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I’m also on the look for one for my x220.
I’m pretty sure any original looking battery at this point is either fake or stored for so long it does not make sense to buy one.
Last time I almost bought a KingSener, but it’s really hard to find long term reviews on batteries.
It depends on the model, but usually people claiming long stretches are on low brightness, Bluetooth off, CPU undervolt and using something like TLP.
I felt scared for the little guy. Somehow Opus 5 refusing after understanding its limitations felt like the most humane thing in the article.
It’s mostly mission dependent as you mentioned, if the value of some images are different than others, compressing several pictures and selecting the best to get in raw is a good strategy, and you can also crop them to get interesting areas as mentioned.
It can also depends on the downlink bandwidth available and power/energy budget, so the optimal strategy will differ.
It can be misleading at times though, for example some interesting feature may happen to be just a compression artifact. A cloud looking like some strange human-made object for example, happened to us one time.
Do you have any resource to recommend for using AI with Emacs?
As in, aware and able to interact with the REPL.
Or maybe a more fundamental question, how do you find out what are good packages to use?
AI companies did promise that, and for some time back in 2024 and early 2025 it did feel so to me. I just had a kid and suddenly could not work the extra hour every day I used to, but kept producing as usual.
Nowadays I’m receiving longer emails than usual and longer code to review. Less spelling errors, but long and pointless prose. Less superficial bugs but more sneaky, fundamental problems.
There is also the trap where you go from 0-80% immediately but end up spending time anyway fixing the last 20%, and it’s unclear if there was a benefit or loss in productivity. Sometimes the almost there rabbit hole of prompting can be misleading.
I have a feeling that the 39% served as a good framework for the LLM to work on the remaining part while keeping it consistent with the existing structure and style. So, in a sense, your 8 weeks are a big part of why it succeeded.
You can sometimes also support your podcast creators on Patreon and get ad free RSS feeds.
Reminds me of early test versions of Gemini Flash 2.0 (or was it 1.5?). It would argue something, try to prove itself right, realize it’s proof is agreeing with the user halfway through and, instead of admitting defeat, would backtrack to try another approach. So much fun.
With a global economy where products are imported from elsewhere, local pollution statistics that do not include that indirect pollution as their own are meaningless. Energy imports are also being abused for report purposes.
Very deep and well written. I think the most important thing I want to pass to my kids is that there are reasons rules are put in place, and there are reasons why we should respect the rules, but there are exceptions. There are times when rules can be bent or broken, and we need to know how to judge, when to take risks, and when we should be transparent about own our decisions and actions.
People need to be open to experiment and make their own judgement based on observation without relying purely on their environment and authority.
TOEFL will grade people on how good they are at writing, but it does not approve or reject candidates. Maybe the threshold for acceptance was set too low?
I share the same feelings of other comments.
The only case where I do find Flatpak useful is to install proprietary electron based applications that do not interact with the rest of the system so much, but I try my best to avoid using those in the first place.
For people interested in a minimalist setup, Tailscale + Samba can go very far. I personally use Foobar2000 and VLC on the client side.
It’s not pretty nor great with bad connections, but there is basically no maintenance.
It would be funny if they find out the television was made by LG and they happen to have another copy of the audio.
My family immigrated away from Germany 4 generations ago and I’m a Firefox user. Maybe you have a point :)
The other day someone asked me why I use Firefox. I realized the only other browser I use is Safari.
Interestingly, everyone had an account with a fake name in old Orkut and the communities felt a lot like Reddit when used anonymously that way.
Nice, I had some trouble making it stick to the dialog format over time, did you have any problem as the thread starts to get long?
That was my thought path as well. The closest to a noun that came to mind would be karusa. I’m far from an expert in the language, so I’d be happy to be proven wrong.
Is it though? I though akarui and karui were quite distinct, but I guess they kinda sound similar?
The worst is that I can never remember if it’s chown or chmod that is the odd one.
Persistence is something I care about, Tmux allow that between different sessions, local or otherwise, Windows Remote Desktop also makes it simple to continue work remotely. What bothers me is that the OS will eventually need to reboot, and the user is expected to reconfigure the sessions afterwards, at least partially.
I think a modern computer should be able to update its software, kernel included, in a way that the state of the userland could be kept, even with an actual reboot.
So the conclusion would be that if the software can be modified, it has a writable storage media attached (not necessarily local) and an image sensor and/or mic, it is, was or will be a recording device at some point in time.
Sadly, some of the greatest treasures in the world can only be obtained in questionable ways.
It works wonders for small kids since most of the time they just want to watch the exact same thing over and over.
To qualify to long term residence means that they worked for years and contributed with taxes during that period, so it’s only fair that they get protection in case they happen to lose their jobs.
For the government, the cost for any worker in the same circumstances would be the same. On the other side, the foreigners cost less to the government overall when they were educated and raised elsewhere.
I’m not saying you are wrong, just that the previous rules are already in place in that very direction, and the changes are being placed instead to please and gain political support.
That’s really interesting, I also own one so I’ll definitely check it out.
No, git is understood as an unreasonably difficult Dropbox for most people that do not code substantially.
I use Markdown + Pandoc compiling to a .docx as a workaround, but merging changes back is manual.
LaTeX used widely for papers, but it does not cover all. PowerPoint is huge, Word is used closer to Markdown’s level for simpler documents (and Pandoc is a huge helper). All administrative staff is using MS Office, that means Excel is used a lot for forms as well. Then there is OneDrive and Teams for collaboration.
Tried almost all of these, stuck on no. 7. If I have a browser I’ll browse, I have no social media apps at all, I’ll open HN and browse it happily, I even use Reddit on a browser with that atrocious webpage nagging you to install the app. I’ll use it in a PC if my phone breaks.
If I lock myself out of the browser, cut all communications, miss a phone call, I’ll not be able to do “something” that is not socially acceptable not to do. Life will create a situation, and make me feel like I’m doing something wrong, maybe I am.
Then there is all the good things, that article that got you hooked on a new idea, that contact that got you a better job, that friend you miss in another continent. My kid would not exist were not for the internet. When you are in a bad day you will convincingly argue it’s for the greater good, maybe you are even right that it was.
There is porn when you are horny, delivery services when you are tired and hungry, a map when you are lost, hobby items you can’t find locally, podcasts when you are lonely, all the music.
I think I’m not wired in a way that can healthily separate the good and the bad in a society that also can’t. I know something is wrong, but I don’t think I can fix it with tech.