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Unleaded fuel is a type of gasoline that does not contain lead compounds as an anti-knocking agent. It is commonly used in modern cars and other vehicles that require gasoline as fuel. The absence of lead in unleaded fuel reduces the risk of health issues related to lead exposure and environmental pollution. Unleaded fuel is typically more expensive than its leaded counterpart due to the refining process required to remove lead compounds.

  1. impressive... let's see the page source
  2. >unless the purpose is specifically to have a retro effect where you eschew modern fonts for aesthetic purposes

    There are better fonts for this too e.g. Fusion Pixel Font for CJK: https://github.com/TakWolf/fusion-pixel-font

    (yes the readme is in chinese, use google translate or something)

    i think i saw a good pixel font that supported arabic too once but of course i cant find it now..

  3. remember when JLCPCB became popular a few years ago and completely flipped hobby electronics upside down? I don't know how possible it is but it would be really cool if that happens in a few years with semiconductors. it's kind of mad that they've dominated our lives since the 1970s but you can only make them if you're a large company with millions of dollars (or several years, a big garage and lots of equipment as seen here). or tiny tapeout.
  4. Still relevant today. Many problems people throw onto LLMs can be done more efficiently with text completion than begging a model 20x the size (and probably more than 20x the cost) to produce the right structured output. https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1859qry/is_anyo...
  5. it never has. see McCarthyism for instance
  6. Someone has sort of done this:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1mvnmjo/my_llm_...

    I doubt a better one would cost $200,000,000.

  7. Every techie knows about Linux by now. Not everyone chooses to use Windows because they're foolish or don't know any better
  8. my secret plan to get HN users into vtubers by making a worse version of live2d with machine learning for no reason is going to make me millions
  9. what do you mean by "heavily structured output"? i find it generates the most natural-sounding output of any of the LLMs—cuts straight to the answer with natural sounding prose (except when sometimes it decides to use chat-gpt style output with its emoji headings for no reason). I've only used it on kimi.com though, wondering what you're seeing.
  10. I checked and it was actually the vt240. That one works.
  11. It's interesting that none of the programs commonly known as "terminal emulators" actually emulate a terminal.. we can do that now though. https://zork.net/~st/jottings/Real-VT102-emulation-with-MAME...

    I would avoid doing the PTY thing and instead do this (works on WSL if MAME is the windows version):

        $ sudo socat TCP-LISTEN:1234,reuseaddr,fork EXEC:"/sbin/agetty -L - 9600 vt102",pty,setsid,ctty,stderr
        $ mame -nomouse vt102 -rs232 null_modem -bitb socket.localhost:1234
    
    You can do the same thing with a vt220.

    I've had an idea to try to write a sort of high-level-ish VT220 emulator that pokes and patches the ROMs and the system to let you control it with the mouse, paste and stuff, lets you just doubleclick it to get a terminal, etc... I forgot about that until seeing this. Nobody would use it for more than 5 minutes but it would be funny.

  12. strangely enough Windows Terminal supports DECDHL but barely any on Linux do!
  13. "It does have some technical benefits for us, but it is a symbol that this game is not open source. You still can't publish the maps or the code decompiled, even using the maps."

    https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/1169242801508376582

  14. less appealing to who? Lots of 13 year olds learned to code by writing minecraft mods so it can't be that hard. You also get the benefit & satisfaction of it actually being in Minecraft—yes, they are both very similar games where you explore and place blocks in a procedurally generated world, but it really does matter. I can't really explain why if you don't get it but it's evident people do care even when they know about Minetest.
  15. Maybe not yet but I can see Linux's place as the shitbox saviour start slipping a bit in the next few years. Debian dropping x86, distros getting fatter in general.. I can't really see those trends reversing. Meanwhile NetBSD goes against them.

    However it goes, the main issue is one no operating system can solve which is modern life relying on the Web and beefier browsers. Unless you want to rebel against that you're probably better off getting a laptop from the past 10 years for < £100 on eBay.

  16. I wonder if there'll be some big cultural shift in open source as people get more annoyed at cases of big companies taking their code and giving nothing back/demanding them to work for free. Might already be happening just slowly
  17. Strangely enough Yamaha has never released a software version of any of their synths. (there's S-YXG50 and the Montage one but I wouldn't really count those)
  18. the website hosting the malware is.. an indian hose supplier? https://www.amanagencies.com/

    Seems like a real company too e.g. https://pdf.indiamart.com/impdf/20303654633/MY-1793705/alumi...

  19. don't know about file roller but you can do this in 7-zip to peek at self-extracting archives
  20. agreed*. You often hear this assumption today that Netscape was always the better browser and that people using IE were simply making a mistake. If anything they were just shit in different ways. For a while Netscape refused to implement CSS and wanted people to use their own JavaScript Style Sheets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets technology which no-one did.

    * Kind of, I was born in the 2000s

  21. i'm guessing you've never seen r/LocalLLaMA?

    It's a miracle that open-weight LLMs are even a thing at all, let alone as good as they are (very).

  22. It's tagged as NSFW for some reason and I can't be bothered verifying my age
  23. There was a guy on reddit a few years ago who started a dental practice with entirely open-source software and his own EHR system. Really interesting stuff, don't think anyone's posted about it here. Can't view his reddit history but he must still be using it, last commit 1 week ago.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/p5phju/progress_repo...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/x2mls1/update_starti...

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