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by i80and 1y ago
Oh yeah, I got to meet Stallman at a book signing when I was like 17, and like an idiot happened to wear a "Linux" shirt. I genuinely hadn't thought of this point of contention beforehand, but oof he did not care for that.
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by i80and 1y ago
Anecdotally, playing Oblivion Remaster made me nostalgic for Creation. I have a beefy card and ample RAM, but it just runs like crap and I don't think it looks that much better than e.g. Starfield or Fallout 76
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by i80and 1y ago
Not the parent, but I've spent enough time in the GRUB recovery shell trying to recover inexplicably corrupted GRUB installs even as recently as last year. GRUB is shockingly fragile and painful to debug, though the recent movement on
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by i80and 1y ago
At least for the 2024 election, I find it difficult to believe one could come to any other conclusion with all the rampant sane-washing that NYT, WaPo, etc. engaged in
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by i80and 1y ago
The Monk & Robot books[1] are my personal favorites in the whole genre. [1]: https://us.macmillan.com/series/monkrobot
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by i80and 1y ago
VW and Audi MEB vehicles have an interesting difference: the ID.4 is limited to 100mph, while the Audi version with the same motors and platform is not limited to said speed.
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by i80and 1y ago
The biggest change for me I've noticed is I'm vastly less likely to speed with a digital speedometer than with a dial spedometer. Adaptive cruise control also helps a lot (I was never particularly a speed demon in the first plac
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by i80and 1y ago
> FB actually has a friend's feed which gets relatively little usage I've never seen this, despite frequently being irritated with Facebook mainly showing me random shit I don't care about. Companies always squirrel away t
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by i80and 1y ago
My mom when I was growing up found any expression of same sex relationships to be outright pornographic. I find it is best to be deeply deeply skeptical of anybody defending book censorship because frankly the most common pro-censorship m
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by i80and 1y ago
People only caring about immediate financial impacts is so deeply disheartening
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by i80and 1y ago
"Fighting fascism is a full time job!" — Lieutenant Shaxs
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by i80and 1y ago
Bay leaves that aren't dessicated and crumbled to dust in the sad little spice jar are kind of magical
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by i80and 1y ago
I don't know if this is a Poe's Law situation or not, so apologies if this is a satirical bit, but I'm horrified by the idea that you may be serious.
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by i80and 1y ago
You joined in 2011. Let me assure you: the trash can bully vibes were default here far before you were. HN is fine for what it is, but it's never ever been good .
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by i80and 1y ago
Been here since '09. There are worse places on the internet, but HN's role first and foremost is to serve as advertising and a job board for YC. There's a structural bent away from anything that might be seen as harmful to th
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by i80and 1y ago
The EO was signed in 2009. The 2009-2011 Congress was Democratically controlled.
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by i80and 1y ago
Obama did sign EO 13492 requiring Guantanamo to be closed, in fairness, with a deadline and everything. He could have and should have done more, but the blame for that one mostly falls on Congress (at the time firmly controlled by Democ
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by i80and 1y ago
Not to be blunt, but isn't this the end of habeas corpus, if the federal government can black bag anybody they want to without a trial, and then maintain they have no ability to obey judicial orders to return them?
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by i80and 1y ago
Gotta be careful -- Poe's Law is in full force rn in American Politics. People might read this seriously
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by i80and 1y ago
In principle? As long as they don't make a quote-unquote "mistake" and rush you out of the country to their little El Salvador gulag before anybody can stop them or you can prove your citizenship.
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by i80and 1y ago
Tesla was pushing solar pretty hard for a time a long time ago. My memories actually line up with the charts here. Then they kind of just... stopped talking about it at all? In retrospect it was kind of a quiet sea change for the company as
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by i80and 2y ago
The alcohol pouring is by the narrator in the vignette, not by Trump
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by i80and 2y ago
The idea that LLMs have any road to AGI is much like looking at Charles Babbage's analytical engine design and decreeing that the road to creating a mind is, to borrow a quote from Henry Babbage, merely "a question of cards and ti
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by i80and 2y ago
My experience is that if people are in an environment where helping others is socially encouraged rather than punished, most people want to help even strangers providing no benefit to themselves other than the healthy little dopamine hit.
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by i80and 2y ago
I'm deeply jealous of the few US states that have banned billboard advertising -- it really feels like pervasive advertising is outright caustic to my brain.
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by i80and 2y ago
My guess is you were using the reference AOM encoder. This is actually a real branding problem! It was never designed for encoding speed, and it shows. SVT-AV1 is the production encoder you should be using. It's high quality and fast i
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by i80and 2y ago
To be honest, if a 15 year old machine is still working fine for somebody, and h.264 is fine (if you don't care about HDR/4k, it really sort of is!), I'm not sure the benefit of suggesting somebody junk a machine
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by i80and 2y ago
Does AV1 need a successor right now? At least as of some years ago SVT-AV1 was stronger than x265 on both software encoding speed and quality/bitrate[1], and a successor would reset the timer on getting hardware decoders rolled out. [1
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by i80and 2y ago
Maybe it's growing up with Bloom County comic books, but dandelions to me are even beautiful and joyful
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by i80and 2y ago
I just subscribed as a WIRED Superfan because of this

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