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  1. Comment on US Election Distractions Thread in ~talk

  2. Comment on US Election Distractions Thread in ~talk

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    You missed FABRICATI DIEM, PVNK

    You missed

    FABRICATI DIEM, PVNK

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back. Rachel Plotnick's "re-buttonization" expertise is in demand. in ~design

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    I should have thought of that, especially since I've got some at home! Thanks!

    I should have thought of that, especially since I've got some at home! Thanks!

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back. Rachel Plotnick's "re-buttonization" expertise is in demand. in ~design

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    Fellow Kona owner here, albeit an older model (2020). Like you having physical button was definitely a factor in my thought process. There's one thing with physical button that you cannot do with...

    Fellow Kona owner here, albeit an older model (2020). Like you having physical button was definitely a factor in my thought process.

    There's one thing with physical button that you cannot do with touch screen: mod it! In my car (see photo for reference ) defrost button is somehow lost in the sea of button (second button of the second row) , and the heated wheel button is somewhat awkwardly placed (second button where it used to be a shift stick).

    Those button I often use during winter, and especially for the defrost I'd like to be able to locate them blind.

    So my solution was to but googly eyes stickers on them. And so now I can locate them by touch alone. (since then the eyes fell off and I replaced them with stars).

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in ~society

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    For me a billion is already too much. Like a billionaire still have roughly a billion more than a millionaire. A million seconds is about 11 days, while a billion seconds is 31 years. But...

    For me a billion is already too much. Like a billionaire still have roughly a billion more than a millionaire.

    A million seconds is about 11 days, while a billion seconds is 31 years.

    But conceptually, you can go even bigger and weirder than stacked exponent. The classic essay Who can name the biggest number offers a good perspective on stuff people made to calculate large numbers.

    6 votes

  6. Comment on Canadian federal government going ahead with high-speed rail between Quebec City and Toronto in ~transport

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    I'm sure there's plenty of valuable experience anyway but RATP is not SNCF. It's like the equivalent of New York's MTA instead of having someone from Amtrak.

    RATP

    I'm sure there's plenty of valuable experience anyway but RATP is not SNCF. It's like the equivalent of New York's MTA instead of having someone from Amtrak.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Character amnesia in China in ~humanities.languages

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    Maybe with some etymology that would help? It's bureau-cracy. -cracy is "power from the X",like theocracy (power from the gods, theo-, like theology) or democracy (power from the people, demo-,...

    Maybe with some etymology that would help? It's bureau-cracy.

    -cracy is "power from the X",like theocracy (power from the gods, theo-, like theology) or democracy (power from the people, demo-, like demographics).

    Bureau is a whole loanword from French that means "desk". So it's really power coming from the desk (and all the paperwork associated). As abothrr comment mentioned it's hard to spell by itself. The French have it in easy because there's loads of other common words where -eau make the sounds "o" (beautiful, water, ...) while there's not many of such words that we're loaned by English. But perhaps if you can recall the Federal Bureau of Investigation you can tell spell bureaucracy right?

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Anthropic announces New Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku and the Computer Use API in ~tech

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    I am wary of a future where there's no proper API and automation happens on the HID layer (why design a good API when GPT13 can use the same interface as our user?) . This seems like a tremendous...

    the ability to use a computer through the HID layer

    I am wary of a future where there's no proper API and automation happens on the HID layer (why design a good API when GPT13 can use the same interface as our user?) . This seems like a tremendous waste of resource (even though automating legacy software with no proper API seems appealing).

    8 votes

  9. Comment on Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week in ~comp

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    This is a usecase I'm familiar with: for a LARP I needed to encode a text with a configurable substitution cypher (it's much more fun to decode text with alchemical symbol and/or less known part...

    This is a usecase I'm familiar with: for a LARP I needed to encode a text with a configurable substitution cypher (it's much more fun to decode text with alchemical symbol and/or less known part of UTF; plus I needed to replace whole words). ChatGPT did a good job of generating such SPA. I still needed to take account for some scunthorpe problem, but that was a surprising gly quick affairs.

    In another instance (that I didn't used at the end) I asked to generate a tool that let me create a connect-the-dot kind of puzzle. Again it proved surprisingly capable.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on Why surgeons are wearing the Apple Vision Pro in operating rooms in ~health

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    When they use full robot augmentation (Da Vinci surgical system) they have @ VR console. It's nice that they have some sort of middle ground with those consumer AR/VR stuff (also, probably...

    I actually thought surgeons were using this kind of tech already for laparoscopic stuff

    When they use full robot augmentation (Da Vinci surgical system) they have @ VR console.

    It's nice that they have some sort of middle ground with those consumer AR/VR stuff (also, probably significantly cheaper).

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Subnautica 2 | Official teaser trailer in ~games

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    My biggest gripes with BZ is that its narrative impetus robs the game world of its majesty. In vanilla, the world is unknown, beautiful, mysterious, but dangerous. You want to get the f out. In...

    My biggest gripes with BZ is that its narrative impetus robs the game world of its majesty. In vanilla, the world is unknown, beautiful, mysterious, but dangerous. You want to get the f out. In BZ, you know that people can live there, because you're looking for you sister. So while the world may be hostile, you know that it can be tamed at least for a little while.

    Also the leviathan reaper is a biological embodiment of death (and wouldn't be out of place in a tyranid army), while the chelicarate are... big shrimps ?

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida with 155 MPH winds in ~enviro

    PetitPrince
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    Dude, I appreciate your dedication of live posting from the hurricane, but you should really take care of yourself first.

    Dude, I appreciate your dedication of live posting from the hurricane, but you should really take care of yourself first.

