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rampant_ai
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Comment #38092950
> OpenAI The fact that they're still called that at this point is just insulting.
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Comment #37347078
> Wow you just off-handedly resolved an issue I’ve been dealing with for months Awesome! Glad I could help. > I wish there were a way to make the LG monitor work like my other one …
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Comment #37325597
LG's firmwares are pretty bad in my experience. I have two LG monitors and they both have weird quirks. On the first one (a 34" ultrawide), all of its inputs lose connection for a …
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Comment #36897759
Some other things to keep in mind regarding any phones in your group if you end up stranded: If you're in an emergency and your phone says you have no signal, call 911 anyway. It'l…
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Comment #36603056
A lot of it too is the fireworks themselves. Turns out having millions of people lighting them almost constantly for several hours in an area that had little wind all night and is …
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Comment #36592302
If I install a ceiling fan for someone with multiple speeds, forward/reverse, and a dimmable light but I take the remote with me and leave just a basic on/off switch that's still t…
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Comment #36583032
So archive.is is upset Cloudflare isn't forwarding the EDNS data, even though the feature's RFC itself states: > If we were just beginning to design this mechanism, and not documen…
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Comment #36577283
Holy hell this drove me crazy the other day. Firefox wouldn't work, but my backup, Chrome, did. But a fresh Firefox profile also worked. So I figured I must've left a bad user-agen…
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Comment #36322548
Adding reddit.com to uBlock's "My Filters" is an easy option, too. Even better is adding it to Pi-hole so you get everything at once (including blackout-oblivious house guests!).
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Comment #36289293
Old Reddit with a Stylus theme is how I've been using it for years. I'd occasionally switch to the new site just to check it's progress and while it has gotten a bit better in the …
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Comment #36238395
Most box fans will struggle with a single filter right up against them. The blade design on a typical box fan is designed for velocity, not pressure. Also, I don't know the physics…
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Comment #30277352
Infotainment systems are one of the biggest selling points if you've seen any car ad lately. Why let the customer upgrade the unit and keep that same car for a decade, when you can…
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Comment #28731119
Charging efficiency isn't 100%, so you'd have to tow it further than the range you need. Seems like it'd make more sense to just tow it to a charger.
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Comment #26203048
I was able to make sailboats that float if I cross the line over itself so the sail is in "negative space", which keeps it upright. Kinda neat! https://i.imgur.com/2LZn50v.png
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Comment #24065471
It's closer to the sound of a metronome, which is pretty fitting and likely where the name originated.
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Comment #23436047
> isn't the whole point of e2e encryption that you don't have to trust the intermediate infrastructure If the client app is open source. There's no way to know FB isn't just copyin…
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Comment #22681937
You're still pulling down the video data itself, it's just being removed after-the-fact. But this will save your battery on a laptop since you're not rendering the video.
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Comment #20111505
> To this day I have no idea how they were able to get her phone number Guessing here but maybe using "emergency call" and another phone to get the caller ID?
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Comment #20035305
> why are you using an analytics system that involves sending your user's data to an arbitrary third party Self-hosted analytics frameworks exist, but unfortunately aren't as popul…
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Comment #20033374
> The best way to avoid being tracked is to use apps that you pay for, not apps that are free and make money with your data. Nearly all apps, paid or not, use 3rd party analytics t…
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Comment #19824824
I tried essentially the same thing but via about:config. All it did was make it happen immediately on next restart. Also if it hasn't happened to you yet, make a backup of your pro…