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   by specproc 7mo ago

   I think that's adequately addressed in the article: > "The other way to look at this is like there's no free lunch here," said Smiley. "We know what the limitations of the model are. It's hard to teach them
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   by specproc 7mo ago

   There is a hidden cost to Amazon, and it's the death of our high streets and independent retailers. As per my comment to the other commenter in the thread, there will of course be times when Amazon makes sense, for more expensive or di
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   by specproc 7mo ago

   My friend, I lived in Gruzja for many a year. My local shops in Tbilisi were pretty limited in terms of English-language content, I feel your pain. For expensive, hard to find stuff, then of course one has to go on price. If you're see
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   by specproc 7mo ago

   Pro-tip: support your local bookstore. If it's inadequate, there's plenty of places to buy books online that aren't Amazon. OP gives a price in euros. Why buy American?
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   by specproc 7mo ago

   One hundred percent. I came back into tech professionally over the last decade. Always been into computers, but the first decade or so of my career was in humanitarian amin. Super interesting sector, super boring day-to-day. Getting back in
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   by specproc 7mo ago

   We don't want this shoved down our throats. There is a financially motivated narrative that AI is inevitable everywhere, but like so many things, no one actually stopped to think if this is something most people want. We're scared
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   by specproc 7mo ago

   > but its all symptoms of decline, not imminent collapse. I'll see you after the mid-terms.
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   by specproc 7mo ago

   Britain's demise was relatively swift, and took place over the course of the two world wars. It fell almost immediately into vassalage, under the US. Not quite a bang, but not as drawn out as you suggest. Its former colonies experience
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   by specproc 7mo ago

   I spent a fair bit of time in the former Soviet Union, what happened there is instructive for what comes next. I think we will see, across the West broadly, to varying extents: - peripheral states flipping (e.g., Baltics) - widespread looti
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    by specproc 7mo ago

    I'm a long time VS Code boy, but have recently started dabbling in Vim because I'm exhausted with AI. Every VS Code update these days feels like it's exclusively AI orientated. The Vim approach seems fundamentally opposed to
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    Oil's price spike is bad news for power-hungry AI(businessinsider.com)

    10 points by specproc 7mo ago|0 comments
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    by specproc 7mo ago

    The USA wants whatever Bibi wants.
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    by specproc 7mo ago

    Taste is not using LLMs to write HN comments.
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    by specproc 7mo ago

    This, I've not heard of. Do you have a source?
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    by specproc 7mo ago

    The Pogues' version brings me close to tears, every single time. Incredible rendition.
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    by specproc 7mo ago

    If you're reliant on AI you're reliant on some Yankee company's API.
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    by specproc 7mo ago

    > Windows enthusiast communities Is this some sort of fetish thing?
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    by specproc 7mo ago

    This is what truly sucks about AI, the centralisation. It's pay-to-play, opaque, and just waiting for the enshitification shoe to drop. The exact opposite of what tech can and should be.
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    by specproc 7mo ago

    A sovereign state has been attacked, in the middle of negotiations. Their leader has been assassinated, civilians murdered. What should they do? They have every right to resist this criminal assault. I really don't see where North Kore
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    by specproc 7mo ago

    From a coalition of which the UK is a part. Hideous double-speak in this article. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/01/uk-to-allow... We're already seen those "defensive strikes&quo
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    by specproc 7mo ago

    Iran has the right to defend itself.
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    by specproc 8mo ago

    I dunno, I think this says more about FIDE and the championship title than the state of the game. Online chess is huge, streaming is huge. You do have these big personalities in the game, and an often unfortunate amount of drama. People wro
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    by specproc 8mo ago

    Freestyle is great! My main OTB buddy and I have largely switched and it's completely changed our games. Much more fun!
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    by specproc 8mo ago

    I know the author! Ben's a great guy. A real treat seeing this on HN. He does really gnarly Caucasus-inspired ambient electronica: https://www.youtube.com/benwheelermusic/videos https://mountainsoftongu
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    by specproc 8mo ago

    Just what "works" for me, I guess.
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    by specproc 8mo ago

    The only thing that's ever worked is a piece of paper and a pen. Never really look back more than a week. Not sophisticated, but it moves me forward.
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    by specproc 8mo ago

    Thank you.
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    by specproc 8mo ago

    UK, Iraq war. 2 million out of a population of 60 million, so 3.3 percent. Not even close to regime change, let alone policy.
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    by specproc 8mo ago

    I like the electric bike as a metaphor. You can go further faster, but you quickly find yourself miles from home and out of juice, and you ain't in shape enough to get that heavy bugger back.
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    by specproc 8mo ago

    Yeah, I had a flood of spam in my inbox last night. Novel spam as well, not the stuff that normally shows in my spam box.