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by alecco 1y ago
This looks AI generated slop.
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by alecco 1y ago
It's incredible how this comment got a bunch of replies not understanding the question. Explanation: Tether is not holding a stack of paper bonds in a safe. They must use some broker (or similar) to operate and hold the treasuries for
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by alecco 1y ago
1. archive.ph used to block DNS resolvers like CloudFlare because those resolvers didn't share the client's location with archive.ph DNS servers (this exposes whoever is behind archive.ph is tracking who is reading what) 2. Recent
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by alecco 1y ago
They recently started blocking VPNs. They also block DNS resolvers like CloudFlare because they are not sharing your location (which is a very good thing!). Get archive.ph's web server IP from a DNS request site and put the IP in your
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by alecco 1y ago
https://eic.ec.europa.eu/eic-funding-opportunities/eic-accel... > The EIC welcomes applications from innovators in all EU Member States and countries associated to the Horizon Europe programme. It particularly welco
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by alecco 1y ago
Can you confirm (or not) the mandatory female co-founder? I could swear I read it. Or could it be another EU fund?
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by alecco 1y ago
Someone told me I needed to hire some expensive law firm in Brussels. See: https://www.politico.eu/article/ombudsman-slams-commission-f...
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by alecco 1y ago
He is 100% right on this one. From personal experience trying to figure out EU. Lawyer bureaucrats manage funds behind red tape clearly meant to be for their pals. All these while the EU is running out of funds and in a process of de-indust
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Image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports(arstechnica.com)
2 points by alecco 1y ago|0 comments
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by alecco 1y ago
From Big Tech to startups, most corporations waste billions in ridiculous and frivolous projects and yet insignificant money is sent back to the projects they owe their very existence. But don't you dare switch to a proprietary license
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Pieter Levels on getting blocked from accessing GPUs in EU(xcancel.com)
3 points by alecco 1y ago|0 comments
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by alecco 1y ago
In 2022 they lost 18bn because they had to repair widespread "stress corrosion cracking". And it was nationalized.
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by alecco 1y ago
Nothing to be proud of. Dangerous ancient reactors owned by an almost bankrupt company about to be nationalized. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/02/03/the-long...
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by alecco 1y ago
The Financial Times has a much better article: https://ig.ft.com/mega-batteries/
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by alecco 1y ago
This year, one of the best things I did for my mental health and productivity was deleting the YouTube app. It's mostly slop and the algorithm will push the most inane click-baity content in the world to get you hooked up. And now Goog
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by alecco 1y ago
Claude Code became almost unusable a week ago with completely broken terminal flickering all the time and doing pointless things so you end up running out of weekly window for nothing. I guess OpenAI got it right to go slower with a Rust CL
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by alecco 1y ago
Very hard but not impossible.
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by alecco 1y ago
With plentiful energy and a scalable supply chain it would be easy to recover using robots and AI. But the West's leadership has been destroying both for decades. And I mean both sides in most Western countries (Republicans/Democr
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by alecco 1y ago
Ah, The Economist. What a lovely group of people. 1990s: Let's move all our industrial base to Mexico and China so we can make everything cheap, let the market forces do their thing! 2022-2025: China is winning the trade war and Trump&
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by alecco 1y ago
But they are web scale!
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by alecco 1y ago
> - Knows that running an operation at AWS scale is difficult and any armchair critism from 'experts' is exactly that. Actions speak louder than words. NO. From their own reports, clearly AWS is too centralized and dependent on
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by alecco 1y ago
"server error" everywhere
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by alecco 1y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/video/realestate/luxury/100000010458... (short video version)
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by alecco 1y ago
Not only overkill, but error-prone. I had to suffer to work on a massive financial system based in serialized Python objects. And expensive as hell. Related: https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-11-12-datomic-even.
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by alecco 1y ago
I completely disagree. For me the best for bulk coding (with very good instructions) is Sonnet 4.5. Then GPT-5 codex is slower but better guessing what I want with tiny prompts. Gemini 2.5 Pro is good to review large codebases but for real
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by alecco 1y ago
Dude, ggerganov is the creator of llama.cpp. Kind of a legend. And of course he is right, you should've used llama.cpp. Or you can just ask the ollama people about the ollama problems. Ollama is (or was) just a Go wrapper around llama.
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by alecco 1y ago
Most of it caused by "Mama Merkel": * She inherited a booming economy with very good reforms and plenty of budget surplus * Let infrastructure to rot * Energy production cratered and shifted to Russian gas dependency (high profile
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by alecco 1y ago
But Groq/Cerebras are hardware accelerators. It's an unrelated optimization. I wouldn't be surprised if they could also use speculators (today or in the future).
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AdapTive-LeArning Speculator System (ATLAS): Faster LLM inference(together.ai)
198 points by alecco 1y ago|47 comments
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by alecco 1y ago
If the AI bubble bursts, there's a high chance the Everything Bubble bursts right after. And then USD goes gg. I think part of the problem is investors are counting on infinite bailouts because AI is too big to fail. But that also caus

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