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brick pavers need a tamped gravel base, then bedding sand, and then polymeric sand to lock them together. the cost of install is not just the cost of pavers. and installation is so…

sort of. they have a local model, it does some things. they also have significant cloud infrastructure backing it, and most tasks are going to be sent off to the cloud for processi…

yeah, i tried out GLM-5.2 when the news was all full of hype for that, and it's fine... definitely better value that API rates for claude. but comparing the value i got from that t…

that matches my experience with their GA stuff though.

Does that mean anything at all? They released it. Customers paid for it. Sticking a preview label on it doesn’t change that it was released

>build reliable software this feels like "make no mistakes" level of prompting. reliable software isn't as simple as making it reliable, it's about choosing the trade-offs in the a…

there was a significant impact on the market because the market assumed that a strong cheaper model would have a significant impact on the US AI companies' business. That didn't ha…

these questions all have easy answers that could be quite easily discovered by simply trying to use passkeys, instead of trying to find reasons not to use them.

my priority for a TV isn't privacy or user control, it's minimizing annoyance. and appletv, roku, or similar streaming boxes delivers that best.

reasonably important, if you're never connecting your lg tv to any network, and just connecting it to an AppleTV or something and letting HDMI-CEC control it so you never even see …

> For almost a decade, many of you have relied on our Multi-Account Containers extension to keep work, personal, and privacy-sensitive browsing separate without needing multiple br…

i've got to wonder how much of this is intentional, and how much of this is just google being their usual terrible selves at anything consumer-product related. Google's biggest and…

sure, but that doesn't mean we get to ignore it.

From my perspective it wasn’t death by a thousand cuts, it all comes back to just one cut: an over-reliance on volunteer moderators. If they paid staff to run their communities, th…

>shakes fist at cloud the reason "shakes fist at cloud" is something to laugh at is because clouds aren't sentient. they aren't blocking out the sun to annoy you, they're just clou…

i'm guessing the primary market for these will be free gifts to enterprise customers at sales meetings.

Yeah? I use a $15 cable for my mouse. And then when my mouse is done charging I put the cable back in the bag with my portable monitor, which the same cable also works for.

you'll never guess what solution i'd suggest for that specific problem...

okay, i mean, that's exactly what my original comment said: this is only a problem if you buy cheap cables.