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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> Beyond the intrinsic difficulty of revivifying the top-hatted dead, Sorkin’s rendition is limited by his desire to frame 1929 as a story about people. His focus on individuals comes at the expense of analysis—particularly of the deeper
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
LOL You must be new around here. Since you sound sincere: "I have bad news for you" and its variant "Boy, do I have some bad news for you" are a rhetorical 2000s internet-specific stock reply format with a dry, correctiv
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> Beijing has proven itself a non-terrorist actor Oh, they do just fine terrorizing their own populace, and chinese citizens & chinese origin folks living abroad, and neighbors; those that they can currently reach.
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> This attempt could be refined but it's a decent start: >> [...] having a polished appearance but lacking originality. None of the points it makes are novel and it doesn't connect them in novel ways either. I have some b
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It's just amazing that DNA survived the ravages of such a long time, and even more amazing that human technology can use this to identify relatives so far apart in time or space. And then the wonders of DNA itself, what an absolutely m
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> Slop remains slop even if the argument it holds is ok This sounds more like a religious argument than a logical one, tbh At what point does it turn into a cult?
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> Did Courtney Eberhard, Senior Marketing Specialist at FamilyTreeDNA, use AI to write this article? It reads like it. Maybe give it a rest, yeah? Also, so what? If you have any evidence disputing the veracity or the content of the artic
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> I'm half expecting to see "AI model" appearing as stand-in for "linear regression" at this point in the cycle. Already the case with consulting companies, have seen it myself
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
Isn't the standard OS for that platform not Ubuntu? From that link: "... Raspberry Pi OS is made to get the most from your Raspberry Pi 500."
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> This has been my experience with the Linux community for 26 years. I read through that post that elicited those comments that you have a problem with. At the end of a long list of complaints, it says: ".....yep, just as user frien
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> Pings to my default gateway You have a non-default gateway in addition to a default one?
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
I do believe the OP's comparison was with AMD, not Apple. Intel has fallen into financial difficulties following product failures and AMD's strong competition, a far cry from Intel's heydays. Apple barely comes into the pictu
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality ... :-)
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
So many of these articles talk about why a particular role or type of role within an org should be there or not, but they fail to touch on the 'theory' of why or why not. This article has that same lack of foundation, and so meand
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
IMHO, most people misunderstand the real utility of crypto. The thing to keep in mind is that replacing a database with computationally expensive crypto is sub-optimal. Supply Chain tracking falls into this category: why crypto over barcode
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> The purpose of a personal assistant isn’t to fit people into your calendar. It’s to filter them out. They serve as a barrier to your time, not an enabler for other people to claim it. Scheduling in a larger org and/or with multipl
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
Thank you. Much better info at your link.
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> Can you explain what open society means? An open society is a society where people can freely express ideas, question authority, practice different beliefs, and participate in public life under the protection of laws and individual rig
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> I did, and I fixed Qwen's issues with trivial sampling and loop detection hacks. Wow, that's amazing! Care to share the changes? Would love to try them out.
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> Open phones are all fine and well, but good luck convincing banking and government applications to work on those (especially in countries where bank login is used to access government services). First phones, then lobbying. As citizens
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> This past weekend I migrated out of 1Password, which I had been using for 18 years. That was a fairly big job. The export/import did OK, but I still had to go one-by-one through 600+ entires to sure things up and fix little things
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
It is way past time to build a 'people's phone', funding it through a platform like LiberaPay [1][2] or Open Collective [3][4], with a requirement for the device to be completely open-source. [1] https://liberapay.
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> It would require systematically changing my email at the 300+ sites I’m aware of Yes, this can seem overwhelming. That's where the auto-forward helps. This is what I did: initially changed emails at the big ones - banks, govt, etc
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> The switching cost on a 20+ year old email address is high. It’s basically impossible to totally migrate away from. Not that hard. Get new email, autoforward old email to new. In old email, set reply-to as new email. After suitable tim
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
So Big Claim No Demonstration? :-)
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> I’m sorry but you’re demonstrably incorrect. Please so demonstrate?
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This is awesome! Normally, offloading layers to the CPU RAM means that the compute for those layers occurs on the CPU instead of the GPU, generally speaking. The CPU is orders of magnitude slower than the GPU. With this approach the compute
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
While it [1] doesn't talk about swarms, it has some details - $1k - $2.5k price, 170mph speed, backpackable, thermal imaging, radar, ai, manual control (fiber-optic I think, based on other sources and battlefield pictures). This [2] ta
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
Thanks for clarifying. Yes, sounds like someone with not a very strong imagination or curiosity. That's no fun.
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by ninjagoo 7mo ago
> I doubt it, as D_A's target is stationary (and could be reduced to GPS coords) while D_B's target is moving. It's a good point, though I should point out that GPS denial is assumed in those sort of contexts as a first co

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