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When using my 32 inch screen sometimes I set the wallpaper to a random walk video in YouTube and it works fantastically. I know that it is counter intuitive, but the contrast between real and moving elements and static and almost flat Windows makes for a nice experience. And helps fighting text editing fatigue.

Of course, ymmv. But give it a try.

If they haven't changed it recently, 11 nines is the durability target by design, but it is not set in any SLA. the S3 SLA is focused on availability.

DS being unable to precisely view Playwright screenshots is the only thing I really miss from Sonnet. This is promising.

> Images are converted into tokens based on their dimensions, and these tokens are billed together with your text tokens.

> Before inference, every image is automatically resized:

> - Images with a total pixel count below roughly 384×384 are scaled up while preserving their aspect ratio.

> - Larger images are scaled down while preserving their aspect ratio so that the total pixel count after resizing is roughly that of an 800×800 image.

> As a result, there is an upper bound of 384 tokens per image: for example, a 2000×2000 image and a 5000×5000 image consume the same number of tokens after resizing. When a request contains multiple images, each image is counted independently under the same rule—there is no separate calculation for multi-image requests.

400 tokens per image results in 2,500 images per dollar, if I’m not mistaken.

edit: format.

I honestly don’t understand how anyone can believe that Apple is limiting user options for privacy reasons, rather than trying to maintain an unfair advantage over other vendors.

I’m not saying people who hold this view are being dishonest at all. But sometimes, to me, brands like Harley-Davidson or Apple seem closer to a cult than to a typical corporation.

Still impressed. And, to be honest, I don't think that this problem matter much. Physical accuracy is very nice, but for example is not the most important aspect when I watch a fantasy movie. Or even a scifi one.

My Tailscale exit node disagrees ;)

Electric blankets. I put mine in the chair next to me and my cat will furiously ask me to turn it on each morning. Three hours of peace.

That one was motivated by the need of controlling the app distribution channel, just like they keep the web as a second class citizen in their ecosystem nowadays.

Can you please point me to some interesting Lemmy instances? I haven't been able to find anyone with strong activity by myself. Appreciated.

If you are using VSCode against WSL2 or Linux and you have installed Docker, managing devcontainers is very straightforward. What I usually do is to execute "Connect to host" or "Connect to WSL", then create the project directory and ask VSCode to "Add Dev Container Configuration File". Once the configuration file is created, VSCode itself will ask you if you want to start working inside the container. I'm impressed with the user experience of this feature, to be honest.

Working with devcontainers from CLI wasn't very difficult [0], but I must confess that I only tested it once.

[0] https://containers.dev/supporting

At thirteen or fourteen, I was lucky enough to read "The Persistence of Vision" in a science fiction collection published by Orbis at such an affordable price that I could buy every volume with my weekly allowance.

The stories had a powerful impact on me, because at that age concepts like the normalization of sex change or living a full life while being deaf-blind didn't fit into my mental frameworks. I enjoyed it from beginning to end, each and every one of the stories.

Two months ago (almost forty years later) my mother found the old book in our family library, and I've been able to reread it, enjoying it as much or more than the first time. I remembered the general plot of all the stories perfectly, which is proof of their intrinsic quality, and we can clearly see their influence on later authors like my beloved Doctorow.

The most curious thing is that some perspectives have shocked me again. Not the sex change, of course. Not raising children in a commune (whether on Earth or Mars). But sex between adults and minors is a topic that I'm sure makes me more uncomfortable now than when I was a kid.

So, for the second time, I can only be grateful to the author for giving me a good time without condescension or fear of presenting societies different from my own. For making me think. And feel.

I think that is a joke that reflects pretty well the feeling of many people (me included) that miss the ten years ago AWS and their ability to amaze us with solutions for practical problems, instead of marketing claims on PowerPoints.

At work, we have the opportunity to choose. Many people are like you and find that going to the office helps their productivity and mental health. Most of us (including me) visit the office only a few times a year.

I think having the choice is great. Although it comes with its own challenges, it works really well when you establish the right culture.

This is something that is happening to me too, and frankly I'm a little concerned. English is not my first language, so I use AI for checking and writing many things. And I spend a lot of time with coding tools. And now I need sometimes to do a conscient effort to avoid mimicking some LLM patterns...

