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masteruvpuppetzon Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered

Can anyone please tell me how can i get my win11 to update to version 25H2?

It has been months I am stuck at "Update and shut-down" but it never updates. Nothing works :((((((((((((

masteruvpuppetzon In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback

I almost always use voice dictation when no one's around. I think having physical keyboards is a sign of regression.

masteruvpuppetzon AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox

An old office colleague used to tell us there was a time when he'd print a report prepared with Lotus123 (Ancient Excel) and their boss would verify the calculations on a calculator saying computers are not reliable. :o

masteruvpuppetzon Play snake in the URL address bar

HAHAHA looool!! this is awesome

masteruvpuppetzon Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day (2024)

Maybe stuck in an endless update loop?? Like requesting update every minute and then not completing! starting over..

masteruvpuppetzon Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook

Saw the importance of drone fighting in Pakistan's recent clashes with India. They sent drones to big cities like Lahore/Karachi so IMO even Police and Civil Defense should also get these trainings.

masteruvpuppetzon Michael Madsen has died

Huh! sold his Hattori Hanzō sword in a pawn shop /s

Good actor

masteruvpuppetzon Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?

TBH I want them to use more AI; as in automating tasks. Especially daily financial transactions. But it seems we're 5 years away from there :S

masteruvpuppetzon Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting

so if i use Network Chuck's world's most secure browser, will it help? Link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=799uhYUxtvA&pp=ygUOI2NyZWF0Z...

masteruvpuppetzon How easy is it for a developer to "sandbox" a program?

Virtual Box

masteruvpuppetzon Ask HN: Have you not accepted or left a job because it was immoral?

I turned down a website development offer when I learnt it was for pay-day loans (interest is haram).

masteruvpuppetzon Ask HN: Is HN slowly starting to experience enshitification?

lol yeah.. no rubbernecking people!

masteruvpuppetzon Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees

Pakistan (under Imran Khan) a few years ago did that.

masteruvpuppetzon Ask HN: In 15 years, what will a gas station visit look like?

Um.. I'd say there maybe a wake up call during these 15 years like a storm that the EV drivers cannot run from (because the range wouldn't let them).

I wonder what's it gonna be then??? Government busses?

masteruvpuppetzon CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today

How much extra would it cost compared to plain vanilla CarPlay? /s

masteruvpuppetzon Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI

My current VBA coding is all generated by Chat-GPT/Claude/Deepseek.

There is no use of writing VBA these days :@

masteruvpuppetzon Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

I was wondering about building a payment SMS notification -> Tracking app.

It would be more real-time and give me heartaches everytime I go out of budget :D:D:D

masteruvpuppetzon ElevenReader

>> the voice can really start to go off the rails. Do you mean the AI gets tired?

masteruvpuppetzon Whats your max wpm in typing?

60 wpm with 96% accuracy bleh!!

masteruvpuppetzon Ask HN: Programmers who aren't front/back end/web developers, what is your job?

The jobs/roles I search for (finance guy), seems like everyone's working on quant development

masteruvpuppetzon Potoooooooo

Potoooooooo died in November 1800 at the age of 27 and was buried at Hare Park. Some 200 years later, his skeleton was uncovered when a tree blew over. The skeleton is on display at the Kings Yard Galleries of the National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket.

https://nhrm.zetcom.net/en/collection/item/81091/

masteruvpuppetzon Some things to expect in 2025

I think we should / have already reached to a place where AI written code is acceptable.

masteruvpuppetzon Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120?

An oldish laptop would be better. Might get 4 in this price :S

masteruvpuppetzon How I run LLMs locally

David Bombal interviews a mysterious man where he shows how he uses AI/LLMs for his automated LinkedIn posts and other tasks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF-MQmVxnCs

masteruvpuppetzon Blender 4.3

Love Blender's interface. I wish MS Excel was built like this. Dragging the border to create new viewports, customizable views, ease of binding keyboard shortcuts to functions.. FA-BU-LO-SO

masteruvpuppetzon Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn

Sitting for less time is also not good :S

masteruvpuppetzon Cock.li Is on Red Alert

The headline reminds me of Mike Oxmaul scene. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7UdP9JyM2nQ

masteruvpuppetzon Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

I hate that Win11 Notepad has so many tabs open even after you close the app.

Many times, I just paste my copied text in Notepad to strip the formatting + special characters and close it after re-copying the data. Pretty efficient.

Now that I open Notepad.. all my previous tabs are open asking me to close them one after the other (extra click on not so save the file) :@ so annoying

masteruvpuppetzon What happens if someone votes by absentee/mail-in and dies before Election Day?

The real question.. what if someone dies just before the person who they voted for is announced a winner :(