Search on Outlook is horrendous. Our company bought Copilot just so people can start searching their e-mails.
I wonder if it's intentional and making everyone get copilot is the goal
Readit Newsstilley2 commented on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper windowslatest.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/DearAll
stilley2 commented on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper windowslatest.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/DearAll
I feel this trend is going to stick for the upcoming years! It's not just Meta, every big player there is adopting this mentality.
Take Microsoft for instance, they have been pushing heavily what they called the New Outlook, which is basically a web-based client mirroring Outlook on the web (OWA) , packed into an EXE file (not sure if it is Electronized or not)! Then, they renamed the real native Outlook app as Classic Outlook to feel old-fashioned and outdated and as result, we ended up losing some core features that made Outlook, Outlook. We lose: COM Add-ins and VBA Macros, MAPI Support, Word as Email Editor, .PST File Support.. to name a few..
This would be probably one of the reasons contributing to the Collapse of Civilization (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25788317)
Speaking of new outlook, has anyone else had search just...not work? I'll search for emails sent from myself, to myself (of which I know there are hundreds) and get 7 results. Same in the web app, but outlook classic works fine. Mind boggling
This needs far more attention. Combi boiler installers tend to massively oversize the CV. But with heat-pumps you need to be far more accurate. And it does not make sense to design for a temperature that occurs only a couple of days in the year. You can just have the backup heater kick in which is far more efficient for a couple of days than having a heavier heatpump for the rest of the year that can not modulate back as much as a smaller heatpump.
I recommend this technology connections video which dives into this in wonderful detail https://youtu.be/DTsQjiPlksA?si=gx18FGOcjsv5PpNg
stilley2 commented on Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage rclone.org/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
I gave up on the onedrive client and switched to rclone to access SharePoint at work. It's more manual but it always works! The onedrive client was great when it worked, but when it started misbehaving there was no real way to fix it besides reinstall and start over
stilley2 commented on DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019) libraryjournal.com/story/... · Posted by u/meristohm
Sadly, the DRM-free versions of his books seem to only be available on US stores. I tried to buy The Stormlight Archive from Australia but could only find DRM'ed copies, probably because of international publishing deals.
Still, I wish more authors would follow. DRM is a plague.
For what it's worth Canadian Amazon also has them DRM free
Well, you can (and should!) check the (mandatory) price/mass or price/volume, but of course there are very smart people being paid a lot to design the packaging so that it's sufficiently compelling for you to still put a higher value on the product...
But as a consumer I don't want to have to check the price/mass in every product everything I shop, especially if I'm buying the same brand every week.
I received a similar email from Type Founders despite the fact that my website does not provide or even specify a specific font to use (besides things like size and sand serif). I got the impression it was either a shakedown or a very broadly aimed and poorly executed attempt to recovering licensing fees.
stilley2 commented on Show HN: Laser, a new game played on a chess board playlaser.xyz... · Posted by u/xgboop
Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khet_(game)
stilley2 commented on Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings github.com/sudo-project/s... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
Funny story. When I was in grad school, the math department office I was in had Linux computers administrated by the department. One day I was goofing in my shared office with a fellow grad student by playing with what resources were available.
We were trying sudo and failed with enough silly passwords that we got the "this incident will be reported" message. I confidently told my officemate that these messages were never saved and recorded.
A few moments later, from our open office door (which I assume meant all our conversation was able to be overheard), our IT lady from down the hall came in and said to me "Download the internet, really?"
Because yes, I did type, while not saying I was doing so, "sudo DOWNLOAD THE INTERNET" into the terminal while goofing.
Funny story but I did feel a bit embarrassed at the time.
I once entered 'sudo echo hi" or something similar on a large HPCC and received an email back from a sysadmin that just said "hello".
stilley2 commented on Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof old.reddit.com/r/Android/... · Posted by u/petodo
Wait ... a Gaussian blur? That doesn't remove ANY information from the image. It looks blurred to our eyes but the same information is all there.
The information is absolutely not gone.
Does it state that it hallucinates craters that were not there in the original, or is it possible the filters simply did an FFT, adjusted the power spectrum to what we expect of a non-blurry picture, hence inverting the Gaussian blur?
EDIT: Note that a deblur of a smooth but "noisy" image can cause "simulation" or "hallucination" entirely without AI. Could be any number of things causing an output image like that (wavelet sharpening, power spectrum calibration, ...). Even if the information isn't recoverable as such, a photo of a Gaussian blur has an unnatural power spectrum that could easily "trick" conventional non-AI algorithms into doing such things.
Especially since the only thing I see in the output is "more detail" (i.e. simply a different power spectrum than the author expected..)
Yeah the author glossed over this a bit in my opinion. In infinite precision math you're correct, but at some point the signal in those higher frequencies is going to be reduced below the precision of the storage data type, never mind the dynamic range of the monitor and camera he's using.