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by molticrystal 1y ago
Your view from a distance, where you rarely download Youtube videos, is common for now, and we still live in a very fortunate time. The problems are short lived, so over long periods, they tend to average out, and you are unlikely to notice
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by molticrystal 1y ago
Many smart devices that have youtube functionality(tvs, refrigerators, consoles, cable boxes, etc), have limited or no ability to support that functionality in hardware, or even if they do, it might not be exposed. Once those devices get ph
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by molticrystal 1y ago
The claim that Google secretly wants YouTube downloaders to work doesn't hold up. Their focus is on delivering videos across a vast range of devices without breaking playback(and even that is blurring[0]), not enabling downloads. If yo
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by molticrystal 1y ago
I found passage below near the conclusion of the article that mentioned McLibel interesting and decided to look up what it was on wikipedia: >By the 1980s various protest movements gained traction... Between March 1995 and February 2005
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by molticrystal 1y ago
The talk that was referred to in the the article can be found here, just 13 minutes: Keynote: Giants, Standing on the Shoulders Of - Daniel Stenberg, Founder of the Curl Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBBPj7pIKo
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by molticrystal 1y ago
I imagine if Microsoft can't get you to upgrade to Windows 11, they will make a few out of support updates to Windows 10 that will annoy and nag, plead, beg, and maybe even use UI tricks to have people "accept" an upgrade. If
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by molticrystal 1y ago
Well the term Artificial Intelligence came from 1955 conference entitled "The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence". To quote their purpose: >The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that e
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by molticrystal 1y ago
Well for starters recreate the situation and test out different approaches. Thanks to the detailed analysis that can be attempted. If I understand right, a good next step would would be with eBPF or some type of proxy ignore the forged RST+
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by molticrystal 1y ago
I understand the push to build fabs in the US to avoid tariffs, as the US likely sees this as a strategic hedge for the global chip supply in case China disrupts Taiwan or Japan, or some other rare catastrophic event occurs. Whether it is c
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by molticrystal 1y ago
For those curious on a few of the metrics, besides $/token, tokens/s, latency, context size, they use the results from: MMLU-Pro (Reasoning & Knowledge) GPQA Diamond (Scientific Reasoning) Humanity's Las
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by molticrystal 1y ago
I used to be a hybrid user, mixing RSS feeds with scrolling a set of pages a few page downs. Now I only use RSS feeds. To keep it manageable, they can be configured to be updated once or twice a day and have set restrictions on sites or sea
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by molticrystal 1y ago
For several types of certificate and ssl issues(HSTS , blacklisted/revoked certificates) that option is hidden and thus unavailble. Chrome can be a stickler, which is understandable as the majority of its users are not prepared to dea
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by molticrystal 1y ago
If an explicit keypress sequence becomes unavailable or changes, the script appears to call certificateErrorPageController.proceed(). So here is a bookmarklet that replicates this, add it to the URL field of a bookmark and click the bookmar
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by molticrystal 1y ago
Yes, Firefox should focus on being a lean mean machine, with the caveat that it returns to exposing its API and making it easily accessible for anyone who wants to go beyond that principle of leanness at the expense of speed or memory. I’d
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by molticrystal 1y ago
Familiarity with the Time Cube really would of helped the author of this paper so he would not have to re-invent the 4 day harmonic cubic truth, sparing him from the ignorant one day linear folly that blinds humanity to the 4 simultaneous c
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by molticrystal 1y ago
>In my experience I've met a ton of extremely high IQ people who believe insane things My working hypothesis is that in individuals with high IQ, the brain has a stronger propensity to make connections autonomously. Then there is th
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by molticrystal 1y ago
For those interested in a windows equivalent, with bells and whistles, ImDisk [0] has a nice ramdisk creation utility with options such as allocating memory dynamically, ntfs compression, and more. For the more venturous there is GPURamDriv
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by molticrystal 1y ago
I prefer questions that reveal GPT's limitations, like an article I saw a few days ago about playing chess against an old Atari program where the model made illegal moves [0]. Causing distress in people with mental health vulnerabiliti
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by molticrystal 1y ago
If the crux of the article is the fermion bounce, and you compare that to how much matter and energy we are aware of, that is quite the black hole, which leads one to start wondering what environment it existed in to become that size. Even
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by molticrystal 1y ago
Isn't there a history of security researchers and open source programmers being detained or threatened when visiting the US? So the same thing is being done to the US's domestic researchers as well now?
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by molticrystal 1y ago
The actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08996-y The most important part, especially if somebody is wondering if they might wither away, weaken from massive weight loss, and have a good chance of or
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by molticrystal 1y ago
>That kind of emotional writing does not become someone whose profession should focus on scientific persuasion. What you'd probably prefer reading is one of the sources John Carlos Baez cites [0]: Comment on “Gravitational Pair Pro
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by molticrystal 1y ago
And the reason Coinbase has to keep all that sensitive stuff, much more than what would be required to identify and authenticate you, which you hope will never be stolen, is because of know your customer laws, so you can thank your governm
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by molticrystal 1y ago
You are right that IP checks are lightweight, though you miss that setting up TCP/IP handshakes is algorithm-heavy, but it’s transparent because hardware and kernel optimizations keep it light on the CPU. TLS encryption, through certif
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by molticrystal 1y ago
There is or at various times was, nitter for twitter, Invidious for youtube, Imginn for instagram, and even many variations of ones for hackernews like hckrnews.com & ones that are lighter, work better in terminals, etc. Anything for li
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by molticrystal 1y ago
It seems to be based off of Al-Folio, MIT licensed https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio
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by molticrystal 1y ago
Maybe someone else can summarize more accurately or do a better job but I'll take a shot: The Jacobian often appears in the final segment of a three part calculus series when exploring chain rules and variable transformations. Look up
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by molticrystal 1y ago
Aaron Swartz showed us why we must fight back against these laws. He has spun so much in his grave this week, you'd think he's trying to invent a new power source. I understand the horrors and so-called purpose this new act is try
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by molticrystal 1y ago
>The Dirac equation can be therefore interpreted as a purely geometric equation, where the mc2 term directly relates to spacetime metric. There is no need to involve any hypothetical Higgs field to explain the particle mass term. What ha
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by molticrystal 2y ago
The way articles are going they will be saying that a robot that punches buttons on a calculator [0] is artificial intelligence.... [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ZSxndNLPY

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