Aftermath of a B-25 Bomber flying into the Empire State Building, 1945
  • astrsk astrsk 2h ago 100%

    Holy shit all the people just standing there at the hole in the side of the building…

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  • Elon Must is offering voters $100 to sign his pro-Trump petition
  • astrsk astrsk 1d ago 100%

    Is that an unfortunate typo? Or are they also offering brides alongside monetary bribes?

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  • Best mobile games with 0 microtransactions?
  • astrsk astrsk 1d ago 100%

    Balatro, works really well with touch, numbers go brrrrrrrrr

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  • Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods
  • astrsk astrsk 4d ago 85%

    Where’s the scam? If the company is providing a $25 credit as a benefit, then they should just give the employees $25. Why should Meta get a say in how it’s spent?

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  • Is it the time for me to switch to Android? iOS is riddled with spyware.
  • astrsk astrsk 4d ago 100%

    For the camera app, it could be as simple as accidentally swiping left on the Lock Screen even just a tiny enough amount to activate the camera, even if released before the full quick shot mode is displayed. That at least is plausible from within a pocket and is not a security concern. Other apps cannot pretend to be the camera app when accessing it.

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  • Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming
  • astrsk astrsk 5d ago 100%

    My biggest concern with SteamDeck was that it would become a 1-2 year upgrade cycle device. I don’t expect the hardware to last 7+ years like normal console lifecycles but I’m very glad to hear they’re being patient and aggressively supporting the software side.

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  • What is your linux backup strategy?
  • astrsk astrsk 6d ago 100%

    Borg backup is gold standard, with Vorta as a very nice GUI on machines that need it. Otherwise, all my other Linux machines are running in proxmox hypervisors and have container/snapshot/vm backups regularly through proxmox backup server to another machine. All the backup data is then replicated regularly, remotely via truenas scale replication tasks.

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  • Annihilation | Adventure, Drama, Horror
  • astrsk astrsk 6d ago 100%

    When this happens to me, I will often go hunting explanation videos. Often times I rewatch the movie with a new perspective and end up liking it a lot more. It’s also ok to not like it too.

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  • Trump Scraps Town Hall Q+A, Plays Music for Crowd Instead | The former president said, "Let's just listen to music," and abruptly stopped answering questions [for 30 minutes]
  • astrsk astrsk 6d ago 88%

    Just another stunt to stay in the media for any reason, no matter what.

    Edit: having unwillingly thought about this more… no, this is just his overcompensation for the sick burn that people leave his rallies early. He’s too petty for this to be staged media attention performative art.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearIN
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    Sovcit sent the coupon, they didn't agree with sovcit.
  • astrsk astrsk 6d ago 100%

    Well, not even through the cover letter, the vin is entirely visible in the printed cover. That’s probably not great. I know anyone’s vin is totally visible in public walking by just like license plates, but it’s another thing to post it online for everyone to see.

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  • Asahi Linux’s bespoke GPU driver is running Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs
  • astrsk astrsk 6d ago 100%

    Can you show where they’ve gone further than apples game porting toolkit or game translation layers? Genuinely curious because I haven’t seen any comparison but do know several large profile games have come to apple silicon recently.

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  • What technology purchase felt like a major upgrade in your life?
  • astrsk astrsk 6d ago 100%

    Going full homelab with a rack, battery backups, and 2.5gb backhaul on my home network. Absolutely game changing from an appliance management standpoint where any one node can go down for any reason and there’s a backup and replacement on hand in minutes with built in redundancy. Not to mention the learning and experience opportunities when setting up hardware and software services. Sure is sweet to have data redundancy and protections!

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  • Why hasn't American football embraced AR and radio tech?
  • astrsk astrsk 6d ago 100%

    I agree on the actual human performance aspect. The technical details are fun to watch for in terms of team play and skill, where the minute differences matter in a sport. But I also get where OP is coming from. It’s kinda sad how long it took from a production standpoint to put tracking chips inside the footballs. I understand NFL as an institution wanting to keep the game a little sloppy but stats are interesting and data driven graphics really keep people engaged in today’s world. Look at some of the tech in broadcast golf, it’s incredible and makes for much more interesting watching these days, even if the sport or sports in general aren’t the most engaging *from a bystander point of view.

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  • LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data
  • astrsk astrsk 1w ago 100%

    Which is my point, and forgive me, but I believe is the point of the research publication.

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  • NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives
  • astrsk astrsk 1w ago 100%

    Isn’t UTC meant to be… you know, universal?

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  • LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data
  • astrsk astrsk 1w ago 100%

    Isn’t OpenAI saying that o1 has reasoning as a specific selling point?

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  • I have been using a plugin recently in Rider that basically hooks most features of the app to notifications that teach me the current keyboard shortcut for said feature. It has some customization options such as needing a threshold of usages before prompting, reminders, etc. It’s even gamified a little bit by tracking how many times you successfully used the shortcuts and how much time you estimatedly saved. I really like this plugin and I’m wondering if anyone knows of a similar plugin for NeoVim? I have been exclusively using NeoVim at home for terminal file edits to help learn it and I’m getting better slowly but I just figured maybe I could accelerate this with something helpful like that. If this doesn’t exist, does anyone have any offhand resources for getting started with NeoVim plugin development?

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