drivers99

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Comment · 5 days ago
> I don't think people are ready for the amount of work AI agents are going to be creating for real humans.

Funny story about that. I joined a hackerspace/makerspace called Denhac. A guy wanted to make a prop for a Escape from L.A. costume, Snake's countdown timer on his wrist. ChatGPT told him to go to Denhac (the Denver hackerspace) for help making it!

My friend told him to talk to me since I knew about hobby electronics (think Ben Eater projects etc). At first I thought I was just going to teach him how to multiplex the digits of the 7-segment LEDs but I ended up just doing it all myself for a couple weeks. I sourced and bought the parts (Arduino Pro Micro USB-C, 7-segment displays, and some other small parts; he supply a credit card sized USB-C battery pack to power it). After trying it out on breadboards first, I was going to wire it up on a protoboard but it was giving me trouble, so I designed a PCB, and ended up ordered it from a couple different places, because it wasn't clear when the ones from overseas would arrive due to tariffs. I also designed and 3D-printed a case and spray painted it to look metallic, as well as green lighting gel (clear plastic) for the display. It came out pretty cool! But they totally nerd-sniped me to work on that.

Also, the thing you mentioned about AI creating work for humans instead of humans using it as a tool is what Corey Doctorow's book about "reverse centaurs" is about.

Comment · 5 days ago
Have you ever donated to a candidate?
Comment · 7 days ago
The last Avengers movie was 7.5 years ago. The last Star Wars episode was 7 years ago. (The Mandalorian one is the only standalone one since then.) Avengers are included in the MCU btw. There have only been about 1 to 3 MCU movies per year for the last few years. (2022: 3; 2023: 3; 2024: 1; 2025: 3; 2026: 2). There are tons of other, really good movies to watch. Not just indies either: Did you happen to see Project Hail Mary this year? The Odyssey? I missed Spider-man: Brand New Day (the MCU movie that came out this year so far), but it has 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, so I don't think that drags down the average in terms of quality either.
Comment · 8 days ago
Just found out macOS has it too. Created a .plan file and used finger on my user name and it showed the plan. There's no fingerd or anything listening on the port though, but it worked locally. Neat.
Comment · 8 days ago
> The Wikipedia page [...] will only work off your current location

You can put the coordinates of any location in the URL. One way to get that is in google maps, when you right click and click on the coordinates. Paste it where the coordinates go in the URL and remove the space after the comma.

It appears to limit itself to 50 results though, which only got me results up to 930 m away from the location I picked near me.

Comment · 8 days ago
The word "shovel" shows up 38 times in the comments as I write this.
Comment · 9 days ago
Comment · 11 days ago
The conversation was about audio recording (conversation). That was determinable by video, not audio.
Comment · 11 days ago
I wonder if they fixed it, or if it depends on the game type. In Versus mode, I got 10/10, Jev got 7/10, but the points were closer: 1201 to 1034 so I assume time is also part of the calculation. One of mine was 9.6 seconds vs 0.3 seconds. It wasn't always clear where you were supposed to click, like on a graph, the choices were buttons at the bottom of the screen.
Comment · 17 days ago
You gave me the idea to buy something I was thinking of ordering from Amazon (a Time Timer) and see how it compares. The timer I got is $24.95 on their site, 15% off welcome discount (-$3.74), +$10.00 shipping, and "orders ship within 3-5 business days." On Amazon they have the one I ordered for $19.95 list price minus 15% = $16.96 and I could have it within 1 hour for $9.99 (lol... I've never seen that option before) or tomorrow for free, although I do have Prime which is why that's an option. I do like to buy a lot of things directly from their original sellers or a specialized store (Loop earplugs, or speed cubes from TheCubicle, electronics from adafruit or jameco or digikey, etc...) but it shows you a big difference in service level.
Comment · 28 days ago
To add to that, since we're thinking the same thing: Do you have rotation lock turned on? If you turn it off, and turn an app like Safari sideways, does it turn the wrong way?

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