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by verytrivial 8mo ago
Just say I'm a sender who wants to send an email to someone on this system, and who also holds zero BTC and is justifiably deeply skeptical of anyone pushing it, exactly what steps would I need to take with this system vs hitting &qu
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by verytrivial 8mo ago
That's a fine economic statistics operation you've got there. Shame if something were to happen to it.
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by verytrivial 8mo ago
Something this "shape" has been coalescencing since the first tool calls were done. To draw another Star Trek parallel, this reformulation is what Brent Spiner is during the little stares and pauses made before answering a complic
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by verytrivial 9mo ago
Tldr: 5% - 17% speedup due to removing a bottleneck by juggling where on a GPU/compute core a computation is done during Flash attention.
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by verytrivial 9mo ago
The numbers matter. The thermal budget a satellite is an tightly controlled thing. Large modern ones are in the order of a few to a couple of 10s of kilowatts, so something like a few to several low 10s of modern GPU compute power. Even wi
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by verytrivial 9mo ago
I don't think that was the point being made by GearSkeptic, the video creator. It was a demonstration to the lay person who may not be familiar with what 5W "looked like".
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by verytrivial 9mo ago
I don't think so (either by the vibe/tone of the guy portrayed in the video or from my searches.)
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by verytrivial 9mo ago
Building a robot and building a robot to operate on Mars are eye-wateringly different challenges.
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by verytrivial 9mo ago
I binged ST:NG before it went away again on Netflix. The more I heard from Data, the more he sounded like where Ai should be heading: Quick, thorough reasoning but followed by explicit, tagged verification from external ground truth. There
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by verytrivial 9mo ago
If sabotage it will be plain as day to a trained eye. I await the report. That break could also be explained by the rail heading away in that photo snapping at that point because the train pushed it out, noting the rail has rotated 90 degre
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by verytrivial 9mo ago
Assuming no foul play, it's going to be a Points Failure, isn't it? Like Potters Bar (2002) where most of the train makes it through, but rattles/breaks some weak point that was just holding on, and the last carriages change
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by verytrivial 9mo ago
I tried to parse the history and it goes back to 2021 and apparently touches upon pronouns, NFTs, online unmasking and various online battles around the same. Sigh. Can we put this HN thread out of its misery, please?
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by verytrivial 9mo ago
My understanding of JavaScript is cursory, but my reading of that webpage is the UI is just smoke and mirrors, and it is just waiting for the whole thing to be processed in a single remote API call to some back-end system. If the back-end i
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by verytrivial 10mo ago
Indeed. I've always had trouble picturing how to efficiently "unmix the cake" too. CO2 is rare and throughout the whole atmospheric column. What kind of concentration gradient can you get going to meaningfully pull it out fro
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by verytrivial 10mo ago
Not quibbling at all, but I recall some discussion somewhere saying that the history of the Squeak impl itself (not the name) traces back via saved base images to the original Smalltalk implementations, including via customs at-rest transfo
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by verytrivial 10mo ago
That's the quiet voice many are carrying around in the heads announced clearly.
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by verytrivial 10mo ago
This port of Fuzix to the Pico was done by David Given. In 2021 he also screen-recorded and narrated basically his entire effort porting Fuzix to similarly-sized ESP8266. Really very interesting if you are in to that sort of thing! https:&
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by verytrivial 10mo ago
I have a colleague whom refers to the emails he sends as 'letters'. It was strange at first, but it also implies some effort being taken. I read the 'essays' terminology the same way. If it isn't some textual vers
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by verytrivial 10mo ago
If you replace JSON with XML in this model it is exactly what the "document store" databases from the 90s and 00s were doing -- parsing at insert and update time, then touching only indexes at query time. It is indeed cool that s
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by verytrivial 10mo ago
I can't comprehend how that's even an issue. Like it's the sort of thing you might read in an old bug report online and go "wow, that must have been an awkward few days for everyone" but to hear that it is "nor
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by verytrivial 11mo ago
I agree. Park the handle with a polite "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy" note and a suggested list of other places for more fruitful discussion.
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by verytrivial 11mo ago
I still tidy my house using the Settlers resource movement algorithm, moving things closer towards where they need to be even if they don't go all the way to their final destination.
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by verytrivial 11mo ago
Another worthy mention in this space is Linus Åkesson's dialog language[1]. From its description: Dialog is a domain-specific language for creating works of interactive fiction. It is heavily inspired by Inform 7 (Graham Nelson e
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by verytrivial 11mo ago
Full of security issues is similarly overly dramatic, Haha. Fil-c appears to already compile libxml2[1] so I wonder how far off libxslt would be? [1] https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c/tree/deluge/projec
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by verytrivial 1y ago
Small meta observation: Gemini Flash 2.5 summarises this discussion as a problem with how ML was used and it's flaws, whereas Gemini Pro 2.5 emphasizes that it mainly a cultural communication problem. Both topics are here, but "fa
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by verytrivial 1y ago
Wire wrap is/was an underrated prototyping technique prior to PCB automation. Nasa flew missions with wire wrap boards.
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by verytrivial 1y ago
Haha but seriously, Trump is just starting to ramp up full kleptocracy mode. Each tariff change is going to be associated with billions in trades made with foreknowledge of the move. His robber baron friends will fund him and his regime for
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by verytrivial 1y ago
ID checks, driven by prudishness, are an absolute gift to the big social media companies. They're the only entities whom (a) already know the check's answers, and (b) have the resources to keep hackers largely at bay. I am not
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by verytrivial 1y ago
"drone delivery and humanitarian aid". Right. Thousands of military FPV drone operators beg to differ.
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by verytrivial 1y ago
The problem for me is the fusing of the browser with a preferred 'platform' of services. I don't want a partisan browser.

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