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How Micron's $50B Boise buildout is reshaping its hometown(cnbc.com)
4 points by TMWNN 2mo ago|1 comments
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
>We'd get support requests / bug reports with almost no details from random aol.com addresses. It was bizarre. I suppose this is the equivalent to how the first delivery of funds to Lockheed to build the U-2 was sent to Kelly J
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
The biggest migration in history is the 10% of Mexico that has moved to the US since 1970. < https://np.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1trqnn8/hei... > As of 2024, 11 million Mexican-born peop
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T-Mobile 'chopped a cable' to expel Chinese hackers from its network(techcrunch.com)
6 points by TMWNN 2mo ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
>Terence Tao's quote about AI's math proofs is relatable outside of pure math: "the writing very often dwells at length on trivialities while passing briefly through — or even actively obscuring — the most interesting and
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
As kotaKat said, it's possible to use CUPS to talk to non-AirPrint printers with AirPrint. This is what I do with two 4" USB-only thermal printers. They are connected to a Raspberry Pi running CUPS, so I can print labels to them f
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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing(techcrunch.com)
14 points by TMWNN 2mo ago|9 comments
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
Thanks for the rundown. Context for others: If you ever sell anything online to Doral FL, it's a freight forwarder. DE and OR (no sales tax), KY, and TX are also popular, but 90% of the time it's a FL address and 90% of the time i
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Anthropic becomes the 'Apple of AI': Most revenue despite being most expensive(techradar.com)
23 points by TMWNN 2mo ago|24 comments
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
>Again, consider the past: How might an 18th-century society feel if it had decided to bank on slow-but-stable efficiency increases in sailboats, slow progress toward better cures and nicer houses — but locked themselves out of the Indus
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
It's not darkest Africa, or Haiti, but it is sufficiently outside the normal trade routes to not have routine, inexpensive access to components that most of us here take for granted.
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
>Right now, RISC-V is mainly being used in cheap embedded components. Considering that x86 and ARM also were made for cheap computing, until becoming the dominant high end processor, history tells us that the cheapest ISA is the one whic
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
I didn't get that impression. He talks about T&T (and places like that)'s inability to cheaply obtain components, but that's not the main point of his post
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
> Given C64 is a roughly equivalently specced machine, there is no reason in principle why they couldn't have ported AGI to C64 as well – it just, for whatever reason, never happened. Agreed about the issues not being (completely) t
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
Excellent! Five months ago I wrote about why Sierra never released AGI games for C64; it was not technical so much as market focus. < https://np.reddit.com/r/c64/comments/1r8hgwk/kings_quest_i/o...
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AppleWorks on the Apple II(stonetools.ghost.io)
3 points by TMWNN 2mo ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
The sacred trust of the American public was violated when previous administrations turned Temporary Protected Status into de facto permanent residency without the consent of said public.
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
Yes, that was my takeaway as well from the source article. < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274393 >
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
> As another example, I blame at least in part the crazy NYC rent situation on Sex and the City, particularly on rents in the West Village. If you've lived in NYC you know there's so many SATC girlies living out their NYC dream
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
>Never heard the words "basic economics" used outside of strawman political arguments. Only someone ignorant of basic economic concepts—such as, in this case, supply and demand—would write the above.
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
I've heard it said that "problematic" is the "blasphemous" of said religion.
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
Title edited by me from original translation '"Design and verification shortened to two days from a month"... Samsung Electronics Semiconductor Achieves Results by Deploying Anthropic "Claude"'
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Samsung with Claude: "Design and verification shortened to 2 days from a month"(biz.chosun.com)
3 points by TMWNN 2mo ago|1 comments
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
Cuban is the #2 most-followed Bluesky user. < https://bluecrawler.com/ >
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4Chan Chuds Used AI to Clothe Her. She Fought Back (2024)(rollingstone.com)
15 points by TMWNN 2mo ago|1 comments
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
>Where can you find another non-linear servo-mechanism weighing only 150 pounds and having great adaptability, that can be produced so cheaply by completely unskilled labor? —Scott Crossfield, 1954 < https://quoteinvestigato
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
Feel free to come up with another country that has sent 10% of its population over 50 years to one other country, and is large enough that that means an eight-figure population transfer.
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
Agreed. < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264162 >
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
Reddit is dominated by the left, but there are other voice audible. Twitter has plenty of leftists. They are very, very, very easy to find, as is every other shape and size of political, ideological, or spiritual thought; far easier than, s
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by TMWNN 2mo ago
> Fron what I can tell, immigration levels right now are about the same as they were in the late 19th century, when a lot of our great grandparents first came to the US. ... and which, in turn, led to the Immigration Act of 1924, which g

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