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Your Racist Linux Distro Is Very Nice (Scott Jennings)(brokentoys.org)
69 points by vintagedave 1mo ago|37 comments
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
I think caution re cultural integration, vs talking about shooting wolves and calling for deportations using a word regarded as a slur, are two different things. (Both these are within the same paragraph, adjacent sentences.) It does not re
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
There's a bit of a jump here from something appearing good to rapidly becoming very very bad. Here's what I read: > 1Password has pledged $300,000 over three years in support of David Heinemeier Hansson's Linux distributi
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
So this is something like a $10,000 machine before RAM prices rose? I see Apple is currently selling a 256GB M5 for about $10K, so buying October's 512GB one could be, what, $13-14K? A $0 per-token bill is great but this is clearly not
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
I’ve heard their kitchens are far higher quality than the rest of their products. Why - not sure.
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
I do the same. I don’t plan to take it apart but wood glue is part of any woodworking shop and I don’t see why assembling Ikea should be qualitatively different. I want my assemblies to stay together, not vibrate, to feel sound. Gluing join
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
> the same way as that one other scientist who argued… As prescient? Because I don’t remember him arguing ‘alive’, but conscious. And that is something even AI engineers don’t claim to know either way. Skepticism is fine. [0] But we do
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
I love 'anomalies' in space because they trigger my scifi, space opera instincts. This one is more about planets being geologically messy, but it's still fascinating. Also, > On the surface, Mars is a geologically asymmet
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Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring(theregister.com)
3 points by vintagedave 1mo ago|1 comments
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IBM announces chip that natively executes ARM and Z instructions concurrently(theregister.com)
6 points by vintagedave 1mo ago|0 comments
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
This is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446879
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
Standout to me: > emissions increased through August 2026... roughly 16 times higher than expected from the facility's March 2026 permit
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Quantifying AI data center nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from space(arxiv.org)
4 points by vintagedave 1mo ago|1 comments
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
> The latest proposal applies to permits for a "minor source" of air pollution ... [the Vantage data center was estimated to contribute] between $53 million and $99 million in annual health damages, the largest estimate for an
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
What did they change in the touchscreen?
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
I found this particular fascinating for finding out there's significant worldwide traffic in posted, as in old-school mail, unmarked mummified remains. (That people trafficking in mummied bits of human and animal might get severely sic
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
The article reads as 100% Claude slop and is impossible to read. From the first page I couldn't get myself past: > I rotate the phone. The screen turns into two columns of interleaved garbage. ... Neither of those is a rendering bu
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Buyer beware: Those mummified remains might carry toxic spores(arstechnica.com)
3 points by vintagedave 1mo ago|1 comments
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
This says 'Coming soon' with an email address. Looks like this is the right url: https://kalapaint.app
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
You're right, and I appreciate the feedback. My fiction prose is different to my informal, quick comment-writing prose, FWIW.
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by vintagedave 1mo ago
Your motivation is perfect. I think the absolute ideal one to have. Go for it — and when you finish I’d love to buy a copy. (Or if you want to talk writing in the meantime, my profile -> website -> about -> LinkedIn (I know! The ho
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by vintagedave 2mo ago
Here's another. I focused on denser prose: prose that is rewarding to read because of the complexity of the language and style. But simpler prose but it can be just as rewarding when it is written for a purpose, and I'd love to re
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by vintagedave 2mo ago
Yes - he's popular for a reason, not pop, but that he deserves popularity. I wonder about being highbrow... in that yes you're right, that's how he's viewed, and he's well-known and it's fantasy and it's c
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by vintagedave 2mo ago
I really enjoyed Josiah Bancroft's Babel series: start with Senlin Ascends. I feel like he enjoys writing sentences -- a strange way to put it, but, I think he does. But this is an extraordinary book on its own. For the ultimate in n
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by vintagedave 2mo ago
I agree. My wife is a poet and writes every day. I don't, but before focusing on a novel I spent the past couple of decades periodically writing short stories. There is a skill to writing, and it needs the ten thousand hours just like
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by vintagedave 2mo ago
> Why be a writer if you don’t love reading? Why devote your intellectual and emotional energy to creating a book, when it’s a form you’re not invested in? Why write, when you aren’t steeped in wonder of storytelling? This is the key p
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by vintagedave 2mo ago
I think I prefer that. The idea it was not real but was believed to be is not nearly as good as that it became real.
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by vintagedave 2mo ago
It’s been so many years since I read Foucault’s Pendulum that I don’t recall the computer, or its program. But my memory is that the confabulation they created was real — by accident, yet it was. (The article is likely correct - it was not
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by vintagedave 2mo ago
She is 15. I can only imagine the pressure. > Emily Jeffcott, an attorney for P.M-Y., said in a statement her client chose to dismiss the remainder of her claims out of a desire to resume her life. I wonder how difficult it is to deal
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by vintagedave 2mo ago
I haven't seen models return nothing (void as in this paper) but I have seen OpenAI models, using structured output, emit that structured output followed by kilobytes of whitespace. My model harness has to have code to detect it - chec

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