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Jrockwar

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  • New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo writes his housing plan with ChatGPT

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  • Well I don't know how y'all feel about the work the politics do in your respective parts of the world, but at this point I'm reasonably convinced that I'd trust 2019's ChatGPT to come with better plans and strategies than most of them.

  • Which headphone should I get?

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  • A non-conventional choice would be a pair of Beoplay (Bang&Olufsen) Portal, IF you can get a good deal. My partner has them and they're awesome. I think they're recently discontinued (nothing wrong with them really) which means that even though their retail price is much higher, they can often be found refurbished / for sale within that bracket. The only word of advice is that there is a separate PlayStation and an Xbox+PC version, so you'd need to make sure to get the right one. No idea what the difference is but internet comments made it sound like they wouldn't be properly compatible across systems.

  • Venezuelan migrants relied on clickwork to survive. Now AI is replacing them

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  • This can be correct, if they're talking about training smaller models.

    Imagine this case. You are an automotive manufacturer that uses ML to detect pedestrians, vehicles, etc with cameras. Like what Tesla does, for example. This needs to be done with a small, relatively low power footprint model that can run in a car, not a datacentre. To improve its performance you need to finetune it with labelled data of traffic situations with pedestrians, vehicles, etc. That labeling would be done manually...

    ... except when we get to a point where the latest Gemini/LLAMA/GPT/Whatever, which is so beefy that could never be run in that low power application... is also beefy enough to accurately classify and label the things that the smaller model needs to get trained.

    It's like an older sibling teaching a small kid how to do sums, not an actual maths teacher but does the job and a lot cheaper or semi-free.

  • Clothing made in Germany (as expected, prices are quite high)

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  • You say "as expected" but on the opposite end of the spectrum there's primark's clothing which is largely made in Ireland. From my understanding the reason they are dirt cheap is because they lean on automation, not because of sweatshops.

    Not comparing the two brands - just showing the opposite example to say it's possible to have brands that are both European AND cheap. European doesn't necessarily mean crazy expensive.

  • Who Knew A Slow Ride Could Break Records? This Electric Bike Just Did | Carscoops

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  • 7% of 350 is 24.5, so that doesn't track either...

    I don't know how they can claim 350 km and say they've beaten a world record at 310 with a straight face. If their range claims weren't straight up false, surely they would just run a full tank and get 350, or even 360 in unreal conditions like this.

  • Who Knew A Slow Ride Could Break Records? This Electric Bike Just Did | Carscoops

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  • Even worse, they achieved 310km at 20km/h. Maybe to achieve 350 km you have to push for a fraction of the trip...?

  • My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate.

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  • I also think heating everything up is the smoothest solution. But to offer an alternative, I'd use dental floss to get in between the bowl and plate. If the bowl has slightly rounded edges (I believe it will), it won't be too hard to get floss in. With the floss you'll get inevitably some air in... Which will equalise the pressure and break the vacuum.

    As an inferior alternative to floss, fishing line could work for this approach as well.

  • Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

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  • "There are some bad things on the internet"

    "Just... Don't use the internet?"

  • Used Camera Prices

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  • I bought a Ricoh GR III (not a GR III digital, an actual GR III) off Facebook marketplace for £350 a few years ago (at this point, the GR IIIx hadn't been released). It was cheaper than most because it was missing the front decorative ring. I added that back for £10-15, though.

    In the year or two that I had it, I realised it wasn't right for me. It was a lovely camera, but I hated the focal length, the autofocus system always seemed to pick up some random object I didn't care about, and manual focus with the buttons was between impractical and downright unfeasible. I put it on eBay with an auction start price of £150 or so... And it fetched £450.

    Another year or two later I was thinking of getting a GR IIIx as I'd probably enjoy the focal length more. I looked at eBay and damn, both the IIIx and normal III are selling for £800+, with only some poor-condition outliers below £700.

    Apparently ricoh's manufacturing hasn't kept up with demand and their used prices are absolutely bonkers. I don't think this has happened to Sony (although I wish, as I need to sell my A7ii soon). I think its a bit of a case-by-case basis.

  • SodaStream equivalent?

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  • The Aarke one looks incredible, although it isn't cheap.

    It's strictly for water though (no sweet stuff like cocktails or juice). I think Breville (called Sage in the UK because there's another brand also called Breville) sells another fancy one that does sweet stuff too.

  • Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook - Tuxedo (German)

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  • Scaling factors for resolution are over the number of pixels, 4k isn't called that because it has 16 times more pixels.

    Anyway, semantics. This comment discredits the reviewer in this sense.

  • Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook - Tuxedo (German)

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  • As far as the display, it's beautiful.

    Coming from someone who sees no problem in downscaling by 2.5 the resolution instead of changing dpi, this means absolutely nothing.

  • Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon

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  • Oh no! They're using an emulator! I choose you NINTENDO! Use "Sue for copyright"!

    Unfortunately, it's not very effective (Anthropic's type is "AI Company").

  • crushing it

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  • Even though there is a LOT more to a person than productivity and that can never be the thing that defines us, I'm going to focus exclusively on that because that's what this post is about.

    I had one of those days today. Absolutely awesome. I almost had no meetings and the software changes kept coming in. I nailed it. I'm still on a rush, I feel unstoppable!

    However yesterday, I came home and I was almost crying to my partner because I couldn't take the laundry off the rack and I felt useless.

    But hey, so is the life of ADHDers. I accept it. Yesterday it took me a while to get out of that emotional state. I knew that rationally I'm not a useless person and I have a good handle on my life. However emotionally it was way harder. It took me a lot of processing to synthesise that knowledge into feelings.

    So I know the rational part, and I lean on that and on a very understanding, loving partner (who is also neurodivergent) who helps me stay grounded when I panic. Our productivity is not constant. That is fine - on average, there's nothing wrong with our output!

  • It has been a few weeks since we started this, which European email provider have you switched to?

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  • What is the provider linked to pm.me?

  • It has been a few weeks since we started this, which European email provider have you switched to?

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  • Topic/question that I don't see commented on often: how are you guys finding the telling other people (verbally, out loud) about your email?

    I feel I could tell someone "at proton dot com" without having to spell it but in the UK I feel any way I try to pronounce tuta is going to result in me having to say "at tango uniform tango alpha dot com" or otherwise people will misunderstand and send me about a million messages at tutta, toota, Tuter, twitter, doota, or even more creative spellings.

  • Bookwyrm, BookBrainz, OpenLibrary, etc.

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  • I've only started using Storygraph recently (which I also like) but I'd consider a federated alternative. Does anybody know whether its possible to migrate the history from SG to Bookwyrm?

  • Linux or Windows.

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  • Isn't Ubuntu The most used distribution? How come it isn't in your top three? Not judging, just wondering. It feels to me it's reasonably user friendly and its large user base makes it the easiest to find support online for if you're a Linux newbie.

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  • Excellent in which specific sense? Most competitors offer better everything (performance, range, build quality) for a given price point.

    The fact that Tesla has managed to make EVs that consistently rank below most ICE brands in terms of reliability is mind blowing.