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by bigiain 10mo ago
I'm not who you asked that question, but I'd guess it's because it requires "proprietary tools, thermal energy, or solvents to disassemble the product." It'd be hard to design/manufacture a device that rel
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Awww man - I miss n-gate. I hope whoever they are is doing well. I like to think they're "recovered" in the alt.sysadmin.recovery sense of the word, and are living happily ever after without a single piece of tech newer that
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Save some of the not-top-30 posts, and add in a sprinkling of Hiring, Show HN, YC Summer 2035 acceptances/rejections, or product launches - of founders who just vibe coded something based on a presumed 6 week ago version of this future
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Sure, but it's kinda like cartoon/comic art. HN's big eyes and prominent ears have been almost grotesquely exaggerated which somehow makes it way more recognisably lifelike and believable than a photographically accurate repr
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That campground info hooks back into the old joke I was referencing. What's the most important piece of camping gear you can take with you? A meter or so of fiber optical cable. So that if you get lost of injured you can bury it and wa
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by bigiain 10mo ago
I heard a story from a usually reliable friend, that there are old decommissioned aluminium smelters on the river or in the mountains east of Portland, that closed up back in the early 2000s or so when Google and Amazon and other datacenter
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by bigiain 10mo ago
If you hang your fibre optic cable from poles, you will inevitably evolve flying backhoes.
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Anyone else remember the QNX demo disk from the late '90s? A full unix-like GUI environment that booted from a 1.44MB floppy disk. Ran super responsively in 386 machines with 8MB of RAM.
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by bigiain 10mo ago
There will be people who care about trusted and reliably accurate news sources, and at least some of them are willing to pay for it. Think 404 Media. But there are people who don't want their news to be "reliably accurate", b
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by bigiain 10mo ago
> One AI hallucinated and caused the incident I suspect that AI was prompted to create the image, not that this was an incidental "hallucination". Cynical-me suspects this may have been a trial run by malicious actors experimen
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by bigiain 10mo ago
I think probably my most common prompt is "Make it shorter. No more than ($x) (words|sentences|paragraphs)."
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by bigiain 10mo ago
Do _any_ of those six companies have any guarantee of silicon wafer supply over the next 18-24 months?
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And it seems there's only one of them that's gonna have any new hardware that needs GPU flamegraphs to optimise...
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by bigiain 10mo ago
> if he didn't do better, it's because the organisation didn't let him. The last few sentences to me read like he knows for sure that the organisation is actively working against what he sees as his important goals. Carefu
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Or more cynically, because they know for sure it's full of security flaws and/or surveillance malware.
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I'm looking forward to the reaction from the public when he adds Russia to that list. It will, no doubt, be every bit as effective as the "thoughts and prayers" that follow the weekly school shootings that no other nation on
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Only the wrong sort of truth. It"s a stepping stone on the way to make it illegal to refuse to publish the "right" sort of lies.
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by bigiain 11mo ago
You say that like it's a bad thing. (I have family and lots of close friends in the US. I miss them all. But I don't intend to visit given the way things are over there these days. _Maybe_ after the next administration change? Dep
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by bigiain 11mo ago
You've cracked the funding problem! You need to sell the artisanal DRAM to HiFi hucksters. Get Monster Cable on board to say their cables can only reach peak warmth, punch, and clarity - when using gear with artisanal DRAM. You'll
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Locally sourced artisanal DRAM
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Rent a warehouse in one of the non Han dominated areas of China, where you can use all you want from the city's drinking water supply and pump all your used chemicals into the nearby river. Make sure to totally automate your robotic pr
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by bigiain 11mo ago
And to the tech staff, some out of context and misunderstood quote from semi technical management which starts with the word "Premature"
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by bigiain 11mo ago
I, for one, would not miss a single one of the electron apps I'm forced to use. Every single one of them makes me feel like the vendor is telling me "we can't be bothered employing half decent developers or giving the develop
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by bigiain 11mo ago
I wouldn't be too surprised to find at least some of the big ram foundries are deeply bought into the fake money circles where everybody is "paying" each other with unrealised equity in OpenAI/Anthropic/whoever, res
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by bigiain 11mo ago
I saw Amon Tobin about 15 years back. Still one of my favourite shows ever - and I see a _lot_ of shows. And year, your music tools/instruments constrain you. There are only so many music genres you can reasonable play or compose on an
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Some of us enjoy highly repetitive music, at least some of the time. "Computer games don't affect kids. If Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive
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by bigiain 11mo ago
Yeah, I know. But I never miss an opportunity to use that gag... (On one of my motorcycles at trackdays, I shift up on straights by holding pressure on the gear lever and waiting for it to hit the revlimiter, which eases the torque just eno
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by bigiain 11mo ago
> I'd yell "punch it chewy!" to switch from 2nd to 3rd in one swift pull without touching the clutch. Next thing, it was raining Datsun cogs.
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Here's the first video in a series where an American YouTuber restores (and gives away) a 1983 Datsun 280ZX https://youtu.be/SwSm63W2fNg Full playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3vhL4Xvzk&a
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I've been sending people this like since 2012: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/telcos-declare-sms-unsafe-for... "The lobby group for Australian telcos has declared that SMS technology should no longer be consi

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