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Be wary - I do not have an iPhone, and I once connected my AirPods to my wifes MacBook. They now chirp at me loudly every time I pick them up, automatically try to connect to her phone etc, and I cannot unregister them from her account. I want to add them to Find My - I cannot add them to Find My from my MacBook, I 'need' an iPhone or iPad to do that...

My colleagues were joking about smoking guns yesterday after noticing that Claude was obsessed with it.

Hey ericlewis - this is cool! Can I ask how you figured it out?! Doing this for my PO-33 was on my bucket list. I thought I might have to resort to voltage glitching to get a firmware dump, which is currently beyond my skills.

The non-LLM version of this happened to me in a high school English class, back in the 2010's. I was accused of turning in a downloaded story from the internet, but in reality, I had pushed past the incredible barrier I usually felt at the start of a task, got into the flow, and started enjoying it.

I'm not sure if it had any lasting effects. Maybe a burning hatred of Grammarly ads.

At my workplace, a colleague in another team used an AI tool to voice/video clone my companies CEO, CRO and CTO (I assume with their permission) and created a mandatory 30 minute training video that they expected us to watch with these monotone fake company leaders doing the presentation. It wasn't even a joke.

haha wow - it also just straight up copied the .gif files byte for byte - same SHA sum

eh? what launch? been using it for years now, it's brilliant

it screams it to me - wording such as "your concerns are valid", "yes, you're absolutely right..." and "I realize now how important...", and then usage of em-dash

is this chatgpt? your comments read like chatgpt output

Reminds me of this old HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4353389

Pure chance - what should get assigned to me mere hours after reading this article but a ticket regarding SCIM users not being disabled with Entra...

It turns out that Microsoft’s default behavior sends a boolean value as a string

You can force Microsoft to send you the proper JSON if you use a certain feature flag (aadOptscim062020), but that’s really not an obvious solution!

Boom. That was exactly my issue.

This sort of stuff is very time-consuming and demoralizing to resolve.

I would have sunk hours into this - thanks Ned O'Leary - you made my day!

Scavenger's Reign was really excellent - but as I was watching it, I had an inkling that I would likely be in a small cohort of people who love it.

Gravity Falls is another 'kids' show that is absolutely brilliant.

unfortunately, I have a feeling that in the age of LLMs, this junior on the team will have no impetus to actually put in effort and _think_ about such a problem

At least in the towns and cities, I believe it is because the utility companies can cut up the roads, but the cuts are never repaired to the same quality, allowing water ingress and creating weaknesses that seem to 'seed' potholes.

I used to live in Edinburgh and the roads were like an uneven tar patchwork.

their pricing page states

We plan to make money by helping clients secure additional financial products like secured lines of credit, margin, and insurance, all in a fiduciary manner.

not really. banking systems have firewalls and access controls. quantum computations would be useless.

I really disliked beer until I was about 25 years old. I kept occasionally trying it, maybe because my girlfriend liked beer, and one day, to my surprise, found a particular beer I really liked. Trying new craft beers is now a bit of a passion, and have had over 250 different beers (I avoid buying repeats [unless extremely good] or a multipack)

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-dominates-rene...

"There is also a caveat to China's rapid build-out of renewable capacity because at the same time it is still adding substantial coal-fired generation."

"China already accounts for 53% of the world's 2,095 GW of operating coal-fired generating capacity, a share likely to increase in coming years as more coal plants are retired in the developed world."

I used to do this CD swap as a kid - you wouldn't touch the CD - you would put your finger on the mount that you clip the CD onto, and then when it had stopped, pop the CD off.

this sounds like chatgpt drivel

it's just whisper and some code that downloads the models from huggingface

I looked through the source and have to agree with ipsum2... where is the part that isn't just wrapper code?

decides to take MDMA/LSD/shrooms (or whatever) every day. He feels amazing and is living his best life every day

Gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you've never taken LSD or shrooms... personally, taking them every day sounds nightmarishly exhausing (can't speak to MDMA).

In my experience, these drugs don't mask your problems, they surface/amplify them.

Thanks for your detailed reply. I am yet to try other EVs other than a Nissan Leaf and an eNV200, but I think both of these fit my driving style a bit more than the MY (I used B mode in other EVs and love regen braking).

