NedF

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by NedF 8mo ago
Hacker News fakes posts later ( AKA the famous Dropbox post ) The best web archive is 22 hours in (.is is 2 hours with same top) and the top believes the post. Nihilist and a NPC failure to understand tech and industry[1] FTW https:/
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by NedF 9mo ago
> Canada is a big factor Total utter bullshit. What are your figures as a percentage of total production of Jim Beam goes to Canada? Or do you just say random garbage like an early LLM? The US's multiyear slump is enough to 'ju
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by NedF 9mo ago
> Why Medieval Rulers Loved Castles. Why do men love paper money? Castles is a thing because it's a thing. Like Rai stones or Bitcoins hashes. They are hard to make. Once you have a castle everyone rally's around it, they know
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by NedF 9mo ago
> within the NHS recommended limit Over the NHS recommended limit is better than zero caffeine for everyone. If their limit is correct is in question Whether "those with severe mental illness" get more benefit seems unlikely b
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by NedF 10mo ago
How can a ~bit flip can cause something that bad? It would mean everything else like you mention would also be that bad. Bad ram, bad hard disk, loose wire, bird hits the plane, everyone jumps at once, leaking military jamming. Radiation sh
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by NedF 10mo ago
It would be safe overnight. Any food can be poison including if it's sealed before a use-by, it's about a percentage which a overnight boiled egg would be lower than for the English word 'safe'. The claim is cooked eggs
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by NedF 10mo ago
One example would help their case. > Thanks to software research, we know that most code comprehensibility metrics do not, in practice, reflect what they are supposed to measure. Linked research doesn't really agree. But if it did,
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by NedF 11mo ago
You can buy it online, check the reviews on Reddit etc to see if it's real before you do. Because it's untreated it can harbor disease so do not let any insects near it. Erowid's take - https://erowid.org/expe
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by NedF 11mo ago
> and it really is a wonderful system. Absolutely, how many ghetto kids are in the school? It weeds them out through $ and expulsions. Thinking the Montessori system is relevant to the public system shows your schooling failed. Montessor
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by NedF 11mo ago
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by NedF 11mo ago
> This is actually how disruption works They are not disrupting shit, in practice or in theory with current ai Sora 2 is nothing but a meme machine. Stephen Hawking as a battlebot is funny, nothing about it is realistic vs movies. How wo
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by NedF 11mo ago
> The Internet was much better before the 2000s An embarrassing fiction, it was junk. More people are on VPNs now than were on the internet pre-2000 It's true there were ideas and principals in a wild west the younger generation wil
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by NedF 11mo ago
> bombshell Can you explain an attack then? Because half+ of these thread comments don't understand it. So they would benefit from you giving them an actual example. I struggle to think of one. You ring someone up and tell them to e
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by NedF 11mo ago
This is why LLMs won. Useless documentation means half-arsed is better. The world of IT is broken, what sort of idiot gives Linux to their parents when as a trained developer man is so useless? It's just excuse after excuse. Unit tests
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by NedF 11mo ago
> Exactly. Why try to make something open source community stuff when we can just order cheap stuff from China. It's rare to see common sense on Hacker News. 1.4 billion people who get things done verse fat nerds in basements talkin
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by NedF 11mo ago
> There are lots of situations where a promotion to a queen would result in stalemate You disagree with their 'rare' then where is your analysis? You gave zero numbers or evidence, you're just saying stuff that pops into y
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by NedF 11mo ago
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by NedF 11mo ago
> All languages are foreign. The babies are exposed to French the whole pregnancy and after, it's the foreign Hebrew/German they are testing for. This is a meaningless comment. The study is most likely bunk, but this nit pick
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Kiyonori Kikutake's Aquapolis(arihaonthemove.org)
8 points by NedF 1y ago|4 comments
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by NedF 1y ago
Machine translation of a German publication based on an old Engadget story based on a Bluesky Hacker News is the best quality. > 436% above baseline subscriber churn 5 times the normal cancellations is no movement. A lot of that will peo
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by NedF 1y ago
> There is also a new restriction for battery-powered models. They may only be used from October to December. If you want to live in nature and in a city you need the tools to manage it. Cutting the trees down is also a valid solution. I
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by NedF 1y ago
> More than 99% of climate scientists attribute the increase in global temperature over the past 30-40 years to greenhouse gases that humans have been adding to the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s
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by NedF 1y ago
> Careful, Icarus. What does that even mean? pets.com was a fat loser only telling telling people that were going to fly. Amazon was Icarus, they did something. Vs weak commentators going on about the wax melting from their parents root
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Effects of Electric Shock on Man [pdf](premierpowerinc.com)
4 points by NedF 1y ago|0 comments
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by NedF 1y ago
This was a 5+ year plan with no post-mortem. It makes a joke of departments claiming to change after reactionary news as we have seen recently and taken at face value on Hacker News who have never done a project evidently. At 5 years it wou
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by NedF 1y ago
> steelmanning The thread replies show what deadbeats Hacker News users are. The worlds knowledge base could be turned to video. Like Khan academy but rather than old out of date videos instant upgrades from rerunning / correcting a
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by NedF 1y ago
Awful title, great video. Three points jumped out 1) "really when you look at these machine learning breakthroughs they're probably fewer people than you imagine" In a world of idiots, few people can do great things. 2) Exter
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by NedF 1y ago
> I get it, but the alternative is what? Airsoft sites ban/allow videos in certain matches. Not rocket science. We manage in public spaces like toilets ok. They also point to purple lanyards in conferences and suggest an equivalent
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by NedF 1y ago
> This is basically an article describing <snip hot take> This is entirely wrong and missing basic high school mathematics for non-theater kids. The original claim is not archived, if you can be bothered you can track it down and d
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by NedF 1y ago
> asking for a LLM to properly convey Alt text is not there to explain the joke, that would imply cripples are stupid. AI is fine, if you want to go against the trillions $ come back with a proof. LLMs fail, wow easy to find, I'll b

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