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LLMs do a cool parlour trick; all they do is predict “what should the next word be?” But they do it so convincingly that in the right circumstances they seem intelligent. But that’…

If you’re 2x farther away, the intensity of the sound with be 1/4, because of the inverse square law, so logically your speaker would need to be 300% louder.

Bookshop.org has a DRM free section? Where do I find such a thing?

And Baen. Baen has a storefront of their own online at https://www.baen.com/ .

It's somehow a little poetic that the author's chatgpt example has already been plagiarized by a realtor blog: https://www.elikarealestate.com/blog/beautiful-suffering-of-...

One of the largest camera stores in the US is https://www.bhphotovideo.com/ . Since B&H was founded in NYC by Orthodox Jews, you can’t event place an order on their website on Satu…

> but if your hobby is a website where others can post content you have a responsibility that the content shouldn't be illegal or harmful to others I’m not entirely sure I agree wi…

This is why the LinkedIn app is and will always be banned from my phone.

There’s no small irony that this isn’t age doesn’t render correctly on Safari on iPhone. All the text wraps off the right edge of the phone. -_-

I just spent an afternoon recreating the custom threads on a Hayward chlorinator for my dad so I could 3D print a temporary replacement part. These don’t even use standard pipe fit…

Agreed. I’ve never used spring-boot, so telling me this is like spring-boot is less informative than the author might think it is.

How do you think google maps got such a good database of these things? When I last used it, Google maps used to actively ask you for this sort of information.

Well, step one to increase aerodynamics would be to switch to recumbent bikes, but they’re banned, because they’re too aerodynamic. :P

In my late teens I would frequently be late for university because I’d turn off my alarm or my gf would come wake me up and I’d go straight back to sleep. One day I decided to move…

I'm sorry, I feel like I'm missing something here. I have an M1 Macbook Pro running Sonoma 14.1.1 (I need to update...), I have a nice pair of Sony Bluetooth headphones. I turn my …

Also, my favorite collection of JS weirdness, “Return true to win”: https://alf.nu/ReturnTrue?world=true&level=id

> A link preview with an image is over 100 MB? I think what’s being implied here is that, when you share a link to Facebook, Facebook will access the page to generate a link previe…

Back in the day, I spent a good month playing the original CS non stop. By the end of that, it was common for someone to accuse me of using wall hacks or otherwise cheating. Cheati…

I had a Honda that nicely solved this by labelling the bars with “int”, so clearly the large markings were for a larger interval. Which is exactly the opposite of how it worked. -_…

I thought about replying with something exactly like this, but generally this sentiment gets downvoted to oblivion. I’ll add that we waited longer than we should have, and while it…

> Unfortunately, the repository where this tool is developed is private Have you thought about publishing the install.sh and final zip file through GitHub pages? Or Cloudflare page…

I think you need some info in your readme about what this tool is and why you’d want to use it instead of “rm”. When you say “remove files safely” is this as in “you can easily rec…

I think the actual issue is that a government holds the insane belief that by blocking one out of many ways that someone could make an anonymous threat, it somehow contributes to t…

I was at a large company during the dot com bust. Someone added a world readable field (I assume by accident or because they didn’t realize we could all read it) to our LDAP called…

This is very true, but "helping you realize you are doing something unintended" works just as well with a string as with a symbol.