KennyBlanken

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by KennyBlanken 5d ago
I don't buy htat given they felt it was necessary to engage in a massive amount of domestic spying and further expansion of foreign intelligence.
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by KennyBlanken 5d ago
> We're not seeing the hundreds or thousands of other daily reports that are mixed in and have to be acted on. There is one PDB per day. One. It is a presentation, not just a sheet of paper. And it's assembled by a team who a
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by KennyBlanken 8d ago
It's strange that the author has completely ignored the 3 bit quants which allow someone with a 16GB GPU to have 100-120k and still get full performance. You can't run any of the 4-bit quants on a 16GB gpu with enough context to b
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by KennyBlanken 9d ago
> It wasn't me. It was the car. The car ran over and killed the guy! Not me! I know you were referencing AI, but this problem predates AI by decades. Go open up any news website, newspaper, or turn on the TV. "Man struck by spe
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by KennyBlanken 9d ago
"Let's steal the voice of one of the western worlds' most famous female actors, after she explicitly told us no!"
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by KennyBlanken 9d ago
....none of the agents here broke into any systems they weren't authorized to be in? > should be fined Weird way of spelling "criminally charged." > have to improve their security and sandboxing ability, or be fully res
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by KennyBlanken 10d ago
I've known enough people who worked in EMS to know that it's very common for there to be little alignment between 1a)what the dispatcher is told 1b)what comes from dispatcher 2)what they see when they walk in the door and 3)what t
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by KennyBlanken 10d ago
Any company would be a fool not to send a C&D given how many people on this site seem to think that "I got a C&D" means "if I don't obey it, I'm gonna get sued." Anti-SLAPP laws exist for a reason, and
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by KennyBlanken 10d ago
And DOGE can get everyone's personal data but nobody can see crash data from his cars or full reports from government agencies about crashes, or where he's flying in his jet, or where he buys and owns properties... It's getti
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by KennyBlanken 10d ago
Because despite the fact that they're both free and cost nothing to use, a lot of government agencies, companies, and press refuse to use or crosspost to Mastodon or Bluesky. Literally the only cost is setting up an IFTTT workflow or a
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by KennyBlanken 10d ago
I find it hilarious that the world's richest man, who: - refuses to speak to the press and lies about having a PR department, but still expects the press to cover everything his companies do - is ignoring environmental regulations whol
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by KennyBlanken 11d ago
"this is just my preference, but I really prefer to just plop my phone on my handlebars" It's not a preference. There are a slew of issues around physical damage. Running out of power is far more of a problem than you make it
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by KennyBlanken 13d ago
Or you can not waste your time and hire an attorney to send them a polite letter saying "put the account back or get sued."
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by KennyBlanken 13d ago
> How does the wolf comparison make this a racism thing? Because wolves are being used as a dogwhistle/proxy for "migrants" by the far right. Denmark has a problem with wolves crossing into Denmark. So the far right gives
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by KennyBlanken 13d ago
That's just the latest. David Hamburger Helper is a lot more than just that, and he's been at this for years. https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug... https://tekin.co.uk&#
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by KennyBlanken 13d ago
He's not "voicing being impacted by immigrants", he's advocated for removing anyone who isn't white from the UK. That is called ethnic cleansing, and yeah, comparisons to Hitler's "policies", especial
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by KennyBlanken 13d ago
"Slightly" racist? He literally wants to ethnically cleanse Britain by removing anyone who isn't white? https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug... He's also wildly misogynistic,
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by KennyBlanken 17d ago
They purposefully used a weasel word - "proper" - to shift the argument to being about their opinion on what a proper sandboxing system is.
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by KennyBlanken 17d ago
No, you can't. Most generators have to be spun at a thousand or several thousand RPMs to put out any sort of amount of power. Your average inexperienced person can pedal at maybe 80rpm comfortably, but probably considers even that to b
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by KennyBlanken 17d ago
Even as a lifelong Apple user and longtime iPhone user, that sig irritated the shit out of me and was instantly disabled whenever I set up a new device. Also, and this may come as a shock to you and a number of other HN users: I never consi
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by KennyBlanken 18d ago
> Some groups don’t care about the quality and object on moral or copyright grounds. Precisely why Debian Project's decision is both baffling and infuriating. I hope Debian forks over this. They have severely lost their way.
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by KennyBlanken 19d ago
It's worse than that. 90% of the time I click on a tweet I just get the fucking login page. It seems to happen unless the tweet is from a very popular twitter account, ie one with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of followers
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by KennyBlanken 21d ago
Nuclear nonproliferation relies on surveillance/monitoring and statecraft. There are many, many steps before "drop bombs".
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by KennyBlanken 21d ago
If we wanted to find out what an LLM thought we'd ask the LLM. Don't be a meat proxy. https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
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by KennyBlanken 22d ago
Inflation is a few percent a year roughly. Prices for hardware have skyrocketed. Ram has jumped anywhere from 2-4x in cost. NVMe drives are still going for 2-3x what they cost about 2 years ago. Just go look at one of the amazon price track
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by KennyBlanken 22d ago
Article title is extremely misleading. These are figures from 2023 - almost three years old now, and since then US datacenter power consumption has doubled .
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by KennyBlanken 22d ago
Nope, because dry cooling uses much more power. Latent heat of evaporation is "free" work.
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by KennyBlanken 22d ago
Then maybe you should have said that the first time.
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by KennyBlanken 22d ago
Mr. Gotcha, is that you? https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
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by KennyBlanken 22d ago
I'm not sure what led you to believe that the water is being put back into the ground "simply" or otherwise but maybe you shouldn't be acting like it's a non-issue when you clearly don't understand the problem.

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