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by als0 14d ago
Google is the new IBM. All the signs are there.
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by als0 14d ago
I thought supermarket loyalty cards were just a QR code of a simple serial number. Is it different where you are?
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IKEA Hackers(ikeahackers.net)
2 points by als0 17d ago|1 comments
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by als0 21d ago
The story about that AMD ARM core is that they were making it for Amazon. Performance was not good enough so it was canned. Amazon then went on to make their own chips called Graviton.
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by als0 22d ago
> your average diabetic who has fairly good control over their blood sugars I think it's huge for diabetics. It's a mental toll for them. They hate having to constantly prick themselves to take readings. It's awkward, inco
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by als0 22d ago
Tahoe slows it down, but Seqouia is still strong.
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by als0 22d ago
Yep, even 600GB/s is barely usable and not fun.
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by als0 1mo ago
> Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later Why? Tahoe hasn’t even reached its first birthday and plenty of us are still on Seqouia not wanting to put up with apple’s disaster release. There’s nothing a terminal needs from Tahoe specifically.
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by als0 1mo ago
7. Do you want the most contributions? I hate to admit it, but GitHub has a massive community. I’ve personally seen a project leave it and then contributions dropped significantly.
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by als0 2mo ago
The larger 3.6 35B is actually a mixture of experts (MOE). This means a small proportion of those B's are actually active. It's fast and suitable for agentic tasks but nowhere near good as the dense 27B model, which has all of its
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by als0 2mo ago
This. Despite my personal dislike of Python I would never discourage anyone from using it. It has an extraordinary ecosystem.
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by als0 2mo ago
Seems to be in the same category as Lua. Can a PL nerd explain what's different about it?
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by als0 2mo ago
> Can somebodhy explain to me why this isn't implemented yet? Because right now it's a privacy and security nightmare.
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by als0 2mo ago
Says it requires a 2TB disk? Must it be internal NVMe?
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by als0 2mo ago
Have you heard about the cloud?
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by als0 2mo ago
Reminds me of https://sharedrop.io
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by als0 2mo ago
So many of these agent sandboxing solutions now. Don’t people search for existing solutions anymore?
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by als0 3mo ago
What is sketchy about it? I think you know something the rest of us don't.
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by als0 3mo ago
Leaving is not the hard decision. The hard decision is where to go. Do you have any suggestions?
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by als0 3mo ago
I don’t think that would have worked. Parents buy phones for their kids since the kids can’t buy them. What would the choices be? Give them a phone or not give them a phone. I don’t think society is ready for that kind of choice anymore.
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by als0 3mo ago
> Can I run something comparable to Opus 4.6 locally yet? Sadly, no. The best comparable thing you can get is about Sonnet 3.7
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by als0 3mo ago
If you show up to a protest then you automatically get put on a police database via facial recognition.
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by als0 4mo ago
> It was still better than the competition Plenty of cases where Surface isn't. Microsoft like to think they can make hardware but they're no better than other OEM and it's clearly not a focus for them
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by als0 4mo ago
For the uninitiated, Service Processor (SP) is just another kind of Baseboard Management Controller.
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UK public data to inform decisions and build services(data.gov.uk)
2 points by als0 4mo ago|0 comments
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by als0 4mo ago
Projects like this is why I come to Hacker News. Well done.
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by als0 5mo ago
> Microsoft has broken sleep with pushing S0 sleep in UEFI > Sleep s3 is needed, but Microsoft killed it. Would you or someone else here mind explaining this?
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by als0 5mo ago
Intel's strategy has consistently been that they do not consider doing any kind of business unless they earn at least 25% margin on each sale.
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by als0 5mo ago
Any secure boot design can achieve that, you don't need TrustZone to do that
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by als0 5mo ago
> Please don't charge too much for it Intel wouldn’t decide to do this even to save their own life

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