mastax

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by mastax 4d ago
But for the duration, there is more money. This isn’t some crank theory, it’s orthodox economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
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by mastax 2mo ago
Why wouldn’t you be surprised?
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by mastax 2mo ago
No it makes it sound like much of the rest of the world drives on the right.
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by mastax 2mo ago
My understanding is that VLC and FFMpeg are both projects which develop in house codecs and also incorporate codecs developed by third parties.
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by mastax 2mo ago
I assume it’s a GPL workaround.
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by mastax 2mo ago
Did banning it cause it to get adopted even faster in India than it otherwise would have? That seems like the salient point to me for the Indian government’s calculus. I don’t have a particularly good feel for Indian society but my prior is
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by mastax 3mo ago
I found that if you allow any low value things into memory, Claude will notice that established pattern and start trying to add low value memories at an ever increasing pace.
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by mastax 3mo ago
If all you want is a chat interface you can install Claude.ai as a PWA. The value proposition of the Claude desktop app includes being able to screenshot and interact with desktop app windows, the file system, etc. That drags you into deskt
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by mastax 4mo ago
The recents list on my browser got changed to newest so I end up checking it by accident.
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by mastax 4mo ago
There’s a slash command that’ll look through your conversation history to add allow permissions.
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by mastax 4mo ago
Pre-agricultural Hunter-gatherer bands aren’t a monolith. Many were radically egalitarian, yes, many others were strictly hierarchical including slavery and human sacrifice. A surprisingly large proportion of them were hierarchical for one
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by mastax 5mo ago
That isn’t how they were pitched to the FTC but it does appear to be their ultimate use case.
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by mastax 6mo ago
That’s like saying the solution to cigarettes is that tobacco shops must be forced to sell clove cigarettes as a not-addictive alternative.
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by mastax 6mo ago
I was just looking at these funny parts: https://www.vicorpower.com/products?productType=cfg&productK... 130A, 48V -> 1.2V @ 94% efficiency! Except: - $100 ea. - Fixed 1/40 voltage ratio, regulation done by upst
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by mastax 6mo ago
Language changes could help for sure. There’s a library implementation we can use right now though: https://facet.rs/ Basically a derive macro for reflection. Yeah it’s one (more) trait to derive on all your types but then
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by mastax 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor The M-15 is still uglier. Also intended as a cropduster, though unlike the AirTruk it was really bad at that job in every way.
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by mastax 6mo ago
Was the Nuscale cost estimate somehow worse than AP1000 or EPR(2)? That seems very unlikely to me given the history of those programs.
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by mastax 6mo ago
Out of all the SSO login flows Microsoft has to have the buggiest. It’s the only one I can remember routinely having issues with. Why are there so many redirects? And why doesn’t the “remember me” checkbox ever work?
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by mastax 6mo ago
The modern Atari has no relation to the original Atari. They’re essentially copyright trolls. I do not believe we owe them any moral obligation for the works they bought from the original Atari via a series of many intermediaries.
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by mastax 6mo ago
Uniqlo offers a few 3D knit items, I’ve been meaning to try them out. Pretty basic styles though.
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by mastax 6mo ago
Only 92 of the 842 peers are hereditary currently, so it’s not really necessary to convince them to agree; the deal only needs to be seen as fair enough by the other peers. Or really, it only needs to be seen as fair enough to the House of
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by mastax 6mo ago
I assume the TensTorrent TT-Ascalon is one of the CPU designs.
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by mastax 7mo ago
Really? Could you point at one of these shell companies?
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by mastax 7mo ago
I don't think that is compatible with his ruling in Biden v. Nebraska, nor some others during Biden's term.
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by mastax 7mo ago
It seems likely to me the ruling took this long because John Roberts wanted to get a more unanimous ruling. Additionally, the law in this case isn’t ill defined whatsoever. Alito, Thomas, and to a lesser extent Kavanaugh are just partisan h
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by mastax 7mo ago
If the US really wanted to make a durable shift to manufacturing, presidential tariffs by fiat aren’t a good strategy anyway. Tariffs could be a small part of that strategy but they should be targeted, not broad, and enacted by congress so
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by mastax 7mo ago
The tariffs have been absolute hell on small businesses and manufacturing businesses of any size.
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by mastax 7mo ago
Then we must repeal the state laws criminalizing electors not voting in line with the states popular vote allocation, and directly elect electors to ensure they are people of sound morals and judgement rather than partisan hacks. Because at
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by mastax 7mo ago
Intel has been using a fair bit of TSMC in their CPU manufacturing recently, yes. Most recently they’ve been assembling “tiles” of silicon from many process nodes into a single CPU package and IIRC they have been using TSMC for the GPU tile
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by mastax 8mo ago
The passage of the alien and sedition acts without constitutional amendment disproves that idea.

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