ndiddy

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by ndiddy 5d ago
> It's not rational, for example, for them to build nuclear weapons, deprive their people of economic prosperity, kill thousands of protestors, fund militant groups spreading terrorism and murder throughout the region, yet they do i
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by ndiddy 5d ago
> I'm not supportive of Israel having nuclear weapons, but Iran won't do something like this because the Israelis might nuke them. You've said elsewhere in this thread that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon and that a g
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by ndiddy 6d ago
> What we don't know is just how recent this model was, and therefore what it may have been trained on. OpenAI's statement says that they began training their new model on August 28.
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by ndiddy 9d ago
This has been a problem for years at this point and they still haven’t fixed it, it’s frankly bizarre.
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by ndiddy 9d ago
Yeah basically everybody I know who's non-technical switched to Chrome when Google started advertising it on google.com (This was back when nontechnical users would start every search query by going to google.com). "Oh this says i
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by ndiddy 10d ago
Yeah in general the value proposition of Blu-Ray M-Discs makes less sense vs. DVDs because the standard BD-Rs are also inorganic. One thing the random person on Reddit (and the people parroting his/her claims) don't seem to have r
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by ndiddy 10d ago
A German news site reached out to Verbatim about this and got the response that the discs are still M-Discs and will still last 1,000 years: https://www.heise.de/news/Langzeitarchivierung-Verwirrung-um... > Verbatim
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by ndiddy 12d ago
I'm assuming they mean SDL ports of DOS games. SDL is actually one of the most stable libraries that a native game can use. They make breaking changes to the API once every 10-15 years, and they write a compatibility layer that impleme
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by ndiddy 12d ago
Anthropic chose to do business with the "killing people" department of the government. Part of being a good CEO involves knowing what you're getting into when you make a decision like that.
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by ndiddy 13d ago
.name is still a weird edge case because of the naming rules. Whether or not all subdomains under doe.name belong to the same person depends solely on whether the first person registered "doe.name" (in which case they do) or &quot
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by ndiddy 13d ago
The Living Computer Museum wasn't structurally a museum, it was Paul Allen's collection. Part of running a museum includes having a plan in place that the museum will continue running past the death of one particular billionaire.
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by ndiddy 13d ago
They went over why switching to Qt was the best option for their team here: https://youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38?t=840 .
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by ndiddy 14d ago
The Microsoft BASIC syntax is certainly inspired by DEC BASIC, but the actual implementation is completely different. DEC BASIC compiles the program source code into bytecode, while Microsoft BASIC tokenizes each line as it's entered a
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U.S. Teletext Archive: Decoded pages from 1980s American teletext services(tvta-yt.github.io)
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by ndiddy 16d ago
The Democrats already tried out the idea that Trumpism would blow over and everything would go back to "normal" with Biden's 2020 campaign, but it didn't really turn out that way. Right-wing reactionary politics has been
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by ndiddy 16d ago
Yeah I feel like a lot of the people criticizing this are still being client-server brained. There's a lot of use cases that "everyone is a server" would open up without turning everyone into a sysadmin and they'd likely
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by ndiddy 16d ago
Nokia were experimenting with using their smartphones as web servers in the mid-2000s. You were able to write blog posts and share photos, and if you logged in to the site you could look up your contacts or download your camera roll. There&
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by ndiddy 16d ago
You are describing the premise of the article. > The problem was Darwin was a marketing ploy, and nothing more. Marketing thought that by throwing some source files over the wall, they could increase their market share and revenue. And t
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by ndiddy 16d ago
There was a community around Darwin for a while, and people released Darwin distros that ran X11 and a variety of ported Unix software. You’re right that it never really amounted to anything serious though. Within Apple, open sourcing Darwi
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by ndiddy 16d ago
> What makes you think that? There’s articles about them, Apple uses them internally for AI services. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photos-of-apples-own-ne...
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by ndiddy 18d ago
The Neo is $250 more than the Chuwi laptop in the article. Obviously you're going to need to make sacrifices to hit that price point.
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by ndiddy 19d ago
He kind of fell off. He left Microsoft to found a scam company called "SoftwareOnline.com" that used ads to trick people into downloading fake anti-virus software. The software didn't do anything besides show the user nag mes
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by ndiddy 19d ago
It's great that there's more investment being put into Flatpak development. The page mentions adding more granular permissions, which is nice to see. However, another necessary improvement is actually making it possible for softwa
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by ndiddy 19d ago
Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it illegal in the US to defeat a technological measure that controls access to a copyrighted work (such as the Switch's game encryption) without the copyright owner's permission. It also makes it ill
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by ndiddy 20d ago
Yeah the problem isn't people using AI, it's the flood of lazy "native ports" that have no meaningful improvement over playing the game in an emulator and often crash or glitch out a level or two in because unsurprisingl
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by ndiddy 20d ago
Well the situation being portrayed is that the real movie is a luxury item while the AI movie is an inferior good ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior_good ). If the increase in wealth inequality meant that fewer peo
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by ndiddy 20d ago
Currently, in the US the top 10% of earners are responsible for approximately half of all consumer spending. If AI causes this trend to continue and accelerate, I expect that we'd see similar dollar amounts of consumer spending, but it
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by ndiddy 20d ago
Originally, the Ctrl key was to the left of A, where Caps Lock is now. This makes most Ctrl key shortcuts a lot more comfortable. They moved Ctrl to the bottom left with the Model M keyboard, which became the standard modern PC keyboard lay
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by ndiddy 20d ago
A lot of hardware gets Linux support because the hardware manufacturer itself (Intel, AMD, Mediatek, NXP, Marvell, etc) takes responsibility for writing and upstreaming Linux drivers. This is how companies like Lenovo or Dell can offer syst
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by ndiddy 21d ago
One thing a lot of YIMBYs get wrong is that you can't deregulate your way out of a housing crisis because of how new housing is financed. Builders depend on outside investors to finance new housing projects. These investors base their

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