperatu…

Ugh, we have BSH [Bosch Siemens Group] appliances with wifi, but ours add actual features and don't artificially lock any. Both dryer and washing machine: Remote start, start when …

That's actually a use case that I imagine could work well, if done well. Especially in fully integrated systems like GMail or our corporate Exchange, when the LLM can access enough…

Yeah, that was one of features that made me try Plex a long time ago. And that's why these days, I run Jellyfin on a VPS for watch parties (similar situation as yours), while stick…

It's dumb the apps don't remember that, but I think it's not nice that you're being downvoted for neutrally pointing out a workaround.

I don't get your reasoning? You're agreeing with the author but are not? The author argues that open CTFs are done for because of rampant cheating. You're agreeing with that, don't…

The article addresses this: > Rules that ask people not to use LLMs are ignored and almost impossible to enforce in open online events. It's quite sad to see CTFs dying. I never ha…

We got IC cards (ICOCA) in Osaka for 500 Yen each, and used them for 2 weeks travelling across Japan this March. Worked like a charm, only thing that's annoying for us tourists is …

Are you going to localize this? Using US recipes works only okay-ish: I usually have to figure out local substitutions for some ingredients, and transform units. Anyway, amazing id…

krita looks great! I'm not a hugely creative person, so last time I spent time to learn a graphics tool that was gimp in the early 2010s. But I used krita last week to test my conv…

Yeah, the Linkwitz stuff seems relatively affordable to me, yet based on actual science instead of audiophile voodoo. Building one of those is definitely on my list (to replace the…

Never heared of the site, but judging by the given creation dates, it only launched last year? Mission seems to be game archival and there is indeed a lot of stuff that likely no c…

Great points. To add: 3. Just imagine being in a car accident, and some idiot in the vicinity didn't realize why traffic is slow, and takes multiple minutes to shutdown their jamme…

For those interested: The SHA512 file lists 4096 files. Each file is 2 GiB. That means 8 TiB (or about 8.6 TB) of storage required.

The text was first linked on HN during September 2020. ChatGPT became public access in November 2022. The paragraph you criticized was part of the original text: https://web.archiv…

Nope. That's a misconception. Due to space constraints I don't have dedicated speakers for our living room TV. And I don't think I'm the only one. And I do own two proper dedicated…

It's a siren call for us techies, but reality is less pretty than our fantasies of "cheap base load". I got an offer for a "essentially free" residential turbine including the pylo…

This is atrocious. I get it, some things are less trivial than they seem - but I would be ashamed for shipping something like this, and even more for not fixing it.

Huh? S60? Can you clarify? I've driven a 2003 Volvo S60 (plain 5 cylinder, no turbo), which matches your 20 years - and most diy repairs were quite straightforward. I suppose you'r…

Ah, for me that would have been UT aka UT99. But chances are, I'm simply 3 - 6 years older than you ;-) Though I definitely I was not the intended age group upon release. UT4 would…

Wait until you learn that some people abuse this to funnel potential subscribers to their OF. And I don't mean the kind that's about the artwork they show off (which would usually …