BirAdam

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721.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Because humans. Of course someone did; there's always one.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Given that this is wood, I'd worry about movement, but wouldn't this be better used in windows than in screens, where it would have far better insulating properties than glass? If that's the case, the "sustainability&quo
723.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Kind of insane to think about. Part of me is horrified to think that this time could be seen as “better” but another part says that past was never what you remember it as…
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by BirAdam 3y ago
My guess is deniability, just like Apple. Apple wanted to make CSAM detection work and make iPhone essentially a weapon law, but when their users hit back, they just made iCloud e2ee. With the number of child predators on FB, I am guessing
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Ask HN: Has anyone used a Tenstorrent Grayskull card with an LLM?
2 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I find most “philosophies” regarding work to be BS. Honestly most teams just get too big. People don’t know each other and this allows things to go unseen for too long. When people know one another and work together in real time, and have h
727.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Still kind of does.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
This was the reason for Dragon computers btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32/64
729.
by BirAdam 3y ago
I really like the phrase "storm in a teacup" and I'd never heard it before. Is that common in your place of origin?
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Just a personal anecdote here. I use Wayland and Pipewire on Slackware 15 which is in absolutely zero sense a cutting edge distribution. While I do have a newer kernel (6.6) than what ships in Slackware, I haven't really modified any o
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The History of GM-NAA I/O and SHARE(abortretry.fail)
2 points by BirAdam 3y ago|0 comments
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I’ve used Ada. I’ve not used Rust beyond a few hello world type programs. Personally, I like Ada quite a bit, and I really do like Spark. But I think that Ada and Rust are aiming at similar problems in entirely different ways. One of the ke
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Sure, I guess. Just act like all of those vision impaired folks don't exist, and put the entire website in JS that their screen reader can’t handle. Nice.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
You are correct as far as anyone alive today can know. I would just add that there was quite a bit of cultural aversion to non-agricultural enterprises among the senatorial class. Merchants and tradesmen were looked down upon. This was made
735.
by BirAdam 3y ago
The USA’s recent sanctions against the PRC has made Loongson forbidden if I remember correctly. Hopefully, this will change.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I’d love to get my hands on one of these. They’re MIPS machines that are on-par with the Intel core i3 14100. Loongson is also involved with Deepin Linux, so they’re attempting to build out a Chinese-native technology stack. While I general
737.
by BirAdam 3y ago
More likely we will just have iterative improvements over what already exists, more things uselessly connected to the internet, and maybe better batteries. I’d love something crazy, but… not likely.
738.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Eh, a revolution happens when people take responsibility and do something. Tyranny happens when people behave as and think like victims.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
You’re making the assumption that the current property tax would end and be replaced. Unless this was all done at the county level, that most likely wouldn’t happen. Even then, many jurisdictions would just double tax. They’d argue that one
740.
by BirAdam 3y ago
Well… except that a land value tax would only make home affordability far worse than it already is.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
I never knew of these, but that’s just a fantastic little machine! I sincerely would love to add one to my collection, but the eBay prices for these things are off the charts.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Just imagining. The thing is, there’s so much subsidy involved in oil to keep it cheap that the price of oil without subsidy would have greatly encouraged earlier development of renewables. The price on renewables then would have fallen. Th
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by BirAdam 3y ago
All x86 software being run on macOS relies on Rosetta 2. It effectively does a translation of x86 binaries to ARM binaries. Then, WINE handles the PE to mach-o translation along with providing a system call translation from Windows to *nix.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
It would be neat to see an alternate universe where there was zero corporate welfare for petroleum and for solar/wind/tidal/hydro. I imagine that in such a world, renewables would have become the default sometime in the 70s a
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by BirAdam 3y ago
> This is what happens when free market capitalism and anti-competitive rules are absent from your system. Silicon Valley has prioritized the wrong incentives for A.I. to blossom organically in the 2020s. How is this the conclusion? What
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by BirAdam 3y ago
The war on drugs hasn’t worked either. Having an opioid epidemic in the USA should make that painfully obvious to everyone.
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by BirAdam 3y ago
Not everyone who is incarcerated committed a crime. Some are in custody for having marijuana which has since been decriminalized in some areas. Others are there because they plea bargained due to pressure. Almost no one who is in custody ev
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by BirAdam 3y ago
This marketing/labeling is what I find insane. I wouldn’t be bothered at all if the Air came with 8GB standard. A machine with low storage, low RAM, low GPU core count, and so on then being labeled as Pro is just insane. It kind of mak
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by BirAdam 3y ago
This estimate assumes no major catastrophes and continued stability for developed nations. I am not sure that either of those are great predictions. More hilariously, however, let’s take the trend line out forever. A few thousand years and
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by BirAdam 3y ago
You need to stop giving them ideas.

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