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by rob74 4mo ago
> So, to get closer to elimination, we also need a way to reduce the virions circulating in high density environments. During COVID the world experimented with various interventions like social distancing and personal protective equipme
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by rob74 4mo ago
At least for Nvidia and AMD desktop GPUs/cards, the priorities are: #1 (by far) "can it play [hot game of the moment] in 4K?" #2 (maybe) "is the fan noisy in desktop mode?" #3 (for nerds) "can I run LLMs on it?
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by rob74 4mo ago
Cryptography, I guess? Not really related to LLMs...
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> Which leaves the only real question. Why 25,000 at all? It is my company and my risk. If I want to start with nothing, that is my call, not a toll the state collects before it will let me try. And the cheap door has a price of its own
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by rob74 4mo ago
Sorry, that's a typo, it's not SpaceX, it's SPAC X - as in, Musk is using SpaceX as a SPAC to absorb other AI companies. Cursor is the first, but will certainly not be the last. So, if it's not an AI company yet, it will
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Sorry if that wasn't obvious, I wasn't proposing it, I just wanted to come up with an example of a solution that "no one would seriously consider".
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by rob74 4mo ago
Not the OP, and this is probably not what they were thinking of, but from the point of view of the planet's ecosystem, eliminating the humans that keep introducing species where they don't belong (or at least drastically reducing
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by rob74 4mo ago
No problem! My recollection is a bit hazy, and I'm not active enough in retrocomputing to refresh it. I was aware that applications could use their own graphics modes, but I wasn't aware anymore just how often "productivity&q
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by rob74 4mo ago
Sorry, but as a former Amiga user I have to jump on the opportunity to disrespect the Atari ST: wasn't the same thing (WYSIWYG text editing or even desktop publishing on a monochrome monitor) already possible years before with the Appl
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Are you sure about that? The page you link says that "The 100,000-word spelling checker lets you check a range of text, look up a single word, check continuously, and add words to the user dictionary", but doesn't mention und
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by rob74 4mo ago
> Less than a month after 9/11 President George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan, starting a war that would last for 20 years and kill more than 6,000 American military personnel and contractors before its ignominious end. ...and again
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by rob74 4mo ago
Well no, an airplane is a tangible thing that can fly, and as long as the safety culture of the people responsible for flying airplanes is strong enough, so crashes are very rare, people will fly with it. Currency OTOH is basically a (forge
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by rob74 4mo ago
> Each one, taken alone, would have been a bleak, dystopian fever dream ripped from the pages of a William Gibson cyberpunk novel. Or rather, a totally outrageous parody of a William Gibson cyberpunk novel. If this wasn't real, I
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by rob74 4mo ago
Plus all this pointer juggling would have been more or less ok (or not ok, but doable) when programming in assembly, but for a compiler it would have been a recipe for disaster...
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> Something like 98% of Canadians live south of Denmark's southernmost line of latitude ...while also having a colder climate than the Danish. At least while the Gulf Stream is still working.
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Well, the system allowed Trump to be elected, twice, and the system hasn't (so far) prevented him from abusing his office in the ways mentioned. So it's fair to conclude that the US system is the problem, not the symptom called Tr
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by rob74 4mo ago
> Elsewhere in the world, phones were modular. Handsets connected to their bases via small RJ-9 jacks, allowing devices like the VICModem to intercept the line between the handset and the base. Easy. But not in Canada. I would beg to d
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by rob74 4mo ago
That's actually the same in most countries: the cities where everyone wants to move to (examples from Germany: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich) become unaffordable, and at the same time smaller cities and villages in less desirable areas (e.g.
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by rob74 4mo ago
Then again, nationwide daily protests would give the Trump administration an excuse to send ICE / the army / whoever else they can send to the cities where the protests take place (I guess they would be mostly blue-leaning ones) t
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by rob74 4mo ago
By "mean tweets" I assume you mean death threats? How about not threatening to kill someone on social media, is that so hard to do?
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by rob74 4mo ago
Not this specific route, but it would be very useful for the Hurtigruten ships that serve the entire Norwegian coast (mentioned in the Wikipedia article, actually the ship shown in the tunnel cross-section has the Hurtigruten livery: https
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by rob74 4mo ago
Yeah, when I read that, I thought "this guy was either born wayyy after 1995, or he doesn't know the first thing about computer hardware history, or both". 1995 was the year the Pentium Pro was launched, which was (one of?) t
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I doubt the US government will be satisfied with allowing access to Fable if the user simply selects "USA" in the "citizenship" dropdown?
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by rob74 4mo ago
Yes, I already feared that when I read "the child recovered" instead of "the child fully recovered" in the summary.
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If a patient has "sequelae of hypoxic ischemic changes" in their brain like in this case, that means a significant amount of their brain cells have died. The surviving brain cells may or may not be able to take over some of the fu
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by rob74 4mo ago
More pertinently, at the moment 100% of US economic growth is IT (or more precisely, AI). Let's see for how long...
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by rob74 4mo ago
Also: > so there's little (not nothing, but little) to go wrong. Yes, but if "going wrong" means your house burning down (because the phone overheated while you were away), most people will try to avoid even the slightes
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...and then everyone acts surprised that things become more expensive.
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> the tunnelling machines that had all the pieces replicated inhouse Wait... did you build your own tunnel boring machines? Or just spare parts for them?
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by rob74 4mo ago
My company has all the code in a private GitLab instance (almost everything else is on AWS, but not GitLab), but they still use Cursor, so our internal code gets sent to whatever AI company the model I select in the dropdown belongs to. Sca

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