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canada_dry

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About canada_dry

A krusty old geek that learned how to program assembler on a Zilog-80 microprocessor before learning to drive.

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    Comment #49221763

    "get one of your factories turning out brand new copies of the 1966 Mustang fastback. You’ve still got the plans, right? Don’t change a thing. Leave out all the improvements" I.e. …

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    Comment #49200558

    > symbols need to be lit 100% this. One of my absolute favorite keyboard designs: G915 TKL Lightspeed got relegated to the donation pile because the symbols were NOT backlit. Such …

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    Comment #49200512

    Because it's backlit I'm guessing changing the eclectic number row design isn't an option that can be easily changed (for this version anyway).

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    Comment #49090437

    The razr forum on reddit has some examples. It doesn't seem extremely common, but the reports are for phones that are relatively new - not even two years of use.

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    Comment #49089609

    Here's hoping Pixel releases a flip phone 11 and Graphene support follows. The Motorola razr has crease issues that they seem to want to ignore and Samsung has locked down their ph…

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    Comment #49028659

    Plus friends and family inadvertently give Google/Facebook (etc) your personal info via tagged photos, contacts, DMs without your consent and they gather/link/sell this collateral …

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    Comment #48981629

    Mine was simply an exercise to see what gpt's vision would come up with vs. the expert analysis.

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    Comment #48980924

    Asked gpt to see if it could discern Egyptian hieroglyphs from the image of the tomb wall... https://i.postimg.cc/Pdw7sw-0W/image.png The "possible standing figure" on the right se…

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    Comment #48867745

    I gave up on Grok. It constantly ignores explicit instructions (e.g. do NOT remove existing comments) and it's not nearly as intuitive in knowing the right questions to ask as gpt,…

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    Comment #48840503

    The reason I'm getting LLM burnout is from dealing with the obvious neutering and opaque downgrading of all the top models. Prior to the last 12mos AI companies were hell bent on s…

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    Comment #48790914

    Considering the (apparent) heaps of money and brains thrown at GROK I'd argue MISTRAL is relatively futher ahead. Every time I go back to trying GROK it is an abysmal disappointmen…

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    Comment #48470375

    I re-subscribed to GPT's "PLUS" plan after ditching Anthropic for lack luster results... one of the first coding tasks I gave it resulted in a progress/thinking message that said s…

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    Comment #48399526

    > Bitcoin doesn't really have any coherent reasoning behind it Stocks are feeling more and more like this also.

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    Comment #48240511

    Looking at the comments for that product I suspect it'll find a home in your junk drawer rather quickly. I've ordered gizmos from Lilygo in the past and found their support/documen…

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    Comment #48239258

    FreeBSD uses ZFS. I've been using ZFS for about a decade on several systems and can't say enough good things about it: rock solid, feature rich and easy to use are the top benefits…

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    Comment #48194846

    > just becomes a glorified marketer That implies Karpathy is either dumb or desperate and he is neither of those by a long shot.

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    Comment #48156500

    I wonder if anyone remembers the long running computer club that met at the Forest Hill Collegiate on Eglinton Ave in Toronto? And there was another one in the basement of the old …

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    Comment #48096026

    Orwell never even envisioned this form of state surveillance!

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    Comment #47923947

    This may be a more accurate analogy... "The Porsche you rented at $200/mo now only allows you a maximum of 100km of travel. You will be automatically charged extra when you go over…

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    Comment #47855945

    Without a mockup of what all the customizable parts will look like... it's hard to commit to a build.

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    Comment #47588888

    An aside: https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-clou... It seems that anthropic has added something similar to their browser UI because just in the last few days …

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    Comment #47588338

    I hit my limit on the project I've been working on (after I let "MAX" run out and moved to "PRO") after about only 2 hours! TIP (YMMV): I've found that moving the current code base…

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    Comment #47346158

    @theredsix and you should collaborate. Your tool's method of returning element references is clever and should greatly improve llm handling of the page components (and greatly redu…

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    Comment #47043700

    Nicely done. It inspires me to tackle a project I've been holding off on for many years: OCR my grandmother/great-grandmother's cookbook. It's about 100 pages of collected and anno…

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    Comment #47043522

    This is what I've been doing for a couple years now: having AI help to code/test projects that I've had in my long TODO list but would never realistically started/completed. AI is …