Findecanor

4 giorni fadiscuss

Install/Enable support for the Compose key. Map it to Menu or some other unused key. Then press Compose and three hyphens in sequence.

I have used emdash, typed this way for many years before LLMs. I had got the habit from mimicking my journalist father's writing style.

The Compose key is useful for many other symbols «×»÷₁²♥⋄•

Findecanor

4 giorni fadiscuss

One of my hobbies is making replicas of movie props, and my own creations that seem to be from fictional universes. I would love to see the tablet and "quill" embellished a bit.

Would it be possible to run a custom LLM that acts and has knowledge specifically like Tom Riddle?

Findecanor

5 giorni fadiscuss

I think that if you'd need to debounce requests, it would be better to put it in a pressed and/or highlighted state until the button is ready again. Then you'd indicate to the user that the press was successfully received and that pressing it again won't do any good.

The buttons in an elevator panel typically work this way. They each light up to confirm a pending request to reach a floor. They each turn off when its floor has been reached. And while a button is lit up, pressing it does nothing.

Findecanor

9 giorni fadiscuss

I'm on a few classic forums with threads that are over 20 years old, with a wealth of information about a topic.

It is easier to revisit a thread and find new posts when posts are in chronological order. Most such forums remember the last post of your last visit, and takes you to after that position the next time you enter the thread.

Tree views get tedious to revisit after they have reached a critical amount of posts, especially if subtrees can shift position from up/down-clicks. So threads with no revisits don't last as long.

Findecanor

9 giorni fadiscuss

Some enthusiasts have made custom PCBs for Topre and Niz switches, even columnar ergo. I've not seen the ErgoDox layout specifically, and I dunno how to source individual switches though.

There is also the XVX Whisper switch, with has a Topre-like mechanism for Hall Effect keyboards: with a magnet under the dome. You could buy pack of switches but reviews say it is mushier than Topre.

Findecanor

11 giorni fadiscuss

But isn't there be a legal difference between a "conspiracy" that led to a bad situation and a "conspiracy to commit murder"?

Findecanor

11 giorni fadiscuss

Isn't the purpose of zines to publish them? Then how could that even be considered concealment?

Findecanor

12 giorni fadiscuss

The world is not black and white and simple. Things could be taken out of context, and people tend to project.

People have got into trouble for having retold a controversial joke that they had heard, when the reason they retold had been because they themselves had been upset about it.

I too don't think that holocaust jokes should be accepted, but sometimes people say things because they don't know better at the time. There have been cases of people retelling "dog whistles" without having understood their contextual meaning for certain groups. I've even seen politicians use the phrase "Works sets you free" without understanding why it is inappropriate. People learn and change, but old posts can linger on the Internet for a long time.

Findecanor

18 giorni fadiscuss

I've woken up from surgery with an epidural that had a leak. That wasn't fun.

It made it emotionally difficult to get surgery again.

Findecanor

22 giorni fadiscuss

I got an estimate of 70,550, from a score of 87/100 (20/18/16/17/16). Not native English speaker.

I suppose the words must be weighed, because other people in the thread with more correct words got a not much higher estimate.

Findecanor

25 giorni fadiscuss

Unlike many flip phones, there is smartphone hardware inside capable of running Android apps — except that it is only a curated selection from Commodore's own app store.

The cost of running the app store is probably included.

Smaller production runs also mean higher price.

BTW, early adopters can get up to $100 off. (pre-order discount + discount code in the newsletter)

Findecanor

25 giorni fadiscuss

I had expected it to remind me of a bread-bin C64. A little "cassette futurism". Design language is such a big part of branding.

Findecanor

26 giorni fadiscuss

WASM has a (pointer + i32) address mode, and the effective address is 33 bits. So WASM implementations use 8GB mappings ...

Findecanor

26 giorni fadiscuss

How about making the standard client library's API the interface, and have it hide whatever the system is actually using?

A long time ago when I looked at designing a X11 replacement, that was my approach. AFAIK, only special X utilities used anything but Xlib anyway. And later I think this is what early revisions of Canonical's Mir did.

Findecanor

28 giorni fadiscuss

There is no such thing as "Open Source AI". Open Source means that you respect copyright. The types of AI models that this web site refers to do not. Stop this nonsense!

Findecanor

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I have recently begun to call myself a "technorealist". Technorealism is an old movement that I've found my existing views have been aligned with for some time. Technology is meant to serve man, and a solution that involves technology is not always the best one. We must consider the social and political aspects of technology, and discuss how it should best be applied before jumping headlong into using it. Solutions should be made to be sustainable in the long term, even when technology fails.

We've seen many applications of AI lately that aren't particularly sustainable, in several aspects.

Findecanor

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Meta had taken its name from the virtual world "Metaverse" in Neal Stephenson 1992 novel Snow Crash. The novel is the earliest known use of that word, so if it wasn't directly then it was indirectly.

The book also describes "Gargoyles": people using headsets with cameras and sensors to spy on everyone around them for the "Central Intelligence Corporation" while being also simultaneously in the Metaverse.

Funny, how the gargoyles are described in the book in a somewhat derogatory manner, and the villain of the story is an billionaire who owns a large Internet corporation.

At least the gargoyles in the book got paid.

Findecanor

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Sometimes I have wished I had a handheld EMP gun for such situations. What are they going to do? It would be harmless to living beings and leave no trace. Their device would simply stop working suddenly.

Findecanor

mese scorsodiscuss

I have also found a UI framework in C++ with OpenGL named Gooey (2008-ish).

And in early 2000, I was in a mailing list for designing a successor/replacement to X11, code-named "Gooey" that never went anywhere.

Findecanor

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TV signals (PAL and NTSC) were 50 and 60 Hz so as to be in sync with the flickering of electric lamps.

When film is converted to 50 Hz TV, the film is sped up 24->25 fps and every frame shown twice. When converted to 60 Hz TV, there is "2:3 pulldown": every even frame is shown twice, every odd thrice. (Actually, both PAL and NTSC have interlaced video modes, with only every other line updated each frame, so as to conserve bandwidth.)

BTW, when 60 Hz computer monitors were introduced in Europe and used in office spaces with fluorescent lights with passive ballasts that flickered at 50 Hz, some sensitive users suffered headaches from using the computer screen for too long. These days, both fluorescent lights and LCD backlights tend to flicker at much higher frequencies that it isn't much of a problem.

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