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by api 9mo ago
AI has been a breath of fresh air to me, but I understand some of the problems with it. Chatting with a bot and using it as a brainstorming or research assistant is the first time I’ve felt a since of wonder since Web 1.0. It offers a way
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by api 9mo ago
I like that Zed has a disable all AI option. I use AI a little but prefer to use terminal based assistants or just cut/paste to a chat. BTW Zed is great and I subscribed just to support them even though I don’t use their cloud. They sh
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by api 9mo ago
What’s missing is the incentive. The budget and deficit increase regardless of who is in office because all the incentives are for it to increase.
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by api 9mo ago
Our family has EVs and rents a gas car for the occasional road trip. We did the math and it’s cheaper than buying and owning and doing the maintenance on a gas car. If we did long road trips a lot we’d probably get rid of one EV and get an
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by api 9mo ago
It would be the end of the US auto industry. Of course they kind of deserve it. The Japanese also beat them to a pulp for much the same reason: refusal to offer practical affordable efficient vehicles to the silent majority who just want a
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by api 9mo ago
Your data must be on local storage or if it's in the cloud encrypted with keys only you control, otherwise it's not your data.
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by api 9mo ago
Remember that the simplest answer for this kind of thing is often: pork for politically connected tech and defense companies. Not saying it couldn’t be for bigger things, just that there does not have to be a rational need other than handin
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by api 9mo ago
I do recognize his name and knew him as a major creator of Go and contributor to UNIX and Plan 9, but didn’t know this quote. In which case he’s got nothing to complain about, making this rant kind of silly.
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by api 9mo ago
Oh it’s Bluesky. Both Xhitter and Bluesky are outrage lasers, with the user base as a “lasing medium.” Xhitter is the right wing racist xenophobic one, and Bluesky is the lefty curmudgeon anti-everything one. They are this way because it’s
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by api 9mo ago
The thing he’s actually angry about is the death of personal computing. Everything is rented in the cloud now. I hate the way people get angry about what media and social media discourse prompts them to get angry about instead of thinking a
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by api 9mo ago
If you asked similar age groups this question in the 1990s you’d get stuff like rock star, actor/actress, and pro athlete. Young kids usually have career aspirations that mirror what’s popular in their media world. It means little.
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by api 9mo ago
If you are putting something out for free for anyone to see and link and copy, why is LLM training on it a problem? How’s that different from someone archiving it in their RSS reader or it being archived by any number of archive sites? If y
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by api 9mo ago
I feel like Framework wasn’t for this customer. They would have been happier with a Lenovo or something or a Mac.
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by api 9mo ago
Mobile in general is a disappointment. iOS is better but not great. It was a real chance to get a lot of things right that sucked on desktop, and that chance was mostly squandered.
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by api 10mo ago
Seemed like it was more about an ideological purge and possibly exfiltrating data than saving money. I predicted it would net cost money if you did a full accounting. May end up being true.
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by api 10mo ago
The problem with that is usually efficiency. Electrochemical or thermal production of methane from CO2 and H2O is not very efficient, and then you're burning it, which is only heat engine efficiency. Batteries or direct mechanical stor
887.
by api 10mo ago
This is true but he was nowhere near as wealthy as he is now, not even close.
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by api 10mo ago
I don't entirely disagree, but also note that the extreme wealth of both these guys is at least partly a result of state spending not pure private market forces. Oracle has always had a huge presence in government. Large companies to
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by api 10mo ago
What's free market about total state regulatory capture, calling the President when your bids get rejected, or setting up wars and domestic police actions to enrich yourself with contracts using taxpayer funds? There are legitimate cri
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by api 10mo ago
It’d be interesting if there turned out to only be a few life bearing worlds in the entire cosmos. But we just have no idea. Not enough information.
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by api 10mo ago
They mention that and say it fits in a huge inflatable tent, which rings true. CO2 is more dense than nitrogen and oxygen which are most of air, and if you're storing it at ambient pressure you don't need a super strong vessel.
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by api 10mo ago
My lord... this thing probably requires the power grid to do a generation dispatch when you turn it on. When I was a kid I lived down in Southeastern Kentucky (Somerset) which gets a lot of its power from the local lake via hydro. My grandf
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by api 10mo ago
So… it’s a compressed air battery but with a better working fluid than air. I remember wondering about using natural gas or propane for this a long time ago. Not burning the gas but using it as a compressed gas battery. It liquifies easier
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by api 10mo ago
It’s a battery not a sequestration technology.
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by api 10mo ago
The mood is probably part light and part vitamin D. The latter can be supplemented. The former can be reproduced with a full spectrum bright lamp or brief sun exposure in the morning.
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by api 10mo ago
I think you just changed my mind. I hadn’t thought about that angle.
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by api 10mo ago
The correct term for things like BSL is “source available.”
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by api 10mo ago
I’ve been amazed for years at the fact that many of the best routers turn V6 off by default. Of course I know why. If you turn it on it slightly increases edge case issues as complexity always does. Most people don’t actively need it so nob
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by api 10mo ago
Yes, I forgot about SLAAC and worthless privacy extensions. Privacy extensions are worthless because there are just sooooo many ways to fingerprint and track you. If you are not at least using a VPN and a jailed privacy mode browser at a
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by api 10mo ago
This is a major reason the cloud commands such a premium. It’s a way to make down time someone else’s problem. The other factor is eliminating the “one guy who knows X” problem in IT. What happens if that person leaves or you have to let th

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