Arnt

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by Arnt 1y ago
Not necessarily, no. You can pick and choose your comparisons, and make an incease appear or not. Take weather forecasts as an example. Weather forecasting uses massively powerful computers today. If you compare that forecasting with the la
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by Arnt 1y ago
Nothing forces the rebound effect to dominate. Computers grow cheaper, we rebound by buying ones with higher capacity, but the overall price still shrinks. I bet the computer you used to post today cost much less than Colossus. Similarly, n
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by Arnt 1y ago
All praise Harvard. Maybe.
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by Arnt 1y ago
I've never been near Harvard. Is developing infrastructure near Harvard unusually difficult, compared to the rest of the US?
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by Arnt 1y ago
Is his seat up for reelection in 2026? If so, he'll want to talk nicely to the voters, won't he? There seems to be no votes on Trump's various actions, so there is little discrepancy between words and voting record.
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by Arnt 1y ago
It hasn't been resubmitted yet, has it? The proponents keep it alive without putting it to an actual vote, AIUI. They try to wait until they think they have a majority, and keep their proposal ready for a vote on short order before the
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by Arnt 1y ago
I really like that I can use an LLM to change tone. "Change the following text to sound like bland American officespeak." That said, this feature doesn't sound like a great leap for mankind.
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by Arnt 1y ago
"There is currently no text in this page." IIRC there were some claims of Brother doing something shady recently, Brother claimed not to, and the source of the story did not reply or substantiate their claim. What did I miss?
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Complete evacuation in 90 seconds iirc. You could build a new plane with many more emergency exits, but for an existing plane that limits how tight the spaces can be.
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They're basing an assessment of car products on one market, and picking an unusual one? Weird.
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Earlier today I asked Claude "What does (abbreviation) mean in (context)?". Ditto yesterday, different abbreviation, different context, but the AI did the same chore for me. Not crazy. Claude's become quite good at delivering
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by Arnt 1y ago
AIUI the main dam isn't. The gate that was opened is a small gate on the side, which is operated by someone else. The dam operator manages the big gate for electricity, someone else has a small gate on the side to control water levels
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by Arnt 1y ago
No. This uses one of the fourteenish kinds of DNS proxy.
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by Arnt 1y ago
Well, maybe. Personally I believe that the browser is intended to defend against e.g. Facebook's apps. Google wants to make sure that if you buy a new device and it comes with a Facebook app preinstalled, it also comes with a browser.
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by Arnt 1y ago
People keep saying that. There are two problems with that, namely ① Google's own ads are easy to block using the new API and ② the new API is effective at blocking various evil attacks. If Google wanted to get rid of ad blockers, I&#x2
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by Arnt 1y ago
I did that, in a country which is often mentioned as having many regulations. I can't remember any that actually bothered us.
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by Arnt 1y ago
It also spells better than average twitterers/redditors/corporate email perpetrators. Bug or feature, you be the judge. Come to think of it, it may even master the subjunctive mood. Unlike twitterers etc.
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by Arnt 1y ago
I think the summary of that is "passkeys only solve the problems the designers cared to solve, and I care about some others but not those". I heard at a conference that users of one large freemail service store their passwords in
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by Arnt 1y ago
Reminds me of a story about AWS. Why AWS doesn't support IPv6. Some kind of network equipment would need to be replaced, and AWS had so many that it would need the complete world production for a year in order to get v6-capable gear. Q
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by Arnt 1y ago
Right, so a third option is to try to establish jurisdiction in a location where private prosecution of criminal issues is permitted.
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by Arnt 1y ago
You can file a civil lawsuit. You may or may not be able to persuade the prosecutor to file a criminal case. The video near the middle of the page shows fairly clearly what they did, with accurate and understandable descriptions of shady be
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by Arnt 1y ago
The quote is old, as old as our month names, which are also Latin, and are Latin because that was the language spoken by the people who named them.
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by Arnt 1y ago
git clone; git log
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by Arnt 1y ago
Ah, email tracking. If you're a puerile hacker, tired after a long day's work and need to send someone a gentle prank, https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/hack/web-fonts-email is for you.
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by Arnt 1y ago
A gigawatt is a lot of power. That's more than a million fancy Nvidia cards, and at peak power not average. Apparently you can get around 40 nvidia cards in a rack, so that's 25000 racks, give or take. It all sounds like one of th
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by Arnt 1y ago
That money passes through several transactions. You're a customer of shops that are customers of manufacturers that are customers of Google. We don't generally treat customers of customers of customers as customers, so I'm no
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by Arnt 1y ago
I think you're saying that ① the attention you pay to ads is equivalent to the sums Google typically charges paying customers, ② the help pages Google provides to you aren't equivalent to the support Google provides to paying cust
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by Arnt 1y ago
Sure. But when Google made money off me as a paying customer, the support was good. I think each of us has to make a choice: Either be a paying customer or accept that you're not a paying customer and aren't going to be treate
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by Arnt 1y ago
A customer is someone who pays for a service or product, right? When I've paid Google, I at least have been happy with the support. My 2c.
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I think there's a reason you had no idea, and the reason is that Google didn't even try to use this for marketing. They also shipped it to existing phones, they didn't market it as a differentiating feature of new ones.

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