I've been using uBlock for a long time but I really don't think I've scratched its surface; do you (or anyone) have a good write-up on advanced uses of UBlock? That would be super helpful!
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Also - this paves the way to Mac Laptops (and desktops) without displays, which to me is the big win here.
Also - this paves the way to Mac Laptops (and desktops) without displays, which to me is the big win here.
Seven Cities was another classic, they really had quite an impressive set of launch titles.
I think the SpaceTop laptop[0] shows an excellent use case for a realistic AR device.
Right now, the kind of AR headsets that companies seem to think they can produce are all fantasy/sci-fi, not much different than the whole Dream of Self-Driving Cars. Sure, it's probably possible eventually, but not anytime soon, or at a price point most can afford in the case of self-contained AR headset that look like normal glasses
[0] https://www.bigtechwire.com/2023/05/19/spacetop-the-groundbr...
We went along with it but at some point our card expired and I never updated my account with them. I tracked it for a few months to ensure they weren’t accumulating, once that proved true I never thought about them again and mark their invoices as spam. Going on a year plus and it’s continued to work; we don’t pay them a dime, our few positive reviews we get at yelp remain online and we encourage our customers to avoid them and post everywhere else.
I honestly put off upgrading my phone as long as possible now, they’re like tires for my car - I need em but man I hate hate hate replacing them and spending the money.
Same with 'FSD', which setting aside it's actual self-driving, I would be more willing to pay for that package for a few weeks / month when the family is doing a road trip and having it for highway use is handy.
I wouldn't pay up front for either of those feature, I just don't think they're worth the price, or would be used frequently enough to warrant the expense. I don't need FSD that often, and I don't need to blast off the line a second quicker every time I drive the car, but once in a while? Sure, if the price is right.
Pretty cool idea/project:https://www.theverge.com/22323002/mister-fpga-project-retro-...
I also couldn't get my 810 disk drive working, so I found a copy of MULE on eBay burned on a ROM, so that was a nice find.
Great old machine, I think I'll buy one of these, the addition of HDMI and USB alone are worth it. Plus it'll be fun to write a game on that thing, something I dabbled in as a kid and was my start as a programmer so so long ago now.
No Blade Runner?
Also they need a Vorlon in there somewhere.
Spent hours looking… what fun!
Aka you speak to it your question and it speaks back its answer while writing to the screen. Or maybe I’ve missed something like that?
01 Industry now leads academia in releasing significant machine learning models. 02 Traditional benchmarks are showing performance saturation, but new benchmarks are emerging. 03 AI has both positive and negative environmental impacts. 04 AI is accelerating scientific progress in various fields. 05 Incidents concerning AI misuse are rapidly rising. 06 Demand for AI-related skills is increasing across most American industrial sectors. 07 For the first time in a decade, year-over-year private investment in AI decreased in 2022. 08 While AI adoption by companies has plateaued, those that have adopted AI are experiencing cost and revenue benefits. 09 Policymaker interest in AI is growing, with more AI-related bills being passed into law. 10 Chinese citizens have the most positive view of AI products and services, while Americans are more skeptical.
Also - the B4 sub-story arc is some of the most incredible TV moments ever created.
Zathras can never have nice things.
It's a pretty cool system, you have your roster of players and setup skates, and it automatically emails everyone x number of days before the skate. You can see who signs up, pay online, etc and if a goalie who's signed up cancels, the 'Skate Operator' is emailed immediately to take care of that (it's a big deal to not have two goalies). It also has an automatic waitlist, and if someone cancels before the skate, and you're the first person on the waitlist, it moves you to the end of the list and emails you to let them know you're in for the skate. It also sends out a reminder X hours before the skate, day of, etc.
After I started using it for my own skates, a few rink managers contacted me to discuss using it for their rink. I met with 2 different groups / municipalities (because most rinks are owned by the city they're in), and it never went any farther than those meetings. They didn't want to use a system by some guy that couldn't maintain it, wouldn't keep it going for more than a year or 3.
13 years later and I'm writing a new version and have run something like 11k skates in that time. There is one small, privately owned rink near my house, has used it the entire time without issue. I've got a few other friends/individuals that use it, too.
It is possible for a single person to create and maintain something purely because they need it.
Anyway, I initially had it write it in Python, and it mostly worked, but I was having some issues getting the data exactly right, and formatted the way I wanted.
Once I had it more / less right in Python, I had it rewrite it as a dotnet console app (C#), which is what I know best.
The only real issue I ran into is it would randomly stop before completing the conversion to dotnet. Like it would write 85% then just stop in the middle of a helper function. Not a huge deal, I just had it complete the last function, and with a little bit of fiddling in VS Code got it running pretty much the way I wanted.
So overall, yeah, not bad. Probably saved me an hour or so, plus I couldn't find great docs for the NHL endpoint, and ChatGPT was able to sus out the correct syntax to get to the data I needed.
I wonder how git Copilot compares, has anyone tried out both?