Yizahi

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by Yizahi 10mo ago
And thus AM was born. Woe to us.
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by Yizahi 10mo ago
Yeah, Intel has some crazies in the naming department since they abandoned Netburst with clear generation number and frequency in the name. I remember having two CPUs with exact same name E6300 for the exact same socket LGA775, but the diff
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by Yizahi 10mo ago
That happens quite often these days. Last week I was filling in a govt form (EU country), submit button didn't work in FF, so I had to resort to using Microsoft Chrome. On my company's training platform videos aren't rendered
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by Yizahi 10mo ago
I've bought and redeemed gift cards for only one single company ever. Can you guess what company? :) Exactly - Apple. Because these MFs generously banned whole countries from using their services, and not because of the justified sanct
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by Yizahi 10mo ago
That proposal I've seen a few times too, basically put up a constellation up there, linked with laser comms and then transfer data to the illuminated sats in a loop. That sounds possible, but I have doubts. First of all if we take 400
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
Lift costs are not quite dropping like that lately. Starship is not yet production ready (and you need to fully pack it with payloads, to achieve those numbers). What we saw is cutting off most of the artificial margins of the old launches
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
You need 50sqm of solar panels just for a tiny 8RU server. You also forgot any overhead for networking, control etc. but let's even ignore those. Next at the 400km orbit you spend 40% of the time in shade, so you need an insulated batt
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
Author also forgot batteries for the solar shade transition period and then additional solar panels to charge these batteries during the solar "day" period. then insulation for batteries. Then power converters and pumps for radiat
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
Those people broadly fall under "the Oxford professor" catch-all phrase. Obviously. I was talking about 99.99% of random internet texts, which do not conform to any Manual of style and are not written by literature majors. If I se
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
While author is correct in general, I would like to add a counter-point regarding em-dashes specifically. Yes, many people use them like this - and many website frameworks will automatically replace a keyboard not-really-a-minus symbol with
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
Fair use doctrine is explicitly for the humans. For the better overall state of humankind. It is not logically "fair" in the terms of some abstract logic, since we are giving preference to some part of the population and not every
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
iPhone keyboard is probably one of the several biggest factors I consider when once again I think "hmm, maybe this time I should upgrade to iPhone?". And then I'm confronted with this, ummm... thing, and immediately remember
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
Someone can build a server in space, pairing a puny underpowered rack with a handful of servers to a ginormous football field sized solar panel plus a heat radiator plus a heavy as hell insulated battery to survive being a planet shade ever
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
"Sam Altman, a man best known for needing a few more billions at any given moment." (c) HN best-of-2025 :)
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
I think we should split definition somehow, between what LLMs can do today (or next few years) with how big a thing this particular capability can be (a derivative of the capability). And then what some future AI could do and with how big a
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
Money can buy quality of life, and people earning 100-150k in USA per person in household do confirm this. And this purchasing ability is not linear, because of the fixed costs for many good and services. Previously many countries with low
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
You honestly believe that a combined Germany-Poland-Baltic army, maybe with Italy's help and absolutely no USA involvement and manufacturing is today a viable threat to ruzzians? And that such an army is somehow more capable than to
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
I would like to point out two fundamental misconceptions towards the end of the article: 1. "AI is a filter. It strips away everything that can be automated, leaving only what requires actual thinking: creativity, collaboration, real-w
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
> At which point, what are you gaining by making it illegal or inconvenient for innocent people to use it for something that isn't otherwise illegal? The problem is scale. The more widespread is such system, the lower is the barrier
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
That's 40 TUSD, Trump Golden Dollars, which would be an equivalent of the lightly used Trumrolette Goldenrado or a typical young family tent.
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
That's fine, good even. Afaik at least for some of these tasks dev teams are doing a lot of manual tuning of the model (rumored that "r in strawberry" had been "fixed" this way, as a general case of course). The mor
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
And other countries have freedom to scoff at that or even sanction trade with it (gasp, the horror!). Freedom works both ways, you know. A fitting quote for the moment: "Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common se
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
That (freedom of payments) may have been the idea. But there are two problems with it: 1. Payments which you can't make today inside a legal system are two types. And if you enable system you automatically enable both types. For libert
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
It is an amusing and potentially even good concept, but with one caveat - you only consider close enough exchanges with similar peers. To translate that into English - a fully libertarian self-sufficient settlement where people are exchangi
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
In practice all tokens including BTC are massively used for law evasion. Criminal don't need any fancy Monero for that, they only need to break the chain once, or maybe a few times an that is enough. That usually happens at the entry p
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
By the grace of first past the post, winner takes all. This ancient system prevents people from picking shades of grey parties, since they simply don't exist in any significance. And from the other end it doesn't allow parties to
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
That if carries a lot of meaning here. In reality it is and was impossible to pay for all the stolen data. Also LLM corpos not only didn't pay for the data, but they never even asked. I know it may be a surprise, but some people would
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
Well, it's not like it's a simple black and white situation, universally applicable to every debate in human history. Sometimes it is relatively better to be open-minded and able to change own opinion. Sometimes it is relatively b
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
There is ZERO evidence for such a civilization. Especially because there are no resilient megalithic traces in the first place. Megaliths we see are only 5-6 thousand years old and have a lot of matching real evidence about people who built
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by Yizahi 11mo ago
There is no way to detect our civilization bio signatures and technology signatures from more than a few closest stars range at most. None at all. Not even with magic. There is likely hundreds or thousands of isolated alien worlds in the ga

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