😍 Pinch me, I must be dreaming. This is a new smartwatch with a braille interface for blind users. What's even better is how beautiful the hardware is, even though users can't see it. Care and attention to detail to the max.
😍 Pinch me, I must be dreaming. This is a new smartwatch with a braille interface for blind users. What's even better is how beautiful the hardware is, even though users can't see it. Care and attention to detail to the max. "Last Xmas For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice. #MilitaryGradeEncryption
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"I just had a great idea that I want you to help me with, it's [insert huge website/socmed] but cooler; if we (you) make it by the end of the month, we'll (I'll) be rich!"
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i asked gpt what it thought of your article and it said 1: EFI system partition
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@mttaggart my main concern is while its awesome imo, it's how much data mining that might be going on behind the scenes that I'm unaware of. @mttaggart I get some friends saying that the same stuff was said about computers, internet, even the printing press. But AI feels quite different to me. I resent the unpaid plunder of people's work for training data for machines that belong to billionaires. That has strong echos of colonial appropriation of art and knowledge, except we're all now in the colony being appropriated by a small class of essentially stateless billionaires. 1/2
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Boy, I just want to build something, walk away for a decade, come back, and have it still work! Is that too much to ask? Maybe I'm dreaming about such framework ... 😴
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@nixCraft if it happens, you will cry a lot when you will have to come back to make modifications. Hopely, you will have changed and it may be difficult to maintain with more modern methods…
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The most scrupulous devs will be on 0.0.100, and the most prideful being on version 100.0.0 - perhaps both with comparable quality to their products. 😆
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@nixCraft while I use gimp I have to admit that many features are not there. Ex. the whole CMYK professional printing pipeline (colour profiles, offset, channels management, etc ) is missing.
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@david_chisnall Thank you for the report. I must admit that it fits my expectations. (That may be due to my bias, or it may be due to my prior experience or insight.) @david_chisnall the trick is that _you_ are the copilot (peer reviewer): you need to verify what the large language model copied from an unknown untrusted unverified source, or worse where it attempts to fill in blanks due to a slight variation what you wanted to what it "saw" somewhere else without understanding context. Misinformation in such systems is already bad, but blind trust makes that worse.... LLM is definitely not "intelligent", they are still working on that... @nixCraft There's an old proverb that goes: "The best time to switch to Firefox is twenty years ago. The second best time is now." @JustinH @nixCraft Google finally did it. Is it time to switch to Firefox? I believe users should be in control of what they can install and use on their desktop or laptop. There's uBlock Origin Lite, which replaces the original uBlock Origin for Chrome and similar browsers. Give it a try.
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@nixCraft But yeah, Firefox is probably the safest bet for usability. How can I be a happy chap in IT? Let me tell you about it: * The RAID is a backup fallacy: RAID is for redundancy, NOT backups! (Seriously, people!) * Neglecting backups: Data loss is tragic. Back up your precious files. * Blind faith in backups: Test them! Know how long it takes to restore. Otherwise get ready for Schrödinger's backup 😉
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@nixCraft I got to test my backups just this week. I was working on some scripts to try to provoke a ZFS bug and was developing on the target host (a Raspberry Pi.) I had put my development directory in the pool and without much forethought, destroyed the pool. 😬 Luckily for me, part of the testing involved sending the pool to another host so I just recovered the project from the backup host. 😀 Hold up! Is that a SunOS?! This bad boy's been working alone for 25 years running some critical app?! Those ancient 36GB SCSI drives are practically museum artifacts! And with only 4GB of RAM? My Android phone has more memory! 😂 This thing makes a Raspberry Pi look like a supercomputer. They sure don't build 'em like they used to...I must admit, Sun Microsystems had some serious engineering and reliability back in the day. I guess it will still work for another decade or so ☺️
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@nixCraft i have a sun blade 1000 with 2x1.2GHz ultra SPARC 3. I have no idea about performance comparison with a rpi. Do you have some clue?
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@nixCraft working support for company that franchises Starbucks is literally this. yes, I am enjoying it! Being an experienced dev or IT person does not give you permission to be rude to *your colleagues*
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@nixCraft THIS! I don't understand why you chose to be rude instead of being nice to people. Bro, you only have extensive knowledge about computers and stuff... @nixCraft @nixCraft Ah, but how else will they exercise their perceived superiority? Clearly their life is full of joy and fulfilment, they feel the need to assault others with their presence. Had a supervisor with this character "trait". In 3 years I learned *nothing* from him directly, other than to google many pages deep before invoking. Excellent professional relationships with all other colleagues (who nodded knowingly, when stories began trading). |
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@glennsorrentino I love unusual watches and electronic Braille displays, but I am also concerned about the practicality of this watch.
This is very similar to the watch my blind dad used, $30 at most places today.
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@glennsorrentino Probably costs a fortune as usual.