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by smolder 4y ago
It doesn't appear to have much to do with TikTok at all, from what I saw. It looks more like a regular old power grab by the federal government over tech generally, moving us towards censorship and overt surveillance and punishing ci
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by smolder 4y ago
Paying for porn would support the industry! That would be immoral! Just looking is okay, though.
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by smolder 4y ago
Being that you didn't back up your claim about alchemy with anything , I don't believe you have any idea what you're talking about. Turn off the Ancient Aliens, or whatever YouTube series has given you these ideas about lost
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by smolder 4y ago
I agree, this is the best. No one can flood the chat with stupid gifs to make it unnavigable.
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by smolder 4y ago
It's only starting to feel intentional, eh? While it may not be a result of coordinated and direct pressure, like a secret ban on promoting non-partisan popular causes or something... I don't believe for a minute that our cultish,
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by smolder 4y ago
When there is concerted effort to undermine a populist movement, that's how it will end up looking: disorganized, chaotic, unproductive, and eventually dead. It very well could have failed due to deliberate interference where it might
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by smolder 4y ago
Please don't post LLM content without a reason and without disclaimer.
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by smolder 4y ago
Are you actually on HN arguing that alchemy is some kind of real thing, a skill that we lost? Different senses? Is this a joke? My understanding of alchemy is that its practitioners tried to transmute matter from one kind to another, e.g. l
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by smolder 4y ago
Before we started restricting execution to areas of memory designated as code regions for security reasons, self-modifying code was a technique occasionally used to reduce memory footprint or optimize hot loops. IIRC early MS-DOS used that
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by smolder 4y ago
The clipper chip idea flopped, right? So have a few other stupid, draconian, privacy-defeating bills since. But yeah, it may not be realistic to think that we can stop the expansion of surveillance powers for TPTB and erosion of rights for
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by smolder 4y ago
Fruitery, fruiterer, fruiterest
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by smolder 4y ago
Yes, our government is not a single homogenous entity. We can theoretically (and sometimes actually) use our legislative representatives to change the behavior of other parts.
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by smolder 4y ago
Manufacturing of some goods still needs to be centralized to some degree because of the up front cost of tooling, e.g. extreme ultraviolet lithography machines and giant multi-megaton presses, among other things.
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by smolder 4y ago
I use peanut butter as an ingredient for sandwiches, usually in my kitchen.
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by smolder 4y ago
Yeah, ChatGPT could integrate Akinator[0] and trivially be great at the game. Without the help, though, It's a good, revealing benchmark for the LLMs ability. [0] https://en.akinator.com
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by smolder 4y ago
You may have a point, but there at least a few degrees apart from Comp Sci that can lead to software development, nevermind mid-career direction changes and boot camps.
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by smolder 4y ago
You won't see power efficiency and temps comparable to apple silicon on the Intel MBPs, being 14nm, though you can probably get a nice marginal improvement like giving up 10% performance for 20% less power draw. The newer chips from AM
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by smolder 4y ago
Mainframes don't get that much recognition outside of the niche they occupy, but they really aren't going anywhere.
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by smolder 4y ago
*adverb/verb
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by smolder 4y ago
I don't believe you needed to upgrade to windows 11 for valorant compatibility. You just needed to be on a recent build of windows 10, downloaded from windows update.
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by smolder 4y ago
There's really no point to upgrading to win 11, especially if it's unsupported by your working PC.
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by smolder 4y ago
The other thing that's changed from the 'every optimization is premature' era is that shrinking CPUs don't result in big gains in frequency anymore -- Moore's law isn't going to make your python run at C speed
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by smolder 4y ago
Processed foods are a vaguely defined and somewhat arbitrary category of foods, but that does not mean the correlation between foods being highly processed and unhealthy is BS. Things that have ingredients like brominated vegetable oil or
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by smolder 4y ago
The catch as stated is slightly worse input latency. You can still win games. It might feel fine to you. But even a practically imperceptible 10-20ms of extra input lag compared to the gamers with their own hardware puts you at an unavoidab
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by smolder 4y ago
More time spent does not equal enjoyment. Some games treat their players like employees and make them work pretty hard for their imaginary prizes. I wouldn't want a games library optimized for maximum time expenditure.
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by smolder 4y ago
That statement is much too reductive to be true. Yet it might still be closer to the truth than the old belief that it's best to avoid fats and eat loads of grains.
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by smolder 4y ago
It's also often the case that they understand a user pain point but don't fix it because they put it there with intent and purpose.
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by smolder 4y ago
Invading random people's lives with dragnet spying to see if they have committed a crime was specifically forbidden by the fourth amendment of the US constitution for good reason, even if everyone in our government willfully forgot tha
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by smolder 4y ago
Fossil fuels are used to make fertilizer on a massive scale as well as power a lot of equipment used, so agriculture is currently a piece of the fossil fuel problem.
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by smolder 4y ago
E2EE refers to fully encrypted communication between end-users of a service, hence end-to-end. If one of the ends is the service provider, the term doesn't apply.

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