ursuscamp

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by ursuscamp 29d ago
Here's EPA data from as recent as 2018: https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-... EPA estimates that hundreds of thousands of tons of books are landfilled or recycled every year . That's j
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by ursuscamp 1mo ago
Rare as in your grandfather's John Deere manual from 1982, not rare as in a test print run of The Great Gatsby. The number of books ingested by these AI companies is a drop in the bucket compared to old books destroyed every year throu
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by ursuscamp 1mo ago
Per the courts, it actually helps their "fair use" case if they destroy the book instead of re-selling it.
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by ursuscamp 2mo ago
I don't necessarily buy that API prices represent "real" prices of the models.
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by ursuscamp 2mo ago
I don't want to host my code on a platform that has activist goals beyond open source advocacy, but I'm glad it exists because it's a useful filter, like the X/Bluesky divide.
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by ursuscamp 2mo ago
Can someone explain to me the difference between this approach and using planning with a larger model, then just switching to a small model for implementation without clearing the context? I understand that it specifically does the first ed
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by ursuscamp 2mo ago
You're in for a great deal of pain in the coming years.
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by ursuscamp 2mo ago
Nasal phenylephrine is a miracle when I am trying to sleep with a stopped up nose. A spray in each nostril and my nose is clearer than even normal within a few minutes.
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by ursuscamp 3mo ago
Bitcoin is so dead that jamesob is posting about AI.
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by ursuscamp 3mo ago
Too late, damage is already done. We have been on the wrong timeline for years at this point.
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by ursuscamp 3mo ago
SpaceX is planning to do data centers in orbit. Engineering issues aside, that might dovetail with Cursor nicely if timings work out.
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by ursuscamp 3mo ago
It's a good question, but Iran has a new weapon now: The Strait of Hormuz. Maybe that's enough leverage that they retain that they will stop their nuclear program for a while.
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by ursuscamp 3mo ago
Iran gained international credibility by adhering strictly to the JCPOA, even long after the Trump admin broke it. I doubt they will squander that by not adhering to whatever deal they negotiate next.
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by ursuscamp 3mo ago
The readme says it's 88,000 lines of "hand-written" C, and yet there's only 41 commits all from the last day, and they're all co-authored by Claude. I have no problem with AI code, but it should not be advertised as
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by ursuscamp 4mo ago
All of those are within range of Iranian missiles and drones. The only ways out of this are total war or final settlement giving Iranian favorable terms.
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by ursuscamp 4mo ago
Truly amazing times. Just doing things has never been easier, and it has really reinvigorated me.
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by ursuscamp 5mo ago
Maybe Ghostty will follow Zig to Codeberg, but it doesn't seem like a fit to me.
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by ursuscamp 5mo ago
OSS is increasingly bisecting into two camps, and you can tell which camp they are in depending on whether their developers use X or Mastodon/Bluesky.
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by ursuscamp 5mo ago
My brain is so cooked that I saw “M 7.4” and the first thing I thought was, “Which model is that?”
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by ursuscamp 7mo ago
They are heavily invested in Bitcoin and still offer and improve their Bitcoin services. It’s not really “blockchain.” They’re not a crypto company. They are ideologically dedicated to Bitcoin.
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by ursuscamp 7mo ago
MiniMax has an incredibly affordable coding plan for $10/month. It has a rolling five hour limit of 100 prompts. 100 prompts doesn't sound like much, but in typical AI company accounting fashion, 1 prompt is not really 1 prompt. I
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by ursuscamp 7mo ago
They abandoned Swift recently.
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by ursuscamp 8mo ago
This is depressing because we will go to war over this and it’s going to be five years before people realizing they were tricked by “babies in incubators” propaganda.
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by ursuscamp 9mo ago
This is obviously AI to everyone but the most gullible people imaginable. However, this is becoming more and more common and we should really crack down on it before it completely escapes social acceptability containment.
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by ursuscamp 9mo ago
Cashu is a working chaumian ecash protocol built on Bitcoin. It is quite functional and has some subset of bitcoiners actually using with, with many wallets and mints building on the protocol.
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by ursuscamp 1y ago
So, I was part of the Nostr community for quite a while and was the author of a popular Nostr extension for Safari, before eventually giving up on Nostr for various reasons. I haven't read that entire paper. Mainly, I skipped to the se
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by ursuscamp 1y ago
I've been a ruby user for almost 15 years. I've been to several RubyConfs in that time. I have never found that to be true. It's a thin veneer over rampant toxicity and political extremism. Many of the evangelists in the Ruby
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by ursuscamp 1y ago
I never looked up the origin of the name before. Interestingly enough, I associate Bellingcat with permanent cold warriors, a group of people who seem determined to fulfill the moral of the tale.
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by ursuscamp 1y ago
The sales pitch: It's permissionless, but also has baked in compliance. These two things are not compatible. Stripe must comply with US regulation, they aren't going to launch a financial network that is actually permissionless.
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by ursuscamp 1y ago
As an avid X user, I think she did an astonishing job keeping the platform afloat at all given that the owner is borderline insane and uses the platform as his personal playground.

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