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by pavlov 6mo ago
”Hosseini said that each tanker must email authorities about its cargo, after which Iran will inform them of the toll to be paid in digital currencies. “He said that the tariff is $1 per barrel of oil, adding that empty tankers can pass
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Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire(ft.com)
174 points by pavlov 6mo ago|277 comments
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by pavlov 6mo ago
Wait… Actually the simplest fix is to use Claude to write carefully bounded boilerplate and do the interesting bits myself.
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by pavlov 6mo ago
Just like you can run Windows 3.1 in emulation. But the OP and this comment thread are about running old software directly on modern hardware.
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by pavlov 6mo ago
> “Smoothly rendering a GIF” Animated GIF is a format that was designed for playback on late 1980s PCs with a 20 MHz 386 and VGA graphics… If anything, this example proves the point that we’ve made the simple stuff much too complex. Th
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by pavlov 6mo ago
Now I’m wondering if someone could write a 3dfx Glide driver for hardware acceleration of late-period DOS games on RTX 5060 Ti.
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by pavlov 6mo ago
SECAM was pretty crazy because it required a delay line: a memory that would hold the previous scanline so it can be combined with the current one. Without digital circuits, the delay line was a piece of glass. You’d convert the video signa
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by pavlov 6mo ago
Tintin readers will remember the pains suffered by viewers of early color TV experiments (“The Castafiore Emerald”, 1961).
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by pavlov 6mo ago
When the blog post mentioned Hegseth and “digital escort” in the same sentence, I was surprised to learn it wasn’t about his OnlyFans habit at his work desktop.
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by pavlov 6mo ago
The first couple of paragraphs felt like a parody of a guy who goes to a diner and gets upset the waitress doesn’t address him as Dr. It didn’t get any better.
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by pavlov 6mo ago
If you’re willing to spend a few lives, you can do that much cheaper than Artemis which aims to be perfectly safe but doesn’t actually succeed.
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by pavlov 7mo ago
The point is that a $100B mission that’s still dangerous and only replicates 1960s achievements is completely pointless. If they had set out to replicate the Moon landing at much lower cost and a controlled risk, that could have been differ
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by pavlov 7mo ago
The Artemis program has cost over $100 billion so far. It doesn’t make any sense to spend that much money on something that’s still Russian roulette for the astronauts. If the purpose of the human risk is to let the agency accomplish more,
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by pavlov 7mo ago
I have two pages in this book (Saffron/TBL). I made the images in Deluxe Paint when I was 16-18 years old. It was a lovely surprise to be contacted two decades later by the author who wanted to print them in this beautiful book among m
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by pavlov 7mo ago
Not yet because they’re not operating in Europe yet. There are enough far-right (and generally Putin-aligned, like Hungary) forces on the continent that they’d love to feed.
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by pavlov 7mo ago
Awareness can ultimately change things. Suffragettes were ridiculed for collecting petitions in support of women’s right to vote. Who cares about papers filled with women’s signatures? How could that change something as fundamental as who g
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by pavlov 7mo ago
The Pentium III does sound like a good chip choice for a retro cyberpunk story. Like they said in “The Matrix”, 1999 was the peak of human civilization. (586 became Pentium, so 686 would be the Pentium Pro/II microarchitecture.)
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by pavlov 7mo ago
Sue for what? Do you think you own the company email address?
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by pavlov 7mo ago
Look up Wan and Hunyan for starters. These are open weight models, so you can fine tune them on Lego content… But presumably they already have enough training data since they were made by Chinese companies who don’t give a shit about Wester
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by pavlov 7mo ago
So where do you want to host your email? Name a country and it probably has its own problems: some combination of instability, corruption, authoritarian governments, collaboration with the US and EU governments that you want to escape… Prot
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by pavlov 7mo ago
To be fair, Microsoft Office doesn't exist anymore as a separate brand: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-offi... "Office is now Microsoft 365, the premier productivity suite with
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by pavlov 7mo ago
Their alignment is probably more strategically built in during the training phase. At least I assume Xi Jinping doesn’t just call up DeepSeek on a whim and dictate what they should have in model context (like Musk apparently does at xAI).
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by pavlov 7mo ago
This kind of conditioning has to be damaging to the model’s reasoning. Consider how research worked in the Stalinist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Scientists had to be mindful of topics where they needed to either avoid it completely or ex
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by pavlov 7mo ago
Is it so bizarre from today's perspective? Virtualization and hypervisors are commonplace.
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by pavlov 7mo ago
The weird thing is that this outcome was always obvious. Token-driven projects were clearly just penny stock boiler room scams dressed up in a trenchcoat made of jargon whitepapers.
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by pavlov 7mo ago
"Government censorship of websites is good because it reduces Cloudflare usage." What a take... Only on HN.
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by pavlov 7mo ago
> “the first part talks about Hitler's invasion of Poland in a strategic sense and then everything else is about the affairs among the officers' wives or something” Sounds like Tolstoy…
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by pavlov 7mo ago
I always thought that, out of the Clarke novels, “Songs of Distant Earth” would make a good movie adaptation. Rama may turn out unrecognizable after the Hollywood script jockeys have been through with it, as happened to Foundation. (I actua
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by pavlov 7mo ago
The prize for the most insane take on the Iran War has been awarded to this piece. Let's see how many days until something else tops it.
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by pavlov 7mo ago
Mistral is European and has competitive models. DeepSeek is Chinese. Avoiding the MAGA collaborators is not as difficult as you make it seem. Foundation models have genuine global competition.

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