boonhet

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 minute ago

Well, Trump did say that his buddy Elon is very good with computers, including voting machines, and would ensure a victory... That alone should trigger an alarm bell

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago

In my country for liability insurance at least, national traffic insurance fund website has a comparison tool. Just enter the data and get results for all the companies (minus the banks for some reason, they also offer insurance). The difference can sometimes be 5x or more and they offer the exact same legally mandated coverage (some have minor bonuses like "moose insurance" or legal aid, and no, those aren't even always the most expensive ones).

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 hours ago

Yeah turns out healthy people work more and pay more taxes, which the government likes

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

14 months, not several years. They did it in one stint to avoid having to work around a bunch of scheduling conflicts with such a large cast. And a few short follow-up shoots later I believe.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Vibe coding is when you don't do any of it yourself or understand what's happening.

If you just use e.g the autocomplete tools in your IDE, or occasionally prompt the AI to generate test cases for you, that's not really vibe coding, but it should be enough that you shouldn't be on this list.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Huh I only had pop ups in the old internet, does the internet still have ads?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It'd be weird and I think the ads are part of the attraction for tourists these days since they're so recognizable on a photo

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago

It's been a few years since I touched an xbox or the xbox app, but the last time I installed Forza Horizon 5 xbox/windows store edition on my PC, the download speed was quite literally the least of my issues. Wasn't even that slow.

Actually getting the xbox application to realize I've bought the game on windows store was something I had FAR more trouble with.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

You start it remotely if you don't have a preheater. Not that idling is great for a car engine, but at least you'll have clear windows by the time you get in the car.

In the summer you can use it to have a cold car to sit into.

Remote climate control doesn't work on ICE vehicles without Remote start or auxiliary preheater.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

My phone has access to my bank app, my car does not.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 points 12 hours ago

Can't find any near me, I'd have to fly to another country to get one that's not full of rust holes and decommissioned due to failing safety inspection which doesn't allow for perforation.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not necessarily that any of the open models are cheaper to train (for similar model size), it's more that China has deeper pockets. And MoE inference is cheaper than dense models I believe

 

Hi!

So recently I've realized that I might have SAD. Round the winter solstice, there's about 6 hours of sunlight per day in Estonia and for much of December and early to mid January, it was also overcast so even the 6 hours of "sunlight" were kinda dark.

So I went to read Wikipedia and:

Two methods of light therapy, bright light and dawn simulation, have similar success rates in the treatment of SAD

So I'm just wondering if anyone has personal experiences with these, particularly the dawn simulation as I believe that's something I could just set up and forget hopefully (I have ADHD, I do NOT do well with things I have to repeat every day). Does it help? Do you use it outside of wintertime too?

 

For some reason or another, a whole third of all mechanical keyboards in the biggest local computer retailer's online store, are Ducky. Probably because they have ISO and ANSI layouts, a lot of colors, different sizes, and different switches. And they're ordered from abroad when bought, not stocked locally. So loads of choice and no cost showing them as available.

So since my only real options here if I want a full keyboard or TKL with blue switches are a couple of different Ducky models (one 3, Shine 7) in various colors, I'm wondering if anyone has personal experience with Ducky? I've read both praise and hate online, so can't really make heads or tails of the quality.

 

Long story short, despite living in a detached home with not too much 2.4 GHz noise, my Logitech unifying receiver has trouble with my mouse at 20 centimeters from the receiver. Keyboard at roughly 7-8 centimeters range has less trouble, but not none.

I can't be arsed to get an USB extension cord or anything. This is a stupid-ass problem. I want to replace them with something new. What mouse would you suggest that's ergonomic, but not too expensive? I'd say 150€ is the absolute limit, but would prefer under 100€. Mouse should be wireless as I have a tendency of moving it around. It's just the Unifying Receiver tripping me up - I've not had much trouble with other wireless mice in the past, and the same mouse works completely fine on Bluetooth as far as range is concerned, but it's a pain to reconnect on Linux for some reason or another.

I do a little gaming, but mostly software engineering. Precision isn't as important as comfort. I also don't want to get something uber weird shaped, it should still look and feel like a mouse ideally.

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