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mda_damico

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About mda_damico

An old QA engineer

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    Comment #49194684

    Nothing. I tried it when they were popular and realized that it's very distracting, pretty similar to a real pet walking around you while you work. :)

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    Comment #49018106

    Good work! What data does the app use to measure the distance to a device? Received Signal Strength only or Channel Sounding too?

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    Comment #48856447

    https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001276-moving-to-the-n...

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    Show HN: Video Effects SDK – Face Avatars

    The effect renders a 3D avatar model on top of the user's face. Tracks one face at a time. It uses MediaPipe's GPU delegate (WebGL2) when available, with automatic fallback to a WA…

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    Comment #48598483

    Old software is fast because it's built for old hardware and usually it was developed by good-taught engineers.

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    Comment #48598383

    There're no independent nations nowadays. Even the US and China are very dependent on trade with other countries. Informational independence is an illusion, only China could be nam…

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    Comment #48539983

    I use Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on my laptop with Ubuntu (16 GB RAM) and see no major difference in memory eating. But with Chrome and Edge I have support of newest web APIs rather…

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    Comment #48499681

    Chrome 149 - "WebGPU is not supported in this browser."

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    Comment #48471520

    "Black Square" of the modern era which we deserve.

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    Comment #48471405

    What about Bing and Yandex which are much more popular than DuckDuckGo and especially other items from this article?

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    Comment #48459474

    LeetCode mostly has algorithmic tasks. Of course it's helpful during learning syntax, working with memory, optimizing performance. However, the standard library and other useful li…

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    Comment #48444550

    A hammer doesn't need to know your intent, it just needs to hammer nails well and pull them out well. LLMs at this period of time are only hammers, very complex and expensive but s…

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    Comment #48442024

    AI just an instrument. It can't damage brains. However bad written articles can. If you see a bad article, just don't read it and everything will be OK :)

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    Comment #48410951

    Reread yourself after some time and compare your feelings with the best reading you used to read.

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    Comment #48410834

    History is cyclic :) Especially nice to see here Google Chrome, which has more than 70% on Statcounter.

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    Comment #48381517

    Strange decision. The AI overview won't disappear but the UK news publishers will disappear from it. People who use a news publisher usually open their websites, not Google. People…

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    Comment #48324330

    It doesn't mind what Chromebooks have under the hood. They don't make the Year of the Linux Desktop closer rather the another Decade of Chrome browser.

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    Comment #48323905

    Soulfully! AI just a tool. Person constantly uses the tool instead of itself is felt as a robot.

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    Comment #48305629

    I used to use Isomnia and it has a local mode. I also heard about Bruno but not tried.

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    Comment #48282548

    In my experience, bugs like this (priority - medium, severity - unrated) only fix in case if they don't require a lot of time to fix.

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    Comment #48265892

    Perfect! I have to increase the zoom to 200% on my laptop to read article text. However, it looks wonderful and stirs up warm nostalgia in me.

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    Comment #48255823

    Multiplayer games are a type of application that requires real-time networking. Try reading "Multiplayer Game Programming: Architecting Networked Games" by Josh Glazer and Sanjay M…

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    Comment #48236522

    Thanks for sharing! Downloaded a couple interesting ones. But they only have 148 glyphs. Are there fonts with Unicode support and can the font generator make Unicode fonts?

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