JsonDemWitOster

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by JsonDemWitOster 5d ago
That somehow hurts me to hear more than anything. I remember days spent in my youth trawling through Google search for anime fandoms and homework answers. Joke used to be that beyond page 1 is the definition of desperation and in the 00s th
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by JsonDemWitOster 5d ago
While a lot of people are concerned with local model performance, I wonder how feasible is it now to run a local indexed web search? Surely running an old school Google is possible with the beefy AI rigs today. I know the problem will be cr
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by JsonDemWitOster 9d ago
<fighter-planes-with-bulletholes.jpg> Survivorship bias is a thing no? Microsoft succeeded despite their organizational flaws. Microsoft produced an insanely backwards-compatible[1] OS despite flawed overall strategy and lack of decis
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by JsonDemWitOster 16d ago
I hope the Deutsches Technikmuseum (Berlin) still has that corner dedicated to Zuse. It was there when I visited in 2019. And overall, I'd wager you'd nerd snipe yourself at DT anyway. Not just with computers but with trains, wate
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by JsonDemWitOster 20d ago
Optics and zeitgeist. The Snowden leaks had too much of an abstract bogeyman. PRISM couldn't inspire critical mass outrage because, at the time, Big Tech was still genuinely useful and, besides, the Big Tech involved could be sidestepp
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by JsonDemWitOster 21d ago
Unbelievable! Just this morning I was thinking to myself, hey Github's due for a downtime soon or they are finally getting their act together.
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by JsonDemWitOster 26d ago
Sorry for the copy-paste from elsewhere. I'm probably doxxing my online accounts with this. 100% my words tho and 100% I stand by this. Really can't wait for this outrage cycle to finally die. There's a lot AI companies are d
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by JsonDemWitOster 26d ago
Is there any indication that Anthropic is destroying books from the 18th century? Even the BBC quote is a conditional. Emphasis added: > "It would be a much more significant problem IF one like that were to be bought for destruction
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by JsonDemWitOster 26d ago
Ever since someone dredged up this old nothingburger of news from 2024 and made it the latest outrage bait.
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by JsonDemWitOster 26d ago
The US Library of Congress is already a book depository, i.e., it has a copy of every book published in the United States. Same for the British Library for the UK and Ireland. Similar depositories exist for most other countries who care for
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by JsonDemWitOster 29d ago
So true. This is why I boycott libraries and the publishing industry in general. Atrocious what they do to copies that don't get enough circulation/distribution! There aren't enough pitchforks in the world that can express th
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by JsonDemWitOster 29d ago
> still valuable to historians or people interested in local history. Apparently not valuable enough that they could be arsed to save a copy from Anthropic's greedy grubby hands even after DECADES of head start.
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by JsonDemWitOster 1mo ago
> I really want to know how they landed on this. RAM prices.
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by JsonDemWitOster 1mo ago
Serif fonts in general are more formal (or "stately"). That's because of the, well, serifs. Sans-serifs visually resemble/evoke handwriting because in handwriting we don't make serifs. Try writing with serifs for ev
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by JsonDemWitOster 1mo ago
I'm sad for King Arthur[1] who genuinely loves his tinned fish and wants to share his passion with the world. He is a good boi and not part of this trend. I don't really like fish. I watch his videos more for the vibes. I did buy
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by JsonDemWitOster 1mo ago
There is a correlation with average waist size here...
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
See, now it's recursive! Remember recursion? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102528
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
Reminds me of when Oppenheimer released, a bunch of people criticized it for not actually featuring any Japanese characters, instead being relegated to mere dream-shadows that Oppenheimer sees once. It's almost as if a work entitled &q
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
I'm less ambitious and I just want a 1 cm blackhole for display purposes, cool thing to show off to my guests. Imagine my disappointment at finding out that I'm gonna need about 10^47 chonky house cats to make a 1cm blackhole! Whe
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
If you're not careful sooner than later you will have just one black hole or, worse, no black hole! In the latter case your neighbor down the street might end up with one. --- Reminds me of my favorite Spongebob Squarepants gag. Sponge
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
I thought you were making a reference to Six Sigma and their distinguished Black Belts. Like, who knows what they call themselves today? My apologies to the beautiful people of Recyclon for the unflattering comparison.
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
> The name isn't really that much of a problem. I know you are explaining in earnest but the way you ended and formatted it is sooo (un?)intentionally funny. Like, of all the stunts Binface is pulling, the name is the least legitima
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
There is no opposition in this round because it is a total farce initiated by Farage. It takes two to tango and no one else (other than Count Binface) is dancing Farage's Doofus Dance. If Farage wins, he will face the inquiry he is att
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
Lol. Four-ish years ago I stopped cheaping out on house-brand pasta and bought Barilla. It was immediately a very obvious step-up in quality I can no longer keep cheaping out on. Then they made some very slopjob AI ads. Superick but I keep
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
Non, du verstehst es falsch, mon amigo. According to EU standards (of which the Brits are no longer a part of) sugar bags (empty) should weigh exactly a pound each to withstand all and any shipping conditions.
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
That depends. Is the spaghetti made of pure Italian semolina or some bastardized all-purpose flour-based dough? Also, the cut thickness matters as well as how much you salted the water to boil it AND for how long you boiled it. How far is i
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
> It's totally plausible to me that this kind of nudge will save a lot of lives. Probable especially if it gets drunk drivers off the road but I, for one, would be deeply uncomfortable driving knowing my every twitch is recorded and
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
I have but only to cache data used by cron/bg jobs. We still had Redis for an actual platform system cache. The thing is that Redis cache was created and managed by some framework middleware so it did not seem right to invoke it in cod
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
As I don't want to repeat myself, with emphasis added: > No Silver Bullet, No Free Lunch, and all that. If your problem domain really warrants something outside of relational storage, you're gonna pay that complexity cost one w
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by JsonDemWitOster 2mo ago
I can no longer edit my comment above so I'm just leaving this here, picking you arbitrarily out of the handful that addressed my filesystem suggestion: I am being sarcastic to show what a ridiculous idea it is to shoehorn everything i

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