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Comment · 17 days ago
I used to use semi-colons and parenthesis in my semi-formal writing, but now I find myself reaching for em-dash instead. I'm not sure if my tone has changed as well but LLM-writing has probably influenced me more than I realize.
Comment · 18 days ago
In New Brunswick (officially bilingual), most signs are bilingual.
Comment · 1 month ago
The point is that it got to the right answer eventually, which conceivably it could have done at the first step:

1. Open on Google Maps?

2. Validate no extra notices posted on their public website

Even the fact that there is are special notices sometimes posted on their public website is something a model could have been trained to understand, same as a human being.

Comment · 1 month ago
I didn't realize Cloudflare also offered:

- Offsite Backups

- Voice control (Alexa & Google Home)

- Voice Processing (STT/TTS)

- Better media streaming (video/audio)

In addition to dedicated support, as part of their free Cloudflare tunnels.

Sorry for being snarky, but given the tone/point of the announcement is anti-big tech it's funny to complain that the pricing is so high compared to big tech.

Taken on its own, for the price of a nice coffee a month you also support Home Assistant development and get something in exchange. Pretty good value.

Comment · 1 month ago
Switched from Pangolin to Netbird recently and enjoy Netbird more!
Comment · 2 months ago
https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

> Google Play receives absolutely no special access or privileges on GrapheneOS as opposed to bypassing the app sandbox and receiving a massive amount of highly privileged access.

It doesn't mention IMEI here, but hopefully READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE is included in "privileged access."

Comment · 2 months ago
I used this for my family's recent trip in Lisbon and Prague. It worked great! The OSM data was reasonably up-to-date for all of our destinations; I don't remember encountering bad information, even though I often double-checked with other mapping providers (which aren't immune to issues with out-of-date information).

One awesome feature was being able to find "drinking water" while we were walking around. I did come across a tap that was shut off/unavailable, but only once. Again, this is more of an OSM data thing than CoMaps, but I generally found the app pleasant to use.

There sometimes feels like there is something slightly off with the "Route To/From" UX that I can't put my finger on, but no complaints.

Comment · 3 months ago
The runner's high I've experienced comes after completing a long, hard race and finally getting to rest after pushing myself beyond what training was like.
Comment · 4 months ago
It's the opposite of shade, unless GP is being sarcastic. "Class act" is normally a compliment, and in the context here it sounds to me like they're congratulating Baidu/the researchers in being transparent about where their ideas came from.
Comment · 7 months ago
For sure, that or just ensuring they have laws in place that grant them access to the unencrypted data we are sending to CDNs operating in their jurisdiction (when necessary for national security reasons).
Comment · 7 months ago
teampcp taking credit?

https://github.com/krrishdholakia/blockchain/commit/556f2db3...

  - # blockchain
  - Implements a skeleton framework of how to mine using blockchain, including the consensus algorithms.
  + teampcp owns BerriAI
Comment · 7 months ago
There's probably a useful middle ground between tossing people in jail and rewarding with great wealth, power, and influence those people whose main drive appears to be accumulation of said things without regard for their fellow citizens.

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