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by vslira 10mo ago
It’s a good thing that Chinese companies have zero expertise in leveraging consumer demand for lower-end tech to develop know-how and catch up with the state of the art from Western-aligned companies and then economies of scale to surpass t
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by vslira 10mo ago
Procedurally generated game worlds have been a thing since video games started, some of them even garnered some popular appeal, like a lego-looking one about crafting mines or something
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by vslira 11mo ago
Without snark, I believe it just means they’re not making money, likely because people consume less “published media” nowadays
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by vslira 1y ago
The reasonable interpretation of such a project is not to pump the stock market even higher by getting children to invest their savings into it, but to inculcate the habits of investing over time so they can do it properly as adults. I&#x27
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by vslira 1y ago
Probably doesn't ever need to be completed, just in the works as a reminder every time the aforementioned taxes are floated as an idea
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by vslira 1y ago
> Calling it a bubble just because the numbers are big is the weakest of financial journalism Yeah, exactly. The current AI investment wave could be a bubble. Or not. If anyone knows, there are millions to be made in the stock market. Th
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by vslira 1y ago
shameless plug (though I don't get a cent out of this, of course): https://blog.vslira.net/2025/03/a-neat-approach-for-sortable...
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by vslira 1y ago
Ha! I had the exact same realization on MacOS. Extremely annoying behavior.
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by vslira 1y ago
> Nobody believes in a free internet anymore. Civil liberties, like elections and liberal principles in general, are unfortunately only popular when the right side (coincidentally one's own) is winning
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by vslira 1y ago
Any particular resource to recommend?
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by vslira 1y ago
I swear I'm not trolling: do you mind asking them about simply dumping it (in leaded concrete barrels etc) in the deep ocean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_disposal_of_radioactive_... makes it seem not such
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by vslira 1y ago
It seems like a great positioning for a software development agency. HN probably leans more technical, so in your place I wouldn't place a lot of weight on feedbacks here (not because people don't know what they're talking ab
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by vslira 1y ago
This last week I've been receiving emails from Embarcadero (I can't recall ever registering on their site, but it's possible that I did in the quarter century I've been online) so, together with this post, I suppose mana
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by vslira 1y ago
I use Anki to study all kinds of subjects, and more than half of the value is processing what I learned (usually with pencil and paper) into good anki cards ("atomic", as per Michael Nielsen's definition), including the insig
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by vslira 1y ago
> Yet, elites who come from countries where their assets are likely to be seized due either to a lack of civil rights or a government with effective regulations tend to use a “concealment strategy” to remain anonymous. Not to be a defe
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by vslira 1y ago
I've always felt that there's some trade to be done here, with life and health insurers basically giving glp-1 et all for free bc they lower the cost of everything else edit: and then Big Annuity lobbying to oppose this
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by vslira 1y ago
Basically any member of a group can unilaterally send all of its text content to a system that understands it in natural language. In light of recent moves all over the world of governments regulating online speech, I'm worried that th
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by vslira 1y ago
I’m writing the following in jest, before anyone takes this seriously, as I assume this kind of correlation has been accounted for. Maybe the causation is reversed: people who go out more are more frequently infected with all kinds of bugs,
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by vslira 1y ago
he's not wrong, if you can run a open weights model in any cloud, you can very straightforwardly estimate the cost of running the model. considering that these providers either use long-term contracts or maybe even buy their own hardwa
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An Angolan Warlord's Estate Once Tried to Hire Me(gregoryschulz.substack.com)
1 points by vslira 1y ago|0 comments
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Help ChatGPT discover your products(openai.com)
53 points by vslira 1y ago|48 comments
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by vslira 2y ago
while i'm bullish on AI capabilities, that is not a very optimistic observation for developers building on top of it
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A neat approach for sortable versioned filenames(blog.vslira.net)
3 points by vslira 2y ago|0 comments
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by vslira 2y ago
I've been kind of expecting to see the LLM impact on Google's 10-Q for a while now. Even if LLM queries are just a small fraction of overall internet queries, I suppose they're stealing eyeballs from higher-value searchers.
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by vslira 2y ago
This type of consumption, at scale, is what I imagine will be commonplace in a post-white-collar scarcity world
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by vslira 2y ago
There's a small note referring to Denmark applying an LVT that is "close to theory", and further down a comment that it comprises roughly 2% of total government revenue. On the linked article, the tax seems to be .5% up to a
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by vslira 2y ago
I'm using exclusively uv for personal projects - and small prototypes at work - and I can't recommend it enough. Uv makes python go from "batteries included" to "attached to a nuclear reactor"
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Flix's FAQ(flix.dev)
2 points by vslira 2y ago|1 comments
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by vslira 2y ago
Lovely
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by vslira 2y ago
But capital gains - and business income taxes in a way, given how profit is calculated - do pay an inflationary tax since they're calculated on nominal gains, so I'm not at all convinced that the wealthy don't care about infl

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