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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Tracking humans isn't necessary. Fingerprinting is necessary to tracking humans.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
This is The Register we're talking about. Of course it is heavily editorialized, that's half their schtick.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
This is very much an N=1 anecdote from a friend, but his manager has basically doubled velocity expectations for the team at his company over the last year. Everyone has to use Claude code because that's the only model they're all
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
The commercial viability is orthogonal to whether it achieves AGI, which is effectively what "reproducing the human brain" amounts to in this discussion.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Fable 5 doesn't represent anything new, other than scale and some refinement techniques, over the original LLMs. In the chase for AGI specifically, LLMs are a dead end, just like all the other AI technologies that died in the AI winter
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
6G will have worse physical penetration than 5G, which makes it worthless in rural areas where 5G is already severely inhibited by tree leaves.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
PS3's, prior to the otheros block, were turned into supercomputers in quite a few labs. The US Air Force had the 33rd fastest 'supercomputer' by building a networked cluster of them at one point. Doing this was substantially
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Most people use esbuild or swc or oxc instead of the typescript compiler directly specifically because of how slow tsc is. In fact tsc was slow enough that it was rewritten into a different language for version 7, with the performance of th
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
For tattoos, if the artist isn't using a brand new set of needles for you, you risk bloodborne disease transmission, with hepatitis B being a particular danger.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
They aren't part of the executive branch, period. The president has no control over their pay or performance. Hell, the president doesn't have nearly as much control over the executive branch as you imply, however much he might wa
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Actually immigrating to Canada is quite a bit harder, from what I've heard.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
One of my grandfather's favorite jokes whenever we visited was to yell across the house that guests had arrived, and to add some more water to the soup. Of course, my grandmother was a farmer all her life before I was born, so she was
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Elm was very heavily evangelized for a while, and people were using it. Had there been a migration path through the breaking changes, it would have been a lot less disruptive. Even if there had just been incremental bug fixes, I suspect bet
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Well, you proposed fertility treatments in a discussion on an article entitled "Falling fertility on the left as a key driver of US birth decline" so I had wrongly assumed you were engaging with that conversation. We're takin
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
I was under the impression that the deltas between versions were shrinking- i.e. gpt 4 -> 5 was much less impactful than 3 -> 4 or 2 -> 3. If the growth is getting diminishing returns, I can't say I'm optimistic without f
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Changing the birth rate begins with changing the culture that discourages families of a certain size. Such a program would be a good first step in stating that bearing and raising children is something we value as a society. Coincidentally,
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Fertility treatment isn't a guarantee. My brother and his wife ended up adopting after treatment failed. The government paying for it also doesn't make it cheaper, it just moves the costs around. A fairer, more effective strategy
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
That seems pretty optimistic in the long run. Even a high power leaf blower won't get all the dust off of a dirty surface, especially if any sort of hydraulic oil, bearing grease or other viscous fluid mists onto the surface.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Most judging isn't anything more than parroting other people, a mimetic reflex to help you fit in with the people around you. Thinking risks you forming an opinion that might not align with the zeitgeist. There was a student newspaper
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
> it's very easy to provide electricity America didn't achieve near-total electrification until 1960 or so. The farm my dad grew up on didn't have electricity or indoor plumbing until well into his childhood in the 50&#x27
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
SO much of the text of a comment thread is not black, though. The line above each comment is gray. Downvoted comments are various shades of gray. The "help" link next to the comment box is gray. I've seen worse, but gray on b
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
You've come to the wrong website to complain about contrast issues, my friend.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Based on the website, it looks like their primary strategic advantage is ease of portability / shipping for off grid scenarios. The fact that it is made of plastic tarps means there's very little specialty material that is needed
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
This is literally how the standards are meant to work, at least on the JS side. The tc39 process requires at least two live implementations to exist before a spec can move to finished. In this case, there's also people from Mozilla onb
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
https://ridgeblade.com/rb1-residential/ looks like the closest thing that I'd want, but with the storms we get I'd hate to think of what kind of pressure that'd put on the structure of the roof.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
When people are asking for money, it is entirely reasonable to apply some skepticism to the sales pitch. In this case, they're charging a lot of money for a flimsy-looking product that is unlikely to capture much energy (low wind speed
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
I just tested with chrome + ubo lite, and it worked perfectly fine with no ads. People keep complaining about it, so I'd like to ask again... what websites aren't getting ads blocked by ubo lite? Everywhere I go, I haven't ac
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
I got mine at the same price point, and I've been pretty pleased with it. Tailscale lets me use it from my ultrabook / lightweight laptop, no burning lap or crazy fan noises. Desktops with the amd ai+ 395 are still fairly affordab
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
I'm neither fully left handed or fully right handed. I mostly write with my left hand, but it has never been clean, despite doing all of my school work for 18 years with either pencil or pen and paper. I wish I could have a just spent
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by zdragnar 4mo ago
Excel does the same thing, and has been used to track money for decades. Somehow, we're all still alive.

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