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by veltas 5mo ago
Just responding to comment about European countries using decimal separator.
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by veltas 5mo ago
Not in e.g. UK.
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by veltas 5mo ago
Google don't dogfood so I'm not interested. I remember when the Pixel Fold came out asking people at Google and nobody had one. Have fun, but if nobody at Google will use this why should I?
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by veltas 5mo ago
> A hard lesson you learn building a complex system is that its reliability is the minimum of the combined reliability of its critical parts. More like "its failures are the total of its critical components' failures" when
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by veltas 5mo ago
> PROPOSED ONLY: Profit shares would scale with pledge amount under the proposed structure. This is not a confirmed financial instrument. Nothing here constitutes an offer of securities. There's no way they could get away with somet
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by veltas 5mo ago
Re their decision to leave X.
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by veltas 5mo ago
Back then the EFF cared about privacy, now they care about virtue signalling.
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by veltas 5mo ago
If it matters then it needs to be open source.
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by veltas 6mo ago
Can I be your friend please. Also this document is basically just how I act, or how I would still act if I was less self-aware; some combination of the two. I suspect the author may have written this partly as a self-critique.
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by veltas 6mo ago
Just want to say I really like the style for this page, simple and understated but attractive.
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by veltas 6mo ago
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by veltas 6mo ago
Okay what if something else had prevented something better than a 6502 being mass market available?
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by veltas 6mo ago
"The West", don't lump us all in.
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by veltas 6mo ago
Why not Deja Vu Sans Mono? That was the default for years and it's what a lot of us are used to.
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by veltas 6mo ago
Could do with examples relating to the "self-replicating" nature. Also should indicate it's case-insensitive, and the tutorial should be more permissive about how you type the examples e.g. typing lower case should be okay. M
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by veltas 7mo ago
I'm sure parents back in the day thought the same about video games. You're lumping a lot of kids together there, maybe some of them will become journalists... Maybe social media is the only media that will even be relevant in 20
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by veltas 7mo ago
They said same about video games but it turns out I didn't just want to play them, I also invested crazy amounts of time learning how to make them. Best time to spend crazy hours pursuing something you care about before the busy sched
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by veltas 7mo ago
I think you understood my point and you understand the reasons for the act. But I'm just protesting on behalf of the kids that will pretty much have their lives ruined or made worse for this decision, for what it's worth.
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by veltas 7mo ago
As a British teen I concerned my parents a lot with my computer usage, with all they had heard about the dangers of over use. But for me that was an outlet in a pretty miserable childhood and turned into my career, I was programming and le
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by veltas 7mo ago
Relevant to the accuracy of quote
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by veltas 7mo ago
It's not 'magic' though but previously LLMs have performed very badly on longer multiplication, 'insight' is the wrong word but I'm saying maybe they're not wildly better at this calculation... maybe they
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by veltas 7mo ago
Do we know for a fact that LLMs aren't now configured to pass simple arithmetic like this in a simpler calculator, to add illusion of actual insight?
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BidWix – Fast fair way to agree on a price, from creator of myNoise.net(bidwix.com)
1 points by veltas 7mo ago|1 comments
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by veltas 7mo ago
Notably this was made by the person who created myNoise.net
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by veltas 7mo ago
> Also, it's clear that a military officer is obviously a legitimate military target in a war. Former
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Process vs. Result – Why Some Programmers Resist AI(isene.org)
1 points by veltas 7mo ago|0 comments
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Meta AI agent's instruction causes large sensitive data leak(theguardian.com)
4 points by veltas 7mo ago|0 comments
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by veltas 7mo ago
From a linked article on shift registers: > To avoid these astronomical prices, some computers used the cheaper alternative of shift register memory. Might be a direction for 2026 too?
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by veltas 7mo ago
The overwhelming majority of UNIX-like software is available in the package managers right now for major BSDs.
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by veltas 7mo ago
I didn't grow up in a 3rd world country but had the same experience, bar running games I don't own. Not everyone in the west had parents that wanted to just spend thousands on hardware that seemed to be obsolete next year, or any

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