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by delichon 3mo ago
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one. - Linus Torvolds https://x.com/gustavokov/status/2077426451456872866
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by delichon 3mo ago
The part about we will invite third party reviewers to examine the system that is running to confirm that the open source code is what is running. makes a big difference. Even better would be a pop up that quantifies the inputs to t
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by delichon 3mo ago
At the other end they recently doubled the cost of the Starlink Mini standby plan, from $60 to $120 per year.
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by delichon 3mo ago
This was passed in 1974, then repealed a few months later by popular demand. https://www.joshbarro.com/p/this-week-in-the-mayonnaise-clin...
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by delichon 3mo ago
If you zoom in you can see them moving. Click on them to see their tracks. I'm surprised how random the orbits seem. It's too cloudy at the moment but maybe on a clear night I can check the accuracy by looking up.
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by delichon 3mo ago
18 cents here in New Mexico. You must be getting premium government services for paying all of that in California.
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by delichon 3mo ago
You're worried that they will over-fit on killing enemy invaders, at the expense of something more important? Like what?
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by delichon 3mo ago
> The solution was a market and "currency" for units to buy equipment and supplies. Brigade-level units purchase drones directly from the manufacturers using the "Brave" marketplace. The currency in the marketplace is
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How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State(austinvernon.site)
46 points by delichon 3mo ago|63 comments
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by delichon 3mo ago
> Why is it inherently bad that university faculty lean left? For one thing it loses the support of the other half of the country to fund and support higher education. People tend not to donate to or vote for institutions that they see a
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by delichon 3mo ago
A baccalaureate is an academic degree, which is not what trade employers are looking for. They want certifications and licenses.
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by delichon 3mo ago
TrumpU was never eligible for federal funds of any kind, including students loans, as it never sought accreditation.
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by delichon 3mo ago
There is a huge unspoken blind spot for a terminal hospice patient. The medicine cabinet just opens up. My dad asked the doctor exactly how much of what he shouldn't take if he didn't want a quick easy death, and the doctor just t
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by delichon 3mo ago
Contrary to expectations, impolite prompts consistently outperformed polite ones, with accuracy ranging from 80.8% for Very Polite prompts to 84.8% for Very Rude prompts. -- https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950
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by delichon 3mo ago
Disco or death? It's not an easy choice. Which Bee Gees song is optimal? Does it help if I wear a leisure suit? Is the coke optional?
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by delichon 3mo ago
Twenty four years later I'm still looking for ways to evade the spider drones deployed by PreCrime in Minority Report.
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by delichon 3mo ago
> A reverse centaur is a machine that uses a human being as its assistant So like a political, military or religious machine does. We're already bred for it. We're Konrad Lorenz's geese, desperate to be led. It's the
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by delichon 3mo ago
> It’s not a claim that one person built the company alone.
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Ofcom Wants American Police to Collect Its Speech Fine(reclaimthenet.org)
20 points by delichon 3mo ago|4 comments
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by delichon 3mo ago
Keeping a camera focused on the lips could get awkward. A hands free throat patch may be more ergonomic.
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by delichon 3mo ago
The numbers come from the tryai.dev link: How much does Grok 4.5 cost on TryAI? Grok 4.5 is Input: $0.02 / 1M tokens, Output: $0.06 / 1M tokens. There is no subscription — you pay only for what you use.
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by delichon 3mo ago
Nope, they're that cheap. E.g. Grok 4.5 is $.02 to $.06 per million tokens. A 400 token reply costs ~.002¢ https://www.tryai.dev/models/grok-4.5 Update: kibae above and below is correct and I'm not. They have
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by delichon 3mo ago
> I don’t know what the solution is. Interstellar diaspora. Interplanetary diaspora isn't far enough apart.
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by delichon 3mo ago
> But the difference is that you didn’t do anything. And in so much as there is a you, it isn’t steering. Now I realize that the non steering you is everywhere. Jesse: I was thinking about that thing you said about the universe. Goin
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by delichon 3mo ago
> We need a regulatory body that can fine people for making analogies this bad We need a communal agreement to apply social opprobrium upon people who reflexively propose to solve trivial problems by imposing their will on other people.
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by delichon 3mo ago
A Yoda skill, is there?
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by delichon 3mo ago
Yes and your new one will be paying much closer attention to you.
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by delichon 3mo ago
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/608372/if-a-jet-... It would have to be rockets. My napkin says 2B starship boosters and 250K tons of propellant per second should give us around 1 second per year.
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by delichon 3mo ago
Hear me out. We can just mount jet engines along the equator and rotate them 180 to gain or lose time. And then connect them to my snooze button.
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by delichon 3mo ago
Plants can be toxic. Be grateful if Fable doesn't report your wife for terrorism. Maybe it can help you identify where your life went off track.

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