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Yaky

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  • Has anyone's job been asking them to utilize LLM's?

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  • Haven't been asked yet, but company is in process of adding "AI" (as ambiguous as that) into many business processes. (Presented right after presentation on sustainability...)

    I know many developers love LLMs, but they seem so useless to me - LLM is not gonna fix tech debt, wonky git issues or know how to query a complex 20+ year old DB. I have access to a LLM and would not know what to ask that I could not do myself.

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  • Don't Equifax, Experian and Transunion already have that?

    At least they have enough info about where you lived, what credit cards you had, what loans you had, what vehicles you owned, enough to be used as "verification" to prove your identity.

  • Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project

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  • (I haven't really used them a lot in the heat yet) Last enclosure was ASA, but AFAIK, black ABS is OK too because black pigment absorbs most of the light/UV, preventing plastic from degrading as fast

  • Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project

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  • For offline navigation on Linux, have you looked at osmin? It was pretty decent on a PinePhone.

    How do you handle power-off? Does Raspberry Pi just shut down? My thoughts were to use Alpine or some RAM-based OS that would not corrupt SD card or the hard drive.

    I have been messing around with building an in-car navigation from e-waste for a while now. Right now, I settled on an old smartphone with OsmAnd and wrote my own app to view the reverse camera.

  • Why do websites now prefer IP-based geolocation rather than the Accept-Language HTTP header?

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  • Honestly, plain old ignorance. (and some anglo-centrism)

    I am a software dev, worked on two translation projects at different points in time, and both of them were kind of a mess. In one case, translation team was all Americans (US company), and I was the only person who spoke another language and had firsthand experience with bad translation in media. When I asked how to switch the language in their app, senior dev told me to switch my OS language. Translations themselves often sounded overly verbose, robotic, or plain weird in other languages.

    And then, the typical oversights like not leaving enough screen space for longer translated text, using ambiguous terms without providing context, badly splitting phrases. Text-in-image, etc.

  • Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?

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  • I don't know much about cars either, but that does happen. For example, Cadillac Escalade was/is based on a less-fancy-looking GMC SUV (Suburban?). Chevy Volt is also Cadillac ELR (different body and interior, same drivetrain), Opel Ampera (in Europe), and Buick Velite (in China, because Buick has a better brand recognition there)

    Some cheaper car models come with variety of "sport editions" and out-of-factory tint and spoilers, which would be the equivalent to the RGB computer peripherals that you mentioned, and appeal to specific customers.

    TBH I don't know why some expensive car designs are perceived as "fancy" or "impressive". I think they are mostly boring. And quality-wise, anything above bottom tier would have materials that last decades now.

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  • Organic Maps / CoMaps is not some corporate platform, you "migrating" to them does not gain them anything. If you have a constructive suggestion, open an issue or contact them.

  • Please, UI designers

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  • I’ve actually had designers come to me with a concept for “a visual indicator that shows the user how they are progressing through the page”

    I have seen those on blog and news sites, a thin horizontal bar (sometimes under the floating title) that fills as you scroll to the bottom. I don't get it either.

  • Insufferable

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  • I see Microsoft Dynamics 365 and would like to introduce you its little brother: Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The language is C/AL, offshoot of Pascal, code editor does not support multi-line selection (let alone any features like highlighting or navigation), and source code control is managed by locking files.

  • what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”?

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  • Interesting, as an ESL speaker of US English (for several decades nonetheless) the timing sounds the reverse for me:

    "I thought he died" seems to imply the death was recent, and "I thought he was dead" implies the death happened some time ago.

  • glupi jebeni bot

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  • Recently, saw some survey that explicitly said 1-7 is "poor", 7-8 is "OK", and 9-10 is "great". Wild, not sure what the point of the scale is then.

    Same with book ratings. Looking at StoryGraph, the average ratings I see is somewhere between 3.5 and 4.5. While I would rate a decent book a 3.

    Born in Eastern Europe, live in the US, maybe that's why.

  • old internet

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  • Isn't that a legitimate use-case for RSS (specifically Atom) though? My blog's feed just points to the plain-HTML pages with the post. It seems wasteful to put my entire site in a single, polled file.

  • Giving up control bit by bit

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  • "Akshually, photo is not a file" is how iOS did it. Blew my mind when I tried to sync my files (Syncthing/Möbius) and it would not show any of the photos in file lists. Apparently it's for "security reasons".

    This was several years ago so IDK if it's the same still.

  • Trump EPA’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from Roundup

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  • Meanwhile, ironically, RFK and his Make America Healthy Again is at odds with Roundup:

    Kennedy, though, has built a sizable following over many decades, in part, because of the lawsuits he’s waged against corporations, including the company that produced weedkiller Roundup.

    From AP News

    WTF

  • Resurrect your old Android phone - aggregated list of 1100+ devices and what OS you can install on them

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  • I have not heard of USB-C wearing out yet. What devices are those? Have to be new enough to have USB-C.

  • Resurrect your old Android phone - aggregated list of 1100+ devices and what OS you can install on them

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  • Thanks for pointing this out. The list is made by a scraper (and I haven't updated it in a few months), so it probably missed some models depending on the model code.

  • Resurrect your old Android phone - aggregated list of 1100+ devices and what OS you can install on them

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  • Thanks for reposting, I subscribed to this community too.

  • Resurrect your old Android phone - aggregated list of 1100+ devices and what OS you can install on them

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  • postmarketOS is fully Linux (based on Alpine Linux) Choose this for more technical projects or if you want your phone to be like Raspberry Pi++.

    LineageOS is a clean Android. Choose this for Android experience.

  • Resurrect your old Android phone - aggregated list of 1100+ devices and what OS you can install on them

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  • That would be great and I might add a scraper for xdaforums, but even XDA has a lot of dead links for old devices now.