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by floren 1y ago
Looks cooler, and you tell yourself that you're saving your eyes as you sit in your blackout-curtained hacker den... but the pitch black hacker den is also part of the desired aesthetic. Real Hackers didn't use rgb dweeb keyboards
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by floren 1y ago
As an ex-employee (and I even did some HPC) I am not aware of any instances of Sandia receiving computing hardware for free.
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by floren 1y ago
> EV fires can take up to 8,000 gallons of water to cool the lithium-ion batteries. where could a cargo ship possibly obtain that quantity of water
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by floren 1y ago
Yeah it would be pretty fucked up if the current administration pushed something that's bad for the US government but very good for some billionaires. I assume the only reason it hasn't happened yet is that Trump is still figuring
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by floren 1y ago
I think Surréal 3000 is the one.
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by floren 1y ago
Gemini suggested the same at one point, but it would be a stretch since I read the book in question at least 7 years before City of Ember was published.
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by floren 1y ago
See I try that sort of thing, like asking Gemini about a science fiction book I read in 5th grade that (IIRC) involved people living underground near/under a volcano, and food in pill form, and it immediately hallucinates a non-existen
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by floren 1y ago
Presumably this would have to come after R&A has ok'd it for public release.
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by floren 1y ago
You can say "fucking" and "shit" on HN
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by floren 1y ago
When I took multivariable calculus in tyool 2007, we were forbidden from using our calculators. "You can use a slide rule or an abacus" and I did indeed bring the former to one exam, but of course the problems were written in such
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by floren 1y ago
I've been on Namecheap for years but I'm ready to move just because they refuse to support dynamic AAAA records. How's Porkbun on that front?
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by floren 1y ago
My co-worker's 7 year old daughter calls him "bruh"
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by floren 1y ago
What model were you using? You need to use gpt-3.14-tastesgreat-lessfilling, I've used it to write 130 side hustle projects this month with only prompting.
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by floren 1y ago
Remember, if AI couldn't solve your problem, you were probably using the wrong model. Did you try with o5-selfsuck-20250523-512B?
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by floren 1y ago
Completing the triumvirate, Asimov had them on Earth in the Robot novels
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by floren 1y ago
The summer rains were something else. Almost every afternoon at about 4 you get a quick (or not so quick) rain and suddenly the temperature has dropped 10 degrees and it's beautiful outside.
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by floren 1y ago
Shows up sometimes. Sometimes it wanders off for 10 minutes because the driver is finishing a Lyft ride first but accepted your fare anyway, or they got lost, or they stopped to pick up food (all of these have happened to me)
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by floren 1y ago
Missing one of the most important features of tmux: the ability to share a session with someone else, who will see what you see but can also drive if they so choose.
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by floren 1y ago
My understanding of how ActivityPub software tends to operate says that while this may be slow, it probably will burn the world a bit more... Just see Ted Unangst's posts about writing Honk (and dealing with the behavior of other imple
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by floren 1y ago
Reminds me of something I wrote back in 2023: "If you wrote it with an LLM, it wasn't worth writing" https://jfloren.net/b/2023/11/1/0
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by floren 1y ago
If they're using the same Nordic BLE chips everybody else is, there's just gonna be a cap on how quickly you can move stuff, I think. I've found the display capabilities of the current gen smartglasses pretty disappointing. Y
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by floren 1y ago
Three seconds to send a bitmap? And I thought the Brilliant Monocle/Frame was slow! In the video it looks like you don't get more than a bar or two on-screen at a time... wouldn't any reasonably fast piece outpace the rate at
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by floren 1y ago
El Reg uses it pretty consistently.
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by floren 1y ago
I hear Microsoft loves open source, so they should be able to step up and cover this, right?
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by floren 1y ago
I'm just curious about the best way to generate a dashboard image locally without invoking a web browser -- I'm quite terrible at web programming and would be much more comfortable with ImageMagick or even troff.
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by floren 1y ago
> Cinema could start to get really interesting Not if you do this: > You could generate a new updated movie set between ANH and ESB with AI versions of the original actors when they were young and alive. The story is told! Let's
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by floren 1y ago
I found CSC friendly but basically the boating equivalent of opening the encyclopedia at random and reading -- whichever instructor I ended up with would just decide what he wanted to teach/do that day, no structured curriculum. Presum
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by floren 1y ago
Horseshoe.
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by floren 1y ago
And I'd still disagree with you. There's a long line of fops, dandies, social climbers, hangers-on and aspirants however far you choose to look back in history. We may be in a particularly acute period right now but the desire to
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by floren 1y ago
Then there's the way my mother-in-law uses the dishwasher: turn on the faucet as high as it goes, then rinse each dish so much it could just go straight in the rack, then load the dishwasher, then FINALLY turn the water back off.

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