bananamogul

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by bananamogul 6mo ago
"Learned to drink healthily". Given that alcohol is carcinogenic, there is no such thing as "drinking healthily". That point aside, alcoholism rates in the Eastern EU are much higher than the US. And Russia/Belarus
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
SaaS is not a new idea and has been renamed multiple times. In the 70s, it was called "time-sharing". Instead of buying a mainframe, you got a CICS application instance on a mainframe and used that. (tangentially, spare time on
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
For your own use, yes. But if you're working with others, you should default to using standard industry tools (absent a compelling reason not to) because your work will be handed off to others and passed on to new team members. It&#x2
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
Downvoted for daring to speculate. I love this place.
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
Yes and yes. I recently investigated large portable power banks (Jackery, etc.) and like that there are options to charge faster with a battery life tradeoff. Let people make their own informed choices.
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
Maybe as a society it's better for people to have replacement insurance than to have sealed batteries that make phones so disposable. I wonder if we've defined IP68 as a "must have" without considering the alternatives.
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
You're not wrong, but practically speaking, hosting a VM is so cheap and comes with the advantage of serving from a datacenter that I would never want to host anything off my residential connection anyway. The $1 to $5 a month to have
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
"Is there a reason why adoption has been so abysmally slow?" Just the obvious one: the people who designed IPv6 didn't design for backwards compatibility.
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
I've been hearing that those speculators were going to get out of control and the IPv4 price was going to skyrocket for 10+ years. Yet I can still rent a VPS with IPv4 for $12/year from a wide variety of providers.
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
But isn't that exactly what Dropbox does? If I delete a file on my PC, I can go to Dropbox.com and restore it, to some period in the past (I think it depends on what you pay for). In fact, I can see every version that's changed
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
Just wait until you realize that 99.999% of the time, when people say "methodology" they really mean "method". It'll drive you mad.
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
57yo here who started guitar from scratch 16 months ago, with zero musical background. For my fellow players, I'm at the stage where barre chords are playable but switching between them quickly is still tough. I studied exclusively wi
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
Even non-frontier models now offer a context window of 1 million tokens. That's 100K-300K LOCs. I would not call that a limited context.
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
I guess you don’t remember a time when spreadsheets sold for $495 a seat. And that was just the spreadsheet. IIRC, Excel 1.0 retailed for $99.
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
Agree. You could say the exact same thing about Oracle, for example.
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
Yet we spend tax dollars trying to do the same thing.
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
The major AIs have access to all sorts of tools, including a math library. I thought this was well-known. There's no "illusion of actual insight" - they're just "using a calculator" (in the sense that they ca
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
Why are we reducing AIs to LLMs? Claude, OpenAI, etc.'s AIs are not just LLMs. If you ask it to multiply something, it's going to call a math library. Go feed it a thousand arithmetic problems and it'll get them 100% right.
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
So are they killing Sora entirely, or just the Sora mobile app? There's a web interface as well.
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
In my experience, Sora was fantastic for what it did. Light years better than Adobe Firefly. On par with Leonardo. A lot of YouTube content is really talk, so it was easy to create Sora videos as video content while you talked over them.
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
I guess there's a quota on HN where every day, some dev has to whinge about how AI is ruining The Way It Used To Be. How is this post different than dozens that have come before it? It's the same gnashing of teeth, just with diffe
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
"decreed by executive order" That's the only bummer here. I do agree with this policy, but no one voted for it. The governor just said "you're going to do this". Yes, yes, I know - people elected the governor
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
In 2026 the number of people with mp3 players that are not also smart phones is vanishingly small.
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
They could call them something like “sonnet” and “haiki” maybe.
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
As if the world needs more video content. There's already enough movies and TV shows to keep me busy for the rest of my life. If they stopped making movies and TV shows tomorrow, I wouldn't get through everything I would be inter
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
what kind of author releases about a book they themselves have not read? Could you possibly care less about your readers and your own work?
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
"Reasonable people would say that replicating and disseminating code with the express purpose of avoiding copyright is a violation of copyright and why it exists in the first place." But then how can the FSF reimplement AT&T u
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
Though here, the purpose is still served. If I want to clone some GPL clone into a MIT license, if it ends up in the public domain because it can't be copyrighted, what do I care? I've still got the code I want without the GPL.
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
If I hired a human to write a clone of GNU grep to be released under a MIT license, and he wrote one that was performed exactly the same as GNU grep, it would be impossible for me to prove that the guy I hired didn't look at the GNU co
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1 in 4 American Adults Have an "Intimate/Romantic" Relationship with AI(vantagepointdallascounseling.com)
4 points by bananamogul 7mo ago|3 comments

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