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kaelwd

Nope, you'll have to pry my headphone jack and IR blaster out of my cold dead hands.
Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:36PM (#50027909)
EdgeDB -> Vercel
https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731?endpoi...

8t/s though apparently and their cache hit rate is terrible so I don't think it's worth it over Relace.

Re: on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @05:17AM (#49166112)
Only 8B currently but it's been done: https://taalas.com/products/
Re:Should you wash your solar panels? on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:39AM (#49070384)
Panels are so cheap now you're better off just installing twice as many without tracking.
Re:LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:36AM (#49002260)
Are there even any OLED commercial panels with HDR and VRR?
Re:LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:28AM (#49002220)
And buy what? Smasnug? Sony? They're all uniquely shit.
I haven't done a proper benchmark or anything but it isn't noticeably worse at least, and the instant compaction with background processing is nice for slow models.
https://github.com/k0valik/pi-blackhole works pretty well for this, instead of a summary of a summary of a summary it gets a rolling log of important instructions and discoveries, and can /recall exact contents of a previous message or tool call if needed.
Re:The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:54AM (#48956322)
0.25 day flight vs 120+ day walk doesn't really seem like a fair comparison, nobody is hundreds of times more productive from this.
Re:Australia is offering free daytime electricity on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:41AM (#48903825)
No it's optional, the retailers just have to offer it.
Re:Australia is offering free daytime electricity on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:04AM (#48903569)
Yeah just a simplified example, I pay 33/16/10 peak/off-peak/midday.
Re:Australia is offering free daytime electricity on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:31AM (#48902993)
How often do you discharge a car fully?
Re:Australia is offering free daytime electricity on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:24AM (#48902946)
45% of us either rent or live in apartments.
Re:Australia is offering free daytime electricity on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:14AM (#48902881)
Before: 25c/kwh all day

After: 30c/kwh most of the day, 0c from 11-2

It's still worth it if you have a lot of load you can shift to the middle of the day (like a pool heater or battery), but for most 9-5 workers you just end up paying more at the times you're actually home.

Smart meters are free, most people already have one.

Re:Combustion Engine Web-Based Simulator on Saturday July 11, 2026 @02:00AM (#48869208)
Some of it is part of claude code's built-in instructions: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...

    "For calibration: AI-generated design right now clusters around three looks: (1) a warm cream background (near #F4F1EA) with a high-contrast serif display and a terracotta accent; (2) a near-black background with a single bright acid-green or vermilion accent; (3) a broadsheet-style layout with hairline rules, zero border-radius, and dense newspaper-like columns."
Re:Why American ambulance rides are so expensive on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:54AM (#48856599)
> “Ambulance Victoria,” with unlimited exercise at the cost of about $70 a year

And even if you don't pay this it still isn't that expensive - US$12873 is more than a helicopter transport would cost here. US healthcare companies somehow get away with charging insured patients 10x more than civilised countries charge uninsured ones.

I just use .home, yeah I know it's not reserved but idgaf I'm not writing .arpa.
Re:Historical memory prices 1960-2026 on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:00AM (#48718732)
Only if you're buying DDR3 now, DDR4 and DDR5 are both more expensive than the 2017 peak.
Re:Driving in America Is Headlight Hell on Thursday June 11, 2026 @07:17PM (#48497745)
I have small stick-on convex mirrors that I keep angled to see my back tyres, with the main mirrors adjusted to minimise blind spot.
Re:I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @09:58AM (#48476385)
Traditional keyboards are dead to me, get something programmable with zmk or qmk and a bunch of extra thumb buttons so they can do something more than just the spacebar. I have ctrl and alt in the outer column inline with letters so they're super easy to press without reaching, and shift, return, backspace on thumbs as well as layer switch for function keys, symbols, numpad, and arrows all accessible from the home position. Bonus points for split too so your wrists aren't at a weird angle.
Re:GitHub Is Down on Monday June 08, 2026 @04:48AM (#48442830)
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/x69zbgdyfzg0 took three days to resolve and isn't being counted as an outage on the official page.
Re:WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:01AM (#48409428)
Onedrive constantly trying to steal all my files, bing in the start menu, windows update hogging resources then rebooting at the worst time, offline updates taking fking forever even with a fast SSD, layers and layers of bloat and garbage we have to click through or remove on new installs, removing customisation features and taking a decade to half-ass a control panel rewrite, I could go on...
Re:Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) on Thursday May 21, 2026 @09:53AM (#48222579)
`d.add({ days: 100 })` also wraps like you'd expect. `d.with({ day: 208 })` becomes the last day of the month instead but "March 208th" is kinda nonsense anyway so whatever. You could emulate it with `d.add({ days: 208 - d.day })`
Re:I’ve banned query strings on Sunday May 10, 2026 @12:52AM (#48081110)
item?id=48076173
iPhone X? That came out this year didn't it?
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @02:02AM (#47761813)
And if the tab was unloaded then you press back it changes the URL but not the actual contents of the page.
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:47AM (#47761725)
Can I preventDefault on mouse5? What about the physical back button on Android?

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