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541.
by miohtama 1y ago
It's almost like Python 2 to Python 3 upgrade. Took a decade but everyone is finally happy.
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by miohtama 1y ago
Triggered people should buy their software from Microsoft
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by miohtama 1y ago
But the parent does not refer to fixing crashes
544.
by miohtama 1y ago
If you have been trained with PHP codebases, I am not surprised you want to end humanity (:
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by miohtama 1y ago
> Which I would've really expected more Linux users would value more than they seem to. It's likely that the users who find this annoying will simply stop using Linux.
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"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit(pluralistic.net)
7 points by miohtama 1y ago|1 comments
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by miohtama 1y ago
Out of curiosity: because there seems to be a race to optimise models for local inference, how much "parameters one could save" by dropping unneeded language and domain-specific information. Like, can you have a model that is Engl
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by miohtama 1y ago
If you think it is not a burden you are free to maintain yourself. This is the core value promise of open source.
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by miohtama 1y ago
Indeed it is. I am not sure if BSD people have better support for legacy hardware. Outside BSD, there is no competition for open source operating systems, or generally legacy PC hardware systems overall as Windows support was dropped long t
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by miohtama 1y ago
> It's sad to see old hardware support getting dropped like that. The problem is that someone needs to work to support different hardware architectures. More exotic hardware, more complicated and expensive the work becomes. People w
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What it took to get Edit button done in Twitter organization(twitter.com)
4 points by miohtama 1y ago|2 comments
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by miohtama 1y ago
There are estimated more than 500M cryptocurrency users world wide. Single self custodial wallets like TrustWallet have 50M installs in Play Store alone. Using "greater good" argument for censorship is a slippery slope, as we hav
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by miohtama 1y ago
Google backs off after the noise https://x.com/newsfromgoogle/status/1955741506440192463?s=52...
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by miohtama 1y ago
In the past, part of the definition of an operating system was that it ships with a compiler.
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by miohtama 1y ago
If I am right it is the opposite. It's because website owners block the UK IP addresses, as otherwise they could face criminal charges unless they buy an expensive compliance-as-a-service solution to check the age of all visitors and h
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The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse(nymag.com)
3 points by miohtama 1y ago|0 comments
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by miohtama 1y ago
The solution is to bring back cybercafes, or cafes which were set up up to go online. Such culture existed in the 90s but was then ended by the widespread online accessibility by home ADSL and later mobile internet. https://www.v
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Ask HN: Does Google Drive secretly delete files?
2 points by miohtama 1y ago|3 comments
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by miohtama 1y ago
One can create a free Google account and use Gemini for free. Or think it this way: It's easy to get base level free LLM (Toyota) but one should not expect free top of the shelf (Porsche).
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by miohtama 1y ago
Here is some history and background by Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine https://archive.ph/XHuGW > But in fact, the way they work is that every time their net worth increases, the government’s senior preferred claim — tha
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by miohtama 1y ago
I wish there would be an open fund that allows me to do opposite and the fund would countersue copyright holders for holding development back and demanding excessive mafia payments
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by miohtama 1y ago
So it means every website is Category 1. How convenient.
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by miohtama 1y ago
Mossad and its subsidiaries like NSO pay $1M https://citizenlab.ca/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphon...
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by miohtama 1y ago
Writing advice from AI: $20/mo.
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Gaybreaking(twitter.com)
46 points by miohtama 1y ago|16 comments
566.
by miohtama 1y ago
Ukko is also the god of thunder in Finnish mytology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukko
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by miohtama 1y ago
This is why OpenAI is building their own browser. When the AI-managed requests are initiated by the user itself, from his browser, from his computer, it is more difficult to block and monetise them (except of course by OpenAI itself).
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by miohtama 1y ago
But custom app events are just database entries created someone not Meta?
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by miohtama 1y ago
For all HN commenters: if you are not paying for it, you are not a customer and thus you should not complain.
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by miohtama 1y ago
> Everlaw, a platform providing verifiable RAG to help legal professionals analyze large volumes of discovery documents, requires precise semantic matching across millions of specialized texts. Through internal benchmarks, Everlaw found

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