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by fer 6mo ago
How is that communistic? The reasoning behind Gentan was that a landless peasantry was more likely to revolt. It's not dissimilar to pre-1929 kulaks, though the kulaks were encouraged/enabled to become a relatively wealthy/mi
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by fer 6mo ago
Only to find a paywall after going through all the hoops. I'd install an app to slap whoever made that decision.
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by fer 6mo ago
In terms of the usual data collection, I'm very happy with TrackerControl[0]. It's basically meant to run as an always on VPN (it isn't one) which allows it to block ads, social media, trackers, etc with quite reasonable gran
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by fer 6mo ago
Called it 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533297#47540633 Something worse than a bad model is an inconsistent model. One can't gauge to what extent to trust the output, even for the simplest instruc
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by fer 6mo ago
>Make is generic. Nix is not. Before I even look at the actual code I already know that it is something I can use immediately on my existing system. Hard disagree on this one. It's a series of makefiles that depend on apt (or whatev
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by fer 6mo ago
There's already a bunch of comments about Nix, so I don't want to repeat them, but really Nix is less complex than a handcrafted series of Makefiles, and significantly more versatile. With home-manager I have the same packages, sa
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by fer 6mo ago
Where I grew up, it happened to me with (primary/middle/high) schools. During the 60s and 70s, in order to accommodate baby boomers, new buildings were built on existing school grounds, and while they were not cookie cutter copies
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by fer 6mo ago
Right because, what does even "buy" mean? https://thedeepdive.ca/openai-locked-up-40-of-global-ram-wit...
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by fer 6mo ago
That just means they'll be more subtle once the dust settles.
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by fer 6mo ago
It's closer to broetry than llmism in my eyes.
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by fer 7mo ago
They do. I'm currently seeing a degradation on Opus 4.6 on tasks it could do without trouble a few months back. Obvious I'm a sample of n=1, but I'm also convinced a new model is around the corner and they preemptively nerf t
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by fer 7mo ago
> Nobody is going to be building cathedrals, and factories and computers for a good while... Interesting mental exercise. It was explored in A Canticle for Leibowitz[0], novel in 3 parts (Fiat homo, fiat lux, fiat voluntas tua), the firs
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by fer 7mo ago
I loved it, though from that era I liked Fatal Racing the most.
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by fer 7mo ago
I agree and disagree with you. I'm roughly the same as you in terms of information access, though whether I was a child is debatable; was 14 when I got my first dialup connection. My family wasn't tech-adjacent so it was me who pu
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by fer 7mo ago
> e.g. shell motions between macOS and reasonable OSes. I forgot about this since I started NixOS/home-manager everywhere.
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by fer 7mo ago
Oh thanks! We've made small gliders and those butterflies with rubber bands, but I never thought that mode of operation went that far. It makes sense to use something that requires higher torque like clock mechanism to limit the speed
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by fer 7mo ago
The red tape and standarization is only proportional to the liability, making things fly isn't all that hard. One thing my son has always been obsessed with was planes. We started with paper planes, mainly the classic squarey one I lea
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by fer 7mo ago
> A normal German citizen with a normal amount of money leaving Germany to become a nomad and travel the world, never establishing tax residency in any other country, will not need to open a bank account anywhere else That will make you
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by fer 7mo ago
In Germany, unregistering doesn't require registration elsewhere, but it doesn't mean you stop being tax resident. If you regularly return to Germany and generally to the same place there (i.e. family, friends), and you're n
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by fer 7mo ago
Talking about homes: if a wealthy person see a depreciation of the equity they have a parachute (more homes, stocks, etc), if middle class sees a depreciation of the equity they're on the street. The risk profile is absolutely not the
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by fer 7mo ago
Because wealthy people can perform buy borrow die and poor people can't, artificially amplifying generational wealth differences.
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by fer 7mo ago
Funny pick, because Italy is very strict on this. To stop being considered a tax resident in Italy you need to deregister from your municipality and register in the AIRE (Anagrafe degli Italiani Residenti all'Estero). But for the AIRE
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by fer 7mo ago
Sorry but that's been a meme and a house of cards since the Common Reporting Standard. The fact is that the country whereever you carry any legal activity will require you to prove you're taxed elsewhere not to tax you in place. T
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by fer 7mo ago
>covering features impacts accuracy of feature-based classifiers More new at 9. Plus it's from 2019.
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by fer 7mo ago
Not going to defend Polymarket, but that's usually the case for markets that should never existed that depend heavily on opinion and/or reporting. For example, "Will Trump talk Macron before 31 of March?". Someone is goi
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by fer 7mo ago
Polymarket doesn't operate in the US. https://docs.polymarket.com/api-reference/geoblock
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by fer 7mo ago
>everything I don't like is Nazi Calling autocracy the sanctioning someone for being on the literal payroll of RT, state media of a hostile country where extrajudicial executions of journalists were commonplace before Roscomnadzor w
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by fer 7mo ago
> Germany has sanctioned its own journalists If we're talking about the same case, the EU sanctioned him, the man is at least dual citizen, and received Russian funds via his media company in Turkey, then proceeded to say it was all
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by fer 7mo ago
Exactly, sounds tautological.
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by fer 7mo ago
What's the power consumption like? Edit: just checked the specs, 47 kWh/mo, roughly 65W on average

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