alienthrowaway

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by alienthrowaway 10d ago
> He realises the current woe of things but doesn't realise he's been arguing with bot farms and teams of people hired just for this reason - to sow doom, arguments and engagement. I've had the same kind of argument you&#x
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by alienthrowaway 6mo ago
It's facetious when people question why BlackSky need to exist 40+ years after the "14 words" and in the age where White Christian Nationalism is completely mask-off. HN often tolerates dog whistles about how school kids bu
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by alienthrowaway 9mo ago
> I'm going to guess that you're used to codebases that use an autoformatter. I'm used to Python code being "Pythonic" - which is one of those "I know it when I see it" terms.
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by alienthrowaway 11mo ago
Hard-core tunnel engineering
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
You missed my point entirely. There was real value created during the dotcom boom too: Amazon, eBay, PayPal, Google, etc did not 'create fake problems'. Amidst the pearls of real value, were dozens/hundreds of overvalued, d
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
Back in the dotcom boom years, Internet adoption growth was real - with a lot of people and businesses paying real money to get online. And yet, the dotcom bust happened. The existence of paying customers adopting a technology does not assu
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
I was surprised the Register didn't provide the additional context of AFRINIC's revocation of Cloud Innovations IP4 blocks that were being sold anywhere but Africa[1][2][3]. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
> And a shitload of countries in the hold of some warlord or other despot, or like Libya Ironic for you to being up Libya as its collapse was instigated by the same former colonisers that couldn't stand Qaddafi - France nad friends
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
> It has been shown many times before, with this shitshow being the latest example, that most "third world" countries simply do not have a legal system in place that can cope with rich Western or new-rich Asian exploiteers It&#
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
> Trump won the popular vote. He did not, he got <50% of the total votes at final tally. People who parrot this are under-informed, or lying to claim a mandate his administration lacks.
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
> Developing them is expensive So are the electric and cooling costs at Google's scale. Improving perf-per-watt efficiency can pay for itself. The fact that they keep iterating on it suggests it's not a negative-return exercise
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
> And if he Chatbot is serving the ads when I’m using it for creative writing, reformatting text, having a python function, written, etc, I’m going to be annoyed and switch to a different product. You may not even notice it when AI does
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
What are the pros of using CUDA-enabled devices for inference?
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
> You still have to be careful with supervision trees and parts of the tree restarting [...] Erlang gives you a good model to work with these problems but it doesn't allow you to completely turn off your brain. Erlang gives architec
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
Gcc is the flagship of the GNU Project - allowing an endrun of the the spirit of the GPL in gcc was never going to happen. The project paid more attention than you give them credit for because allowing closed source plugins and improvem
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
That asterisk is doing some very heavy lifting.
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
>[...] but the victim isn't entitled to protection. Which is the my point. If cops don't have an obligation to save anyone from a fire, then why would random Joe get into trouble for similar inaction. GP was mistaken about the
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
> In which country? Even for the US I don't believe the law system is that crappy. There's video from a few years back that shows very American cops standing outside a burning house at night, knowing there was a young child sti
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
I think you can do better than that in charitably reading what I said in the context of a hagiography whose centerpiece is a loan to a 50 year-old immigrant for an e-bike.
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by alienthrowaway 1y ago
"There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in." - Desmond Tutu Society is not ready for the conversation because more often that not, in
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
I am highlighting that the "connection" you mention is frequently used in bad faith by actual anti-semites, as well as the pro-Likud propagandists who suggest that any criticism of the government of Israel or its policies is antis
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
The difference does shrink, only to grow if one joins an elite unit that is highly selective. There has to be some enthusiasm involved, IMO.
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
Conflating the state of Israel with all Jewish people & implying all of have (a secret) allegiance to Israel, regardless of their citizenship is actual anti-Semitism. Correctly identifying folk who fought for Israel is not anti-Semitic
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
That is clearly a false equivalence though. Being born in a country is qualitatively different to working in a military unit requiring security clearance.
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> An ICBM is coming in at hypersonic speeds in the terminal phase, you’re not going to guide it anywhere using cell tower signals. Hypersonic glide ICBMs have been successfully tested by China, and are under development in the US, so it&
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> $1m is peanuts if your making chips Having customers use an external pull-down is free (to the foundation) and costs nano-peanuts to each customer (i.e. cents per unit)
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
I summarized the connection in my first statement, as it relates to the Christian Theological concept of "Original Sin". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> In theory, congress can remove a president In practice, the president is threatening to remove any Republican member of congress who crosses him by supporting a primary challenger.
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
Free will -> original sin -> all manner of diseases, suffering tyat are part of the human condition. Even without the theology, a person suffering due to a forebear's poor decision is well-understood: a decent percentage if peopl
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
IMO, the likely cause is AMD capitalizing on multiple OEMs having Steam-Deck envy and/or setting the foundation for the Steam Deck 2 with near-desktop graphics fidelity rather than 800p medium/low settings users have to put up wit

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