Same here. Still, I prefer to wait instead of suffering those aggressive ads.

This doesn't correspond to my experience. The terminal is not faster than light, but good enough for my requirements, and I use it both locally and through VNC. May it be a problem with your VDI setup?

Let me also share the English version of my own list of tips, tricks, checks, etc. I’ve been compiling it over the past 15 years while teaching, doing consulting, presenting results to clients, and so on. Every now and then, I find it useful to read it again to be clear on how to prepare presentations.

https://github.com/ciberado/100-trucos-para-hacer-mejores-pr...

I will be grateful if you help me to enrich it by opening Issues or creating PRs.

Amazon always competes with everybody. Clients, partners... Everybody.

My intuition is that the root cause it's their frugal culture (frugal as in cheap). They don't want to start a compensation race.

Also, public cloud machines come with IPs of well known ranges. It may be easy to spot them if required.

On the other side, this is the approach that I'm currently using, without any problem for my particular case.

It allows using the browser as a very convenient and accessible programming platform for many types of applications, not only web-based. That's specially important for beginners, I think, as they can run (and create) all kind of projects just by opening a web page. But it is also very handy for more advanced users, as the wled project [1] shows.

And yes, there are security implications. But that's true for any other platform and as long as the users are asked for the proper permissions, I'm good with it.

[1] https://kno.wled.ge/

Looking forward to installing the Firefox add-on :) I'm sure it is going to be useful for helping to prototype LLM workflows. Thanks for sharing!

You are absolutely right. I don’t have detailed knowledge about the internal administrative organization of U.S. states, and I simply assumed that a county housing a world-class city like Las Vegas would have a very large budget. Even if this initiative is primarily symbolic, it could still play a valuable role in shifting public perception about managing street temperatures.

I'm experimenting with both Thunderbird and MailSpring. The latter looks like a much more natural fit for someone used to GMail/OWA like me.

[1] https://www.getmailspring.com/

In Spain, a private company has planted almost 1 million trees in one year as what I guess is in part a marketing effort[1]. Barcelona itself counts with 1.5 million of exemplars.

So yes, you are probably right. 60K in 25 years is a PR note.

[1] https://www.iberdrola.com/press-room/news/detail/iberdrola-h...

[2] https://www.lavanguardia.com/participacion/las-fotos-de-los-... (Spanish)

I don't think we share the same definition of poverty.

Your app is simply awesome. I've playing with it for a bit and I can see how this approach would make traditional homework much more engaging. Also, the LLM doesn't care about the language used in the responses, so my understanding is that localizing the content in different languages would be very straightforward.

This is, I think, particularly important for kids in most parts of the world as a majority of the internet pedagogical content is English-based. Or for people like me, that struggle with that language when talking about topics outside the tech industry.

Congrats for your project, I'm sure we share the same positive view about the future of learning :)

I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 13, and it comes with it. But I've been unable to find a way to freely record/send IR commands without using their application :/

Version 1.0 ran quite smoothly once we upgraded the machines from 4MB to 8MB of RAM (seriously!). But, of course, at those times 8MB was much more memory than the early smartishphones carried, so their Java version was heavily stripped down and almost good-for-nothing.

On the PC Front, James Gosling and cia made were an amazing team, but they pushed for very academic and cumbersome patterns that converged in the EJB architecture. Nobody in its sane mind would fall in love with that.

Two or three years later, the internet bubble fallout affected every technology.

tl;dr: don't be afraid of trying it.

In my case, going from a regular keyboard to a split one like he Raise[1] took me 10 minutes of adaption time. My second split one was (is) a columnar (the Defy[2]), and I must confess that the adaption time was something like three days. Mostly because I kept failing to correctly push a few keys (like the C). Now I can indistinctly work with a columnar or a stagged one with zero problem. In fact, I usually use both types many days.

That said, I thought that the change would make me feel more comfortable, but to be honest in my case the difference is not big at all.

[1] https://dygma.com/pages/dygma-raise-2

[2] https://dygma.com/pages/defy

On the other hand, sometimes se non è vero, è ben trovato. We need stories. Models. The Gandhi we know was not the real one, same for Churchill or any other person, and the same thing happens with some villains. My personal point of view is that apocryphal quotes are just an extension of that mechanism, and can be useful in the construction of our thoughts.