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by amarant 6mo ago
If trump getting elected was due to AI, I wonder why every nation isn't electing similarly awful politicians? Hungary just elected a new president who seems a lot better than his predecessor, and a lot better than trump. The Canadian p
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by amarant 6mo ago
Which actually works out to rather more than one person per winter, when averaged out.
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by amarant 6mo ago
It's very seasonal for both. But we're currently better at storing wheat for 6 months than we are at storing electricity for a similar period.
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by amarant 6mo ago
Thanks! Another great article! It strikes me that modulo sharding on a sequential id would probably work rather well, but it was not mentioned in this article. Is there a reason I'm not seeing that this is bad? I guess resharding might
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by amarant 6mo ago
Oh wow, that's a super simple solution, and I can immediately see how this gets you the best of both worlds! And since it's only used for speedy lookup we can even use a fast, cheap and non-secure hashing algorithm, so it's r
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by amarant 6mo ago
Thanks for writing this! The visualisations really drive a better understanding than pure text does, and it's quite clear that you have a better understanding of what database do under the hood than I do. As such, I have a question for
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by amarant 6mo ago
Yes, on the one hand, they enable a lot of shady illegal business, but in the other hand, they also destroy the environment while doing it, so it's really a toss up whether cryptocurrency is good or bad overall!
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Civilian volunteers across Europe 3D print weapon parts for Ukraine(abc.net.au)
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by amarant 6mo ago
Honestly? I really don't! What kind of content do you think would trigger that? If humans were launching nukes based on Facebook posts we'd all be long dead! A good deep fake might trick your grandma, but it's not very likely
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by amarant 6mo ago
There's really only one thing we need to do to avoid the apocalypse, and that is to not hand over the launch codes to a LLM. Seems easy enough, I'm actually pretty confident in even the most incompetent of current world leaders in
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by amarant 6mo ago
GitHub outages are most likely entirely unrelated to anything AI, and 100% caused by their move from on-prem hosting to Azure. They have a very unusual workload in that they need to write to disk a lot more than what is typical, making them
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by amarant 6mo ago
Social networks are 100% network effect. AI models are not really effected by that at all. Which doesn't mean the open models will definitely succeed, it just means they have more of a shot than the open social networks ever did
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by amarant 6mo ago
Lock-in effect probably? I kinda wanna switch to kobo, but I own like, several books on Amazon. The notion that copying books I've bought and paid for to a second device from a different manufacturer should be considered piracy is offe
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by amarant 6mo ago
Oh so that's why my MIL's kindle suddenly stopped working for no reason! Sigh, I'm gonna end up having to explain jailbreaking to a 79yo, aren't I? I would really prefer not to.
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by amarant 6mo ago
Somewhat surprised to learn that cola recipes don't actually contain any kola-nut!
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by amarant 6mo ago
Ah. Well then I'll argue my original statement holds. Op himself likened his product to gnome 2. Gnome 3 was released 15 years ago so if anything I was generous in my original comment.
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by amarant 6mo ago
Yup, this whole thing is quite typical for my generations attempts at activism: they always end up as marketing pawns for the very thing they set out to stop. This whole "this model is too dangerous" ploy originated from (in my op
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by amarant 6mo ago
Makes you wonder why they keep the ban up? Are more people watching more football now that everything else stops working during matches? Talk about unfair business practices!
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by amarant 6mo ago
Games. Well, mostly tooling surrounding them it seems. In the last 2 months I've made a pixel art editor for Android, a headless population simulator(still balancing parameters on this one, not enough NPC's turn to crime at presen
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by amarant 6mo ago
Can you expand a bit on what you mean by "Superpowered tablet os"? I'm tend to think of it as a server os with a DE, but as a backend developer I'm probably biased.
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by amarant 6mo ago
And if they do, they probably don't want to be found
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by amarant 6mo ago
Ah, good old Apple, where for only $9.99 a month, you can experience what Linux offered for free 15+ years ago.
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by amarant 6mo ago
I had to Google why this happens, blocking cloudflare during football games seems.. Arbitrary, to say the least. Maybe something to do with hooligans trashing entire cities when their team loses? I could almost get behind that, if I thought
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by amarant 6mo ago
Honestly surprised Iceland doesn't rely more on geothermal, the entire country is a volcano! I had expected a 70-30 split in the other direction
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by amarant 6mo ago
This is fascinating! I'm very tempted to build a "early warning door bell". Being the only house on our road, it'd be fun to try and set up a few of these to detect when a car takes the exit from the bigger road ours con
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by amarant 6mo ago
Do you frequently get Molotov cocktails thrown at your house? I must admit, I've been spared the experience, and I was under the impression that was true for most people!
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by amarant 6mo ago
SailfishOS, Ubuntu touch, and postmarketOS to name a few from the top of my dome. Nokia isn't really an alternative at all since M$ bought it.
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by amarant 6mo ago
First they came for the porn, and I said nothing, for I am not sexy enough to produce it. Then they came for cryptography, and I kept my peace, for I don't understand the mathematics involved. Then they came for my browsing history, an
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by amarant 6mo ago
A small firework rocket that someone launched sideways instead of up exploded within a few meters of me. I say small but I mean tiny. One of those that are sound only, no visuals.(Why are those even a thing?)
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by amarant 6mo ago
Be careful with your ears! (And those of others) A unexpected loud noise recently caused me to get tinnitus and hyperacusis, and trust me, you don't want either of them! You know a diagnose is bad when Wikipedia lists suicidal thoughts

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