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Semaphor··on The rise and fall of Jev hype
Completely different thing, but SkyrimNet (Mod that has LLMs controlling NPCs and stuff in Skyrim) integrated jev, and it works great.
Semaphor··on Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font
Common complaint.

Personally, I like them. They look pleasing and I never had issues distinguishing between the ligatures for ==, ===, and = itself.

Semaphor··on LineageOS 24.0
That’s not a licensed bank, from what I can see.
Semaphor··on LineageOS 24
N26 also works fine on rooted devices. They don’t randomly block devices like others (besides Revolut, DKB comes to mind).
Semaphor··on Bitwarden Dual License Model
Mobile syncing works extremely well for me with Keepass2Android and webdav. Includes merge support. The sync story on Android is imo the best because of that.
Semaphor··on [dead]
There is theistic satanism. Some of those are also fascist ideologies. It's a surprisingly wide spectrum, most of which I actually discovered through metal.
Semaphor··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
Cheap Vps: mainly seafile (file sync) and prosody (jabber/xmpp). I want those always available from everywhere.

Living room has a small passively cooled n150 which runs almost 20 services, from home assistant and jellyfin, over paperless and navidrome, to some lesser known services (yamtrack, koito, grimoire). A bunch more, and I use them regularly, some more than others, but then adding a service without exposing it (my caddy lxc has 2 IPs, one port forwarded one internal only) is really cheap.

Semaphor··on GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
Same here, I’ve been cooking for myself and later also my wife since 2005, even when baking I rarely need exact amounts, for cooking I essentially never follow the recipe directly and adapt them as needed, without ever changing them from the original.

I mostly don’t even need a recipe from AI, just the title and a 1-2 sentence description.

Semaphor··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
When have you tried VS last? Since they went multi core, it’s usually very fast and it’s mostly R# slowing it down (though I read that improved, dunno).

I use Rider but need VS for some things.

Semaphor··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
And their MCP servers and tools are great! But I wish they’d remember that some of us also actually code in the IDE, because human usage quality of their IDEs has been getting worse in that time…
Semaphor··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
There is some of the bean to bar variety. Very different price class, though.

I'd also guess (not know, haven't researched that area at all) that some of the fair trade and similar certified labels you can find even in supermarkets have a good enough control for that.

Semaphor··on Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
Lotao is the one I use, DM has a house-brand with the same percentages. I thought the US would have something similar, but at least ChatGPT didn’t find anything.
Semaphor··on Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
Planted has the issues most meat replacements have, a lot of ingredients, and a higher carb count. Not an issue for everyone, but it is for me.

Planted: 10 ingredients, 5.6g/100g carbs in the finished product

Pea/Jackfruit granules: 2 ingredients, 1.9g/100g carbs in the dry product (so roughly 0.8g/100g in the finished product)

Semaphor··on Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
I had long given up on lab-grown meat. It started feeling like fusion, always around the corner, but never there (or at least not in an affordable way).

What replaced almost all ground beef (except in burgers) for me, was Jackfruit. More specifically, the combination 90% pea protein, 10% jackfruit. Granules that can be rehydrated with boiling water in 2 minutes, price competitive with discounter mince, no extra ingredients, no high carb count. It has a good texture and tastes mostly like whatever you season it with.

Semaphor··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
> Vaping is equivalent to shooting heroin or doing crack

That’s a feature of the juice the mainstream products come with, not of vaping in general.

Semaphor··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
I keep finding out about new crazyness for modern vapes. That’s insane. I’ll keep vaping at 0 nic with hand-built coils and DIY mixed liquids ;)
Semaphor··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
Opposite here. Taken me hundreds of tries to quit smoking (none worked, vaping was the only thing that allowed me to), vaping I sometimes just don’t do, never had that with smoking, where I sometimes switched to menthol so I could keep smoking while sick…
Semaphor··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
> where 5% is the standard

What? 50mg/ml is the standard? Or am I miscalculating something here? When I switched from cigs to vaping (back in 2012, not really comparable to now, but still), I went with very high nicotine levels of 36mg/ml which was pretty harsh on the throat, and within a year I was at 3mg/ml. Nowadays I’m at zero.

Semaphor··on The Claude Delusion
Feedback is one thing, but another is complete memory. I used to stop talking in a thread once gpt solved my issue.

But then it would bring it up again in another thread, treating it as an active issue.

So now I always close with "thanks, that worked. Don't reply"

Semaphor··on English: A vs. An
> but not the rule governing why.

Be glad you didn’t have to learn German, our grammatical gender only has more exceptions than rules.

Semaphor··on Salesforce Global Outage
I mean, if you really need redundancy, isn’t a second instance on a VPS somewhere that you manually switch over to, enough?

Over multiple ISPs, so far internet outages for more then a few minutes is very rare (though the few minutes would make me not want to host something requiring high availability; and a cut cable is really annoying because there simply is no quick fix), power outages even rares, I experienced 3 in 40 years, and the longest was 6 hours.

Semaphor··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
I personally just find it convenient, even in my 3.5 room apartment. Though I do have switches that work.
Semaphor··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
I sometimes called it "textual memory of an image", but I also liked TFA with "we experience these as an awareness of a set of spatial facts"
Semaphor··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
I don’t have ADHD¹, there. But anyway, while I have aphantasia, almost everyone I talk to reports being able to see images, most being able to manipulate them. From my incredibly small sample size of ~20, my sister was the only one with possibly mild aphantasia, 1 guy online and a girl I know possibly have hyperphantasia (very realistic images coming into their mind’s eye unbidden), and everyone else were confused about me not being able to imagine/see anything.

¹: Though I do (likely) have auditory processing disorder which wikipedia called ADHD for the ears, so maybe it fits.

Semaphor··on The case against JPEG XL
Is there a way to have fast on-the-fly WebP encoding? When i checked it, it was unusably slow (multiple seconds for large images), but maybe that was the implementation. That alone made JXL far more interesting to us.
Semaphor··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
This behavior predates modern AI. Maybe it’s getting worse, but without high limits (which lower revenue) adsense will result in a lot of scams.
Semaphor··on So you want to use OpenRouter?
Under privacy, ignored, I put providers that always suck. Digital Ocean, OpenInference, DeepInfra, AtlasCloud, and Alibaba (that one is different, it doesn’t suck in the same way as the others with a dumb model, but instead it’s heavily censored and doesn’t like being used as RP model in Skyrim).
Semaphor··on Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
FWIW, one article is very short on details, it’s a slightly expanded press release, and the other is a video. I’m not sure either is what’s needed more on HN.
Semaphor··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
Yeah, it's the same for me, but luckily those are very rare
Semaphor··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
> This is quite common if you have full on aphantasia.

Is it? I’ve never really researched common aphantasia behavior, but I’ve seen many mentions of aphantasia in fantasy/scifi subreddits where those of us with it still love reading. I can imagine (heh) it, but I wonder if there’s some kind of data regarding it?

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