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by k310 6mo ago
Subscription not required. Blocking javascript works great. Paper is paywalled at Science. Molecular solar thermal energy storage in Dewar pyrimidone beyond 1.6 megajoules per kilogram Available from NSF https://par.nsf.gov/
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Holy surveillance state, Batman. We are arming Big Brother with spyglasses and eyes in the ear. These gadgets put ALPR's and surveillance cameras to shame. Will Apple download 4GB of Gemini into your AirPods? And what are the chances o
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> His laws assume a machine that reasons from rules. Modern AI learns patterns from data and approximates behavior. This means the LLM driven Asimov law will never be an unbendable law to follow. Instead, it's merely a suggestion.
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You can ask admins to post-edit. hn@ycombinator.com
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> The matter was sorted out thanks to the intervention of another priest who had a connection to the bank president, Father McCarthy said. So, it turns out that bankers are more powerful than God. A graphic explains this clearly. Image a
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Thank you for bringing this up. I am 77 and techie through and through, but with several ios gadgets mostly on 26, it's a fright trying to swipe. The iphone SE3 has a home button. The Christmas sale ipad has a touch (raised) button. An
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Coronado. Free to read at MSN, syndicated from WSJ https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/one-of-california-s-...
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My brother, the least computer savvy person, got fed up with windows breaking his drivers once a month and having to reinstall them. He ended up with a Dell desktop, Ubuntu installed and supported. After a few questions about substitute pro
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Even with price increases, nothing beats external disk storage. One can even tape one to the back of a laptop. I never used network storage because none of it worked as well as NFS did on ancient Sun pizzabox and lunchbox hardware. When the
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Syndicated, no account needed. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/top-stocks/retail-investors-...
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How did I read this long essay on math, something in which my brain lost excitement a couple of years into college? If "To Engineer is human," then To pursue mathematics is to imagine, to meet challenges and grow from the experien
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I turned off "iCloud Photos". [0] I turned off "Optimize Mac Storage" on the mac. [1] I back up all devices to the mac and nothing else [2] [0] I found 10 being sent to iCloud on the mac, entirely by accident. [1] Who in
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Syndicated, no paywall, at MSN. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-know-you-live-right-her...
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My opinion is that Trump has walked into quicksand with this war of "Weapons of Mass Distraction" from illegally concealed Epstein Files evidence. A "forever war" works only if it was planned as a domestic control strate
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The referred-to releases page [0] says no releases. [0] https://github.com/gynet/keewebx/releases
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No fooling, I had to work on a Sun workstation in a lab. The lab instructor had installed his own password on it, so I had to guess it. (well, there are other ways, of course, but I didn't need one.) There was a small framed print on t
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Authoritarians appeal to narrow interests, such as short-term gain, or racism, xenophobia and so on, in order to gain power. This is the classic fascist playbook. And then people pay, whether you call it FAFO, or face-eating-leopards, a pri
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For a SanFrancisco writer to call Oakland a little-known Bay Area city is either ultra-snark or a deliberate manure-dump. I do expect SFO to now rename itself to "San Francisco International, We're not Oakland, we stole your Golde
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Unintended? Consequences. It encourages weaker passwords, since you are not going to type in 14 of more characters by hand. I tried. On campus, one service timed you out pretty quickly if you dawdled typing your password. I suggested that y
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I found some webpage to pdf websites, if that works for you. Nothing to install.
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https://nitter.net/lifeof_jer https://rentry.co/5rme2sea
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Sorry to agree. This decapitation of education, military, cyber-defense, public news, the arts, disaster preparedness, climate science ... the list goes on ... is so systematic that it can only be described as a fifth column effort to dest
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Did you ever install it, or Ginger? An app store search also turned up "Headspace Care" (Ginger) Ginger is now Headspace Care It would be beyond malware for an app to install itself, since there's that app store hurdle to l
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Putin is happy with his investment. Xi, we shall see.
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Paper is free at arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14886 The Cosmological Constant from a Quantum Gravitational θ-Vacua and the Gravitational Hall Effect Stephon Alexander, Heliudson Bernardo, Aaron Hui We provid
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AI was set up as the fall guy before the Minab School Attack [0] Subterfuge with Anthropic and OpenAI. There is always a fall guy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
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Nabbing the little guy for show, very much like Henry Hill taking one for Paulie and the gang. The same gang that robbed the Lufthansa vault at JFK Airport, stealing six million dollars in cash and jewelry. When the history of this administ
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Nabbing the little guy for show, very much like Henry Hill taking one for Paulie and the gang. The same gang that robbed the Lufthansa vault at JFK Airport, stealing six million dollars in cash and jewelry. When the history of this administ
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IMNSHO, betting on mega data centers is betting against software and hardware innovation. LLM's already run on desktops and will eat up the long tail of uses faster than a bean counter switched to Excel from a mainframe Cobol app. That
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Mostly Moleskine. Computers have changed dramatically in my 11 or so years here, but files always get transferred on external drives. As I go through things looking to downsize from stuff I never used and never will, the notes remain, along

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