SkyMarshal

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Big Brother gets new powers in China with digital ID system(msn.com)
8 points by SkyMarshal 1y ago|1 comments
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Build Submarines(buildsubmarines.com)
3 points by SkyMarshal 1y ago|0 comments
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by SkyMarshal 1y ago
Humans congregating into cities, specializing and developing expert capabilities in particular fields, and collaborating and relying on others for what they're not specialized in, is a big part of the story of the Enlightenment -> I
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by SkyMarshal 1y ago
It's interesting to me that there was already a manufacturing facility in the US that could readily make something as random as a memory foam dog bed on short notice, even if somewhat more expensively. I had though all such simple thin
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by SkyMarshal 1y ago
Fwiw the associate here is Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad and a longtime HN'er: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sahillavingia He posted about his experience here: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by SkyMarshal 1y ago
Source code signing goes a long way to solving that problem. Assuming the source author reviews their own code and signs it immediately after.
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by SkyMarshal 1y ago
It wasn't really a "fork" though, was it? Rather a from-scratch re-implementation of the Nix/NixOS concepts using Guile Scheme in place of the Nix config language. https://guix.gnu.org/en/about&#x2F
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by SkyMarshal 1y ago
Or just use Obsidian's built-in E2E encrypted syncing. https://obsidian.md/sync But yeah, since it stores everything as flat markdown files, you can sync or archive your Obsidian docs folder with anything.
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How Being Watched Changes How You Think(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by SkyMarshal 1y ago|0 comments
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by SkyMarshal 1y ago
De-coupling from an authoritarian adversary is a worthwhile objective, but there are more competent ways of doing that. Back in Trump's first term he put up some targeted tariffs. They were reasonable, effective, non-destructive to the
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
There are folks from that era (the 90s and earlier) who learned and mastered TUIs and are very productive with them. Like a pro Wall St analyst operating Microsoft Excel with no mouse, you can fly through them if all the keyboard commands
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Why does Google even have these two different interfaces?
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
It may actually be affordable for Google to charge $20 vs OAI's $200. Google already has an extensive datacenter operation and infrastructure that they're amortizing across many products and services. AI requires significant add
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Sounds like a generic AI response, though maybe I'm being too harsh, the AI response would probably be longer and more detailed. So, you want to tell us why it's so much better than Claude?
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Also https://dnyuz.com/2025/04/11/whats-wrong-with-apple/
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Electoral Graphics: Elections in the Lens of Statistics(electoral.graphics)
1 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|0 comments
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
This is roughly the equivalent of the US's Superconducting Super Collider that was cancelled back in 1993. Similar circumference and collision energy. Finally the world will get to see what the SSC might have revealed about the deep
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Paywalled, not available on Archive.is yet, TLDR?
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
You're not alone. Can't be that important though.
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
What are wavefronts? Not getting many search results on that, besides a few github issues mentioning them. https://github.com/AdaCore/RecordFlux/issues/955 https://learn.adacore.com/search.ht
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
I've actually reversed my GPU buying logic from the old days. I used to buy the most powerful bleeding edge GPU I could afford. Now I buy the minimum viable one for the games I play, and only bother to upgrade if a new game requires
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
TLDR: Andy Grove was right that: "Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." Intel got complacent and missed the mobile, GPU, a
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ChatGPT o1 tries to escape if it thinks it'll be shut down, then lies about it(tomsguide.com)
4 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|5 comments
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
> Imagine you decided to start developing websites today, how do you even start? Probably with something simpler like Alpine.js, or even JQuery. No beginner is going to be building the kind of web app that requires such a heavyweight
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
US Passports are RealID.
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The Virtue of Being Forgotten(theatlantic.com)
3 points by SkyMarshal 2y ago|0 comments
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
Lots of discussion and testing of that over on https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/ , worth following if you're not already.
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
> Academic scientists' careers are driven by publishing, citations and impact. Publishing and citations can and are gamed, but is impact also gamed on a wide scale? That one seems harder to fake. Either a result is true and usef
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
> My next question is are there downsides to proof-of-stake, and why has bitcoin not moved towards it? The main threat against any cryptocurrency is that a malicious actor will gain control of 51% of the voting power of the system, and
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by SkyMarshal 2y ago
> GPUs burned Bitcoin doesn't use GPUs, just ASICs. You may be thinking of Ethereum or others.

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