troyvit

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by troyvit 3mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214645
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by troyvit 3mo ago
So you can just use Firefox and turn off all the Mozilla-related junk you don't like. Best of both worlds.
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by troyvit 3mo ago
Apple market share (whether by hardware or operating system) was that low for awhile there and by some estimates OSX even dipped down to 2.29%: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/ And that doesn't even cou
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by troyvit 3mo ago
It's probably too annoying for most, but I had a similar problem with KoReader and library books because those too depend on DRM. I ended up keeping KoReader as an app, then just not loading the app when I was reading a library book. I
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by troyvit 3mo ago
Is this a yes-and kind of thing or a no-but? I'm asking because maybe water serves as a good indicator for the other resource consumption issues around data-centers. Most of the water issues are are directly related to the energy and r
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by troyvit 3mo ago
At its simplest, it rains more over the ocean than it does over land, so all that fresh water you evaporated is now salty and useless. If you don't believe me just ask ChatGPT. It'll only cost you a bottle of Evian. > Obviously
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by troyvit 3mo ago
There was this old Piers Anthony short story about a little kid who likes playing with his dad's wood-splitting kit. He's a little kid so he doesn't handle an axe, but he does use adzes, hatchets, I dunno stuff I don't r
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by troyvit 4mo ago
They would do well to make a better CTA for their call to action. Here's the link from the article: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/26/2026-10... I think that gets you most of the
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by troyvit 4mo ago
I think you nailed something. There's a huge chunk of people who believe the US lost its democracy (covid restrictions, #meToo, etc.), and so they voted like they were fighting a war.
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by troyvit 4mo ago
This is a niche use, but I use the PhoneTrack app[1] with Nextcloud. It allows me to track my phone without relying on a third party service. It saved my ass already when I lost my phone in the park one night, and it's a nice way to tr
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by troyvit 4mo ago
Yeah and I called it "trite" because I thought it was well worn at this point and that is b.s. on my part that I regret. I first heard this from Edward Snowden: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2
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by troyvit 4mo ago
I think the point is that democracies are supposed to be able to vote goons out, otherwise it isn't a democracy. In the case of the U.S. though we sort-of voted the goons in, so I'm not sure what that makes us.
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by troyvit 4mo ago
There are lots of good answers in this thread but I think it's because they are AI companies and not UI companies. When you look at tools like AnythingLLM, OpenCode, pi, etc. you see all kinds of different interfaces, and while they mi
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by troyvit 4mo ago
Use the docket-id from that link.
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by troyvit 4mo ago
It's trite, but saying you don't care about privacy rights because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
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by troyvit 4mo ago
It's hard for me to get a grip on, and I'm putting thoughts into other peoples' minds here, but many Republicans genuinely saw Covid safety protocols as a cynical attempt to undermine democracy. They see stories like this: h
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by troyvit 4mo ago
This might be a "yes, and" moment, but the article specifically points the largest feeders of contemporary thought leaning algorithmically in one direction. It doesn't matter if that direction is left or right, either way sha
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by troyvit 4mo ago
Tony Conrad [1] was the VC that guided our related content engine (Sphere: a vector database before vector databases were cool) through a $25 million exit. Chump change these days but he took really good care of us, leading us through a glo
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by troyvit 4mo ago
> When the consciousness itself not understood and well defined in the first place, it is pretty pointless to debate if something is or isn't conscious. I think that by debating what consciousness is not is one of the best ways we c
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by troyvit 4mo ago
> Can we just say it was basically vibe coded I mean he references a "murder of ravens" several times. It's an unkindness of ravens and a murder of crows. Classic LLM mistake right up there with the emdash .
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by troyvit 4mo ago
> 'retail' investors are going to have perhaps 5% of their portfolio in it. If they are the only moonshot style companies in their portfolio, and if they crater that's the physical equivalent of a 160lb person carrying a g
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by troyvit 4mo ago
That was ( cough still is) ddclient for me.
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by troyvit 4mo ago
Building my resume in a wysiwyg editor was an exercise in frustration. Formatting was inconsistent, they were only searchable from inside the editor and versioning was useless because diff had no meaning. My markdown resume has its own prob
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by troyvit 4mo ago
And then every time I ask it to hurry along it kills a Stark.
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by troyvit 4mo ago
You see, this is what I get for relying on AI. Kagi did catch that it was in Troy (hey that's me!) ounces, but I didn't check its numbers.
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by troyvit 4mo ago
> Obvious plant $40 million in gold bars is about a thousand pounds of gold. That would be hard to plant.
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by troyvit 4mo ago
Naive question but you could move all your stuff out of NASDAQ before the IPO right? The downside is that you'd have to keep it out of NASDAQ until SPCX is finished cratering it? There's a section in this article that offers some
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by troyvit 4mo ago
Hey here's what she says: It's hard to tell. There's no shortage of these types of questions, or people claiming to have the answers to them (like this guy). Reductionist Western science isn't amazing at understanding if
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by troyvit 4mo ago
Hey can you share any papers you've published on both of these topics? My partner just finished her Master's thesis in a similar vein and in her direct conversations with farmers and they have seen similar frustrating dynamics usi
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by troyvit 4mo ago
Ask any publisher and you will get a resounding "yes, it is very different." On average they're able to attribute about a 33% decrease (globally) in traffic to google's (or others') AI answers. [1] You're right

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