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foone , (Bearbeitet ) an Random Englisch
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For the next big Twitter-killer social media network, our trademark bad idea is that we're not gonna let users enter alt-text:
Instead we're just using an LLM to identify what's in the photo.

UpLateGeek ,
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@foone and the LLM is only trained on pictures of bananas, so it mostly just says “there are no bananas in this picture”.

TechConnectify , an Random Englisch
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So I just got back from a Menards run and I've noticed something fascinating:

Menards has always had a lot of store brands. But they're really pushing a new food brand called Marcella. Stuff like coffee, jams and jellies, prepared foods, sodas, etc. A lot of it is fairly unique - I bought a maraschino cherry cola on a whim and it was pretty great!

The weird part? They're pricing this in-house stuff higher than name brands. The soda was a tad more expensive than the Sprecher's next to it!

UpLateGeek ,
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@TechConnectify it’s a smart thing to do if they can deliver on the higher quality expectations. My uncle was successful at marketing a premium snack product that was similar to a well-known brand, but higher quality, right up till political instability in the country they were being packaged in made it difficult/uneconomical to continue.

foone , an Random Englisch
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oh sweet jesus. I found some raspi-based GPS/RFID devices at ewaste, right? and they had a mini-PCIe WLAN card, complete with SIM card in it.

The SIM card is still active.

UpLateGeek ,
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@foone when you get the job, you can tell them they just need to provide the work phone, because you’ve already got plenty of company SIMs!

18+ foone , an Random Englisch
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I finally figured out what's wrong with my dryer!
There's no drum to put the clothes in. This is a rookie mistake, Samsung.

UpLateGeek ,
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@foone you could say you put Schrödinger's towels in the dryer of Theseus.

foone , an Random Englisch
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Having one of those fun days at work where I have to ask "hey, is the edison cylinder phonograph supposed to be on?"

UpLateGeek ,
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@foone Foone: check out this phonograph, it’s made by Edison!
Musk: … [insert I made this meme here]

foone , an Random Englisch
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So I've got a VCR that I can control over serial. If I got a second one, I could stick tapes into them and cross-wire them so that each plays into the other.
I could then set up a program to record from tape 1 onto tape 2, then back from tape 2 to tape 1.
Attach a capture device and I can get video files of each generation.

Then we just watch the generational loss compound.

UpLateGeek ,
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@foone sounds like a good opportunity to get a linear editing controller and experience what it was like to edit video back in the good old days (and why everyone switched to non-linear editing as soon as the hardware became affordable and the software caught up).

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