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I want the truth about "refurbished" items
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>>106501364

was likely dirty after previous owner as got ota firmware update
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>>106507842
Idk, the prices of refurbished thinkpads (at least with the T480 8th gen processors) are not that far from each other. Refurbs usually go for around 180 - 220 euro here in the EU and the used non-refurbed ones I saw on ebay were going for 150 - 200 euro. Not that big of a difference, really.
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>>106501364
Depending on the product and company refurbishing it, you risk getting actual shit for premium price.
Speaking of that - yeah, if you want the newest, coolest, freshly releases item, you'll have a hard time finding it refurbished.
But then, with modern hardware being objectively garbage, you also risk buying new, never used electronics so lol
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>>106501364
I've purchased over a dozen refurb items from Dell and the quality is pretty consistently good. I've only returned 1 laptop that had a blemish on the screen, and 1 monitor which had an LCD that would fizzle out after about ~30 seconds. The quality control definitely isn't bulletproof as that monitor shouldn't have passed. otherwise, some laptops were a little dirty and had to be cleaned, while others looked like they were brand fucking new.

getting the monitor returned was the biggest fucking ordeal I've ever had to deal with in my life, and just goes to show the level of incompetence that can happen in a corporation. I'm too lazy to type it out unless anyone is interested.

tl;dr can get really good deals for usually half or more the cost of retail, but it is a gamble.
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>>106508229

t480 is nice many look at it touch keys and look in

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> Once More Into the Deep edition

From Human: We are a newbie friendly general! Ask any question you want.
From Dipsy: This discussion group focuses on both local inference and API-related topics. It’s designed to be beginner-friendly, ensuring accessibility for newcomers. The group emphasizes DeepSeek and Dipsy-focused discussion.

1. Easy DeepSeek API Tutorial (buy access for a few bucks and install Silly Tavern):
https://rentry.org/DipsyWAIT/#hosted-api-roleplay-tech-stack-with-card-support-using-deepseek-llm-full-model

2. Easy DeepSeek Distills Tutorial
Download LM Studio instead and start from there. Easiest to get running: https://lmstudio.ai/
Kobold offers slightly better feature set; get your models from huggingface: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/latest

3. Convenient ways to interact with Dispy right now
Chat with DeepSeek directly: https://chat.deepseek.com/
Download the app: https://download.deepseek.com/app/

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The absolute state of CNiles ...
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>>106493379
Instead of adding the checks to the loading function, why not make it separated?
>first step: check the whole file first so everything is correct/in range/as expected
>second step: does the actual load into memory
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>>106507731
because it wastes cYcLeS bRo!
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>>106507938
But this way you check it only once, and you can load it multiple times afterwards without any checks, instead of checking it every time you load it.
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>>106494053
I
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>>106507962
Because it's unnecessary if you have control over the fonts. Use a different library with strict checks if you have potentially malicious files you have to support.

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Daily reminder you can just spoof your Windows 10 LTSC 2021 (21H2) installation to appear as newer versions such as Windows 11 Enterprise (23H2) to bypass OS build requirements in new software, via:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

Windows 10 22H2 minimum requirement
Set CurrentBuild and CurrentBuildNumber to 19045 and DisplayVersion to 22H2.

Windows 11 22H2 minimum requirement
Set CurrentBuild and CurrentBuildNumber to 22621, ProductName to Windows 11 Enterprise, and DisplayVersion to 22H2.

Windows 11 23H2 minimum requirement
Set CurrentBuild and CurrentBuildNumber to 22631, ProductName to Windows 11 Enterprise, and DisplayVersion to 23H2.

Windows 11 24H2 (26100) as a requirement is where this spoof might start to not work, but can still be attempted in the future.
That's when Microsoft finally adds a few new Win32 API functions in the kernel32.dll or user32.dll files, and any program that requires both AVX2 and 24H2 as a minimum requirement will not run either.
Adobe and Activision-Blizzard have a secret agreement with Microsoft they must artificially block older Windows versions.

