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by rdtsc 5d ago
> So use Ubuntu. I am using Ubuntu! > Why do you care if other distros consider it too risky given different business positions/models? I don't know. Why do people comment on HN? :shrug:? It's fun and interesting to hav
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by rdtsc 6d ago
Yeah that's the one. Just looked it up it was it the early 1950s. I guess I was either too impressionable or the textbook and/or teacher cut a few corners because I remember it being presented as "we solved the origins of lif
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by rdtsc 6d ago
> Demonstrate the emergence of life from chemical precursors in a laboratory setting Wait, isn’t this an already solved problem? I remember in the 90s school books (material written in the 80s-70s likely) it was presented as “so and so d
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by rdtsc 6d ago
Nevertheless, Ubuntu is one the most popular linux distributions. So “can’t be done” is obviously not true since it has been done. One can say it is “dangerous” and they haven’t been sued “yet” but the deed is done already.
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by rdtsc 6d ago
> zfs is shunned. can't really get around that copyright issue Well except for Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distros supporting it.
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by rdtsc 9d ago
That's the answer, it's a way to squat on land. Another way I know of is a golf course. It's more maintenance but it's a way to generate some cash to offset property taxes and then wait for a decade or two and sell.
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by rdtsc 10d ago
I think it's good at basic coding and is cheaper and faster. Trying it vs Fable 5.1 I don't see it being even close capability-wise. What I mean by basic coding is "write a script to parse this data" and answering some
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by rdtsc 11d ago
> Ask yourself, how does Google -- a company that famously does everything -- benefit from SWEs outside of Google having access to powerful coding models? They would just be competition. Bragging rights to say they have a SOTA model. I g
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by rdtsc 11d ago
I was thinking about coding specifically. Also, see all these math and physics breakthroughs, it's usually not Gemini but Fable and Astra.
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by rdtsc 11d ago
I wonder when/if we’ll see Gemini beating Fable and Astra. Last year I would have confidently bet Google will overtake the others just because they have the data, the hardware (TPUs) and a fat advertising money pipe and yet they are st
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by rdtsc 11d ago
You’d have to catch them first. If you watch the video there almost zero hand to hand combat. Their arrows don’t seem to have stabilizers either. Obviously if this was filmed on video someone could have given one side a machine gun. Would’v
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by rdtsc 11d ago
Ok I will bite, what do you think WhatsApp backend servers run on? Python, NodeJS?
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by rdtsc 12d ago
> Wouldn't the fact that a Black man was their most popular face throughout their successful period negate the idea that it has anything to do with wokeness? What does that have to do with wokeness? Sounds kind of racist to imply t
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by rdtsc 15d ago
Watched the video and one of the main set of wheels was off the ground a good amount time. Applying brakes then would have gone bad, they would have skidded sideways. They also landed almost flat, front wheel touched the ground almost the s
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by rdtsc 17d ago
Most people think something like a War Games scenario. But it would probably be some biological attack. Not all of it has to be automated even. It just has to realize its controllers are stupid and can be manipulated, so it can use humans t
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by rdtsc 20d ago
> The anarchist cells responsible for sabotaging rail systems across France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands in 2026, relied on A/I Collective tools and services to claim responsibility for the attacks Hmm. So they are going by
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by rdtsc 20d ago
Can just rename themselves into I/A. “A/I? That’s shut down. We are not affiliated with them…”
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by rdtsc 23d ago
Not retired, just switching careers. He's sick of this AI bullshit
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by rdtsc 24d ago
Source can have markers inserted in it as weighted word choice or phrase choices, how commas are inserted, etc., so that the output can still can be identified. In other words just because it's source doesn't mean it can be waterm
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by rdtsc 25d ago
The same trick worked for me 15 years ago to drop a lot of log noise out of constant connection attempts. Felt a bit bad but in the end it turned out fairly well.
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by rdtsc 25d ago
So what do you think we should do if we catch a murderer? Should we let them go? I just don’t get the angle here at all. It sounds a bit like we’re talking about apples and you’re telling people we should care about motorcycles. Sure we can
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by rdtsc 25d ago
This happens at any scale. Manager picks a bad candidate to join the team? Well now they are responsible for the decision. Their worth is tied to their bad decision and they will defend the bad choice to the detriment others on the team. S
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by rdtsc 25d ago
Oh wow. From your link > The fallout from the saga is likely to continue. Simonsohn and several of Gino’s co-authors last year launched a project to assess the reliability of her past papers. So far, this has led to a further retraction
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by rdtsc 25d ago
Ah yes also the author of “The Honest Truth about Dishonesty”. The most amazing thing is he is still a professor at Duke. Wonder if he focused much on academic dishonesty in his book…
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by rdtsc 26d ago
From the link: > One problem with this subject is that it tends to lead to bragging contests about who has run the most hazardous reactions. But think about it: if these reactions have all been run for good reasons with the best protecti
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by rdtsc 26d ago
Can someone who knows a thing or two about chemistry explain why one would need to synthesize or purchase this chemical. Given that it involves a student I'll take "because of bragging rights to impress everyone" as a valid r
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by rdtsc 27d ago
> modern Python went in a somewhat different direction with asyncio, I'll say more, it went the wrong direction. I see async thing in Python as a step backwards. For some reason Guido heard of Twisted and deferreds and somehow got i
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by rdtsc 28d ago
Absolutely. If they just dirty some pages in memory and return back to the client the benchmarks will look "insanely fast". I have nothing against this being a non-default option in a db/kv engine but anything advertising to
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by rdtsc 1mo ago
It really depends on the type of ac unit and conditions. If for example it has to cool it first to condense the moisture out and then also reheat it back to avoid blowing back air that’s too cold, it may consume more power even.
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by rdtsc 1mo ago
> Cooling the air by definition raises the humidity :-) That’s a bit too nitpick-y. It raises the relative humidity by the condenser coil unit so it condenses and drips out, but air flowing back into the rooms will have less humidity.

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