RagnarD

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by RagnarD 3y ago
First step: realize that Meta is an incredibly lousy company producing fantastically terrible products and coasting on momentum of the past. There was never a product as ripe for competitive disruption as Facebook, for example.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Paying Kagi search customer here. Thanks for letting me dump Google and providing better features as well.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'm still paying for Kagi and it's certainly better than DDG for search, privacy, and overall features.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
So anybody know the end result? Did he get some, all, none, in the end?
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'm guessing this is irony.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I've been a Jetbrains customer on and off for years. In all of that time - across vast improvements in hardware - ReSharper has been slow. So slow. It doesn't seem to matter how many orders of magnitude faster are the CPUs, how ma
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by RagnarD 3y ago
As the percentage of humorless PC drones rises, that's going steadily down.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'd like to see the practice of stuffing arbitrary topics into the periodic table become an object of scorn and eyerolls. Doing so degrades both the topic and the science of chemistry.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Good idea as well.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
This is far from a new thought. A great deal has been written about this.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
A refinement of the thought, then, would be to install a small modular nuclear reactor to power desalination plants to replenish the freshwater when needed. Panama City must also be threatened if the lake level is that low.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'm wondering why the whole thing is an issue anyway. Why is there a water shortage? There's an entire ocean on both sides of the canal. Gatun Lake provides the water buffer for the canal. Currently it's freshwater based but
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'm sure it'll be no problem to compete with Amazon warehouses, gargantuan stockpiles of product strategically placed across the country (and increasingly, the world) for rapid fulfillment.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
The root of many successful revolutions is observing that what exists is simply unacceptable and working to build something transformatively new. Many such attempts fail, but not all of them do. Perhaps the author is identifying such a nee
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by RagnarD 3y ago
PC gaming is essentially dying?? Is that why the gaming market is more than the market for music and movies combined? Maybe Steam would like to comment.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Translation: advocating that DC steal $131.7 BILLION from a large number of investors who hold Boeing stock.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Power lusters - in DC or in big tech - are drooling over the capabilities of AI. The last thing they want is for their targets to have access to unrestricted systems that could act defensively against their AI assisted goals.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
"A good first step in understanding the threats posed by unsecured AI is to ask secured AI systems like ChatGPT, Bard, or Claude to misbehave. You could ask them to design a more deadly coronavirus, provide instructions for making a bo
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Fortran is still a heavily used language in engineering applications, in my experience. I have the sense that quite a few programmers think that only systems geared for web development actually exist. This is a very narrow and false view.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Glad to hear it was transient and Kagi is on top of fixing it. Apparently quite a few reading HN use Kagi. I've been happy with it so far and I'm glad that there's an actually usable and actually feature-superior alternative
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by RagnarD 3y ago
In this case, yes.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Nuclear reactors are friendlier to birds than either.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
You might want to reconsider your smug posturing in light of the fact that your existence is still wholly dependent on hydrocarbons whether you like it or not, whether you hate it or not.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Individual assembly instructions are basically trivial to grasp (the actual syntax is probably the hardest part.) The challenge is synthesizing larger, useful programs from the little tidbits of data manipulation. It's a great exercis
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I guess they're going to be very disappointed after a lunar base is well established and people starting being born - and dying - on the moon.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Nobody reasonably thought that there was life on Luna. Mars is a completely different story. There's multiple lines of evidence strongly suggesting active life on Mars. It's very important to NOT bring it back to earth, but that&#
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by RagnarD 3y ago
A large fraction of "spent" nuclear fuel is unfissioned Uranium that can (and should) be recycled. France does this. It's a fact of physics that the more radioactive is a material, the faster it decays. The most dangerous iso
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by RagnarD 3y ago
A legitimate use, in the abstract, is one where a particular individual is willing to have their voice used to say X. The entertainment industry - movies and games - are likely to want this. But if it's trivial to use somebody's v
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by RagnarD 3y ago
My first and ongoing thought is that immoral/criminal uses of voice cloning vastly exceed any legitimate ones.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Solar or wind makes sense on a small individualized basis for offgrid users. It’s a terrible idea for grid scale power vs. nuclear.

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