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by usrnm 7d ago
Didn't Americans send all their freedom to Iran?
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by usrnm 7d ago
> It's avoiding two distinct vowel sounds in succession That implies that English added a consonant there to avoid double vowels, but it's the other way around: it used to have "n" always, same as other Germanic langu
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by usrnm 7d ago
My layman definition of what a star is is "it's somewhere in the sky and it gives off light". The word "density" wouldn't even come to my mind
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by usrnm 8d ago
I've been using it since the time it was called Netscape Navigator. Just sayin'
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by usrnm 9d ago
> So the (PCI-E) bandwidth strongly affects time to first token On dedicated inference hardware I'd expect model weights to never leave the RAM, and you'd probably load them on startup before even starting to serve requests
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by usrnm 10d ago
Another 40% is in Russia, good luck with that
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by usrnm 12d ago
Afaik, the modern view on birds is not that they came from dinosaurs, but they are dinosaurs, the only kind that survived.
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by usrnm 12d ago
> The latest cuts come after Oracle's workforce fell by roughly 21,000 employees, or 13%, during fiscal 2026 13% doesn't seem too different from other tech companies
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by usrnm 17d ago
I guess, you don't use AI for work? Otherwise, why should you be paid for it? Should you only be paid for the code you actually wrote yourself?
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by usrnm 18d ago
Do you have a real argument to make rather than just appealing to authority?
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by usrnm 22d ago
Open weights != self hosted
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by usrnm 23d ago
"Intrusive" may be a C++ speak, but I wouldn't say that one or the other type of lists is necessarily much older or more "normal". After all, a cons cell embeds data and not the other way around and lisp is one of t
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by usrnm 24d ago
When going at a high speed, breaking hard with the front wheel alone can force the bike to rotate around it and the rider might enjoy a very short but very thrilling flight. Which I learned the hard way many years ago
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by usrnm 24d ago
Breaking with just the front wheel break is a very bad idea, so you always need the rear wheel hand to break
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by usrnm 24d ago
> It's free It isn't, the cost is included in your electricity bill, not even talking about the cost of your time to set it up. It's very possible that it costs you more than a cloud mode would, you just don't want to
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by usrnm 25d ago
> can't physically or geographically support subways or light rail Why? Genuinely curious, I don't know much about US geography
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by usrnm 25d ago
Let me introduce you to this very new invention called public transport
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by usrnm 1mo ago
Just use the beak?
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by usrnm 1mo ago
What happened to buying a single ticket at the station, when you need one? That's what I did when I was in Tokyo, but it was a long time ago
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by usrnm 1mo ago
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for alternatives (like Chinese models) to move in
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by usrnm 1mo ago
So, rich enthusiasts it is, then
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by usrnm 1mo ago
How much of it is "the current administration" and how much is simply the continuation of a much longer trend? The US has been at war with this or that country in the Middle East for as long as I'm alive and I'm almost 4
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by usrnm 1mo ago
> Or the oft-accused-of-genocide Israel The only reason Israel can conduct an open genocide without any consequences is because it has full support of the US
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by usrnm 1mo ago
Smart pointers existed long before C++11. std::auto_ptr was a mistake, but it wasn't the only option
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by usrnm 1mo ago
> it was also a mess of intricate object ownership Not much has changed, though, it still is. Just with a lot more bells and whistles around it
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by usrnm 1mo ago
There are very few places on Earth that developed writing completely independently, without any external influence. Far fewer than "civilizations"
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by usrnm 1mo ago
Most kanji are a combination of several smaller parts called "radicals" in English. If you look at these two kanji through this lens, you will see that it's actually a very simple mistake, one existing radical is replaced by
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by usrnm 1mo ago
> indefinitely Which, in practical terms, means "while I or my investors have money". These guys have 70 years worth of data, can you guarantee to keep it for another 70? The real answer to these kinds of problems is managing t
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by usrnm 1mo ago
There is a different between a conflict and a war. Humans are uniquely violent and cruel to each other, there is nothing even close in the animal world
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by usrnm 2mo ago
The famous C dilemma: we want to be as close to the machine as possible, but don't want to change anything when the machine changes

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