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by lr1970 6d ago
And Zig VScode extension is quite good.
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by lr1970 10d ago
And it also makes Apple's Private Compute to process all the pictures taken by all the iphones. Can we trust their privacy preservation against a court order?
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by lr1970 11d ago
> Everything in low Earth orbit is moving at 7600m/s. A ~10g projectile moving that fast has an energy of 580,000 joules. What matters is the relative velocity of the projectile towards the target. I practice it will be smaller or l
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by lr1970 12d ago
+1. Since I discovered Altra it feels pain to wear anything else.
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by lr1970 12d ago
+1 on Altra. I have Altra FWD and it is far the best running shoes I ever had.
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by lr1970 12d ago
High performance polars dataFrame processing library [0] is written in Rust with Python bindings via PyO3/maturin. It exposes huge dataframes to python and successfully solved the interface boundayr problems described in the article. [
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by lr1970 16d ago
Nice work. But I cannot find a link to the actual code of the model or the training data. Did I miss it somewhere?
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by lr1970 24d ago
Ed Zitron is providing his assessment and prognosis strictly on financial basis. But AI has national security and geopolitical dimensions as well. US government is fully committed to keep the AI lead for as long as possible. And they use al
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by lr1970 29d ago
> npx skills add kelviq/tare -g -y --copy --agent claude-code tare is a Python project. Why distribute it with npm rather than PyPI? Weird
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by lr1970 1mo ago
> * Chris (also created swift) He also created LLVM compiler
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by lr1970 2mo ago
Nowadays I am more concerned about measles and ebola viruses. Over-indexing on covid makes little sense in 2026.
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by lr1970 2mo ago
Covid policy at Rust All-Hands [0] > On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at the All-Hands and Unconf, we expect all attendees to test themselves in the morning. I thought Covid is long gone. What did I miss? [0] https://2026.rus
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by lr1970 2mo ago
Ghostty provides official nightly builds from the main branch [0]. You do not need to build it yourself. [0] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/releases
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by lr1970 2mo ago
> Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI And introduced how many new bugs? thanks to AI ...
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by lr1970 2mo ago
Just to clarify -- this article is about Indian government order.
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by lr1970 2mo ago
> Could you elaborate? I don't understand your implication. Amazon in particular hosts open weight models via Amazon Bedrock (e.g. Ministral 14B 3.0, DeepSeek V3.2, ...) It means Google and Amazon do not care and would not voice the
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by lr1970 2mo ago
The list of companies that signed this letter is telling (including Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft). Equally telling is the list of companies that did not sign it -- including Google, Amazon.
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by lr1970 2mo ago
> but we should really stick to Standard time. There are some arguments to stick with "half-way" time -- 30 minutes in the middle between standard and summer time. It does not necessarily solves all the problems but makes a rea
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by lr1970 3mo ago
Thanks for the link to the paper published in 2010 (16 years) ago. The OP article from Brown reads as if they were the first to establish importance of Special Relativity for heavy atoms which is not true.
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by lr1970 3mo ago
> Implementing eigenvalues needs complex numbers This is exactly why eigenvalues are less flexible than singular values. You can have a real valued matrix that does not have any eigenvalues in the field of real numbers, all eigenvalues a
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by lr1970 3mo ago
> You don't want conductive graphite particles shorting out electronics nor do you want flammable dust or wood flakes. For decades mechanical pencils use non-conducting polymer based refills that eliminate the problem you mention.
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by lr1970 3mo ago
There are multiple HN submissions on this topic and none of them gets traction. Weird...
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by lr1970 4mo ago
> As the US declines, it’s not that a new leader will come in. What's about EU? EU is bigger than the USA in total population and it has comparable if not larger total GDP. Why did not they step in where USA failed?
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by lr1970 4mo ago
> > For the first time, California discharged just over 12,000 megawatts, equivalent to 12 large nuclear plants, of energy from its battery arrays. Clueless journalist conflates power (megawatts) with energy. They need physics 101. Fo
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by lr1970 5mo ago
> My favorite hilarious metric is measuring the amount of work done by counting lines of code written per day Or by hours spent in the office
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by lr1970 5mo ago
UX in my Audi Q5 (2024) is terrible. With two phones in the car you never know which one is connected and whose google maps is being currently displayed. And then come the buttons designed with a contempt for a driver. I recently had to cha
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by lr1970 5mo ago
> pricing depends on so many factors like reserved/dedicated/spot/on-demand instances have all different prices. Or you can have your own negotiated private pricing which is a whole different story in itself.
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by lr1970 5mo ago
When I ask GPT-5.5 about its knowledge cutoff date it says "August 2025". Really?
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by lr1970 5mo ago
Just asked Claude Code with Opus-4.6. The answer was short "Drive. You need a car at the car wash". No surprises, works as expected.
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by lr1970 6mo ago
There was a Tacker Carlson interview with Sam Altman where Tacker probed him on Balaji's murder and Sam quickly got confused and disoriented. Make your own conclusions.

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