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by irq 8mo ago
Thank you for posting this. It never ceases to amaze me how many open source GUI projects forget screenshots.
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by irq 11mo ago
Which will, at best, cover a portion of his medical bills.
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by irq 1y ago
Back during those high interest rate days, housing costs vs income were much better
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by irq 2y ago
Crusoe is unabashedly anti-remote work, which is curious considering their company’s environmental and energy locality focus. I interviewed with them, they are very much an old school “you must all work physically in San Francisco” company.
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by irq 2y ago
> I would call phones like the Palm Treo and later BlackBerries smartphones. It's not just you; at the time these products were available, _everyone_ called them smartphones. Emphatically, Apple did not bring the first smartphone to
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by irq 2y ago
I thought it was notable that he was directly asked about the surveillance aspect of all of this and he did not seem to respond to that subject.
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by irq 2y ago
Some choice quotes: > 2029, both for human-level intelligence and for artificial general intelligence (AGI) > The Singularity, which is a metaphor borrowed from physics, will occur when we merge our brain with the cloud > Making it
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Ray Kurzweil: We're going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045(theguardian.com)
5 points by irq 2y ago|7 comments
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by irq 2y ago
The brr.fyi article is SO much more detailed, better written, and a lot newer (2023 vs 2012)
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by irq 2y ago
To be clear, Spotify is a _global_ company, and there is no excuse for this.
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by irq 2y ago
This is the most realistic answer provided in this post thus far, and I feel the downvotes are just proving the point. _Not needing money doesn't make you an expert on the world_, please repeat that to yourself and everyone else on tha
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by irq 2y ago
I love this story - code trading is such a cool idea, and one I haven't heard of much before. Anyone else have any code trading stories?
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by irq 2y ago
100% of all name brands and uncommon brands and bs brands I’ve tried have sold me LED bulbs that buzz annoyingly or fail within 1 year. Literally no one is willing to make an LED bulb that lasts as long as the tech is capable of. The least
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by irq 3y ago
> The COVID vaccine showed no efficacy for children This is false. Please don’t spread misinformation here. Finally, please consider the possibility that your reasoning skills are not sufficient for the conclusions you’re making.
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by irq 3y ago
> I now regret getting the COVID vaccine for them and feel very guilty about it. What do you regret exactly? Or feel guilty about? What negative outcome befell you or your kids?
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by irq 3y ago
> The EFF is politically ineffective and always has been for reasons I don't understand, and no one else seems to care. Going by the EFF's latest published financials (2022), they took in $23 million vs $16.6 million in expense
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by irq 3y ago
paulsutter said: > Note that this is the single most human attribute of LLMs It might be if LLM hallucinations looked like or occurred at the same frequency as human hallucinations do, but they don’t.
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by irq 3y ago
Treating remote as the exception rather than the rule, or at least as a fully supported, equal labor force is the most common way I’ve seen companies get remote work wrong.
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by irq 3y ago
This is SpaceX, unintentionally or otherwise, making things worse for everyone else within range who uses those frequencies. The band in question (2 meters, around 144 MHz) is probably the #1 most commonly used band by the licensed amateur
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by irq 3y ago
Not saying I agree with this labeling, but it means approximately the same thing as “crypto bro”, but for AI
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by irq 3y ago
Steve knew the value of communication and respect, and when to give it and when not to, and how that strategically applied to Apple as a company. Elon knows none of these things - ego is his north star.
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by irq 3y ago
> But now I wonder, how much is Musk and how much is it that Musk just raised a ton of money and the companies were run by people way smarter and more competent than him? It is quite obvious that the more involved he gets in his companie
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by irq 3y ago
Beautiful open-source photo editing app, and that's really saying something. A tremendous achievement. However, the lack of a macOS build shows a fundamental lack of market knowledge & project management skill that will ultimately
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by irq 3y ago
> How many iPhone owners know their phones cannot be turned off, i.e. a faraday bag is required to stop radio transmission? This can be fully disabled in Settings.
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by irq 3y ago
Most of it is artificial. The term people seem to use to describe this is toxic positivity.
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by irq 3y ago
For those looking for details about how nuclear technology is used here: > Irradiation, such as with gamma rays and X-rays, is used to sterilize mass-reared insects https://www.iaea.org/topics/sterile-insect-techniqu
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by irq 3y ago
The issue is this shouldn’t have happened in the first place. We as a society should have learned from, at least, the debacle that was leaded gasoline and its impact on populations over generations.
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by irq 3y ago
The “but” is there because a 15% reduction in rotational inertia is more than you’d expect from being just 10% lighter.
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by irq 3y ago
That cat had one hell of a life before it died though.
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by irq 3y ago
there's just no way this works out in terms of physics: - the weight a semi-truck is expected to carry vs the surface area available to absorb photons vs motor efficiency. the energy obtainable via the sun exposed surface area availabl

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