ColdStream

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by ColdStream 1mo ago
It has hit so cheap that here in Victoria that as of 1st October there will be 3 hours of free electricity in the middle of the day. Capped at 24KW a day but that is still impressive. As such, we can load up the washer/dryer and just s
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I was about to say, by today's standards this site is actually fairly usable. That is depressing.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I do fear for all these youtube alternative app developers. If I was building them, no way am I handing over my personal ID to Google. They would leverage that almost immediately.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
It really depends on your needs I guess. Not to undermine them in any fashion but If you just need some generic features and get something out quick, a pre-built engine can take a lot of the head ache out of it. I'm thinking stuff like
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
It is funny how we have two storm fronts here. Google trying to lock down apps to only Google approved developers, and legal decisions to open up alternative app stores that would potentially use apps that are not Google approved. One wonde
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
There was the sub era of Flash based nonsense. Somewhere in the 2002-2005 period.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
As they say, now it is five social media platforms posting copies of each others content.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I'm not sure I miss the web as it was but miss the feeling of it all being novel and exciting. You can still get glimpses of it nowadays but it isn't often.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I think it is a case of, it is easier to find those niches nowadays but when you do it is a more shallow and controlled version of said thing. On the old web, you would just stumble onto something deep but the barrier to get to it was fairl
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
That has all the hall marks of urban legend, but why let the truth get in the way of a great story. I have said it for a very long time, Gates wasn't innovative in technology but he absolutely innovated in bringing the most ruthless bu
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
And that would get you a system that was fairly anemic even for then. There were still some 286 systems being sold then which was 2 full architecture leaps behind at a time when it was starting to become very important.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Basic and Qbasic represent a part of computer culture that has been lost a little bit. It was the idea of making computers programmable to almost anyone without having to have a deep knowledge of how the system works. I'm not saying we
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
The good news is that 5.25" floppies have tended to be more resilient to time than the 3.5" discs. Turns out just having less data spread over a larger space helped them in this regard. Hardest part is usually trying to find worki
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Absolutely brilliant show. Highly recommend it to anyone. Feels like a hyper condensed version of the X-files but with a decent sense of humour to it as well. Season two will be out next year and I am curious to see how it goes. Towards the
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Considering how much news publishers are struggling to keep the lights on, this can only be a good thing. Anything that can slow, delay or cancel the race to $0 new can only be a good thing.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Obligatory Future dream commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElkVRgeAzYs
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I am starting to suspect Netflix goal in future is just to hold out longer than other streaming services. The long game of attrition. I can see a lot of the smaller services folding into each other or just giving up over the next few years
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I mean AI data centers are silly things and they do use a lot of resources, but as a whole they are barely rounding error compared with the super organism that is the sum of all our consumption. And that is pretty depressing when you think
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
It has been fascinating watching how all the model predictions have evolved over the last 8 months. Back at the start of the year, they all figured it would peak at about 2c, now almost every model is over 3c with some well above that. htt
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Yep, increased productivity but reduced understanding. Not everyone that uses this stuff is doing it poorly but there are enough people out there using this recklessly and without care. They will be the ones that will end up bringing some m
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
To be pedantic, if I was put a brick on a car accelerator and have it fly off into a set target, that would be an near-autonomous attack to some degree. Yes, this is much more complex in details but there are people behind this directing th
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I haven't had much time to dive in really deep but it does seem to cover all the core bases. Very cool indeed. Does make it somewhat intuitive which is a great first step. One note to people, don't try to resize the browser once i
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
It is one of those things, yes they are old but they also aren't that old considering the impact personal computers have had on everything.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
"I haven't heard of that LLM model, how is it?"
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Yeah we usually vote for those that come out of them. ;)
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
A great summary of the issue. It increases productivity but reduces understanding. The flow on from that is a lack of personal engagement and ownership of what is being done. The lack of autonomy can be devastating to a person.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
The idea that people are spinning up a lot of AI agents that are running Linux seems fairly plausible. It would explain the sudden uptake beyond just desktop use growth.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I remember when Doomberg used to just focus on economics, I suspect he might have falling into audience capture a little. That said I do love that regardless of where they go, there is always the animated chicken.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Yet again the universe has a dark sense of humor.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
You could be confusing that with cockney slang. ;)

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