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by ost-ing 1y ago
Like most people on this planet in positions of power - corruption and cognitive dissonance
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Zuckerberg: 'superintelligence is now in sight'. Meta spends billions on AI(theguardian.com)
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Although I am younger than you, I feel somewhat similar. The never ending treadmill of technology seemingly makes things worse rather than better. I’m working in robotics, and I think is this actually the right thing to be doing? - but if I
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Maybe if your devs are building React components for ecommerce websites. But if they are building automotive or flight control software - good luck with that!
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by ost-ing 1y ago
But it’s an Australian company that is subjected to draconian encryption and surveillance laws, so if privacy is important maybe not the optimal choice. https://www.fastmail.com/blog/access-and-assistance-bill/
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Embedded Rust alternative: https://github.com/rhaiscript/rhai
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Whats been shown is that if you hold bitcoin for 4 years or longer the investment has performed very well and significantly outperformed the S&P. Companies buying billions worth of bitcoin are thinking strategically about it, they arent
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by ost-ing 1y ago
The value is in the network itself. Lots of people think that its the digital tokens or coins that have value, but its the system as a whole. The value is also in the “need”. Corporate treasuries need a way to store wealth that doesn't
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by ost-ing 1y ago
> But landing somewhere, installing a new flag and government and pushing people out of their land through force is completely out of line. Nobody is debating that. Not sure if you can read, so I’ll reiterate - the debate here is the wil
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by ost-ing 1y ago
> It is like me claiming the land of any country Im not talking about claiming land - I’m talking about culture, racial identity and their heritage to lands. You keep bringing this as a talking point, but I already said heritage does not
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by ost-ing 1y ago
> Just because they are not native doesn't mean they can't live there I don't make a claim that they should or should not be allowed to live there. My statement isnt about rights to land, oppressing others or national zion
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Im not saying that any of this excuses the nationalist movement Israel is today, im just stating a fact that semitic descendants in Europe have heritage to those lands. Just because someone appears white and blue-eyed doesn't necessari
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Im pretty close to not using it, mainly because I rage trying to explain something akin to a 6 year old while its smearing shit on the walls. True engineering requires discipline, anything short of this philosophy is brain rot and you will
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Latent? Ive seen flagged comments playing into age old european conspiracies that Jews are controlling the world - on HN. The reality is a fortified Israel was born of Jewish trauma and while the citizens of the world continue to propel ant
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by ost-ing 1y ago
> Be aware that Jews are not native to Palestine, except those that had been living there before the state was founded. Not true, many Semitic Jews who fled from those lands due to persecution went to Europe and North Africa, that includ
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by ost-ing 1y ago
I tried using Claude Code, was utterly disappointed with using it and it cost me a lot of money very quickly. Just goes to show these tools can augment and improve your workflow and knowledge, but in their current state they cannot replace
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Are there any systems we can employ to do this important work automatically? We have dashboards for everything, why not insect populations?
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Fpga is kind of like the final frontier in my embedded trajectory, haven’t made the leap yet mainly because microcontrollers or fixed arch cpus are fast enough for most consumer tech. I’d love to give it a shot one day though
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Everyone can use these tools to deepen knowledge and enhance output. But, there is a difference between using LLMs and relying on LLMs. The hype is geared toward this idea that we can rely on these tools to do all the work for us, we can fi
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Any chance of no_std support for embedded systems?
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by ost-ing 1y ago
From my own personal experience with burnout, what I learnt was that life isn’t linear, and no matter how hard you work to make it feel that it is, your dharma will humble you in some way shape or form. Our society falls drastically short
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by ost-ing 1y ago
Been following your blog for a while, such amazing depth and write ups!
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by ost-ing 2y ago
Sums it up pretty well
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by ost-ing 2y ago
Anyone who just wants to enjoy an AAA title like Cyberpunk 2077, accepting a small amount of input lag, check out Nvidia Geforce Now. Works really well.
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by ost-ing 2y ago
Rather than taking choice away, we should be educating people on what the best choice is and letting them make it themselves. Brush your teeth in the morning and in the evening. Standard dental hygiene - If a person can be an obedient worke
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by ost-ing 2y ago
Pollution is still seen as some technical problem even in 2025 but im not convinced. I think for decades I’ve read about some miracle substance that is environmentally friendly and can replace trad plastics. Decades later still virtually no
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by ost-ing 2y ago
I disagree, you are in a prime position to learn those technologies and have a greater breadth of opportunity. There is so much noise online, it’s all bullshit. Keep going!
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by ost-ing 2y ago
> Ecosia was also less cluttered and performant, now it feels like looking at a children’s book painting website Definitely does feel that way, their design team needs to change that asap
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by ost-ing 2y ago
Is anyone actually getting a performance boon having these llms directly integrated into the editor? I find copy pasting blocks of code to chatgpt works really well to get help in isolation, especially if im doing something mathematical or
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by ost-ing 2y ago
> And I am a Rust developer... Seeing this term makes me cringe every time. I write blazingly fast statically allocated Rust on my Arch Linux Thinkpad, btw.

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