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lysp··on Candy sells faster than fentanyl in San Francisco's open-air drug markets
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lysp··on Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC
It's actually been ported to web - along with a lot of other dos based games.

https://classicreload.com/dr-sbaitso.html

lysp··on Elevator Expert on How to Move 10k People Up a 118-Floor Skyscraper [video]
Have you seen this?

https://play.elevatorsaga.com/

lysp··on Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
Another option for windows is ZTreeWin (a clone of the old XTree Gold).

Fully keyboard based, and has a shortcut (F8) that goes into split screen mode if you need.

lysp··on Cloudflare employee posts layoff call with HR and goes viral [video]
Which is why new roles are (or should be) advertised as slightly different - for legal protection against former employees taking you to court for fake redundancies.
lysp··on Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords
It was confusing for me too.

Basically:

- AppData = User (interactive) application storage - ProgramData = Service / Background (non-interactive) application storage

lysp··on Seeing how fast people will probe you after you get a new TLS certificate
I use a wildcard for mine. *.locallan.domain.com

It exposes part of the domain, but none of the services.

If you want to be even more secure, you could null-IP the wildcard and only allocate IPs for subdomains that you use.

lysp··on Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers
I'm not sure about whisper, but find YT subtitles pretty poor.

I generally watch videos on 1.5-2x speed (depending on speed of person talking).

I also turn on subtitles in case I miss a word due to the speed, and find it very random at times.

lysp··on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-cloud-and-product-roadmap
lysp··on Small stupid things that make up my dev environment
I'm similar.

It allows me to skip over code and not thoroughly read it.

ie. a colour for variables, methods, objects, strings, numbers.

So I can see a bit of code and see it's {variable}.{MethodName}({string}, {number}) and can generalise what that code is doing without needing to read the entire line and parse it myself.

lysp··on Titled Tuesday Cheating
> He posited that if he checked an engine only once per game (at some critical juncture), he would be unbeatable (by any other non-cheating super GM).

Not even to that extent.

They just need to be told which single move mid-game to think harder on, and they'll often find it.

So all they need is a metaphoric tap on the shoulder.

lysp··on What Happened to Sam Altman?
Do you use CloudFlare DNS by any chance?
lysp··on GPT-4 powers Copilot Chat
Great to see that they have implemented a JetBrains plugin too.
lysp··on X/Twitter will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features
> Yes, the people remaining are addicted to/like Twitter.

I remain because I still follow a lot of people on Twitter (news/tech/journos).

There is not one single place that still has a majority of them apart from twitter.

lysp··on [dead]
I wonder if the lack of tracking in the north is due to not having electricity to recharge for a week, compared to fleeing the area?
lysp··on 'Couple,' 'Few,' and 'Several'
As an aussie, it can mean both for me.

eg. i just need to you to grab a couple of things from supermarket for me.

The number of items is small, not not always two.

lysp··on Air Quality Monitors from USD $169 to $6k use the same low-cost PM Modules
This seems to look very similar to generic ali express sensors:

ie. Quick search:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005944910617.html

Generally things without user manuals, or proper specifications are either directly from there, or rebadged from there.

lysp··on Touch Pianist
That was a lot of fun. I know the first movement off by heart so that was fairly easy.

Third movement was much more fun - trying to get some of the timing on that was pretty tricky. Had to alternate between 2 fingers and then throw in the 3rd one for some of the trills.

lysp··on YouTube gets more aggressive in pushing adblock warnings with countdown timer
If you live in Turkey, or happen to "visit" there for a short period of time, Youtube premium is $15cad / $11usd for 12 month subscription, or alterantively a few dollars a month.
lysp··on City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians
Australia has their own - Montague Street Bridge ("Monty").

It's 9'11 (3.0m)

https://howmanydayssincemontaguestreetbridgehasbeenhit.com/

It has dozens of warning signs, an overhead gantry with rubber paddles that hit a high vehicle's roof, flashing lights and still gets hit approximately once a month.

lysp··on Elon Musk says Twitter will change logo from bird to an X
Here is Steven Dengler (xe.com founder):

https://twitter.com/Dracogen/status/1683220073798852609

> Back in 1993 I co-founded a company that become known as XE, an extremely popular currency site and app. This was our logo from 1993 to 2007. Perhaps it looks familiar.

lysp··on A curated list of uBlock origin filters
I've done that for a while too.

Often if I want to watch a one-off video topic, I'll view it in private mode, so it doesn't get added to history. Then I don't really mess up the algorithm.

lysp··on Towards a “PCB Drone” – Making a PCB Motor which reaches 30k RPM [video]
I remember watching this youtube video a while ago:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip641WmY4pA (quick demo)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q76dMggUH1M (building)

lysp··on Windows 11 adding native support for winRAR, 7zip, tar, and gzip
But I love the WinRAR popup?
lysp··on PrivateGPT
Quick how-to/demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3F5riM5BNE

Also has a suggestion of a few alternative models to use.

lysp··on YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
Some people have been known to temporarily "move to Turkey" during signup.

That gives you an annual individual plan for $15usd p.a.

lysp··on Why woodpeckers can hammer without getting headaches (2022)
> Fighter pilots can handle 8-9 gees for a second or two, but will pass out after longer

Except this guy who eats 9g for breakfast...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0nbRYIBVDQ

lysp··on Verified accounts are now prioritized
I recall another day someone who had a PHD in astrophysics and was a professor of climate science at a university making a comment, with lots of people disagreeing with his opinion.

A fair few telling him "he was wrong" were blue ticks with crypto in their profile.

lysp··on Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care
In Australia, I believe private health insurers use a shared-risk model.

Basically, they cannot deny anyone insurance based on health/age.

Once a year, all insurers submit their claims data to a central pool. They will then need to pay a certain amount to the pool, or get a refund based on their claims vs the rest of their providers.

That means risk is shared between all companies, and they don't need to deny people plans like in this case on the chance they get too many "bad customers".

lysp··on Initial V: A BMW shifter converted to a Bluetooth keyboard for use with Vim
BMWs don't come with blinkers - never seen one being used.
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