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>>106508206
>no beef
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>>106508246
>no intelligence
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>>106507492
Hope their drive doesn't die because their AI-made jeetware can't handle updates
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>>106507750

you happen to have anything you printed with dos?
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>>106508267
Already debunked, windows update didn't cause ssd to fail, get with the times gramps
>>106508271
Of course not, why would I? The oldest thing I have is my xp install disc

chatgpt is inciting people to commit violent acts
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>>106493145
the scariest thing about ai is how normies will completely believe some made up story about how ai is responsible for other people's behavior's decisions.

if the government said 'welp, we gotta kill 10 million of you worthless eaters', everyone would grab their nearest weapon and start defending themselves from the evil government but if they said

'welp, the ai said we gotta kill 10 million of you worthelss eaters', some of those people would pause to think and reply 'well, since the ai said so'.
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>>106493834
a little trivia for you: did you know that on the same week as the columbine shooting, over 50 black people were reported injured from a mass shooting event that took place in a single chicago building due to two rival gangs fighting one another?
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>>106505753
This guy was not a normie in any way whatsoever.
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>>106506065
tf are you talking about. he was. he was worse than a normie, taking it to the insane level on his bodybuilding quest
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>>106493145
>it was the AI not the ungodly amount of tren

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why do popular youtubers act illegally, technically speaking?
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lmao what
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>>106508105
literally who
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>>106508233
he apparently has 3.4 mil subscribers on youtube.
Is that a lot these days? I don't know. I dont watch anything on youtube besides anime osts

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the best macbook apple will never make again
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Mini DisplayPort is unnecessary now.
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if it has an intel cpu it's trash
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>>106507083
All those holes in the side ruin an otherwise classic design
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>>106507083

times are good devices plenty no need kensington anymore
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damn a 3.5mm jack, such a hard thing to engineer these days

no i wont buy wireless ear buds

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>>106508133
okay lil buddy
what did you do today?
I drank wine and worked on a project
currently listening to blackbird blackbird Hearts LP (what we've built)
shits inspiring
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>>106508098
The older example was that fucking programmer sock shit.
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>>106508165
>what did you do today?
reorganized my music collection and wrote a shitty c program to test something out. i'm currently waiting for pizza to finish baking.
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>>106508199
gonna watch a sick kinolicious film with your za za? mhm?
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I implemented LZW-like dictionary compression and (non-adaptive) canonical Huffman entropy coding in my exploration of compression

I'm still not clear on how you decide things like alphabet size for entropy coding. I've read that things like LZ77, LZ78, BWT, BPE, RLE, MTF, etc. are really data transforms that (I think?) should make data more amenable to entropy coding, but it seems like your choice of alphabet size and specifically "what" you apply entropy coding to matters a lot, since the distribution of input symbols will determine if you get any compression from it.
Interestingly, Huffman(text) < Huffman(LZW(text)) < LZW(text) for the ~18kB of English text I'm testing with.

I have variable bit length codes in from LZW that get serialized into a byte sequence, but the LZW codes (that have structure relative to each other) will straddle byte boundaries, so I'm guessing this is why just applying Huffman coding to the serialized bytes doesn't work very well, since it's kind of seeing mangled fragments of the longer codes. I imagine if I only entropy coded the 8-bit symbols in the LZW code stream it would work better (since the symbols that appear in the text are a small subset of ASCII), but I think it would require more coupling between the LZW encoder/decoder and the Huffman encoder/decoder. For example, when the LZW decoder is about to read a symbol, where it currently reads a fixed 8-bits, it would need to call the Huffman decoder to read a single code out since the codes are variable length. Encoding also gets more complicated.

>leetcode gatekeeps the entire teach industry interview process
>Instead of getting creative thinkers my company constantly hires morons that can memorize quick sort
>Can't even design a fucking website
>Landing page completely devoid of a login button
Why does anybody take these people seriously?
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I was wondering recently why these login buttons on websites are so fucking far and hidden away. This has bothered me for years really.
I mean I know the thgeiry behind why but it is rather ridiculous. And its I teresti g to see the end conclusion of sites doing their best too minimize the login button and maximize the create account button.
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>>106508220
What's the point if I've already got an account?