Giving credit where it is due, I do agree that the Tesla cruise control is great. I was driving it in Germany and Austria and it maintaining correct speed going down mountains and hills was just chefs-kiss perfect.

But - I think it is not correct to say that you don't need a speed limiter because of TACC or that it can replace a speed limiter. And I believe I got into a good rhythm with the Tesla (with TACC on, hold stick down when approaching a speed change sign, release when I pass it, no beeps of disable/re-enable- although this still causes overspeed alert even if car is slowing to match new speed).

I had the overspeed alert set very strict - which is why it was beeping at me - but without a speed limiter this is the only way to force myself to not go overspeed everytime I accelerate while looking at traffic rather than the speedometer.

Driving in 20kmh areas, TACC didn't switch on for me, and I hated having to re-engage TACC every time I slowed to enter a roundabout. I literally just want to concentrate on driving in these complex suburban situations, but I don't want to have my photo taken by radar, I just want the car to limit my speed, or have the speed available if I really need it suddenly (at the extreme end of the throttle range)

Have you used speed limiters in other vehicles? I know I have driven a Peugeot 2008 which could read speed signs then you could double press a button to set your limiter to that speed.

I want that, but without needing to press a button. I actually want to remap throttle response over the range of the throttle, and have a particular range of the throttle which is "sticky" at the speed limit... like a "gravity well" of throttle range that will maintain the speed limit. Does that make sense?

to be honest, imo a test drive isn't enough. I test drove a Model 3 (was given 30 minutes), thought it was interesting, and might have considered buying one. A few weeks later I rented a Model Y for 12 days to go on a road trip with my family, and ended up absolutely hating it. And it wasn't because of the charging - that was quite pleasant - it was the constant beeping at me for the way I usually drive. Plus, overall, it just felt cheap, not sure how to describe it. The steering wheel feels too small, can't stand the buttons on the wheel, wish there was a small vibrate motor to tell me I'm going overspeed instead of noise (or nothing). No speed limiter which I find maddening (adaptive cruise control not suitable for city driving!). Basically, now I would never buy one, and the original test drive illuminated nothing

I have had some ideas over the years around home electronics (tools and components) management.

I was thinking about building myself a system of QR labelled ziplock bags (inc. antistatic ones) and QR labelled containers.

The main concept of my particular system would be to have a camera covering my workspace, and a camera covering a storage area for containers.

The system would automatically track which QR labelled bags are in which QR labelled container, and also keep a 'last seen' graph of bags that are near other bags, and containers near other containers, so that you don't have to spend too much effort maintaining the system, and when you want a list of things to work with, the system could help you perform a 'computer enhanced rummage' by using your smartphone and have it highlight containers that you want, and ziplocks that contain the things on your list.

Take all those ziplocks out, lay them on your workspace, boom, they are all checked out of the containers by the overhead camera.

Place the containers back on your shelves, boom, the shelve cameras know the positions of the boxes.

When you are done with the items, place a box on your workspace (recognised by camera) and put the packets back in the one box (those packets then checked in to that box).

I don't have a nice workspace to build the system yet, but when I settle into a place I am going to spend more time thinking about it.

You just helped me realise (as an Aussie living in Europe) that when some people are saying "air-to-air heat pump" what they mean is what an Aussie or Kiwi would call "reverse cycle air conditioner" - which are extremely common and affordable. The heat pumps I have seen personally in Europe are geothermal, very big, and very expensive.

My favourite one is https://github.com/antoniomika/sish

It uses SSH as the method of opening the remote tunnel to the public server.

I think emissions are a different issue.

Which is more _wasteful_? I would argue Bitcoin, and dangerously so, because its upper bound of potential energy usage is infinite.

Coal, on the other hand, is not wasted (burning coal without using the heat would be stupidity).

Even when coal is phased out, Bitcoin may still be there, causing unnecessary strain on the infrastructure. Bitcoin will find the cheapest energy and set it on fire, if the price is right. And the heat produced by the equipment also wasted as byproduct due to convenience/commercial factors. I can imagine it already contributes to energy poverty, alongside other issues, in developing nations.