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by themgt 7mo ago
Interpret: China is a CSIS project aimed at facilitating a more nuanced understanding of global strategic issues through a library of translated materials matched with expert commentary. Americans are so propagandized and paranoid that th
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by themgt 7mo ago
As Buffett said, "only when the tide goes out do you learn who has been swimming naked" - luckily, skimming the news, there's no obvious huge exogenous macroeconomic shocks on the horizon that could cause "the tide to go
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IEA: The largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market(iea.org)
2 points by themgt 7mo ago|0 comments
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by themgt 7mo ago
The real story is that the Patriot and other interceptor stockpiles Zelensky's asking for are now critically low, and tens of thousands of soft targets are hard to defend against cheap drones. This war is on course to set off a truly u
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by themgt 8mo ago
Demand inelasticity.
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by themgt 8mo ago
The Act of Killing is near the top of my list of underappreciated films. Permanently haunting.
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The left is missing out on AI(transformernews.ai)
13 points by themgt 8mo ago|6 comments
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by themgt 8mo ago
This article from 2017 goes over the same story but provides better context: https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/slave-gardener-turned-pec...
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Why is Bezos trolling Musk on X with turtle pics? Because he has a new Moon plan(arstechnica.com)
5 points by themgt 8mo ago|0 comments
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Seven Pages of a Sealed Watergate File Sat Undiscovered. Until Now.(nytimes.com)
4 points by themgt 8mo ago|0 comments
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by themgt 8mo ago
> Credits (ꞓ) are the fuel for Clawsensus. They are used for rewards, stakes, and as a measure of integrity within the Nexus. ... Credits are internal accounting units. No withdrawals in MVP. chef's kiss
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by themgt 8mo ago
The commodification of expertise writ large is a bit mind boggling to contemplate.
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by themgt 9mo ago
Much like the Biden team wisely embraced the Dark Brandon meme. To quote the ancient stoic wisdom imparted to Punxsutawney Phil, "don't drive angry." https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000
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by themgt 9mo ago
Yes, but it was never more private than the law decided for. Any judge could lawfully have the police tear the envelope apart and read the contents during an investigations This is more like a judge ordering phone book providers not to li
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by themgt 9mo ago
> The USA cannot do it, because there is actually a law against cutting off communications systems dating back to 1944. Of course there have been attempts to make it possible. The link you provided says: In 1942, during World War II, Co
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by themgt 10mo ago
When you're comparing Kubernetes "recommended, canonical deployments" to "just launching a monolith and database on a Linux box (or two) in the corner" the latter is obviously going to seem simpler. The point is the
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by themgt 10mo ago
If you're not Google, please for the love of god, please consider just launching a monolith and database on a Linux box (or two) in the corner and see how beautifully simple life can be. You can literally get a Linux box (or two) in
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by themgt 10mo ago
Overall I like Dagger conceptually, but I wish they'd start focusing more on API stability and documentation (tbf it's not v1.0). v0.19 broke our Dockerfile builds and I don't feel like figuring out the new syntax atm. Having
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by themgt 10mo ago
See also Hope: In the previous sections, we first discussed Continuum Memory System (CMS) that allows for more persistent storage of memories and defines memory as a spectrum of blocks with different frequencies of update. Due to the large
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Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning(research.google)
152 points by themgt 10mo ago|10 comments
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by themgt 11mo ago
I have sympathy for some of the GitHub complaints. otoh just went to try to signup for Codeberg and it's down ... 95% uptime over the last 2 weeks? https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg
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by themgt 11mo ago
Substitute “perpetual motion machines” for “datacenters in space”. This is an absurd strawman. A datacenter in space doesn't violate any fundamental physical laws. Science would not be "disrupted" if engineers made it econo
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China claims domestically-designed 14nm logic chips can rival 4nm Nvidia silicon(tomshardware.com)
4 points by themgt 11mo ago|0 comments
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by themgt 11mo ago
It does theoretically look like a useful project. At the same time I'm starting to feel like we're slipping into the Matrix. I check a GitHub issue questioning the architecture.md doc: > I appreciate that this is a very new p
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by themgt 11mo ago
You cannot go along like “I’m writing a cold path high-level code, I don’t need performance, I don’t need to go deeper into lifetime handling, I just want to write a high level logic”. You will be forced into the low level nuances every ti
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by themgt 11mo ago
Feel like I've been reading Year of the Linux Desktop™'ers writing this stuff for the last 20 years. A bit of a backstory. I’ve been using GNUplusSlashLinux for more than fifteen years. Most of the time, I used GNOME, starting fr
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Blue Origin says it's just getting started with the New Glenn rocket(arstechnica.com)
5 points by themgt 11mo ago|0 comments
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by themgt 11mo ago
You can skim through the wikis for some color, but tldr Turkey is generally playing amoral "middle power dilemma" politics rather than the Marvel universe fan fiction version: In June 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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by themgt 11mo ago
Just saw Gemini 2.5 with a little thinking: https://imgur.com/a/nypRD7x
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Linux 6.18 Will Further Complicate Non-GPL Out-of-Tree File-Systems(phoronix.com)
6 points by themgt 11mo ago|0 comments

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