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by vntok 1y ago
How do you see AI becoming inaccessible pricing-wise? If anything it seems models are measurably more performant and measurably more efficient every month? People regularly run huge models locally on consumer hardware, which used to be unfa
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by vntok 1y ago
It's an informative post about new tech, that fits pretty well here of all places. Why would you want the author to write about something else to validate the post? That would be an appeal to authority, which is the complete opposite o
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by vntok 1y ago
He did that last year, yet he sieg heiled this year so the effect does not seem permanent or durable.. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/22/elon-musk...
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by vntok 1y ago
VPN providers are first and foremost trust businesses. Why would you choose and pay one that is not well established and trusted? Mine have been there for more than a decade by now. Alternatively, you could just set up your own (cheaper?) V
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by vntok 1y ago
Not sure what Apple VPs have to do with the tech but yeah, pretty much any core engineer you ask at Apple will tell you this. Here is a nice article with some info about what memory compression is and how it works: https://arstec
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by vntok 1y ago
Interesting. From what I understand, copyright only applies to the original source code, GUI and bundled icon/sound/image files. Functionality etc. would fall under patent law. So the compiled code on your .ISO for example would n
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by vntok 1y ago
Exactly, it wasn't the case then with washing machines and it's not the case now with AI. Your example is pretty relevant! Today, anyone can run SOTA open-weights models in the comfort of their home for much less than the price of
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by vntok 1y ago
Do you frequently stop reading articles two sentences in? It's amazing how much knowledge and intelligence you must be missing. Please do keep reading past. The next sentence (literally sentence #3) gives you: Nonetheless, there are c
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by vntok 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Europe
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by vntok 1y ago
What would Costco offer you in exchange, like a rebate on the tire itself or on anything bought at Costco maybe? Then surely a lot of people would stay. Youtube is offering access to entertainment in exchange for 30s ads, that's a valu
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by vntok 1y ago
> Noone goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
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by vntok 1y ago
That's on the video creator, not YouTube. Just tell them to stop or you won't watch their videos anymore.
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by vntok 1y ago
How can dissipating be more effective than reflecting? Wouldn't you need multiple dense rows of trees to reach the efficacy of a single pane of sound-reflecting material?
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by vntok 1y ago
Because, in the words of the parent, "if you pay with [stolen cryptocurrency] and use the server to do a bunch of fraud/spamming etc there's nothing but downside for the provider"?
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by vntok 1y ago
HTML means HyperText. It has always been about much more than mere text documents. You might thinking of plain text documents? Those have no need for your camera and microphone.
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by vntok 1y ago
Well yes, having both the time and budget to properly care for a pet tortoise is a very exclusive hobby. Tortoises can live 50+ years, require space, a daily ose of fresh natural-grown veggies, and are prone to respiratory infections often
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by vntok 1y ago
Phone-based tethering is not nearly as configurable as a router.
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by vntok 1y ago
An online survey administered via Survey Monkey, of course.
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by vntok 1y ago
"Wtf" are increasing though, an effective indicator of code quality. https://imgur.com/only-valid-measurement-of-code-quality-J1s...
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by vntok 1y ago
Nonsense. Here, you should be able to convince yourself pretty easily browsing Google Trends. Even simpler: just Google "uber home" -uberhome and you'll pretty recent examples of people writing about ubering home.
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by vntok 1y ago
Languages evolve. People have been using it as a verb a lot, so it's become a verb.
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by vntok 1y ago
> Do you know it's actually easy to treat the database as an ephemeral, versioned object? Nobody I've talked to does. You just back up the logical database, and rename the database name in the backup to a unique string (includi
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by vntok 1y ago
We don't have an infinite supply of the abc.com domain, there's just the one. That's the whole point of DNS, to provide unicity across the whole network.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Surely the robot does not stop at the end of the day.
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by vntok 1y ago
If your setup includes a password manager, generated unique passwords and enabling 2FA everywhere you can, there's not much else to do. Just use a unique complex root password for your password manager and check semi-regularly that it
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by vntok 1y ago
If the story is published on arstechnica, be assured the relevant agencies are obviously well aware. They are choosing not to act.
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by vntok 1y ago
Why not? The trinket was made in China in the first place, so it had to already cost some amount to import into the US + some amount to ship to you + some amount to the reseller. Skipping the reseller saves you money and pollutes the enviro
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by vntok 1y ago
> Cache plugins still go through the PHP interpreter. I'm under the impression there still isn't anything faster than serving HTML files. Several WordPress caching plugins, like W3TC ( https://wordpress.org/plugi
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by vntok 1y ago
This tool is hosted on a website, and you access that website like all other websites, using a browser interfacing with HTTP.

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