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by serf 10mo ago
ground beef can be more things than a burger. every breakfast joint near me in California has some sort of variation on hamburg steak & eggs. Judging by the fact that it's on every menu, it must be popular to some degree.
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by serf 10mo ago
absolutely agreed. warning to those just trying them out now though : a lot of MUDs have gone the unfortunate route of having premium shops and other MMO pitfalls. I don't think Aardwolf does -- not positive. I think Achaea and some of
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by serf 10mo ago
i've seen that work well on existing codebases, but bootstrapping a codebase that way is like pulling teeth in my past experiences. so it really sort of falls back to what you're doing with the llm. code maintenance isn't nov
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by serf 10mo ago
>Performance scales with the speed and number of processor threads. music to my ears. I wish more software had similar rules.
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by serf 10mo ago
whenever you see someone making the claim that a gun won't work on an aircraft, I urge you to look at our entire aviation history of vehicles with guns strapped on. Planes, helicopters, jet-packs, 'manned platforms', whatever
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by serf 10mo ago
I took 'power delivery' to mean the systems that facilitate driving the energy into the weapon, not the beam itself -- although now under consideration of the technology I think we should probably avoid the use of the phrase &#x27
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by serf 10mo ago
at a (fairly modest) 3.3 its like 1100/month. I don't know what kind of rates are available to non-profits, but with 400k in hand you can find nicer rates than 3.3 (as of today, at least). that covers quite a few colo possibilitie
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by serf 10mo ago
lots of cool 'engineering art' around heat-sinks and exchangers, for sure. Check out some of these shapes [0] , i'd love to have one on a shelf as a talking piece. The coolermaster cpu sink i'm using now is big , but no
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by serf 10mo ago
you'll never win that argument, but I absolutely agree. people have no idea about how big the military and defense budgets worldwide are next to any other example of a public budget. throw as many pie charts out as you want; people j
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by serf 10mo ago
>The big ones are running weather, astronomy simulations, nuclear explosions, biological sequencing, and so on. these things constitute public goods that benefit the individual regardless of participation.
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by serf 10mo ago
ah yeah that popular youth past time of carrying around PCBs.
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by serf 10mo ago
>OK, but the model that Valve pioneered is the model that supports 90% of all commercial PC games made today, a higher percentage if you cut out MMOs and free to play games, which you certainly don't own. OK, but this model deployed
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by serf 10mo ago
>The model Y is a genuinely good car... I can't think of an automaker with better software. great. I love that comment because software is the one element of a vehicle that we know it (vehicles) can do without from prior art. person
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by serf 10mo ago
sure, but netflix is probably one of the most tenuous examples of groups that film for television. they film for screens , regardless of where those might be.
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by serf 10mo ago
It was more of a timing thing, they offered 'deep research' like behaviors a long time before they were offered to standard customers of the primary ai providers.
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by serf 10mo ago
passwords were a foreign concept to early computing, but you presume censorship was taking place? it took awhile of corporatization and profit-shaping before censorship on computers really took off in any meaningful way. ...but it wasn&#x
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by serf 10mo ago
Mindspring, I haven't read that in a long time. Didn't they try to come back as a brand when free ad-supported dialups became a thing for a bit?
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by serf 10mo ago
the US has had lots of programs where labor can effectively be bought or contracted from prisoner sites by private companies. I know of prison ran machine shops that were doing die-casting and tool production. I also heard of one (didn&#x27
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by serf 10mo ago
"google has been brainwashing us with ads deployed by the most extravagant uses of technology man has ever known since they've ever existed." "yeah but they became efficient at it by 2012!"
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by serf 10mo ago
having been a customer of Anthropic and Google at varying times, it's not surprising to me in the least. As the companies sprint towards AGI as the goal the floor for acceptable customer service has never been lower. These two concepts
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by serf 10mo ago
presumably the same thing that logging anything with an LLM achieves : plain language into structured text quickly.
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by serf 10mo ago
one of the few guardrails that I would hate to get rid of as someone using one of the CLI agentic programs (claude-code/codex/gemini-cli/whatever) is the ability to spam ctrl-c/esc when I see it begin to do something bra
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by serf 10mo ago
this comment has a lot of words I find interesting; and I like the book -- but I can say that I have no clue what you're talking about. As someone interested, though : care to explain in a bit more detail for a layperson?
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by serf 10mo ago
i've been trying for the past ten years and i'm fairly in-the-neighborhood. holidays are a tough thing to schedule stuff around. I hope you get to go.
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by serf 10mo ago
>weird - even if AI was literally omnipotent and omniscient, you would still be bottlenecked on human's ability to actually evaluate and verify what it is doing and reconciling that with what you wanted it to do. one would hope that
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by serf 10mo ago
you'd never be able to secure it, imo. shooters are tricky. not only do you need to produce an authoritative server model and incur all of the overhead costs of running that (if popular:untenable), you need to convince the playerbase t
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by serf 10mo ago
cellebrite is making the rounds again because its' mentioned all over the epstein files with casual use (not law enforcement) mentioned more than once.
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by serf 10mo ago
... do you know it didn't? I'm not sure myself. I do know that television feels about as deep as a puddle for me. Literature a bit less so. I suspect there is something to this.
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by serf 10mo ago
something still changed; i've been in classes where the bulk of the students got bad grades and that never stopped the instructor from handing them out. if we use grades as a yardstick for elementary progress and efficacy then you&#x27
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by serf 11mo ago
whenever I imagine immortality en masse I imagine the hobbies that people started experimenting with after exposure to the concept of deathlessness in the short story 'The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect'. that story is flawed fo

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