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by doubloon 2y ago
I dint understand how this works without also creating the ecosystem that worms depend on.
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by doubloon 2y ago
This is what I thought the internet wiuld become, back in the 1990s, just tons of projects like Povray. Not addeictive dark pattern trillionaires, see the recent Eli Gray article posted on HN how big tech enables link fraud for example. Thi
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by doubloon 2y ago
AIG got bailed out by the government and is still in business.
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by doubloon 2y ago
you know whats funny is how we have become so efficient at producing food the government literally has to stop companies from producing it more efficiently or it would crash prices and cause economic disruptions. and restaurants throw out m
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by doubloon 2y ago
two parents working 40-60 hours a week. if two parents worked 20-30 hours a week each, probably not as big a deal.
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by doubloon 2y ago
i would like to see more hard data on this instead of what amounts to a rant. or does that make me a weird nerd?
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by doubloon 2y ago
agree, this is definitely describing something that is little talked about but very central to economics. there is a book by the Gangs of New York author called Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America (1938). The
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by doubloon 2y ago
you know what else would? walkable cities more time off from work more third spaces less air pollution less inequality of course none of that "increases productivity or GDP" so the ruling class won't consider it. of course wh
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by doubloon 2y ago
well. Excel macros are written in a form of basic. The latest and greatest excel still pops into visual basic if you hit control f11.
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by doubloon 2y ago
Really remarkable, congratulations.
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by doubloon 2y ago
citation needed.
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by doubloon 2y ago
so.. cotton threads?
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by doubloon 2y ago
well in the long run the naysayers were right. the personal PC business is strewn with dead companies scrounging for pennies. it is basically a loss leader. FAANG - which one of those make PCs? oh right, none of them except Apple which has
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by doubloon 2y ago
thats why you dont take credit for anything
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by doubloon 2y ago
its the soft power of the IBM name. it's not possible to describe it now or for people nowdays to understand what that name meant. you went to a big company they ran IBM. you want to get the same kind of computer 'that they use at
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by doubloon 2y ago
wouldn't that be grepix cat *?
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by doubloon 2y ago
i like how local municipalities, who literally have legal responsibility to clean up public spaces, are viewed as less responsible than every single other party, none of whom have any legal responsibility to clean up public spaces.
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by doubloon 2y ago
during a war against an existential threat, propaganda is not unethical, its a duty and is to be expected. i dont know of a single country that wouldnt do the same in their position.
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by doubloon 2y ago
Would be awesome for ui testing.
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by doubloon 2y ago
how good do you think the crimps are nowdays at Boeing and Space-X?
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by doubloon 2y ago
well i rode a bike for several years and i would love separate interlocking paths for bikes to be everywhere. right now i cannot even go half a mile to get groceries because someone obsessed with "not modeling poverty" decided the
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by doubloon 2y ago
it's a question of intent. 'the free world' loses internet content mostly because we are indifferent and don't value the humanities or social sciences as much as we used to. china loses internet content because it is a o
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by doubloon 2y ago
electrons flow in a wire acceleration is constant light travels at c and other lies. the whole thing is a sham i tell you!!
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by doubloon 2y ago
i do find that this Piper project is really amazing. however if i am going to listen to 3 hours of audiobook, i would still pay for a better TTS versus Piper. (now i buy a lot of audiobooks read by voice actors but not every book i want to
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by doubloon 2y ago
I have a 24 core Intel cpu and llama3.cpp runs llama3 surprisingly fast in surprisingly little RAM. Yes it becomes a space heater but theres light at the end of the cuda free tunnel
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by doubloon 2y ago
Dude im hoping we get rid of Nvidia completely. I can run llama.cpp inference on a 7B model on my 24 core cpu intel machine using just CPU and it only uses about 4gb of ram and is not that slow. If we could have massive parallel arm core or
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by doubloon 2y ago
Thats one of the first things Andrew Ng said in his old ML course
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by doubloon 2y ago
sometimes i ponder the concept of a CPU built for rational numbers a/b + c/d -> ( ad + cb ) / bd usually in computers there is someone that has already "tried it" (example - trinary computers) but i haven't
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by doubloon 2y ago
every time my safety is restricted its under calls of some kind of "freedom".
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by doubloon 2y ago
every library has a human being going through, by hand, and deciding what comes in, what goes out, and what is on "reserve", "special collections", a children's section, a fiction section, a non-fiction section, and

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