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by troyvit 1y ago
> Tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and Google have responded to this fossil fuel issue by announcing goals to use more nuclear power. Those three have joined a pledge to triple the world’s nuclear capacity by 2025. Erm ... that's a
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by troyvit 1y ago
> Individual LLM requests are vanishingly small in terms of environmental impact; The article uses open source models to infer cost, because those are the only models you can measure since the organizations that manage them don't sh
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by troyvit 1y ago
> if any other administration was using a telephone or a communication software made by a never heard before company overseas, would you think it was just incompetence? One interesting thing I saw in the original article was that the US
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by troyvit 1y ago
Sure but the same thing would apply to the original comment, only that it's a locally hosted LLM that you're buying electricity for. That's different than paying rent for the privilege of using those commands and being at the
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by troyvit 1y ago
I think you can get past that if you download the video, then upload it back up to anydoc and ask it to translate it to Markdown. edit: /s
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by troyvit 1y ago
It was if you install it from google's app store, but it's still fully functional for now if you install it from F-droid.
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by troyvit 1y ago
I think that also works in the favor of Sci-hub though. > I regularly receive requests from Sci-Hub users to help them download some paper that cannot be opened through Sci-Hub. The number of such requests increased in the past two year
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by troyvit 1y ago
Yeah I would love to hear from people who know what _would_ be a better coin to use than a) Bitcoin and b) your own meme-coin.
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by troyvit 1y ago
I hear what you're saying, but as a guy who knows this much |-----| about crypto, I would be worried about the same thing using anybody else's coin. Sci-net having full control over the value of the coin means they don't have
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by troyvit 1y ago
I think one of the problems is that Substack has as much editorial oversight as a personal blog. Despite that we treat its contents as articles instead of opinion pieces that see no fact checking beyond what we in the commons bring up in se
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by troyvit 1y ago
Huh. I have a OnePlus 8T and it has some stupid stuff on it that I can't remove.
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by troyvit 1y ago
And their choices in features they wish to develop confuses. 50% of the time I still have to translate an address into GPS coordinates before I can find a place, and yet I have an OBD-II plugin that allows me to monitor my car's perfor
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by troyvit 1y ago
I don't know how it is on iPhones, but many Android phones come with a crap-ton of unwanted software that is uninstallable unless you have root. I'm exaggerating but it feels like buying a car with all the stations pre-programmed
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by troyvit 1y ago
> The problem is casual users aren't interested in learning about this shit so they can make informed choices. That's a good point. And for non-casual users there is F-droid. It sucks for app developers who lose a giant audienc
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by troyvit 1y ago
That's my take. And even if they aren't using the security argument in bad faith this time, they have so often in the past that now they can reap the rewards of using that argument in bad faith.
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by troyvit 1y ago
They've been accused by the previous Justice Department of similar things and have settled for similar things in the past: https://insights.issgovernance.com/posts/google-parent-alpha... > Google’s parent compa
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by troyvit 1y ago
> there are better ways to do that. That's the crux, for sure. The problem with DOGE though is that instead of creating better ways of doing anything, they just seem to eliminate doing those things at all. Now we not only don'
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by troyvit 1y ago
> The company estimates it will save more than $10 million over the next five years, reducing its annual infrastructure bill from $3.2 million to less than $1 million — all managed by the same technical team that previously handled the c
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by troyvit 1y ago
> crowded with open source tooling that's already available to anyone with the time and desire to wire it all up. Those who don't have the time and desire to wire it all up probably make up a larger part of the market than thos
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by troyvit 1y ago
Yeah I feel like Fastmail's search was good at one point and then sort-of went to suck.
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by troyvit 1y ago
What did you switch to? Because I switched to Thunderbird and now find my search is even worse than it was with Gmail.
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by troyvit 1y ago
The article dissects what's on Hesgeth's desk behind him. First, there's a personal computer there connected to the open web. The article says, "He wanted this computer to use the messaging app Signal, which is the prefe
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by troyvit 1y ago
I think offering a simple web browser for free isn't that difficult. That was in place since the 20th century. What will be hard is continuing to develop a web browser that matches the feature set of a browser whose advanced functional
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by troyvit 1y ago
My friend made her own starter, then after she convinced me to get into it, she dried the starter into little flakes and shipped it to me. I pulled it out, rehydrated it over the week and then lo I had sourdough! So cool you can dry that an
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by troyvit 1y ago
Those crackers are the absolute best!
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by troyvit 2y ago
> so why was only the US federal government funding it, especially if it wasn't expensive to maintain? I want to flip this question around as if it was asked by somebody from a country other than the U.S. If I was looking at America
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by troyvit 2y ago
It took me awhile, but their home page has a good code example and a link to some github projects. I grabbed one of their code examples and fed it into the web viewer, then followed along as I read about the format on the home page. From th
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by troyvit 2y ago
Seems like VRML would've worked, huh. It looks like they do have an export to .stl, and in fact it looks like their web viewer actually uses .stl with three.js to represent the model. So there's that. Almost the rest of the commen
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by troyvit 2y ago
It would be interesting to hear how much a subscription to docs, gmail, maps, etc. would have to be to keep them operating at current levels.
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by troyvit 2y ago
> The first amendment doesn't apply to companies. It does apply to corporations ( https://reason.com/video/2019/09/05/corporations-and-the-fir... ). While Tik-Tok writes the algorithms that allows

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