aprentic

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by aprentic 6d ago
It's kind of insane how much we trust companies to safeguard our personal data when they're so heavily incentivized to use it for their own profit. Theft of customer data is punished so rarely and so leniently that companies aren&
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by aprentic 11d ago
This is fairly close to my own soldering journey. I'm coming at it with a technical software background and minimal hands-on hardware experience or training. I found a few things that have made my solder joint better (both mechanically
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by aprentic 15d ago
Users on the Kagi forum are reporting mixed results. Some US users still see Lake Ontario, some Canadian users see Lake America. They also seem to agree that it should be classified as incorrect behavior. https://kagifeedback.or
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by aprentic 15d ago
Kagi Maps did too.
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by aprentic 28d ago
That's clearly how it turned out but going in, I would have expected the a subscription to be a discount in exchange for a commitment of repeat business.
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by aprentic 1mo ago
Lol I see the old /. nerd are still beating on that old joke. It was supposed to be a Beowulf cluster of Furbies, right?
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by aprentic 1mo ago
Chinese idioms can be notoriously difficult to interpret. From what I've seen, they're often an abbreviation of some passage from a famous text. The listener is expected to know the rest of that text and all the major commentari
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by aprentic 1mo ago
It depends on what you find interesting. No crazy spy stories but I've been learning Chinese, so I've spent more time looking at things that are only written or said in Chinese. Project 2025 wasn't really secret but it wasn&#
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by aprentic 1mo ago
China has some internal documents that address the Thucydides Trap with a Chinese idiom, "There are no just wars in the Spring and Autumn Period."
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by aprentic 1mo ago
Sorry. I was trying to keep things brief. Basically a drone that relies more on the camera and less on the accellerometer and the GPS. Although it still uses both a lot.
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by aprentic 1mo ago
Mostly hardware. A cheap rowing counter. Competitive rowers use a training device that counts their strokes per minute. I figured out that the major parts are really cheap, even as individual purchases, so I wanted to build a budget version
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by aprentic 1mo ago
That seems like a lot of conjecture based on very little evidence. The article doesn't mention why they're against data centers. The obvious alternative explanation is that people are very worried about the externalities of a proj
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by aprentic 1mo ago
What's the solution to the heat problem?
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by aprentic 1mo ago
Not impossible but I'm still curious how they're planning to deal with heat. I'd also wonder if the folks who don't want to live within 3 miles of a data center are OK with the data center flying over their head
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by aprentic 2mo ago
I believe that China's deep answer to that problem is, "There are no just wars in the Spring and Autumn period. " There are some internal policy papers to that effect.
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by aprentic 2mo ago
I'm curious how he would propose implementing this. The US could ban connections to foreign AI providers and force US providers to submit to audits. Presumably, Chinese providers would see a rise in VPN traffic. People can build fairly
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by aprentic 2mo ago
It's always about logistics. The Three Kingdoms War was one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history. It was largely enabled by the invention of the wheelbarrow.
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by aprentic 3mo ago
I like Cursor but that valuation is a hard sell. Their valuation should be very closely tied to how how many tokens it takes to get from Void to Cursor. If those values diverge by much, something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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by aprentic 3mo ago
You're essentially saying that privacy violations are baked into the cores of these systems.
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by aprentic 4mo ago
It might not meet some pedantic definition of "Malware (tm)" but, for all intents and purposes, it fits perfectly.
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by aprentic 4mo ago
Why not? It's a software feature designed to benefit Google at the expense of the user.
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by aprentic 4mo ago
The obvious answer to behavior like this is warnings that escalate up to a sitewide ban. When a human is abuses a system, that human normally loses access to the system.
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by aprentic 4mo ago
It seems that EVs and ICEs are sufficiently different that traditional car companies don't really enjoy nearly the encumbrancy advantage they once had. The top EV manufacturer started as a battery company. The second place EV company
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by aprentic 4mo ago
What if the framing were slightly restated? I view all three of these more as good advice than demands. As I see it, people ignore this advice at their own peril. It would certainly be nice if we could craft some system that removes the nee
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by aprentic 5mo ago
The nice thing about statistics and math is that you don't need to stop at a feeling. If doubt their math, do it yourself.
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by aprentic 5mo ago
I still have my G-Shock from the late 80's. It has a crappy light, a quiet alarm, and limited functionality. But it's damn near bullet proof and I change the battery every few years.
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by aprentic 5mo ago
I like this. It's an inversion of the old addage, "a poor craftsman blames his tools" and the corollary, "use the right tool for the job" (because a good craftsman chooses the appropriate tool). You don't get t
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by aprentic 6mo ago
Reading between the lines of the article it seems advanced but not too surprising. I assume that at night when it "withdrew to a covered location" there was opportunity for maintenance, battery swaps, etc. The article says that it
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by aprentic 6mo ago
Do you know if that's true of non-English models? As I said elsewhere, Deepseek injects Chinese characters into responses. Anecdotally, that seems to happen when the context gets longer. That suggests that they're primarily traine
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by aprentic 6mo ago
Deepseek will regularly spit out Chinese (汉字）during English sessions. They generally seem to be syntactically related but it makes me think that there's some overhead of using English with an engine that's primarily trained in Chi

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