Gormo

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by Gormo 2mo ago
That's pretty much how IPFS works.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> Webpages dying is probably one of the biggest design flaws of the original web. I'd say it's one of the biggest design flaws of the current web, what with more and more content hidden behind paywalls, increasingly restricte
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> The blog mentions "0.mk's revenue did not cover hosting" but then goes on to implement expensive AI integration. The article doesn't seem to describe the cost of the AI solution. It does imply that it is lower than
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by Gormo 2mo ago
I mean, it does usually, just not always in its original location.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Yeah, I'd say "old web" is early '90s up through about mid-2000s or so. Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire, lots of standalone web forums, the early blogosphere, no social media, etc.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
The article does say that. Explicitly. It's even got a picture of Donald Rumsfeld to help drive the point home.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Is that what's happening in this example, though? Ditching TypeScript in favor of PHP seems to be a net positive in favor of having a reliable, performant tech stack. From certain perspectives, TypeScript is itself a form of technica
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Where might you be today if it had been Space Quest instead?
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Moral arguments about "blaming users" do not overcome the fact that the incentive structures driving these problems absolutely do emerge from the choices and behaviors of low-information users. Viable solutions can only come from
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Don't forget .fbcdn.net and .fbcdn.com.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> That's not true. If your ad placements don't perform, people are not going to book them. You'd be surprised at how opaque and complex ad attribution and ROAS calculation has become for the average business, and how many
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by Gormo 2mo ago
The same ambulance-chasing lawyers who are already filing spurious ADA suits today.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Even the data-center-grade models are less intensive than people think. We recently installed a heavy-duty AI server (Gaudi2 cluster with 768GB VRAM) to run larger models up to 400B parameters on, and at full load, its power draw is about
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Not really, no. LLMs get more computationally efficient and hardware gets more power efficient with each passing day. We're already at the point where reasonably competent models can be run a laptop GPU off of battery power. NPUs ar
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by Gormo 2mo ago
It's using an algorithm to determine whether or not to allow anonymous access. It looks like it's considering origin IP, browser useragent, among other things. I've had login prompts show up once or twice, but when I'm
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> I can confirm a group like this exists (that describes me) but I can't even remotely make sense of a "woke right" label for it. I don't even consider myself "on the right" at all; I consider that the ident
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> Really shows where our priorities are as Americans. I don't think you can discern priorities from actions unless those actions entail a manifest trade-off between mutually exclusive options, which doesn't seem to be the cas
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> but looking forward to being self-sufficient one day. I don't know how much experimentation you're doing with local AI, but that day may be sooner than you think. The ecosystem is evolving extremely rapidly.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Someone in the early '80s could have also said "we do live in this era" in response to someone pointing at an Apple II or original IBM PC and seeing it as something that would ultimately upend the mainframe market entirely. I
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by Gormo 2mo ago
"Abundance agenda" arguments are market-oriented and focus on reducing political obstacles to economic development, rather than seeing the political state as the driving force behind economic development.
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by Gormo 2mo ago
The mistake you are making is that you are conflating technical definitions used for regulating product labeling with the general understanding and preferences of consumers in how they relate product categories together. Ideally, these woul
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> You seem very upset that I'm pointing out a slimy marketing tactic. I think he's objecting to you presumptively calling it a "slimy marketing tactic" to offer a product that some people clearly do enjoy and are wi
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> The fact that tokens aren't free will limit the number of unserious requests. Email is free, and so there's a lot of spam emails sitting in my inbox, but tokens aren't. Back when email was new, using it required paying a
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Insanity in the market is drawing in profit-seekers. "Greed at the top pushing the market into insanity" isn't really something that can happen: greedy folks are adept at leveraging incentive structures that have already eme
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> If your business is selling tokens, it'd be extremely lucrative for you if the whole society relies on tokens to perform basic operations. That's where we're heading to. I'm sure mainframe time-share providers in th
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> So no, OP used the correct definition and no wide spread usage uses ~Q=>~P. That's a weird logical formulation that was randomly concocted. No, most logically coherent usage of that phrase absolutely does reflect ~Q=>~P, w
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by Gormo 2mo ago
Both usages are common, and Wikipedia references both of them. But in the sense that it was being used, "rules can have exceptions, therefore this exception 'proves' the rule rather than falsifying it" is not valid, and
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> Have you any examples? Much of the "alt-right" narrative seems to revolve around embracing identity politics but siding with the outgroup in the left's version of the group-conflict story. The traditional right reject
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by Gormo 2mo ago
The phrase "exception that proves the rule" refers to an apparent exception to the rule's outputs actually being explained by it having divergent inputs, i.e. if you claim P=>Q, then the exception that proves the rule woul
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by Gormo 2mo ago
> Ice cream is 1.5 qt not 1/2 gallon. Except Blue Bell, who use a bright banner on their packaging to call out "Still 1/2 Gal!".

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