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Re:We don't know why Malawi is poor on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:44PM (#48151600)
There is a full paragraph under "Geography"
Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:18AM (#47764092)
I’ve been using it for years, and the one time I needed to restore a file, I realized that VMware VMs files were excluded from the backup. They are so many exclusion that I start doing physical backup again.
Re:Wolves Became Dogs on Friday January 09, 2026 @08:47AM (#46553764)
I read somewhere that he could have change human sleep. Human can have a deeper sleep knowing a guard will alert of danger.
Re:Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013) on Monday October 27, 2025 @03:08PM (#45725040)
I avoid cron job at this time for this reason and for many other random problem because 3:00 am seem to be often choose for a maintenance like automatic update, server reboot, database backup..
Re:How large are large language models? (2025) on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @10:50AM (#44444471)
Same thing with image model. 4 Go stable diffusion model can draw and represent anything humanity know.
Re:Scroll-Driven Animations on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:33PM (#43006685)
Not really useful when it's not support on most recent Firefox version.
Re:The Best $4 Ever Spent on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:55PM (#41674289)
I have travel entire Vietnam with people with kids. After seeing all the pagoda, park, cave, amusement park.. the best part of the travel for the kid was the pool at one hotel.
Re:We’re ending production of Chromecast on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @11:43AM (#41171981)
Still use my gen 1, the best 20$ spend in my life. I just have a annoying bug with youtube video that google won't fix.
Re:The Google Pay app is dead on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:09AM (#40646345)
And Android Pay, I forgot my wallet one day, decide to use Android Pay but was block with : "Android Pay is replace by Google Pay, you need to update...". The shame of not been able to pay loose ma confident to use Google for this.
Some people think it's legit because they pay for the service and the decoder (firestick with a app) is sold in a real store.
Re:Mistral Large on Monday February 26, 2024 @09:55AM (#39511911)
You probably get a better control on what a happen with the data. I have the impression that GTP-4 is more of a black box and privacy problem.
This probably became cheaper and simpler to put a camera than a real code bar scanner.
Windows 11 block installation on old generation of computer.
Re:Transforming Postgres into a Fast OLAP Database on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:58PM (#39294240)
That look like what Microsoft has done with Microsoft Fabric. SQL Server going full parquet file for table storage.
Paint need internet now ? Does the prompt is sent to Microsoft or OpenAI ?
Hope you don't have to enter your Spotify account/password on the car screen to just listen music. I already have in my phone all my service and account, I don't want to relogin on everything on TV or car screen. I don't care about smart TV since a have a Chromecast.
Re:AI-powered coding, free of charge with Colab on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @01:22PM (#35978443)
I always know about google product too soon or too late. When the new product is not available yet and when they announce they kill it.
Re:Google Bard blocks all European Union countries on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:10AM (#35915026)
...and Canada
Re:Try Google's Bard on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:25AM (#35246596)
"Bard isn’t currently supported in your country." The fast adoption of ChatGTP was not is quality but the easy access. I hear about it and the day after I had a shortcut in my browser. If I need to have a reminder to check each week for "Is available yet ?" I will probably lost interest.
The funniest part is he have to use two smart thermostat in each room and he realize that one smart thermostat heat up the other one and fucked up the temperature reading.
Funny that in the cryptoworld transaction is block because : "The banks are not open for another few hours"
Re:Privacy vs. “I have nothing to hide” (2019) on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @09:08AM (#32836621)
The future politic of other country to. I love to travel, so I try not critic other country online just because I scared that can be use against me when visiting a country with a authoritarian regime.
Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:03AM (#32779371)
My biggest frustration as a small business. Each month you need to deep dive in website of every service you use to find your invoice. Big company like Facebook and Google need 20 click to find your invoice. No way to automate this. I dream about a standard or a service that just collect all invoice on your google drive/dropbox.
Re:Why do arrays start at 0? on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:37PM (#32583842)
Worst than 0 and 1 is to have the choice. In Visual Basic 6 you have the option between the base 0 or 1 for each module. It make debugging a nightmare and you can create bug just by copy/pasting code from one program to other with a different base index.
Both my smart tv are not connected to internet, I just use chromecast and my phone for everything since 8 years. I just hope google never break this.
Re:The Inner Osborne Effect (2021) on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @03:52PM (#32500927)
A manager start to tell everybody that we will get rip off our "old obsolete" report tool without any project, budget or research to find a replacement. We convince him to keep the tool, but the damage was done. Project, training of user, development.. everything start to stall because nobody want to work with something that will be replace. 4 years later we still have to tell people that this is still the tool to use, but everybody just think it obsolete.
Re:Uses for an old Android device on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:11PM (#32401615)
I use a old cellphone for music player when running. Smaller than new phone and without notification of hundred of apps on my main cell.
Re:What Tech Workers Don't Understand They've Lost by WFH on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @09:32AM (#32397597)
During the pandemic I debate the good and bad of WFH, but the day I come back to office the ridiculousness of commuting hit me. The carbon emission, the waste of time.. I have a hybrid car, but it was zero emission during the pandemic.
Re:OpenWRT based travel router on APU2D4 (2019) on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:40PM (#31856414)
I love it, but it look like something you got ask question when found in your baggage at the airport.
Re:I've locked myself out of my digital life on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @08:20AM (#31653100)
I don't 2FA my password manager and email because of the fear of being lock out of everything. I travel a lot and some country I can't received sms. What hapen if I got stole everything. Loose access to my email, bank account .. I don't event know people number because it's in my phone.

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