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Re:Websites Should Be Printable on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:23AM (#50254681)
You can even have footnotes with links to other pages which automatically include the target page number in the text. Print CSS is actually pretty powerful. Just browser support is bad. I use “Prince” to convert html to pdf. With good CSS you can have a really good quality output. I used it to export a pdf for a whole book that way.
Re:SQLite improving performance with pre-sort on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:58PM (#48727705)
Depending on the size of the blob you might not want to use `WITHOUT ROWID`. I had a similar table with uuid keys and blobs of 40kb size on average and `WITHOUT ROWID` really tanked performance.
Re:Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:26PM (#48578916)
One is people one is companies.
Re:Making ast.walk 220x Faster on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:52AM (#48567625)
I still recommend to use idiomatic Python though. If you like C-style Python, you can use Cython and get a performance boost at the same time.
Re:Work with Codex from Anywhere on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:33PM (#48143474)
macOS only so far. "Windows is coming soon"
Re:Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive on Friday April 24, 2026 @01:53AM (#47886104)
In Germany I spent exactly 0 dollars/euros on books in university. We got access to a huge amounts of ebooks through the university network and profs never required a specific one and would just recommend a few. One of these was always available. This free access was of course covered by the 250 euros per semester tuition…

But yes, standards and certifications are horrible.

Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @03:01AM (#47775611)
I would understand if they didn't backup anything with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_RECALL_ON_DATA_ACCESS set (on Windows). Everything else makes their product worthless.
Re:Toon – Token Oriented Object Notation on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @04:50AM (#45730511)
Since all input is run through a tokenizer, I would expect the tokenizer space doesn't change a lot between one trained on uncompressed vs one trained on compressed data.
Re:What's your preferred playback speed: 1x, 1.5x or 2x? on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:42PM (#44896528)
Didn't read the paywalled article. But imo if it's not worth listening at 1x speed, it's not worth listening at all.

If it's entertainment like audiobooks, it's for my enjoyment, so why should it be faster than 1x? If it's for education, everything faster than 1x makes it hard to understand, and if there is too much filler content, I will find another source to learn about it.

I use 1.5x-2x for stuff I have to listen too, but don't enjoy.

Re:People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @06:10AM (#44432339)
I was trying to catalog them at some point in a reasonably structured way https://github.com/Dobatymo/data-algos/ https://github.com/Dobatymo/data-algos/blob/master/data-stru... But it's a lot of work and I didn't update it for a while.
Re:I made my VM think it has a CPU fan on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @03:19AM (#44431421)
It would be a non issue, if the options are not just allow/disallow, but also offer to provide random/fake data, so bad apps would not actually know if the permission is allowed or if the data is fake.
Re:EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @12:34AM (#44166327)
Can this be a replacement for Hamachi?
Re:Advanced Python Features on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @04:58AM (#43769986)
I would argue that most of these features (basically everything except metaclasses) are not advanced features. These are simple, but for some reason less well known or less used features.

Metaclasses are however quite complex (or at least lead to complex behavior) and I mostly avoid them for this reason.

And 'Proxy Properties' are not really a feature at all. Just a specific usage of dunder methods.

Re:Advanced Python Features on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @04:53AM (#43769962)
I do like the else clause with for loops. However most people are not familiar with it, and also `else:` as a keyword is confusing. I always remember it as `no break:`.
I hate Win11. It is horrible, but the first few points don't really make sense. I use it in 2 environments. - enterprise version: no bloatware, no ads, and edge is there but never has to be used for anything - professional version: bloatware is uninstalled in like 2min after OS install, another 2min later all ads are disabled. And it usually stays like that after updates too. Edge is never used at all.

Windows architecture is great. the WinAPI is better documented and more comprehensive than anything on Linux or Mac.

There are so many other issues. - The file explorer gets slower and more broken with each update. context menus randomly don't show, or take literally 30 seconds to load. - The renderer crashes randomly once a week (it's not a huge issue, but the screen goes black for 10 seconds or so) - the settings dialog is bad. goes through like 5 different layers of Windows generations and recently makes the old dialogs hard to find but doesn't offer adequate replacements (looking at network and sound) - and much more...

using win 7 with 5400 RPM drives... it's still fast...
Re:Don't use cosine similarity carelessly on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @07:17PM (#42705788)
There are many embedding models supporting instructions. https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard
Re:C++ Is an Absolute Blast on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @01:01AM (#42507168)
> Unlike requires requires and requires { requires }, which are perfectly reasonable C++ code, requires requires { requires } is completely silly.

Normal day in cpp land...

Re:Why Dumb TVs Deserve a Comeback on Monday December 16, 2024 @07:57AM (#42430579)
Smart TVs are the reason I haven’t bought a new tv in almost 15 years. I would like to upgrade to a fancy 4K one instead of my old 1080p one. Dumb TVs back then weren’t more expensive than smart TVs today so I don’t believe price is the reason for smart TVs. Margins maybe…
Re:X41 Reviewed Mullvad VPN on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:07AM (#42396658)
Various VPNs allow to tunnel over SSH. If they don't want to block all SSH traffic, DPI is useless.
Re:The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @04:41AM (#42254541)
Probably not by Twain, but still a good quote. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
There should just be a torrent.
Note: The Windows version currently only supports CPU and GPU profiling, but not memory or copy profiling.

That's a problem with many of the profiling tools around Python. They often support Windows badly or not at all.

Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @02:53AM (#41497924)
That doesn't make sense. 99.9% of iPhone users are not photographers or filmmakers.
Re:Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests on Thursday September 05, 2024 @01:12AM (#41453703)
Except you still have to validate ChatGPTs answer... Even answer keys in text books are sometimes wrong, teachers are sometimes wrong. ChatGPT is often wrong. You still need to learn the skills.
Re:In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @01:56AM (#41442338)
non native speaker here: how does h"ot" and c"old" rhyme? it's a different 'o' sound and d/t is not exactly similar also.
Re:More people than ever are eating alone at restaurants on Sunday September 01, 2024 @06:54AM (#41415836)
Make it optional and all is good
Re:Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:15AM (#41317334)
Not saying I disagree with you. But you don't present any evaluation results for your claim either.
Re:Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA on Friday July 05, 2024 @09:07PM (#40887446)
Because I got fed up with all the existing 2FA apps (lack of backup, export, ...) I created a simple (desktop) CLI app which works for me: https://github.com/Dobatymo/otp-tool

It's just a one day project so far. But it has some nice features like taking a screenshot and reading qr codes from it and storing everything in a single enrypted file (which you can easily put on a cloud drive if you want to sync, otherwise it's completely offline)

It only supports the standard RFC 6238 TOTP so far.

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