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by lr1970 7mo ago
An opportunity for Apple to resurrect Airport line of WiFi routers (I love Airport Extreme) and on-shore their production.
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by lr1970 7mo ago
> and uv forcing it into a single project directory made it quite inconvenient and unnecessary duplication of the same sets of libraries. Actually, uv intelligently uses hardlinks or reflinks to avoid file duplication. On the surface, v
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by lr1970 7mo ago
> How is pixi better than uv? pixi is a general multi-languge, multi-platform package manager. I am using it now on my new macbook neo as a homebrew _replacement_. Yes, it goes beyond python and allows you to install git, jj, fzf, cmake,
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by lr1970 7mo ago
Would be more logical to use FYN_ prefix
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by lr1970 7mo ago
From fyn's roadmap: > 2. Centralized venv storage — keep .venvs out of your project dirs I do not like this. virtual environments have been always associated with projects and colocated with them. Moving .venv to centralized storage
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by lr1970 7mo ago
> I wonder how much can I read into it about gpt-5.4's personality. Modeled on Sam Altman's personality :-)
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by lr1970 8mo ago
<joke> How to tell a software engineer from a real one? A real engineer thinks that 1 kilobyte is 1000 bytes while software engineer believes that there are 1024 meters in a kilometer :-) </joke>
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by lr1970 8mo ago
Another important person in creation of the TV technology was Vladimir Zworykin [0]. He developed cathode-ray tube based TV transmission devices that he patented in 1923 and 1925. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad
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by lr1970 9mo ago
<sarcasm> I thought that Anthropic and OpenAI created precedents that legitimize libgen and Anna archive. They pillaged all the books and scientific papers from those archives and got away with it. Why not the rest of us? </sa
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by lr1970 9mo ago
About four years ago, during COVID, there was a shortage of chips for cars, fueled in part by PE scalpers hoarding chips. Sounds familiar? EDIT: more accurate language
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by lr1970 11mo ago
The biggest red flag for me is the author hiding their name. If you wrote quality book about a programming language you are not hiding your identity from the world.
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by lr1970 1y ago
One of the best movies about history of Apple and people involved is "Pirates Of Silicon Valley". Pretty accurate portrayal of Steve Jobs, Woz and the rest.
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by lr1970 1y ago
Nice video, indeed. Towards the end of the video the last shot of the home screen says "April 1" -- nice Easter Egg for all us "fools".
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by lr1970 1y ago
From "4 hour body" description on Amazon: How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails • How to prevent fat gain while bingeing over the weekend or the holidays • Ho
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by lr1970 1y ago
> There is only one or two lines of dialogue in the entire film. Technically speaking with only one actor in the entire film there can be no dialog. These were couple of expletives. I love the movie -- it is so different.
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by lr1970 1y ago
I think you made a arithmetic mistake by factor of 10. 2% of 29 trillion is 580 billions. Your number should be 610 billion, not 61 billion.
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by lr1970 1y ago
> The vast majority of advertisers returned, They returned in the first few months of the Trump administration when Elon was an important man in the government with direct access to POTUS. But after Musk fell from the Trump's good g
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by lr1970 1y ago
> The issue is there is too little repercusions for companies making software in shitty ways. The penalty should be massive enough to affect changes in the business model itself. If you do not store raw data it cannot be exfiltrated.
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by lr1970 1y ago
> helsing - Hadn't heard of them, are German. Helsing is a military AI company [0] trying to make Terminator I movie a reality in the name of democracy. [0] https://helsing.ai/ EDIT: added link.
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by lr1970 1y ago
> The FBA terms I quoted specifically say that Amazon can co-mingle FBA inventory with their own (if the FBA seller doesn't opt out of "virtual tracking"). The wording in the quote explicitly states that an FBA unit can be
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by lr1970 1y ago
Congestion pricing is only a half of the solution. The second half should be the MTA reform. MTA has been a dysfunctional mess and a bottomless money pit for as long as I remember. MTA of today will squander any amount of money you throw on
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by lr1970 1y ago
It basically boils down to the dichotomy -- "live to work" or "work to live". We want "work to be able to live" while the employers want us "live to be able to work".
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by lr1970 1y ago
context window of both opus and sonnet 4 are still the same 200kt as with sonnet-3.7, underwhelming compared to both latest gimini and gpt-4.1 that are clocking at 1mt. For coding tasks context window size does matter.
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by lr1970 1y ago
> and may help to fund their use of Llama models. I love open weight (and better open source) LLMs and wish Llama all the best! But God help Meta if they have to pay startups to entice them to use their open weights model.
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by lr1970 1y ago
> That being said, lua's lack of popularity probably stems from its limited stdlib, which often feels incomplete, and the absence of a robust package manager. luarocks is a pain to work with. And indexing arrays starting from 1 rath
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by lr1970 1y ago
> pound a couple 100 proof 100ml bottles, back to it. That job was more fun than stow. WoW, you can hold your liquor :-)
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by lr1970 1y ago
This technology of starting a diesel engine using a turbine driven by compressed air was used in Russian T-34 tank during the WWII. While Germans could not start the tanks in the cold of winter 1941 from the frozen batteries the Russians we
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by lr1970 1y ago
bringing islands together requires one to synchronize both -- frequency and phase. It is super difficult for large generators and transmission lines. transient heat dissipation can be a real bummer.
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by lr1970 1y ago
Had similar problem. Switching to fountain pens resolve it completely.
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by lr1970 1y ago
> As a comparison, full time daycare in Sweden is $100/month for everyone. Obviously $100/month covers a tiny fraction of the total cost of running a childcare service in Sweden. I am curious how much does state pays to cover t

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