bananamogul

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by bananamogul 13d ago
"I would say not 2026, yeah. We’ve got a lot of stuff to do." Why is this even a "would say" kind of thing. Surely AGI - they've achieved it three times now, right? - has lead to a datacenter full of PhDs who will
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by bananamogul 15d ago
I've paused my work on faster-than-light travel in order to more fully assess the consequences.
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by bananamogul 15d ago
Not sure nuclear arms is a great example. There are more countries with nuclear weapons now than in 1970. India, Pakistan, and North Korea have all joined the nuclear club since then. The SALT and START treaties are no longer in effect. Per
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by bananamogul 16d ago
Isn’t the latter what Knuth meant? Such a slippery slope between “consideration of performance” and optimization.
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by bananamogul 25d ago
Here you go: https://docs.monicahq.com/developers/setup-local-development That's linked from their GitHub: https://github.com/monicahq/monica PikaPods also offers Monica hosting in your own c
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by bananamogul 26d ago
I don’t remember us getting to fractions in kindergarten, but maybe the curriculum has radically changed since the early 70s. What exactly is the lie? 1/4 and 3/8 equals 5/8. Is there’s something more to that? Is that fund
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by bananamogul 28d ago
The article seems to be unaware that Python has a built-in csv module.
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by bananamogul 1mo ago
That pricing is awful. $4/month for 512MB VPS...eeek. You'll find much better pricing at RackNerd, DediRock, InterServer, BuyVM, etc. Small indy hosting companies are the way to go. 2GB for $5/month or so is the typical pr
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The dementia vaccine some of us are taking without realising(sciencefocus.com)
9 points by bananamogul 1mo ago|1 comments
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by bananamogul 1mo ago
"Ideally you'll find more value in the comments as Hacker News folks and Windows experts will drop in with better tools and strategies." I don't know if this is better , but...an alternative is rclone, which uses rsync
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by bananamogul 1mo ago
I guess nappertime.com took this article down? It's a 404 now.
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by bananamogul 1mo ago
Yes, indeed. I've witnessed dementia patients take a fall, and then be dramatically more confused the next couple days. I've also seen them get some kind of social exposure, sunshine, exercise, etc. and present better for several
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by bananamogul 1mo ago
This article soars from hope to hype to skepticism. I guess that's a consequence of reporting on the fringes of science. In particular, I wish there was more detail on the 100-cohort study where patients experienced "modest impro
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by bananamogul 1mo ago
I wonder if new generations will just get better and better at visually blocking off ads when they read. So many layouts are so common that I read a lot of sites and have absolutely no idea what ads they're running because 30-odd year
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by bananamogul 1mo ago
Am a believer, and appreciate the KJV for its language. However, it can be tricky, because words change over 400 years. So while there are many wonderfully translated passages that use very expressive language, you also have passages that
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
It’s illegal to wear a balaclava in Britain while driving an electric motorcycle?
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
What exactly about the Amiga FFS made it more fault tolerant? I’m not sure comparing the file system on a single user workstation where disk is probably quiescent most of the time to the file system used on a busy server is really apples to
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
"Smart men go broke three ways: liquor, ladies, and leverage." -- Charlie Munger (Which is not to imply that these are smart men).
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
"I'm glad our homes aren't shrieking at us at all hours." We have phones to do that for us.
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
So to fill a typical 20,000-gallon pool with this water would cost $2.4 billion. That might even give a trillionaire pause.
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
Actually, 1 degree of Fahrenheit is the amount of temperature change a typical human can connect. It's a human-calibrated scale. Though why 32F instead of 0F for frozen water...I have no idea.
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
I thought the status of Go v2 was that the devs weren't saying it will never happen, but also were not working on it. There was some momentum that seemed to sputter out once generics were added. "when should we expect the Go 2 sp
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Duff's Device – The C Speed Hack From 1983(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bananamogul 2mo ago|2 comments
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
I don't know if Ed Zitron is right about allhis analysis, but it's nice to have an alternative, well-argued narrative to the gushing torrent of AI company propaganda.
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
Interesting how people like it use sympathetic terms (“public media”) while those who don’t use pejorative terms (“state-owned”, “government-run”). I’m not saying it’s good or bad, just observing the language.
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
"a Win10 machine for testing on my left hand side here..." Well, the Latin word for "left" is "sinister", so that tracks.
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
Ten minutes later, I'm still trying to figure out the role of "thus" in this headline.
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
I don't doubt you, but my experience is different. Every company I've worked for (mostly F500s) has had an onboarding document you sign in which you're notified that everything inside the company is confidential by default.
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Polybius: The Most Dangerous Arcade Game Ever Made. A Dive into Some Arcade Lore(lowendbox.com)
3 points by bananamogul 2mo ago|2 comments
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by bananamogul 2mo ago
"Companies may only destroy unsold clothes and shoes in limited cases, such as when items are unsafe or damaged, counterfeit or infringing intellectual property rights, or are rejected by charities or donation schemes." Nike'

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