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Re:"Never, ever, no matter what, go to a timeshare presentation" on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:14AM (#38231561)
It's really not that bad, I just tell them there is no way they are making a sale, that they made a mistake to ever let me come, and they let me go early.
Ahh yes these pesky pretexts like regulations… look no further than China for what happens when one takes this to its logical conclusion.
Re:Quake Brutalist Jam II on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:39AM (#38206381)
This was right when “zero tolerance” school discipline was in favor of administrators. Doing something like that could get you put in A) in school suspension, B) suspension or C) expelled where I lived.
And yet, there are few who disagree and it's worth mentioning.
Watching the chat gpt workflow is cool because it captures your intent along with the code change without need for a commit comment
Asahi Linux is another good example
Re:Fuchsia F14 on Friday November 03, 2023 @06:32PM (#38135931)
It would be nice if macOS had some competition.
Re:I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it? on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:28AM (#38113979)
Do you have large hands? I was wondering if Colemak-DH has less utility for people who don’t feel the stretch is significant when using Colemak. I’ve been using Colemak for 11 years and it’s saved my wrists from RSI
lmao you have to be kidding me
Re:Talk-Llama on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:10AM (#38113749)
I don’t want to talk to anything in my terminal. It’s a shitty interface for that.
Re:Tesla wins first US Autopilot trial involving fatal crash on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:26AM (#38098611)
The alcohol is a red herring and everyone knows it. Unless you have police verifying his BAC is over the legal limit, you aren't making a salient point -- you are speculating irresponsibly.

The car veered off the road like a maniac took the wheel, that maniac was software written by Tesla. I certainly wouldn't trust my family's safety with this, whether I had a drink of alcohol or not.

Re:Tesla wins first US Autopilot trial involving fatal crash on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:58PM (#38090599)
tl;dr: Tesla won’t be held liable for misleading marketing or buggy software because humans are capable of being distracted
Re:Southern California Beyond the Freeway on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:20AM (#38085262)
Another freeway-revolving city must be Houston but for the opposite reason because they engineered a truly massive multi-ring hub and spoke setup. Getting anywhere requires it given how spread out the city is and how hot and humid/rainy it gets.
Re:I Accidentally Saved My Company Half a Million Dollars on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:39AM (#38070838)
> They can just be stock holders or launch their own company
Re:I2P: End-to-End encrypted and anonymous Internet on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:49PM (#38030084)
We will still need VPNs to get good connectivity to other residential ISPs until some government entity (or market condition) inspires ISPs to invest in more hardware and peering with each other. CDNs and VPN providers are now sadly a requirement for the internet to work the way we expect it to.
Re:Americans' confidence in technology firms has dropped on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:59AM (#37998568)
Yeah people trust them to steal their data and sell it.
Forza is pretty good
oh lmao damnit, thanks for clarifying
I am sorry we didn't serve your interests
I used to overclock my Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop and putting it into a mini fridge helped keep the Prescott P4 running cool for benchmarks.
Re:Krita fund has 0 corporate support on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:34AM (#37778405)
I read this several times and I have no idea what benefit this would serve or anything about it.
Maybe it’s not Chinese but uses Chinese characters. Not all Latin character use is English.
Re:Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It on Monday October 02, 2023 @12:07PM (#37740025)
They took our offices away while we were gone and got us to return to cubicles. It’s some cynical bullshit. I hate my job now because of it.
I assume they are converted Muslims who observe the Quran.
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 on Friday September 29, 2023 @01:47AM (#37699726)
Meanwhile in reality when nvme drives die in like 6 months… ughhhh
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:51PM (#37699082)
WiFi with internet if you use a DNS VPN, they are handy and cost you nothing to use
Wouldn’t it make the cost of anything using power nearby more expensive too?
They don’t upgrade their interconnects with other residential ISPs which is making it hard for decentralized alternatives to displace the big cloud based vendors.
Re:First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision) on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:00PM (#37680437)
Like on Apple Watch Ultra, when I press the start exercise button, the exercises that it suggests are in an order unique to my baseline activities.
Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:47PM (#37680230)
The woke left are terrorists! Yeah yeah okay, grandpa. This is ridiculous pearl clutching and irrelevant because we are in the first world, we don’t need bombs to effect change.

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