    14 votes

  13. Comment on I'm getting a new Macbook Pro. What's your favorite apps and tips? in ~tech

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    I probably don't need that much, and I don't even have an imperative need to upgrade my laptop (while it's 7 years old and runs a bit hotter than originally, it's still going fine) but my friend...

    Apart from the bit about potentially running LLMs locally, how certain are you that you’ll need the full heft of a MacBook Pro?

    I probably don't need that much, and I don't even have an imperative need to upgrade my laptop (while it's 7 years old and runs a bit hotter than originally, it's still going fine) but my friend could get me this MBP for less money than a brand new Macbook Air, so it was a deal to good to skip (a combination of a retail branch going down plus employee benefits).
    Otherwise my upgrade plan was to either sidegrade by putting some flavor of Linux on the Thinkpad (I'll probably do that anyway so get a proper home server) or wait until some adventurous person put a track point on a Framework laptop.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on I'm getting a new Macbook Pro. What's your favorite apps and tips? in ~tech

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    One thing I'm looking forward to is a snappy Exposé (Windows-Tab in Win-10/11 has a noticeable lag). It's something I remember using extensively back in the Snow Leopard day.

    One thing I'm looking forward to is a snappy Exposé (Windows-Tab in Win-10/11 has a noticeable lag). It's something I remember using extensively back in the Snow Leopard day.

  15. Comment on I'm getting a new Macbook Pro. What's your favorite apps and tips? in ~tech

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    Thanks for all you inputs everyone !

    Thanks for all you inputs everyone !

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Looking for slim wallet recommendations in ~life.style

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    Another +1 for Secrid. Got one 7 years ago and it's still going strong. I also got a Chinese copy as a gift from my employer, and it's far from being as nice as the original.

    Another +1 for Secrid.

    Got one 7 years ago and it's still going strong. I also got a Chinese copy as a gift from my employer, and it's far from being as nice as the original.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on I'm getting a new Macbook Pro. What's your favorite apps and tips? in ~tech

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    Uh, I should have thought of checking for new drivers directly from Intel. Thanks for the tip!

    Uh, I should have thought of checking for new drivers directly from Intel. Thanks for the tip!

    1 vote

  18. Comment on I'm getting a new Macbook Pro. What's your favorite apps and tips? in ~tech

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    My volume is not important enough to justify a dedicated culler, but that's nice to know especially since Photo Mechanics went for a subscription business model. You don't happen to have a...

    Fast Raw Viewer - The name basically explains what it does. It is very fast for culling lots of images, it doesn't do any pre-processing so the images will look even more "raw" than you might see in Capture One, Lightroom, Finder, etc.

    My volume is not important enough to justify a dedicated culler, but that's nice to know especially since Photo Mechanics went for a subscription business model. You don't happen to have a comparison between the two, don't you?

    2 votes

  19. Comment on I'm getting a new Macbook Pro. What's your favorite apps and tips? in ~tech

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    That's a good advice, I'll try to keep this in mind. I see a lot of suggestion for a alternate window manager, but since I'm going to have sequoia hopefully I'll have 80% of what Window offer (I...

    Try spend some time to embrace the differences of macOS before using another utility to change its behaviour.

    That's a good advice, I'll try to keep this in mind. I see a lot of suggestion for a alternate window manager, but since I'm going to have sequoia hopefully I'll have 80% of what Window offer (I like snapping).

    3 votes

  20. I'm getting a new Macbook Pro. What's your favorite apps and tips?

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    Hi Tildes ! I was passively looking for an refresh of my current laptop (Thinkpad X1 carbon Gen 5; it's still working fine except some mysterious thermal profile1), and a friend of mine working in...

    Hi Tildes !

    I was passively looking for an refresh of my current laptop (Thinkpad X1 carbon Gen 5; it's still working fine except some mysterious thermal profile1), and a friend of mine working in retail told me he could sell me a Macbook Pro (the mid-range 14in one with the M3 Pro chip2 at a heavy discount (more than half the price; it's a display model but he tells me it wasn't mistreated). It's a too good of a deal to pass on, so I accepted.

    1 it's constantly at 70C; I already changed the thermal paste and the battery.
    2 does that mean it's Macbook Pro Pro ?
    3 and I guess the Thinkpad's going to be recycled as a home server. I half hope that running Linux on it will solve the thermal problem

    My use case would be (in no particular order):

    • photo/video processing: I know what I need and I already have a CaptureOne license. Davinci Resolve is enough (and plenty) for me
    • programming (web dev, arduino; VScode's probably gonna be the second thing I'm going to install)(I'm kinda interested running a LLM locally, but have no experience with that)
    • light CAD for 3d printing,
    • gaming? My old gaming tower runs Elden Ring fine but struggle a bit with Baldur's Gate 3 (it's really the loading time, and loading textures), and it seems this MBP can run it fine.
    • regular day-to-day browsing / office and adulting work

    I would qualify myself as a power-user.

    Background: I'm not entirely new to the Apple ecosystem. Back in uni I had the first unibody MBP sporting Leopard and then Snow Leopard. I then went with a X220t and then a my current X1.

    Some questions:

    • I see that BetterTouchTools is still a thing (back then I mapped three fingers swipe up to new tab, three finger swipe down to close tab, and twist to change tabs). I half remember one that was just a staging area living on a sidebar when moving file from one part of the finder to another (the name eludes me). Is there any other handy utilities I should be aware of ? That's also your prompt to plug in your favorite apps :)
    • How's the dongle life (and what's the recommended one) ? While most of my stuff can be USB-C, I still have important stuff that requires USB-A (my photo printers, several portables hard-drive)
    • Any interesting (gasp!) Android integration ? I'm not currently using any with my Windows machine (having Whatsapp/Telegram/Discord is sufficient), but I'm curious anyway.
    33 votes