Night_Thastus

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by Night_Thastus 5d ago
I like the idea, but have a couple problems: * It filters out things that are clearly not AI related (like the one titled ' Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization ') - or maybe it's just slow to up
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by Night_Thastus 5d ago
Are they totally unrelated?
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by Night_Thastus 6d ago
I do have a big box 'o cables, though organization is getting difficult. I need some way to organize them into broad categories (USB, audio, power, ethernet, etc).
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by Night_Thastus 15d ago
I've never seen Firefox use more memory than Chrome on modern versions. They're pretty on par. It's far more likely that one of the many addons/extensions you had was the cause. As for 'Refresh Firefox', it doe
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by Night_Thastus 16d ago
You say that, but out of the remaining users of FF, I severely doubt even 1% would pay. Any attempt to paywall would kill whatever they have left.
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by Night_Thastus 16d ago
I know Firefox's share of browser share has dwindled to almost nothing. I know sooner or later, well within my lifetime, it will be gone. But I will keep using it until they pry it from my hands. And if they do, I'll use forks unt
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by Night_Thastus 16d ago
As far as I remember it handled it fine. I think the page turn transitions were slightly slower, but not in a way that hurt the reading experience. I think those are CBZ/CBR archives, which should hold ordinary image files (JPEG/P
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by Night_Thastus 16d ago
I got the Libra Color awhile back. I rediscovered my love of reading. Chewed through dozens of Star Trek books (some are quite good!). And a comic, which surprised me with the color and resolution the Libra offered. The store seems to work
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by Night_Thastus 19d ago
An app is a way to bypass the privacy protections that a browser might layer on top, and gather yet more data about you, show ads, etc, etc. That is the real motivation.
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by Night_Thastus 21d ago
I am very grateful for LibreOffice. Writer and Calc got me through college, and I use Calc on a nearly daily basis for keeping track of finances. Years ago they felt unpolished and a bit pet-project-y, but now they feel like proper tools th
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by Night_Thastus 21d ago
Reminder that US taxpayer money was handed to the ISPs by the truckload on the promise of fiber. They took that infrastructure money and ran with it.
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by Night_Thastus 22d ago
HN has been strongly adverse to tags for quite some time - for legitimate reasons. I don't think we'll see it anytime soon.
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by Night_Thastus 22d ago
I really wish there was a way to filter out discussions about AI on HN. It feels like lately they take up a good 1/3 of posts on the front page. I don't want to hear about some new AI startup.
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by Night_Thastus 22d ago
Features expand to fill all available hardware. Both the OS and apps got more features, got more flashy, got more complicated. If you were able to run those old original apps, they would likely be VERY fast on your newer device.
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by Night_Thastus 27d ago
I felt the same way. I think we were on Hamlet, and reading it alone just felt so confusing and lifeless. I couldn't tell when characters were upset, sarcastic, ecstatic, etc. It drained it of all character. But then later on I saw a p
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by Night_Thastus 27d ago
Context is everything for art and literature! It's not to say they can't be enjoyed out of context, but a lot can be lost without it, especially for a teenager. I'm tempted to say that history and literature classes should ju
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by Night_Thastus 1mo ago
In a typical ion exchange setup, there isn't all that much. A big tank filled with resin to attract the minerals, and a big tank of salt to wash the resin clean. Eventually, the resin will break down and need replacement, or the valve
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by Night_Thastus 1mo ago
At the end of the day, LLMs are text prediction machines. No memory, no understanding, no learning. If you ask it for time off, it's going to answer with whatever sentence seems most likely to follow 'May I please have tomorrow of
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by Night_Thastus 1mo ago
Companies like Mars, Inc don't care a hoot about what the level of inflation is. They care about their shareholders, who care about stock growth. Anything else is completely and totally irrelevant for them. Higher prices -> customer
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by Night_Thastus 1mo ago
Yep. People blame companies, but ultimately they are doing what the customer 'wants'. Same with things like separate fees for credit cards, or shipping. Customers don't like seeing an extra fee, so companies roll it all toget
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by Night_Thastus 1mo ago
They're being sarcastic.
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by Night_Thastus 1mo ago
It would certainly help if it could taste what it produced. Or see, with its eyes, how the result is changing as its process changes. Or learn, from first principles, what is happening at each step and make deductions about how they will af
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by Night_Thastus 2mo ago
It can't 'learn' on its own. Models only get better with mountains of RnD for data, training, and lots of fine tuning. So the moment investment dries up, models stop improving. However, it's likely we'll get good 80
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by Night_Thastus 2mo ago
That is an exceptional outlier. It's almost entirely (>90%) made up of one religious group that has strict cultural rules about early marriage and having many children. That's not something typical outside of that one particula
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by Night_Thastus 2mo ago
I agree, but I don't think #3 is possible. For a variety of reasons, both biological and societal, the older people get the less likely they are to have kids, and fewer of them.
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by Night_Thastus 2mo ago
LLMs can't parse the entire codebase at once, understand it, and then make decisions based on that understanding. The hard part of programming almost is never how ONE function or ONE class works. It's how they all interact in a mu
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by Night_Thastus 2mo ago
Knowing your constraints perfectly is impossible, and takes more and more effort the closer you get. And frankly, they change on a regular basis. By the time you figure them out that perfectly, they're invalidated. A new feature is s
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by Night_Thastus 2mo ago
Minecraft 1.7.10, covered in mods, can run fantastic (300+ FPS) if Java 25 is used. That used to be impossible.
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by Night_Thastus 2mo ago
It did used to be required. Older Java versions performed pretty terrible. However, Java 17+ completely fixed that. Even the heaviest modded setups run buttery smooth, even on older versions which are not well optimized.
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by Night_Thastus 2mo ago
It's hard to say if we ever would . We used up a lot of the very easy to access sources of many resources - minerals, oil, etc. Without having access to the advanced techniques, I think it's unlikely we'd even reach the indu

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