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I am sympathetic to the sentiment, but the argument does not hold water. > the fact remains some of my money can end up empowering politics I find repugnant are you paying taxes? a…

> America was supposed to be the next step of humanity, a new land stripped from the ills of the old wor wat

i switched from bambu a1 combo to snapmaker u1 and i am very happy. I installed paxx12 custom firmware, and now i am even happier.

for instance, see MMAcevedo aka Miguel https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

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> Swift --(claude)--> Plasmoid --(claude)--> CLI --(claude)--> Rust-Port --(claude)--> Intercal Is this the human centipede of programming?

>> People had this "why you probably can't run a GPT-4 (or even GPT-3.5) class model on your MBP anytime soon" conversation before.

that sounds like a win-win to me. on one hand 95% of users get an improved experience. While a competitor gets the chance to build a business for the remaining 5%.

<10 Stars is a strong signal, that a repo is not relevant to anyone except maybe the maintainer. This fact does not change even if other repos have bough 10.000 stars.

i am building yet another ai powered language-learning app. user uploads random texts, and the ai gives grammar and vocab hints, so the user can try to translate it on their own. B…

when i did openscad, i just did a minowski hull with a 4sided bipyramid (aka rotated cube) to get chamfers for my cubes. bonus: minowski hull with a round pyramid adds chamfers in …

> I don't think open source can get a big market share but it can give you a nice niche market of tech enthusiasts companies and governments in Europe start embracing digital sover…

did you have issues with banking apps, authenticator apps or outlook on workprofile? I ask, because when I was using cyanogenmod a hundred years ago, banking apps were a major pain…

is this whataboutism?

Yes. You have to treat the model like an eager yet incompetent worker, i.e. don't go full yolo mode and review everything they do.

I selfhost for >10 years, but only for receiving, i.e. I can not send anything from my domain, because I thought that would have been to much stress to set up. My setup: I have a r…

> No one buys a Porsche because they want a sensible car for their family or they need something with large storage I know two porsche-owners personally. One sometimes uses his por…

> I can give you an example of when I am glad I rebased I think the question was about situations where you were glad to rebase, when you could have merged instead

we do annual unannounced firedrills and now one dies as a consequence.

how are some tracks more profitable to spotify than others?

> which is a problem for professionals dont worry, leadership will find another metric to turn into a target, after the old metric has stopped working for a decade or two.

> From this point, everyone outside the US should stop using iPhones to prevent surveillance from the American empire. yes. > From another angle, the iPhones are primarily made in …

I like to browse HN via "/front" and "Go back day" and then look at the couple of top posts for each day. I don't see such a day-by-day view on TPE. What is the "official" acronym?…

> Consolidating streaming services down to a handful of offerings will make price competition more fierce because they'll have richer catalogs to do battle with. this is not how ma…

exactly.