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by serf 5d ago
>I've never seen oil prices decrease due to any regional disruption; the market is global. oil spiked and then crashed during the gulf war & the iraq war in 03. the gulf war probably because of western price control methods kick
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by serf 6d ago
3 hrs and 52 minutes of Musk. I didn't even want to sit in front of a screen for 2 hours for Bob Dylan, sheesh.
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by serf 6d ago
>If you have access to a SOTA model without guardrails, provide a prompt that lets the agent come up with "creative" solutions to problems, and don't properly isolate it, they can end up inadvertently hacking 3rd party com
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by serf 7d ago
>Asheron's Call, Planetside, World of Warcraft, and Dark Age of Camelot. It seems like only WoW survived wow, daoc, runescape, eve, and now planetside 2 are still operating. everquest, the big one missing from your list, is also sti
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by serf 7d ago
It's my perspective that open models are closing the gap faster than the frontier is widening it. I'm not alone in that opinion.
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by serf 7d ago
>Because they own the IP and they get to decide the terms of how it’s licensed. how'd that work out for the rest of IP owners that had their stuff used as training data for use in model creation? was the material they trained on pro
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by serf 7d ago
I recently had to config my harness to watch for cybersecurity flags from astra and funnel requests to flash when they occur because Astra gets queezy when you talk to it about UDP packets in games. Works fantastic. Glad there is a more &#x
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by serf 8d ago
>I care about the beauty that one can construct from the human mind, and that was the entire point, at least for me, to practise math. the result of this originates from the beauty of the human mind, even if the tool used blinds you to t
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by serf 8d ago
there absolutely are ways to cache common-routes to fields of commonly requested paths. (hint : it's not all regex and checksums.)
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by serf 9d ago
>I think the „my brain isn’t the same anymore“ sensation is pretty universal. I disagree with the premise that you're propping up with the exercise example; I disagree that humans are thinking less because of mechanisms available in
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by serf 10d ago
>I believe skills will eventually be eating by model capabilities a model capability is never going to fill in an unknowable blank that a custom skill (or whatever equivalent your paradigm supports) can. a model might have the cleverness
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by serf 10d ago
Neither the invention date or the mental health terminology have anything to do with the fact that js being commonplace is a privacy and security nightmare -- which was actually the point.
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by serf 12d ago
it wasn't timed like a cascade, and it relies on the premise that every single frontier provider is working so efficiently that they spend exactly what they need to provide for their exact market with perfect margins. I do not believe
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by serf 12d ago
does that area have a textile manufacturing history? I ask because i'm only familiar with a thread/yarn bobbin, I wonder if it derived from that.
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by serf 13d ago
customers buy furniture options when they order the plane. related : many flight demonstrators in the past for large passenger planes have had no interior at all aside from the cockpit and ballast kits.
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by serf 13d ago
Gemini is great (and fast) at vision tasks. It's a huge benefit to add on to an existing pi/omp harness install just for that feature to use in conjunction with other (stronger) models. Too bad this anti 3rd party usage stance ba
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by serf 13d ago
>whim you probably can't even appeal. not to beat a dead horse in this thread , but that should give the motivation needed to seek alternatives.
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by serf 13d ago
all of them? openrouter and deepseek/glm working fine here. as is my local qwen. you're ignoring the point parent was making.
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by serf 14d ago
I thought hearing about The Cave on repeat for 30+ years was nauseating until video game metaphor took over for all of philosophy in common media. you don't know what you got (til it's gone)
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by serf 14d ago
>Almost makes you wonder if some of those vulnerabilities are intentionally allowed to exist. the fact that someone can say that post-Dual_EC_DRBG/project-rubicon/eternalblue/eternalromance exposure boggles the mind.
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by serf 15d ago
>It was the first mainstream Wiki-based game. Now, every game does it that way. the wow wiki was from 04, the minecraft wiki is from 09. ... and wow was very documentation based for people pre-quest-helpers.
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by serf 15d ago
What I find interesting is the selectivity of the moral outrage. On HN, people will casually discuss careers in defense, surveillance, ad-tech, exploitative finance, or fairly predatory forms of Silicon Valley capitalism without immediately
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by serf 15d ago
this was the evolution of most online games, same reason why every action/shooter game that's online at the moment has a mechanic that allows players to see through walls : if players have that mechanic available to them then ther
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by serf 15d ago
let's try the entrepreneurial defense that tends to work around here : "oh no, it's okay -- you see I was selling the hack; I wouldn't have wasted time in that game."
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by serf 16d ago
show me how to blend "radical self expression" with "carefully curated guest list" and make it work.
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by serf 18d ago
'aging' is a terrible vanity phrase for '65 years old and over.'. the more interesting result : > Adults in the sandwich generation were more likely than those who were not sandwiched to say they were very satisfied w
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by serf 20d ago
for all the reasons in the book/movie/television show 'The Andromeda Strain'.
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by serf 20d ago
>It is a constant, "but my friends can do this", and you have to deal with it all the time. I don't have children, but I was a child and I know parents. It's not a given that a child has this type of 2 way negotiation
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by serf 20d ago
I believe the Microduck camera footage (the ad - reel) about 1000x more than the Mondo one.
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by serf 21d ago
>You can't search what you don't even know exists. that's not really entirely true -- one can google for "fast pathfinding' and stumble upon A-star , all that had to be queried was the intent/desire. a lot o

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