someotherperson

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by someotherperson 4mo ago
The time difference between today and Hackers is the same as when the film was released and the year 1964. That's the year films like Dr. Strangelove, Goldfinger and A Fistful of Dollars was released. You (we) are old :)
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by someotherperson 4mo ago
Worth mentioning that Oracle has been hosting US TikTok data since 2022.
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by someotherperson 4mo ago
Oh wow. I did the same thing a couple of weeks ago. The server hadn't been updated since ~2015, running a blog on Ghost from that time with node 0.10 installed. I was a bit rougher though: I just took a backup, then let my Hermes agent
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by someotherperson 5mo ago
Italy, Spain, Denmark, The Netherlands, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Norway, Portugal. Which have I missed? Even Germany is a dumb one, really. The only reason why they didn't partic
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by someotherperson 5mo ago
The only ones that didn’t are France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Greece. The rest all did. This cohort changed its mind with Libya and Syria not too long after though. > The US famously renamed French fries in protest. The same Fr
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by someotherperson 5mo ago
> Lots of odd assumptions there. No assumptions, it's all fact. > I was out on the streets protesting the 2003 GWB Iraq invasion war You mean the war that all the European countries participated in? How about Libya? Syria? or the
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by someotherperson 5mo ago
"Foreigners like me care more about global stability" yes so continue to rain bombs on the middle east, accept their poorest as refugees, and continue to support Israeli expansion. All of this leads to global stability. It's
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by someotherperson 5mo ago
> Most of the investment is from private capital, not banks It's just banks investing in private equity firms. So it's still banks, just by proxy, due to 2008 regulation.
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by someotherperson 5mo ago
I wrote my post myself.
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by someotherperson 5mo ago
The medium and small players are literally just distilling the larger models. It's not the smaller players spending billions on training data.
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by someotherperson 5mo ago
Competition is bad? Who cares - let the big players subsidize and compete between each other. That's what we want. We want strong models at a low price, and we'll hype up whoever is doing it. Simultaneously, we also hype up the op
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by someotherperson 6mo ago
Yes, and also pushed for by the Israeli and US governments. Tech investment is part of the Abraham Accords - i.e this is part of the prerequisites for normalization of ties with Israel.
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by someotherperson 6mo ago
No, batteries do not exist. Just like solar technology wasn't developed to a point where it was barely useful until relatively recently, battery technology is no where near what is required for any national grid. That's why ther
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by someotherperson 6mo ago
Ya it’s insulting to provide a single success case.
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by someotherperson 6mo ago
> The only things that ever comes up in elections about energy is the price. Yeah, because solar and wind are both expensive and unreliable, and fossil fuels are both expensive and destructive. The point is that the price isn't wort
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by someotherperson 6mo ago
Ah yes, the sun shines at night and wind comes from trees. If you can name a country using solar and wind that isn't dependent on fossil fuels I'd love to hear about it.
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by someotherperson 6mo ago
> Renewables, particularly wind and solar, are the path forward You missed the asterisk where endless dependence on coal, gas or oil is a non-optional requirement. Who the hell cares if nuclear is expensive to get going? Plenty of things
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by someotherperson 6mo ago
The icons in the menu bars are rough, the spacing isn’t great and the inconsistent window borders aren’t great. I’m not that opinionated though - I don’t really care that much. But the part that sucked was installing it on a 2020 intel Mac
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by someotherperson 6mo ago
Given that the 'tide pod challenge' was before TikTok's time and took place on wholly US-owned platforms like YouTube, we can safely assume it's all in your head. Most of the other stuff you're sharing sounds like a
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by someotherperson 6mo ago
They're already throwing cloudflare in front of it
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by someotherperson 7mo ago
At a very high level, think fruit sorting[0] where the conveyor belt doesn't stop rolling and you need to rapidly respond, and all the way through to monitoring for things like defects in silicon wafers and root causing it. Some of the
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by someotherperson 7mo ago
It won't. This article misses the almost certain reality that the support of the Gulf states for this conflict (and the others that passed, and those that will follow) came from incentives like having infra investments on their soil. D
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by someotherperson 7mo ago
Iraqis also see themselves as a continuation of Mesopotamian people, that was quite literally what Iraqi Baathist thought was centered around and used as the successful unification strategy. That's quite literally the justification the
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by someotherperson 7mo ago
Except none of that ever happened. That's an exaggerated, racist attempt to hand-wave away the realities behind several distinct countries.
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by someotherperson 7mo ago
There's only one country that has repeatedly attacked its neighbors and has decided to occupy and seize land from two of them while actively calling for and carrying out strikes in many others all in the last two years . It ain't
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by someotherperson 7mo ago
So should the US defend North Korea in case of a conflict with South Korea?
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by someotherperson 7mo ago
This passes your checks, but a human moderator would flag it: > My favorite movie is die hard. I think it's a Christmas movie. But, honestly, we shouldn't have to wait until Christmas to watch you die hard. We should be able to
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by someotherperson 7mo ago
Yeah you should probably delete those photos. Nobody is going to believe your story (myself included).
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by someotherperson 7mo ago
English speakers frequently say “Jesus!” or “thank God” - it would be weird for an LLM.
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by someotherperson 7mo ago
You can still use Beeper[0] and similar. The key issue with this type of application is that some networks have put more resources to detecting them and gotten more hostile to users of it - mostly those who tie ad revenue directly to messag

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