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Oh man I cannot tell you how many times I've gotten into arguments on here and other technical forums years ago about self-hosting and how 'stupid' I was to not want to rent cloud …

The actual infection rates for some STIs are also similarly low, per-encounter. But they are high enough that if you are promiscuous and have a large number of at-risk encounters t…

XP? What with its Fischer-Price primary color scheme? You have got to be kidding me.

Finally, a throwback lib that seems to be mostly pixel-accurate! Some of the element spacing seems to be off but it does actually look like Windows 98. The lack of accuracy and att…

I'm running price-sensitive data extraction workloads on flash 2.5 and its still the king when it comes to accuracy + cost, all the gemini 3 variants perform a bit worse and cost a…

Hey now, MP3 is still relevant even though better codecs have come (and gone) Something tells me H264 is going to be sticking around for a while just on sheer compatibility and com…

Why must everything look and be modern

I am having a hell of a time googling for WillowTalk, do you know any links/places where I can learn more? Maybe even download something?

I mean, technically it is, just the 'sound waves' are square waves of varying height/width

This is a fork of another tiny text editor written by someone else. So I wouldn't say they 'built' it Honestly this headline reeks of social media clickbait

because it is TEXT you want your GUI then set up VNC

wow, what a way to prejudice against people fluent in multiple paradigms

So.... webmin

Yeah but who gets that legally

Check back in a year or two. The cat is out of the bag.

I just love this whole "forbidden knowledge" schtick the AI safety dweebs have stuck up their butt. Is this really going to stop anybody determined enough to make that kind of outc…

This sort of overly eager upgrading has caused me a lot of problems over the years. I really wish it didn't default to updating the entire world just because you want to update one…

Does this handle macOS installs with multiple local users? I have to su into account 1 if I want to brew install something from account 2

That level of control will be fleeting at best; as soon as the open models and competitors catch up they lose that influence

The lack of participation is often one of those things that management will quietly hold against you.

Can we kill the hackathon please? Yes I totally want to get nerd-sniped for some of my precious off time for some trivial reward. NOT Its a fantastic deal for management if you can…

It was the release of Stable Diffusion and its source code. I spent the next few days tinkering with my own Stable Diffusion implementation. I never got it past outputting total ni…

The Intended Method(tm) is an intentionally gimped feeding trough designed primarily to pacify uninquisitive minds and line Hollywood exec pockets. They have never ever been honest…

a "standard" GPU would be an nvidia geforce RTX 5090

Ah yes, how virtuous to consume so much pointless detail. Looking at the aesthetics of the era, there is just so much frivolity and extraneous flourish. Clean lines and minimalism …