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banana_giraffe

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About banana_giraffe

If you want to email me for some odd reason:

    a=(b,c)=>'p90m0ch24dfK8WQpoCyYzZSgjmYvLhzQEgKkV5nCgGgZ'.charCodeAt(b*2+c);
    [...Array(22)].map((_,d)=>String.fromCharCode(a(d,0)^a(d,1)^(d+59))).join``

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    Comment #47782667

    DuckDB can do exactly this, once you get the API working in your system, it becomes something simple like SELECT \* from read_csv('example.csv'); Writing generally involves reading…

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    Comment #47473631

    A quick benchmark using float32 copies using torch cuda->cuda copies, comparing some random machines: Raptor Lake + 5080: 380.63 GB/s Raptor Lake (CPU for reference): 20.41 GB/s GB…

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    Comment #47021197

    And for those that want to get the feed URL, this little Python snippet can get the feed URL from a channel's page, either from the channel's URL itself or a video or playlist page…

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    Comment #46483504

    They actually added some new question categories a while ago [1] "Troubleshooting / Debugging" is meant for the traditional questions, "Tooling recommendation", "Best practices", a…

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    Comment #46036237

    https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/gettingstarted-... The default Lambda quota for all accounts is 10240 MB. I've never seen it below that (in recent memory, at least), e…

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    Comment #45909220

    Reminds me of Apple's AWDL, a similar workaround for crappy networks when the devices need a high speed low latency network. I do wonder if the headset here will do similar channel…

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    Comment #45230116

    Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/asia/nepal-protest-...

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    Comment #45142654

    Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-sett...

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    Comment #44948428

    https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/c80028aa1714032546d3b442c1... Nope, they don't eat up space. One of the fun side effects of sparse files on NTFS is calling WriteFile on the spars…

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    Comment #44868221

    It was briefly suspended: https://imgur.com/a/NZ4aK60

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    Comment #44642170

    Not quite. The Game Genie presented a UI before the game started where you could enter codes. These codes were basically patches to the game's ROM. When the game ran, the Game Geni…

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    Comment #44512178

    Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarin...

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    Comment #44458090

    The site uses "font-size: calc(1.5vw + 1.5vh);" or some variant, for most of the sizes, which has the effect to lock the size for everything to the size of the viewport, regardless…

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    Comment #44382408

    Last time I ran this at scale was a couple of months ago, so my information is no doubt out of date, but in my experience, YouTube seems less concerned about this than they are whe…

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    Comment #44381640

    You can use yt-dlp to get the transcripts. For instance, to grab just the transcript of a video: ./yt-dlp --skip-download --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --sub-format js…

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    Comment #44324323

    Interesting, do you recall which podcast this was on?

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    Comment #44206269

    https://archive.is/JGPw9

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    Comment #44177049

    https://web.archive.org/web/20140701085917/http://www.nasa.g... : > Although the galaxies will plow into each other, stars inside each galaxy are so far apart that they will not co…

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    Comment #44017921

    It does support "-lang qb" which is designed to specifically limit FreeBASIC to a QuickBASIC compatible dialect.

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    Comment #43999864

    Interestingly, they are there: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/771bc161e016e2bd1f... (Confirmed on a recent-ish Firefox browser) They look to have been there for at least…

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    Comment #43999461

    Different ports, here's the list for Chromium: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/76892135714e5b4f16...

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    Comment #43948731

    It certainly seemed good enough for my use. I feed it some random images I found online, you can see the sort of metadata it outputs in a static dump here: https://q726kbxun.github…

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    Comment #43943704

    Very simple. You could either do what I did, and ask for details on each image, then ask for some sort of summary of the group of summaries, or just throw all the images in one go:…

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    Comment #43943511

    Yep, exactly, just looped through each image with the same prompt and stored the results in a SQLite database to search through and maybe present more than a simple WebUI in the fu…

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    Comment #43943465

    I used this to create keywords and descriptions on a bunch of photos from a trip recently using Gemma3 4b. Works impressively well, including going doing basic OCR to give me summa…