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by mvdwoord 1y ago
I do not live in the UK, but across the channel.. Had to look it up a bit as I do not follow this in great detail but there is some significant debate there on inheritance taxes I believe? I appreciate that this is a complex topic, but the
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
It's a method, for sure, but not a fail-safe one nor the only one. There seems to be an active experiment going on in the UK right now.
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
I found stylus to work really well for this.. I have most of my apps typically in Nord palette. For some frequently visited websites, such as HN, I apply the Nord theme. Not sure if it was already built by someone else, but something I foun
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
Same in neighboring Holland, certain parties, groups, or positions can never be labelled "conservative", "right", or ... it must always be extreme. It is telling and very tiresome.
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
Definitely.... I just bought a new NAS and after moving stuff over, and downloading some new movies and series, "Vibe coding" a handful of scripts which check completeness of episodes against some database, or the difference betwe
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Optical Generative Models(nature.com)
3 points by mvdwoord 1y ago|0 comments
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
>a law called the e-Privacy Directive to require websites to get consent from users before loading cookies on their devices, unless the cookies are “strictly necessary” to provide a service. Fast forward to 2025 and the internet is full
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
Makes you wonder, what other things did the EU mess up, and which of those do they want to fix..
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Europe's cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it(politico.eu)
10 points by mvdwoord 1y ago|12 comments
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
Indeed.. besides the herd mentality, and obvious bias in all of these authorities, what irks me most is the complete and utter randomness of the outrage over Gaza. I'm sure horrible things happen there, also that Israel plays dirty, bu
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
My intuition, which is of course woefully inadequate in this area, says there is a ton of accuracy to be gained, and I feel also a lot of offloading and therefore pruning or better use for the rest of the parameters... Anyway,. let me refre
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
Progress is hard to keep track of in this fast paced environment, but aren't there already models that can add external tools and simply offload parts of he reasoning there? Maybe over MCP or some other mechanism, so it can offload e.g
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
I was so confused by this when it first happened to me.... Watching quite some youtube content, and more than willing to pay any content provider for a worthy dose of content... I refuse to hand youtube any money and will happily play the a
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
Don't worry, we hate you being that guy too ;) Obscurity sometimes gets you enough, if only just cleaner log files. Something something threat model.
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Superintelligence or Super-Incompetence? Meta's Elite AI Recruits Crash the Web(twitter.com)
2 points by mvdwoord 1y ago|2 comments
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
Tweet content: "You may have seen recent compaints about Meta's webcrawler ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45092604 ) and the fact that people are already leaving the SuperIntelligence Team ( https:/&#x2
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
So much this. It was hard to watch.
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The same web we can then only access via approved browsers?
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
- 4x NVIDIA RTX 6000 PRO Blackwell Max-Q (384GB total VRAM). - 8TB of NVMe PCIe 5.0 storage. - AMD Threadripper PRO 7975WX (32 cores, 64 threads). - 256GB ECC DDR5 RAM. - 1650Watts at peak (runs on a standard 15Amp/120V circuit). For
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We Built A16Z's Personal GPU AI Workstation Founders Edition(twitter.com)
2 points by mvdwoord 1y ago|1 comments
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
Fully agreed. I thought it was just because I'm on mobile right now, but apparently not.
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How can we help with the recent AUR outages?(lists.archlinux.org)
2 points by mvdwoord 1y ago|0 comments
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
You could still bring your laptop? Swap out the HDMI if you want to use the monitor...
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
This is what we had all over the world (...) when Internet Cafes were a thing. Perhaps they should come back?
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
Still that many! Incredible. I do remember reading about Dutch teletext being maintained (content wise) by only one or two people. Fascinating phenomenon.
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
Thanks for sending me down a little mini rabbit hole, this triggered some memories on old teletext decoders for Amiga back in the 90s. Anyway, I distinctly remember my father getting a new TV with teletext around 1987, and I could play endl
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Officially acquiring all 47 original Commodore trademarks(twitter.com)
5 points by mvdwoord 1y ago|1 comments
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
I was disappointed to find out that my girlfriend's iphone (albeit a few years old) is not able to charge my wireless earbuds. A feature I've enjoyed on my Samsung phones for as long as I can remember.
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
Maybe they can lead by example and show us the chats from Ursula first...
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by mvdwoord 1y ago
As a support engineer at IBM we used a mainframe system called NRCPMA iirc... I think NR stood for Northern Region. Accessed via a terminal emulator, fully customizable with macros, fastest tool I ever worked with indeed, once you climbed t

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