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Re:K-9 Mail is back on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @02:16AM (#27969216)
I share your “rare grip” precisely and also adopted it to alleviate pinky pain. To add another anecdote to the pile I also prefer UI elements at the top although a toggle in settings or at least a configuration file would be best. I don’t understand my own preferences on this issue though because the arguments for the bottom position are completely convincing to me. (Thumb is closer, top of screen is better used for displaying messages, etc)
Thanks for posting this. As someone who was almost religiously excited about GPT3 then progressively more annoyed that I could never get access to the point of giving up this is wonderful news. Your blog post is an invaluable starting point. Seriously thanks
Digging the aesthetic.
Re:Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity on Saturday May 29, 2021 @03:34AM (#27323656)
Just point them at a multipool and you can set it up to auto-switch to whatever "shitcoin" is currently most profitable and auto convert everything to BTC (or your output coin of choice). As someone who lived through the original GPU->FPGA->ASIC arms race it's surprising to me but you can make decent amounts of BTC with just a high end CPU let alone GPU rigs or old sha256 ASICs.
Re:The Aphex Face (2010) on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:22AM (#27126899)
Wow thanks for the tip on "Blood-Evil" been a fan for decades and it never occurred to me. Also was really into Gescom back in the day so maybe people who like hiding data in recordings have good taste.
They still buy cds
Re:The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (2009) on Sunday March 28, 2021 @03:44PM (#26613627)
Well said. Reading Banks was the first time as an adult that I had hope for the future. The resulting exhilaration literally kept me up for a couple days. Later the same year he passed and it brought home to me the gratitude I have to him for expanding my conception of what a good future (in the context of humans and super-intelligence co-existing) could be.
“How long shall they kill our prophets, while we stand aside and look?” - Bob Marley
Re:What Went Wrong with IBM’s Watson on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:57PM (#25060840)
Was skeptical about a Slate article but they pretty much nailed it.
Dumb question: How does this differ from setting the view in the file selector to thumbnails?
Re:Fake naked photos of thousands of women shared online on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:20PM (#24840683)
Serious question: Are you asserting that imagining women naked is wrong in the general case?
Re:Fake naked photos of thousands of women shared online on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:18PM (#24840653)
What problems does this material cause generally?
Re:AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:46AM (#24764582)
Your argument doesn’t follow. How would being a software developer be the worst job because they “automate their own work away” when in fact they’d have a job until they automated everyone’s work away? It’s likely a given developer would reach retirement before that happens. Meanwhile tons of other people are out of a job.
Wow Nadella just passed Ballmer as my least favorite Microsoft CEO. Who could possibly endorse this idea in good faith? It sounds like something you’d use to keep 10-13 year olds accountable for schoolwork not something fitting for adults in a dynamic working environment.
Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:30PM (#24723590)
This is an excellent question that I’ve never seen addressed. Replying just to call attention to it in the hopes that someone knowledgeable HN’ers can answer. It seems like cloud would quickly become a commodity but I have no special insight.
If you’re searching for terrible terrible captchas though, it’s the undisputed champion.
Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:39AM (#24696672)
Ok that explains how space becomes timelike. But I never hear anyone address how time becomes spacelike. In what sense does it become spacelike? Can one move back and forth in time inside the event horizon?
Re:John Pilger – Witness to the Agony of Julian Assange on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:41AM (#24688167)
Can anyone point to anything to support the state’s case here? It seems perverse and like they’re not even pretending to seek justice.
The substance starting with a D was probably Dextroamphetamine. It’s the old standard and has been around forever. It’s basically Adderall with just the R isomer rather than a mixture of Levo & Dextro isomers.
The local library here makes a point of never keeping a history of what books you’ve checked out. It’s actually been a problem for me when trying to remember something I read a few years back. They’re pretty big proponents of privacy.
Re:Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform on Friday October 02, 2020 @08:15PM (#24668345)
Hypothetically because I’d be using it as a monitor part time and using the built in shit the other part of the time? In actuality I do as you suggest and don’t ever connect the thing to the internet. Operation Weeping Angel was enough to convince me of that.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/weeping-angel/

Re:Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:54PM (#24665145)
So if I’m using a Samsung TV as a monitor and working on sensitive or classified material the damn thing is taking screenshots and uploading them? Yikes
Re:Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:04AM (#24663369)
The management maybe. I have a hard time believing that the rank and file engineers get to call the shots on this garbage. I have no special insight into how Samsung works internally though.
Re:Industrial Literacy on Thursday October 01, 2020 @06:51AM (#24649472)
How do you propose to force people to move?
Re:The Airline Industry's Meltdown on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:01PM (#24642378)
Comsider the situation if they removed the bathrooms. What’s the plan when inevitably somebody didn’t plan ahead or gets sick? A very unpleasant ride / the whole cabin watching their fellow flyer urinate (or worse) in the aisle? Seems like a complete nonstarter.
Re:Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian on Monday September 28, 2020 @03:08PM (#24620185)
In the back yard, yes.
Aka punched in the face.
I have felt this quite strongly but never quite articulated it. Thank you for the clarity.
I’m not blind and don’t personally know any blind people but I can imagine that blind people have heard of television at this point and the more curious among them have familiarized themselves with the technical implementation. Therefore a blind person understanding what resolution means shouldn’t necessarily be surprising.
Re:Linux Journal Is Back on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:18PM (#24562278)
Natalie Portman, Hot Grits, Beowulf clusters.

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