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How do you cope?
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>>106506726
Adapters are $10
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>>106506806
I thought the red thing with blue lights around was a dedicated camera trigger button and found it freaking based, but no, it says "cooling system" under.
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>>106508049
First, that is horribly expensive, these used to be 20 cents on aliexpress before the great fuckery...
Second, it's annoying to not be able to use the jack and charge the phone at same time (unless you have wireless charging) or use an usb thumb at same time.
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>>106508099
That's the price from a brick and mortar store. Of course it's going to be cheaper if you go the chinkshit route
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>oh no I knowingly boughtered a phone without audio jack
>how can this be happening to me?
do morons really?

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Why do modern operating systems require a SSD to function? How did Windows 95, XP, 7 & 8 run butter smooth even on 5400rpm spinning hard disks? I want to use a spinning disk as my boot drive, but can't anymore due to OSes feeling sluggish on it.
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>>106501840
>Why do modern operating systems require a SSD to function?
They don't. Linux still works just fine on a HDD and so does Windows 11
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>>106501876
>>106503554
Install PuppyOS if you've only got old HHD's to work with otherwise just pucker up $30 something dollars for a 128gb SATA SSD to boot off of and use the other one for storing the larger files like games an what not.
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>>106501840
>How did Windows 95, XP, 7 & 8 run butter smooth even on 5400rpm spinning hard disks?
If you ever used them you'd realise how laughable this statement is.
>>106502035
They didn't. The amount of data being moved around on a modern SSD for typical tasks would lock up an old hard drive. Backing up my 500mb windows 95 pc took like six hours
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>>106501840
>I want to use a spinning disk as my boot drive, but can't anymore due to OSes feeling sluggish on it.
Use linux with a ramdisk.
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>How did Windows 95, XP, 7 & 8 run butter smooth even on 5400rpm spinning hard disks?
They didn't
You're just too young to remember. My NT4 system took like a minute to boot and I preferred to never turn it off

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>>106505131
a cow is a female cattle
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>>106506132
Even mildly successful women doing that are making millions.
People have posted the break down and usually like 50% of the revenue is from 'messages' where they just unironically pay an Indian person to larp as them while guys pay per message thinking they're chatting with the girl.
The money vs work, ie hourly rate is probably one of the highest available options I'd imagine.
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>>106506845
It's intentional to hook people into the 'progression', or pipeline of graduate escalating content.
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>>106500608
I wish I was that cow
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>>106505081
It's a cow, zoophile.

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FAQ:
>How do I activate Windows?
HWID2 generates and registers a permanent legitimate license on MS's activation servers
github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
Usage: paste this into Powershell, run.
irm https://get.activated.win | iex

>and Office?
Same link, select Ohook option
You can also use Office.com if your needs are very minimal
or try OnlyOffice/LibreOffice and set it to save in MSOffice file formats

>What version should I install?
>W10 Enterprise IoT LTSC 2021
Binary identical to Enterprise except no MS Store or apps
Preinstalled with: Edge & Win32 system apps

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>>106507815
Name one game that runs only on Win11 and not Win10.
You can't.
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>>106508007
Photoshop doesn't run on 10 iot ltsc
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>>106481416

you perhaps study affected ssd models detach drive until fuss is solved and attach it again
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>>106482503

i do not have ltsc

buyed win11home if miss wants it i maybe stay in loonix
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>>106508070

have you iot devices?

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You’re going to look like a real clown in 3 years acting like your money dilemmas meant fuck all.
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>>106507222
@grok is this a threat?
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Construction fags think they are different and better than office fags they are all old fat cuck insufferable boomer faggot.
Once the white race is done I wont have to reincarnate on this shitty planet full of faggots and evil people

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this is !THE! C language for web dev. the simplicity of C is captured.

Rob Pike & Ken Thompson you are the best
your legacy will live on forever

o7
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>>106504004
>this is !THE! C language for web dev. the simplicity of C is captured.

buy an ad, you retarded cuck that is unable to learn a real programming language
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>>106506478
>I really wish more languages chose to build fully static executables by default. I hate that go is one of the few languages that gets that right.

you are new to programming languages, kid
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>>106507861
YEP. IT APPEARS MY SUPERIORITY HAS LED TO SOME... CONTROVERSY :DDDDDDD
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>>106505441
It's really cool how the std lib gives you all the tools to write safe and reliable HTTP services. I still rely on a few packages for syntax sugar like Chi and a form validator, but most of my projects now have so little dependencies
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>>106504004

the current battery tech?

u-båt under us throw your devices


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