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by _zagj 9mo ago
Wait, does Xe not know about this? https://www.thurrott.com/dev/330980/microsoft-to-replace-all... But more seriously, it's pretty ironic to see all of these posts on HN, a supposed "tech" community
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by _zagj 9mo ago
Shockley developed the first working bipolar junction transistor , which was the first transistor to ever enter mass production, which is why he's credited for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_junction_tr
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by _zagj 9mo ago
> What's my motivation? Are you really going to insult my and others' intelligence like this? Directly or indirectly, your motivation is money. You already offer monthly subscriptions to your blog, and you're clearly try
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by _zagj 9mo ago
> He's one of the most valuable writers on LLMs Is he, really? Most of his blog posts are little more than opportunistic, buttressing commentary on someone else's blog post or article, often with a bit of AI apologia sprinkled
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by _zagj 9mo ago
List of episodes, with direct links to Archive.org streams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Computer_Chronicles_ep...
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by _zagj 9mo ago
A glaring example, the previous soft-on-crime mayor, Bill de Blasio, had a security detail with him, even when traveling : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/nyregion/deblasio-settlem...
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by _zagj 9mo ago
All of the comments so far have been about > le heckin' security theater targeting tinkerbros and none addressing the elephant in the room of why Mamdani needs all of this security, or frankly, any security at all? Just a few years
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by _zagj 10mo ago
> Idk how proactive patching an exploited-in-the-wild unauth RCE is, but pr statements gonna pr i guess. Describing their response as "proactive" is about what you'd expect from a company that famously used unacknowledged
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> FSD to Tesla, which he also did not finish. That's why I've never understood HN's continuing infatuation with him. He failed to deliver FSD to Tesla, and arguably even sent them down a R&D dead end, and he doesn&#x27
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by _zagj 10mo ago
My guess is they're vastly underestimating the time and effort that would take, however, I understand the motivation somewhat, as there's no guarantee that whatever alternative to VSCode you settle on won't also eventually go
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by _zagj 10mo ago
> In both cases I get the frustration - it feels horrible to see something you created be used in a way you think is harmful and wrong! - but the world would be a worse place without art or open source. Well maybe the AI parasites should
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by _zagj 10mo ago
Not a fan of the CCP, but GH in general has a big problem with users not understanding and respecting licensing and passing off others' code as their own, sometimems unintentionally, often not.
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> In the aviation world the fuel is very much still leaded. In the general aviation world, to be precise: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/leaded-gas-wa... The fact that GA is the quintessential
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by _zagj 10mo ago
There's some discussion about potential Citogenesis here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mt._Gox#Possible_citogene...
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by _zagj 10mo ago
Wealth inequality in the US was better in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
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by _zagj 10mo ago
> Loongson used MIPS Stallman actually daily drove a Loongson MIPS-based notebook for a while.
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by _zagj 10mo ago
You don't find this part > We have to automate the process. to be ominous?
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by _zagj 10mo ago
Thirteen Reasons Why was the literary equivalent of a seedy Discord server that parents justifiably would want to keep their children away from. It never should have been marketed to children, and shouldn't appear in school libraries
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by _zagj 10mo ago
> In reality, we observe that open parties tend to win, or at minimum, if they lose, the closed party tends to have an entirely disconnected line of research that rarely incorporates ideas from the open party An obvious counter-example t
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by _zagj 10mo ago
Unless things have changed much since the days of AQ Khan, that's probably the case.
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by _zagj 10mo ago
> I bet the ex employee doesn't even have to be Chinese. That bit struck me as naive, given the instances of Americans who aren't Chinese nationals, or even ethnically Chinese at all, caught committing actual espionage on behal
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by _zagj 10mo ago
> 6. Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher. 126 bans. For those unaware, this book, and the ensuing Netflix original, was one colossal > gee, who could have possibly anticipated this? The book is about a depressed teenage girl who commit
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by _zagj 10mo ago
You should do that, and afterward, add some Funkos to accentuate it, especially for the #1 title on the list, Looking for Alaska, by John Green. His multi-talented brother Hank made this, BTW (the music, specifically, not the animation): h
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by _zagj 10mo ago
You didn't see all of the thinkpieces from leftwing academics (inlcuding Mark Zuckerberg's sister) making the link between white marble and "white supremacy," and emphasizing polychromy as a means of de-whitening the rep
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> ICU has bindings for Rust that provide case-folding functionality, but not case-insensitive substring search. > ICU has many bindings. The Rust one doesn’t expose any substring search functionality, but the Python one does: Python&#
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by _zagj 10mo ago
Actually, surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly, given the interesting history and a large chunk of HNers being functional drug addicts--albeit not necessarily of opioids), MPPP was discussed here just last year: https://news.y
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by _zagj 10mo ago
There's a synthetic opioid called MPPP, which, if inappropriately synthesized (IIRC, using too much heat in one step), yields MPTP, which is non-toxic in and of itself, but has the ability to penetrate the blood-brain barrier, where it
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by _zagj 10mo ago
> the negative impact of AI on copywriting and how I think that sucks.) The extent of your analysis is > whelp that sucks with a tone similar to what one might take when describing the impact of flatscreen TVs on the once-flourishing
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by _zagj 10mo ago
Besides the fact that you do have conflicts of interest (disclosing them doesn't negate them), you don't seem to understand that given how all of the Big AI players have shown themselves to be ruthless and shamelessly dishonest (h
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by _zagj 10mo ago
I can't think of a more insufferable AI cheerleader. I wish I could hide all submissions of his blogposts, as well as his comments. (Note that I flag neither.)

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