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by stavros 2mo ago
The argument is that nuclear bombs made destroying entire cities dirt cheap, and it's one of the big atrocities of history that they were used on a civilian population. "Terrorists have hidden a nuclear bomb somewhere in Manhattan
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by stavros 2mo ago
Strictly speaking, the first city cost a whole lot of money, the second was basically free, through the magic of not amortizing the cost of R&D to win an online argument.
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by stavros 2mo ago
No, ads mean the customer is the advertiser, not me, the user, and align the business' interest with the advertiser's, against my own. I'd rather the site asked me to pay directly, or not at all. I will not see any ads I can
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by stavros 2mo ago
Ha ha! Fool! You've been talking to an LLM all this time! Your wife is actually Haiku 4.5.
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by stavros 2mo ago
Nowadays, I prefer AI CS agents to humans. I just had a chat with an AI yesterday, it understood me perfectly even when I made mistakes, I was impressed. In contrast, humans tend to paste me the same barely-relevant macro over and over, no
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by stavros 2mo ago
You think current frontier models couldn't pass for a human on an online chat? You and I have very different perceptions of reality.
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by stavros 2mo ago
It was only my last guess because I lost :P I had three remaining.
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by stavros 2mo ago
I'm curious about why you see ads, I didn't think anyone on HN does, nowadays. Given how easy it is to install uBlock, is it a conscious decision to browse adfully?
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by stavros 2mo ago
I picked the right one out of twelve.
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by stavros 2mo ago
Of course, lots are sent every day. I don't know if they're from deaths, but lots of messages get sent. I know people have died because the police or FBI contact me sometimes. Once, a girl had committed suicide and used the servic
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by stavros 2mo ago
I really wish Moonlight would use Iroh. I use Tailscale to make it work, but it would be so much easier to just pair a machine and have it always work.
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by stavros 2mo ago
If I want to remove censorship from your open-weights model, how do I do that?
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by stavros 2mo ago
Thanks! Now with LLMs it's really easy, I've added attachments, improved check-ins, a better app, lots of stuff. I really like how easy it is now to do the gruntwork of maintenance!
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by stavros 2mo ago
My side-project makes money because it's in a specific niche: It requires trust that the service will still operate tomorrow, and the fact that it's been going for nearly 20 years is a selling point you can't just have Claude
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by stavros 2mo ago
Yeah, basically.
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by stavros 2mo ago
I had an idea in 2008 to make a website that emailed your friends when you die. I built https://www.deadmansswitch.net/ in a weekend, and it's been making money since. Around $1k/mo now.
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by stavros 2mo ago
Let's not conflate "this technology isn't for kids" with "this technology is bad", though. I wouldn't want my kids using a tablet, but I wouldn't want anyone using a gun.
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by stavros 2mo ago
You think Tim Cook's kids don't use iPhones? Or that Larry Ellison's kids don't use Oracle Financial Services Adaptive Intelligence Foundation for Anti Money Laundering Application?
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by stavros 2mo ago
Well yes, of course. That shouldn't be the determinant, though.
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by stavros 2mo ago
I understand that Apple can't provide upgrades for free, but why can't I buy an upgrade for $30 or whatever? Better than throwing away perfectly good devices. And they won't let anyone install any other software onto the hard
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by stavros 2mo ago
I agree, I more-or-less enjoyed the post. I just can't read LLM-written posts easily these days, not out of some moral objection, it just gets really boring reading articles from the same author all day, every day.
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by stavros 2mo ago
> One breath: the use-after-free let us free memory the kernel still used. Winning a race let us reclaim it with controlled data.
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by stavros 2mo ago
I don't use symbols on my keyboards. Since they're programmable, the symbols are always wrong.
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by stavros 2mo ago
Why not see this as him buying company? Then you'll understand that loneliness is so hard, that most people would pay a lot of money to ease it. Ironically, instead of breaking contact, maybe the solution would have been to be there fo
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by stavros 2mo ago
If I understand what you mean correctly, https://historio.us does that.
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by stavros 2mo ago
I agree with AGPLv3, I don't really understand why people have an objection. All it prevents is someone taking your work and making a business out of it.
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by stavros 2mo ago
Eh, so what? It's whimsical and fun, and it's better if more things like this exist in the world than not.
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by stavros 2mo ago
And, unfortunately, strain in the wrong direction, as the bottom plate will want to flatten out. It doesn't look like this chair will last more than a few days before dropping you on the screws.
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by stavros 2mo ago
Jesus Christ, a regular MRI is cooled that close to absolute zero? Insane.
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by stavros 2mo ago
Every time I've sent them an email to ask something, I got a response from a knowledgeable human that solved my problem immediately. They're worth the money.

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