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by mrandish 7mo ago
I read that Aerosmith made more money from Guitar Hero game royalties than from their albums. And it's been true for a long time that most acts make more from touring and merch than song sales.
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by mrandish 7mo ago
I was curious about this too and looked up the approximate online selling prices for new. The camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro ~$2000 and telescopes: Askar 130PHQ Quadruplet Refracting Astrograph ~$3500 and William Optics WIFD Ultra-Cat 76 APO Ref
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by mrandish 7mo ago
> quickie comments on HN should be taken more as mental stimulation and kickoff points for further discussion Indeed. Setting aside variable details like time frames and cost structures which can be debated separately, what I found inter
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by mrandish 7mo ago
The taskbar being nerfed is the main reason I haven't upgraded to Windows 11. The vertical taskbar he mentions first is critical but they need to bring back Quick Launch folders too.
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by mrandish 7mo ago
I was vaguely aware this is possible although the "sign-up for a dev account and boot it in dev mode all the time", even if free, was still enough of a barrier that I haven't done yet. I'm hoping this hack eventually lea
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by mrandish 8mo ago
> Betting billions of dollars on them still being around in 5-10 years is just not a wise decision. Historically dynamic RAM has gone through several boom/bust cycles, oscillating between manufacturers struggling to break-even and c
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by mrandish 8mo ago
I just don't understand how this happens. Either there's literally no product management at a cross-product level or there is and they had a meeting where this plan was discussed and someone approved it. I'm not sure which
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by mrandish 8mo ago
> we haven’t donated to Trump Another reason is that Sam Altman has been willing to "play ball" like providing high-profile (though meaningless) big announcements Trump likes to tout as successes. For example: > "The S
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by mrandish 8mo ago
When @sama announced within hours that OAI was replacing Anthropic with the "same conditions ", it was clear that either the DoW or OAI (or both) were fudging. DoW balked at Anthropic's conditions so OAI's agreement must
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by mrandish 8mo ago
Very nice. I didn't have some of those. Thanks for posting! For those of us who have a user.js file to keep all these about:config customizations over time and across installs... here they are formatted for user.js: user_pref(&quot
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by mrandish 8mo ago
As a customer, I just want the information I need. While I don't want to talk to a chatbot, I also don't want to talk to a human - and for the same reason: they usually don't have the info I need. That's the aspect I d
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by mrandish 8mo ago
While I agree with TFA's point that forcing a chatbot isn't a substitute for just having the info available, organized and searchable, the answer to your specific question is that the fully burdened cost of a trained support cente
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by mrandish 8mo ago
> Anthropic argues that your Crayola analogy is fundamentally incorrect. Yes, I just saw Dario's latest post with that more detailed info. My understanding was informed by news reporting in a couple different outlets but those repor
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by mrandish 8mo ago
> designating it a supply chain risk is the only way they can ensure that their contractors don't include Claude I agree that if the DoW claim is correct (and I doubt it is), then, sure, the DoW dropping Anthropic and precluding t
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by mrandish 8mo ago
> "Two such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War..." While I agree with Anthropic's position on this regardless, the original contract wording does matter in terms of making either
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by mrandish 8mo ago
> In 2007 it was visionary and essential ... In 2026 it is a symbol of Google's stagnation. Since around ~2010, Google's culture has gradually transitioned from exploring, discovering and building new businesses to defending an
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by mrandish 8mo ago
> Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man The things this definition misses: First, 'intelligence' is a poorly defined and overly broad term. Secon
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by mrandish 8mo ago
> They were rare, and special, and you'd have a few photos per YEAR to look back on. My generation generally only had photos from birthdays, holidays, vacations, weddings, graduations and reunions. We looked at the three albums whic
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by mrandish 8mo ago
I was making a distinction between AI-based autonomy which is less deterministic and currently subject to unpredictable hallucinations vs 'automatic' based on if/then heuristics and thresholds which can range from as simple a
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by mrandish 8mo ago
My strong initial reaction to even the idea of "fully autonomous AI killbots" made me miss a subtle distinction about what the real danger is. We already have a variety of non-AI killbots. Conceptually, any area denial weapon li
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by mrandish 8mo ago
Obviously, domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens is bad but before even getting to that, the thing that doesn't make sense is: it's illegal for the DoD to do that (unless the citizens are military or DoD employees). And, does a
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by mrandish 8mo ago
Sadly, I think the same is true for my two posts accused of being LLM generated. It's become a bit of a reflexive witch-hunt when just being more than five sentences and basically decent grammar / vocabulary is enough to garner so
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by mrandish 8mo ago
I don't like the "guy in charge" anyway but it's not clear the other major party would stand united against this if they were in power. While I believe they'd probably have hearings and debate it more, this may be o
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by mrandish 8mo ago
Prior to the rise of LLM-written posts and the natural reaction of hair-trigger suspicion, I used to em and en dash fairly often in posts on HN. No reason really other than being a bit of a typography geek who happens to have always used da
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by mrandish 8mo ago
> the first graphical RPG I ever played, Dungeons of Daggorath In case you didn't know Dungeons of Daggorath (1982) for the Radio Shack Color Computer featured significantly in the best-selling sci-fi book "Ready Player One&quo
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by mrandish 8mo ago
That and several other sentences really read like an emotionally immature teenager wrote it.
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by mrandish 8mo ago
Yeah, that whole post comes across as deflecting and minimizing the impact while admitting to obviously negligent actions which caused harm.
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by mrandish 8mo ago
> once you build the political, legal, and technical machinery of censorship, you're half way to having it co-opted Indeed, my original post ("Both political parties have tried to silence dissenting views") was simply abou
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by mrandish 8mo ago
Unfortunately, reasonable views from experts like Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and Jay Bhattacharya Professor of Medicine at Stanford were also suppressed. Kulldorff only responded to a question saying: &qu
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by mrandish 8mo ago
Zuckerberg says the White House pressured Facebook to 'censor' some COVID-19 content during the pandemic: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh... > "The United States gov

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