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I did this to disable the "Samsung TV Plus" app that is impossible to uninstall, and otherwise impossible to stop from periodically taking over the TV (e.g. instead of booting to the last app that was opened or last HDMI input, it starts its own app instead, or after Netflix has gone idle for awhile, it switches to its own terrible channels).

I blocked every Samsung domain that I possible could in a fit of rage.

Now, instead of getting some random jarring channels when I turn on the TV (or.. random times), at worst it's a black screen that says "something went wrong" and I open the thing I want. The TV just slams the pihole with failed DNS requests over and over.


This feels like a lot of editorial for an original source that only contains this:

> And I now have a more powerful arm64 machine (thanks to Ampere), so the last week I've been doing almost as many arm64 builds as I have x86-64, and that should obviously continue during the upcoming merge window too. The M2 laptop I have has been more of a "test builds weekly" rather than "continuously".

> Not that I really expect that to really show any issues - the laptop builds never did - but I feel happier having a bit more coverage.


indeed, and it also doesn't actually say he 'prefers' anything. He just says that the more powerful machine allows him to do more builds. To me this implies just that the M2 builds took too long for effective continuous integration.


https://streamigo.io/

It's an app to help 2+ people choose what to watch together on the most popular streaming platforms by presenting semi-random titles, asking each person to vote (swipe left/right), and settling on the "best" based on most votes/popularity.

It was born out of endless scrolling through Netflix (and the like) with significant others and friends, and not settling on something to watch. Instead, this shortens the process by allowing everyone to give their input, but accepting the results from the app as the thing to actually start playing. As the creators, we've almost exclusively used it to choose movies or series to watch, and have often ended up watching things we'd have never found naturally in XYZ streaming service's UI (so at worst, we created an expensive away for us to avoid getting frustrated finding something we agree on).

It's limited to usage within the US only for now, as wrangling all of the metadata is time consuming (and we're based in the US). The UI/UX needs some help, as it was built by backend devs with React Native. The backend is Scala/Play/Redis/Postgres deployed on Docker Swarm.


Now if someone could make this but with food, they'd get all my money.


> It's limited to usage within the US only for now, as wrangling all of the metadata is time consuming (and we're based in the US).

Is that why CloudFlare blocked my connection? (815726e91d9955ee) :)


And then there are the fake reviews left by shady reputation management services. $previous_company (which was very small) had many negative reviews pop up in a short time frame, which at first was thought to be a disgruntled employee making multiple accounts, but then a reputation management service "came to the rescue" just at the right time and offered to get them removed. IIRC, Glassdoor did actually remove these eventually after being contacted, but whoever offered to get them removed was told to fuck off.


And at the beginning, they tried to partner with Enron to do it. For some reason that part didn't pan out...


Recently, though? This worked earlier this year, but one vendor had at least 90x RPI4-8B in stock yesterday and they were gone in seconds. rpilocator didn't even see it.


I've bought 2 or 3 Pi's this year at the regular price, thanks to rpilocator. The most recent was a couple of months ago.

You do have to kinda watch it a bit obsessively if you're really serious about finding one, but it can be done. Or you could also just constantly refresh the page(s) of a couple of vendors that you know to get stock on some regular / semi-regular basis. Adafruit is one, and Elektor seems to get stock now and then as well.


I think the latest one I got was in July and it was a CM4 8GB/32GB


There is a cost to pay up-front in having null safety in your codebase, but the savings come back over time. Can we easily measure whether or not it truly makes a difference? Maybe not, but I'm jaded enough to gladly pay that cost, knowing I can think about whether or not something is null once, versus having to forever wonder if the complicated code I need to interact with is going to bite me later.


But why is it faster? A non-associative translation to byte code (or however python works)?


For PyTorch, `+=` is interpreted as an in-place operation


My guess is that it operates in place with no memory allocations or copying.


Not exactly:

    >>> def f(x): x += 1
    ... 
    >>> def g(x): x = x + 1
    ... 
    >>> dis.dis(f)
      1           0 LOAD_FAST                0 (x)
                  3 LOAD_CONST               1 (1)
                  6 INPLACE_ADD         
                  7 STORE_FAST               0 (x)
                 10 LOAD_CONST               0 (None)
                 13 RETURN_VALUE        
    >>> dis.dis(g)
      1           0 LOAD_FAST                0 (x)
                  3 LOAD_CONST               1 (1)
                  6 BINARY_ADD          
                  7 STORE_FAST               0 (x)
                 10 LOAD_CONST               0 (None)
                 13 RETURN_VALUE


I wonder, how much of ticket price increases can be attributed to resellers? It's not long after tickets are released that it seems _everything_ for sale is third-party.


Yeah, for some events.

Ironically, this also makes attending a game super cheap if you're willing to deal with the uncertainty of buying tickets from an online reseller right before game time (or even slightly after).

The uncertainty factor, of course, makes it really tough if you're taking e.g. a family to the game. Have fun explaining to kids why you're turning around and coming home, or why mommmy is sitting 15 rows away because it was impossible to get 4 seats located together.

But, for a couple of friends hitting up a game... it can be a great way to go.


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