Idiot_in_Vain

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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Who needs privacy? Drug dealers and scam artists... Crypto solves (to a degree) the problem of a huge amoount of power belonging to the few people who run the financial system. Huge consentration of power is not a good thing. Power corrupts
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Do you think chemistry or biology knowedge was given to humans by the gods or the ancient aliens and not based on a history of practical knowedge, experiments and research?
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Would the wealthy and the powerfull be happy for everyone to become wealthy?
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
>> It's quite safe. Famous last words...
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Nice salaries. I'm a software developer (C#, Java, TypeScript, Python) looking to transfer to AI/ML work. Do you think any of the data positions would be a good fit?
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
>> The last thing they cannot take away and cannot control is offline physical goods, like books for example. Not really. E.g. can download mp3 music and mp4 movies on my own HD and so far Microsoft Defender hasn't deleted them.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
146%? Any source on that? It would need to go from 20K to 50K.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
>> it seems to be coming back Curious about that - do the founders of big indian IT companies, like Infosys or Zoho, belong to a specific cast?
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
An observation: Europeans owe quite a bit to interaction with the Indians though patriots might not want to admit it. The Indian numeric system (often called Arabic in Europe) and the consept of zero (invented in India) enabled both the sc
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
The price of BitCoin doesn't "go up and down hundreds of percents per day".
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
In this case they are acting as a payment processor. Payment processors are not banks usually. More regulation can only help in forcing PP to have a human that you can talk to after the algorithms have banned you.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
"AI vs Alien" movie incoming :)
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
This is a good argument for BitCoin - no one can ban you from the blockchain. It's extra work and expences, but it's worth supporting at least two payment processors. Keep in mind that some people can't pay with PayPal - e.g.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Why do you think trailers are better than mini houses?
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GitHub takes down repository containing Twitter’s source code(techcrunch.com)
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
You were wrong. Windows 11 is unusable when installed on a fast 7200 RPM hard drive and works perfectly well on a super budget SSD. Budget SSDs are an order of magnitude faster than an HDD when it comes to small random reads and writes (whi
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
And so do the expensive SSDs. Usually writing the first 30% of the available space goes through fast pseudo SLC mode and then the speed falls down drastically. The most in depth SSD reviews I've seen are on this YT channel: https:&#x2
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
On most Athlon X3s the user could enable in the BIOS the forth core and usually get a fully functional quad core.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Intel is still doing something similar - the cheaper CPUs from the 13th gen have cores from the previous 12th generation. But some OEM processors come with the newer raptor lake cores. https://www.hwcooling.net/en/not-e
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
If he took say 25% of the shares, he could become one day soon the next Bill Gates/Elon Musk.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
And humans are of course 100% reliable...
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
The current ChatGPT is just a preview of what's possible. 2 years from now it will be able to create a DB, a set of microservices and web and mobile frontends, deploy these on a cloud platform and app stores and test them, all from a 3
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
>> Curious to see where this goes over the next couple of years. Probably will make half of the HN users unemployed.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
If you want a short introduction on why physicists care so much about the weight of the W boson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Q4UAiKacw
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Russia now is a democratic country??? Only a complete idiot would think that.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
A friend of mine is currently looking for .NET developer job in Switzerland. Looks like everyone there is doing a one day of on-site interviews with HR, technical tests/pear programming and meeting managers.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
The true is Windows 10/11, Linux and MacOs are all terrible desktop operating systems. Windows 2000 for example was better than any current OS. It comes down to what types of bugs and issues you're more inclined to tolerate.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Damn, time flies. I remember the excitement from the different alpha/beta versions that were coming out in 1994/1995.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Hmmm, they could've just asked ChatGPT how to fix the availability problem.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
I guess one can use a VPN or a proxy if not.

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