I know you meant that sarcastically, but isn’t that exactly what’s happening here?

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The last I read, de minimis still applied. I didn’t know until now that was done with.

As an avid collector of vinyl records: FUCK! I’ve got no problem sending $50 to a European artist who’s selling a limited run of records out of their living room. Hell, if it’s an artist I really like, I’ll spend $70. I’m not about to spend $70 and the artist get half of it.

Spending ludicrous amounts of cash of 12-inch pieces of plastic is totally fine with me, but I want my money going to the artist who’s making the music I love, not a government I voted against.

I honestly don’t remember ever having this kind of slang when I was a kid. If anything, our slang was borrowed from previous generations. (“Dude, that’s cool.”) I’m an old millennial, and I speak the same as Gen X and Boomers, it feels like. I never remember my parents asking “what the hell are you saying?”

Am I just forgetting? Is there a late-90s, early-00s equivalent that I’ve just purged from memory?

Do you have any programming experience?

Whisper.cpp is fairly easy to use, there are plenty of open source libraries for audio input, and sending text as keystrokes in Windows is quite easy.

There may very well be an existing solution, but if you want to put something together yourself, all the major building blocks already exist. You’d just have to write the code to tie it all together.

Do you happen to use an ISP that implements CGNAT? I’ve seen this error, too, and I’ve read that it’s flagging CGNAT IPs as a VPN?

I think age of code plays a big part. 2 years ago: Yeah, I could do better, but it’s workable. 15 years ago: Delete everything and just start from scratch.

So many people completely miss the mark when it comes to AI and coding. It’s great for code reviews on code you wrote yourself, and it can be handy when you’re developing code for a domain you don’t have much experience in.

What it is not good for is writing code on its own. Not if you want your code to be efficient, or performant, work correctly, or even compile.

If you don’t want your conversations to be public, how about you don’t tick the checkbook that says “make this public.” This isn’t OpenAI’s problem, its an idiot user problem.

What’s the deal with gaming videos? Do game streamers tend to be Nazis? Seems like a strange place to push right-wing propaganda.

This makes me think that the Starlink system is very poorly designed. I know there are hundreds of satellites, and a large number of base stations.

Even if a large chunk of the satellites were taken out and a few base stations failed, shouldn’t the system keep working, just over a different path?

This sounds very much not like a hardware failure, but more like somebody fucked up.

For what it’s worth, I agree with you 100%. I’d love to see Musk fail in every one of his business endeavors, but if we’re going to drop space garbage over the planet, an uninhabited island seems like a great place to do it. The fact that a small group of people has superstitious ideas about that small patch of land should be irrelevant.

I can kind of get the logic behind this if you were an overseas call center. If you’re already based in the US, why lie? I can’t imagine why a call center would think being located in CA instead of OR would make the slightest difference.

My installation process for a new mouse is as follows: 1 - Attempt to plug it in. 2 - Flip the USB connector. 3 - Plug it in. 4 - Use the mouse.

Is there anything at all to be gained from installing the software that comes with the mouse? Even with extra side buttons, I’ve never had anything not work out of the box.

Edit: OP is remapping buttons. Got it.

I really don’t understand this. What does the Army gain by commissioning tech execs as reserve officers? Wouldn’t it be far more effective to just hire their companies as contractors? Or commission high-level engineers as officers. A tech exec’s skillet is running a company. Sure, offer commissions to their most skilled employees, but to the execs themselves, why?

Not really. While I don’t have the exact numbers, the output of an infrared LED is no higher (usually) than an LED in the visible range. My security cameras have an array of 10 or so LEDs.

So looking at a security camera would be roughly equivalent to staring at a light bulb.

Why? If everyone does poorly, everyone should fail, provided the opportunity to learn was there.

This has always seemed overblown to me. If students want to cheat on their coursework, who cares? As long as exams are given in a controlled environment, it’s going to be painfully obvious who actually studied the material and who had ChatGPT do it for them. Re-taking a course is not going to be fun or cheap.

Maybe I’m oversimplifying this, but it feels like proctored testing solves the entire problem.

As the article mentions, this isn’t a security “feature,” it’s anti-competetive. The worst part is that Nextcloud isn’t even really in competition with Google. Setting up a Nextcloud server isn’t hard, but it’s not a trivial task. Sharing it outside your local network also requires a bit of skill, especially if done securely. That is to say, Nextcloud users probably tend to be more tech-savvy.

The people using Nextcloud aren’t going to suddenly decide to switch over to Google Drive. I’ll get it from FDroid before I downgrade to Google Drive. If that wasn’t an option, I’d set up an FTP server or even WebDAV.

Personally, my problem was always that math concepts were never presented in a way that actually made sense in the “real world.”

I was taught that complex numbers were real numbers with imaginary parts that had something to do with the square root of -1. Yeah, I get it, but… why?

Fast forward a few decades and I’m writing code that processes a digitized waveform. Now it makes sense. Math isn’t hard when you have a frame of reference. Learning math concepts solely for the sake of learning them is very hard.