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by 0hijinks 5d ago
I got a hearty chuckle out of the redirect linked from the GitLab project info. [1] http://crimeflare.eu.org/
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by 0hijinks 4mo ago
I don't have an axe to grind, but this story piqued my interest. So here's some more context: - SunJun8's original issue text is still available at the linked issue. The gist is that Nous Research's Hermes appears deriva
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by 0hijinks 8mo ago
I guess I had never considered at face value what that kind of arrangement means until reading this DOJ document. It makes total sense to me that committing terrible crimes should be punishable. When a criminal per domestic law resides in a
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by 0hijinks 8mo ago
His rhetoric towards Maduro has a good consistency, yes. Mind you, his messaging on corruption in government, domestic terrorism, Ukraine, and the free-market economy in the U.S. is all over the place.
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by 0hijinks 8mo ago
It's surreal to read written arguments defending an "extraordinary rendition" using the military in terms of domestic criminal cases. And to so plainly state that international law ought not apply to the leader of the free wo
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by 0hijinks 10mo ago
> its carcinogenic effects are now well known (no more using it to decaffeinate coffee, degrease engines, or in shaving cream, thankfully!) I had no idea benzene was used to decaffeinate coffee [1]. Solvent separation makes sense, but I&
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by 0hijinks 11mo ago
> So you must always factor in the amount of time before a predicted crash: the longer it takes the more money you lose. I think the idea is, as a put buyer (market taker), this has already been baked into the option premium. The only &q
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
>> ...we can see that, in less than two decades, Earth has tilted 31.5 inches as a result of pumping groundwater. This equates to .24 inches of sea level rise. For those confused how they managed that geometric analysis, the sea lev
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
The outage page has been updated to include context: >> MathWorks experienced a ransomware attack. We have notified federal law enforcement of this matter. The attack affected our IT systems. Some of our online applications used by cu
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
Tinnitus is sometimes neurological, seemingly caused by the brain compensating for a loss of sensation. I can imagine a horror story in which this just makes it a thousand times worse, on top of permanently losing all hearing. Now, being ab
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
As a user, I'm under the impression YouTube uses click follow-through for algorithm feedback. For the past two years, I've consistently gotten more random content with ~100 views suggested to me in the side bar. I often click and
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
From the BOM: MCU is an STM32H743IGT, external SDRAM is a Winbond W9825G6KH-6, and audio CODEC is a TI TLV320AIC3104IRHBR.
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
>> Unsurprisingly, the combined solver performed the best, solving the puzzle in an average of 4.77 moves. The quantum solver was next, with an average of 5.32 moves, while the classical solver came in last place with 5.88 moves on a
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
Links to the article and the PDF both are behind this human test. Guess today is the day I learned I'm a robot.
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
As all eight Ivy Leagues collectively received this amount in funding in 2024, it would appear that Yale is planning for a longer-term drought. Aside, I tried to copy the title to search for context about this elsewhere: >> To be a
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
> Small M-dwarf stars ... operate through convection ... likened to what we see in a boiling cauldron of water. > Larger stars like the Sun show a mix of radiative transfer – photons being absorbed and reabsorbed as they make their wa
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
The point about entry into massive, maybe untractable datasets makes sense to me. I get the usefulness of GenAI there for sure. Another commenter suggested: >> Its more like, here are some possible answers where there were none before
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
It sure seems like the use of GenAI in these scenarios is a detriment rather than a useful tool if, in the end, the operator must interrogate it to a fine enough level of detail that she is satisfied. In the author's Scenario 1: > Y
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
That's kind of a bummer, but still neat to have built-in self-hosting. I think I've seen videos of perfboard computers that allow manual data entry with pushbuttons and manual clocks. I could see that being extended to punch cards
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
This. Skill sharing among a small tribe is the most effective way to survive a catastrophe, and I am concerned modern societies are poorly conditioned to do it well. Speaking from a North American perspective, kids are educated in how to su
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
I think it's really cool to create minimalist OSes. Something about perfboard projects and old, slow CPUs tickles my buttons. But I'm struggling to come up with a use case for this project in the End Times. In theory, this allows
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
Beyond LARPing the feasibility of building new computers post societal collapse, the website's proposal for collapse being so imminent is... weakly justified? I'm not an optimist in today's societal climate, but the rationale
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by 0hijinks 1y ago
Here's an ArXiv version: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19516
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by 0hijinks 2y ago
My drive-by opinion: "telecommuting" has an advantage in optics/marketing and flexibility over "work from home" for both business leaders and employees. If I tell a board of directors or shareholders that "80%
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by 0hijinks 2y ago
I found on 136.0.0-ish that some settings persist despite checking/unchecking that box and restarting LibreWolf, but YMMV. I also manually inspect 'about:config' and search there for relevant settings (like 'fingerprint&
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by 0hijinks 2y ago
Depending on one's threat model, any technique can be a secure strategy. Is my threat model a network of dumb nodes doing automatic port scanning? Tucking a system on an obscure IPv6 address and never sharing the address may work OK. R
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by 0hijinks 2y ago
No, no, you see: that would be a violation of local noise ordinance and is inhumane. Of course, a constant drip-feed of their banners and jingles in your private life is their right as a corporation.