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Comment · 2 days ago
Not if it helps raise awareness and gets companies to notice. Is peanutbutterjelly.co.uk more worthy of a domain ?
Comment · 5 days ago
How do people who are far sighted use cameras without EVF ? When I have to hold a camera 20 cm in front of me to film I just pretend I'm able to focus on the LCD.
Comment · 22 days ago
I wish this worked without prefixing the commands with "once". Especially if I ran a command with verbose output and afterwards decided I wanted to grep something from it. Terminals have the output in their scrollback buffer and maybe it's just a matter of writing an "output" command that lets me run:

    $ cmake ..
    $ output | grep "libssl version"
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
When the first TV ships with a battery to keep running while unplugged, I'm dusting off my soldering iron and my digital circuits handbook.
Comment · 2 months ago
Could a smartphone sit between 2 regular laptops to achieve this with 3 USB cables and a hub ?
Comment · 2 months ago
I still hope a future FFmpeg release will make Intel QSV encoding available on Windows laptops where the manufacturer disabled this capability from the ACPI tables. The only way to use it on these laptops is currently FFmpeg on Linux.
Comment · 3 months ago
Hey I just came up with this idea, I'm going to feed copyrighted books into my LLM that remembers them verbatim, and then people pay me to ask the LLM for complete copies of a book.

Wait, no, not verbatim. It transforms upper case into lower case and vice versa.

Comment · 3 months ago
A real estate photographer described the typical job as taking 15 photos of the same living room while moving a softbox around and then merging the layers in Photoshop. No Photoshop would be like no copy pasting permitted while writing code.
Comment · 4 months ago
For one, audio transcription services that use Whisper will sample the input down to 16Khz mono first.
Comment · 4 months ago
A comparison made by some Solaris guy comparing a tech magnate to a lawnmower springs to mind.
Comment · 4 months ago
Since the half of the app that is running on my local X or Wayland can only display a GUI and doesn't need QtNetwork, QtWebkit, Gtk Webview etc, what lightweight UI toolkit other than html+js do you recommend ?
Comment · 4 months ago
Being able to initiate a shell app from a regular remote ssh CLI prompt (like "ApacheConfig myhost.com" or "Editor ~/myrepo") might improve integration with people's existing CLI workflows.

It does need an agent that starts with every X or Wayland session and waits for requests from remote SSH sessions to start an app.

Comment · 4 months ago
If Unix philosophy is what's keeping systemd from requiring a Microsoft account during install, I'm all for it.

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