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by vaxman 6mo ago
There is an entire WORLD that lives in your computer below the operating system (eg, OpenWRT). For example, in your Raspberry Pi 5, there is a chip called the VideoCore GPU and it contains a big blob of code known only to Raspberry Pi Found
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by vaxman 6mo ago
> Their exact warning to me was that those who don’t adopt it now “are gonna find themselves in a tough position later.” A long time ago Apple learned that even the very best software people in industry, those top-of-class graduates from
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by vaxman 6mo ago
The Spirit of this law __must__ also now apply to SoCs produced by non-allied nations that feature USFCC-approved RF microelectronics, such as __ESP32__ Here's to hoping USFCC gets around to also reflecting this in the Letters of this
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AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined(youtube.com)
75 points by vaxman 6mo ago|26 comments
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by vaxman 6mo ago
Are we in the Cathedral or the Bazaar now? I get that confused. Everyone upload their code to GitHub --keep your truth (philosophically AND mathematically) in the Cloud ;) Oh and don't forget to document your critical thinking, on Slac
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by vaxman 7mo ago
At the outset of the fastest increase in interest rates in 40 years, Fed Chairman Powell explicitly stated that the Fed would not mind seeing what he viewed as inflated home prices fall substantially. While there are other initiatives under
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by vaxman 7mo ago
Won't China seize Apple's assets after it attacks Taiwan? Isn't one of the first things to happen in a kinetic conflict that TSMC permanently loses its domestic production capacity (so China does not gain it)? From there, wou
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Remembering Steve Jobs on his 71st birthday(appleinsider.com)
1 points by vaxman 7mo ago|0 comments
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by vaxman 7mo ago
IBM plunges? Anthropic? COBOL? Is Deirdra Bosa somehow involved in this? Consider that back in the day, we once had a situation where the shared runtime library supporting a programming language on Megabank's PROD cluster was updated f
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by vaxman 7mo ago
OpenAI is not worth $860B to anyone other than to the companies hoping to inflate their own valuations by selling it goods and services, at least until OpenAI inevitably goes to zero and its assets are acquired for substantially less than $
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by vaxman 7mo ago
1. Yes, replacing millions of employees with autocomplete running on nuclear powered vector processing units is totally ridiculous on its face, 2. but Perception is Reality in business 3. and FOMO is real. Hence, the AI money machine http
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by vaxman 7mo ago
No crash yet, just a bunch of lawless stock manipulation by people raising money to feed gear to their LLMs. It's scaring students into other fields due to the attempt by these AI grifters to convert CS salaries into token purchases as
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by vaxman 7mo ago
Maybe have a look at this video from 1987. After sidelining Steve, John Sculley came up with the term PDA and intended to evolve that vision as the mission of Apple, beginning with the breakthrough Apple Newton that ran on DEC's revolu
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by vaxman 7mo ago
A: The cardiovascular impact of caffeine on blood circulation through the brain and its stimulation of the enteric nervous system.
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by vaxman 7mo ago
*-Gradey
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by vaxman 7mo ago
..was totally expecting this article to be written in Chinese, because it is an active attack vector being used to infiltrate western IT infrastructure by pre-loading spyware into the boot loaders, then clicked the article and the link open
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by vaxman 7mo ago
Almost positive 'ol Bessent has by now warned Trump that there is an issue with the AI queens breaking 1930s securities reform laws. Last week's stock market and crypto moves have all but sealed the fate of the Bozo No Bozos. They
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by vaxman 7mo ago
I even understand what Brilliant Pebbles was about.
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by vaxman 7mo ago
Only theoretically at this point, though they will tend to speak confidently enough about such untested capabilities so as to cause millions in investment losses to others. One would think a hardware manufacturer that's teetering on th
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by vaxman 7mo ago
Classic Apple; cannot possibly be the same developers (not) doing this kind of thing after all these years, so it must be a systemic issue.
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by vaxman 8mo ago
Nope, it's 100% about building the stock valuation of SpaceX for an IPO in the face of significant risk from a cold war its CEO started on X with the U.S. federal government and increasing competition from Blue Origin, Quinfan and Guow
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by vaxman 8mo ago
I mean, some people show up to the blow out party three years after it ended, sure. That they're still talking about it 33 years later gives you an indication of what the main event must have been like https://youtu.be/
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by vaxman 8mo ago
Can’t even imagine what kind of social media influence that DOGE sycophants have on The Hacker News. Makes it tough to post a mainstream account of USDOJ confirming DOGE workers probably have stolen copies of SSA data thru unknown CloudFla
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by vaxman 8mo ago
It isn’t a duplicate- that’s a Flagged article on a political website. I posted a mainstream media article that extracts the salient points and was broadcast to over a billion people around the world.
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by vaxman 8mo ago
[cue https://youtu.be/o5FPPoLqkCk ] Is the probability non-zero that the properties and characteristics of most Americans born after 1874 are now running in a Colossal simulation? https://youtu.be/bz5Hjk40FD4
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DOGE staffers at Social Security agency may have violated Hatch Act, DOJ says(abcnews.go.com)
6 points by vaxman 8mo ago|4 comments
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by vaxman 8mo ago
A few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629682 while reading through all that I started thinking... https://youtu.be/97NqTHOuXK8 For some devices, you may need a BLE-connected smart phone
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by vaxman 9mo ago
The downside of drawing the interest of Brewsters ( https://youtu.be/fwYy8R87JMA ) in Linux. v259? [cue https://youtu.be/lHomCiPFknY ]
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by vaxman 9mo ago
But Linux doesn't run on a PET-2001
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by vaxman 9mo ago
- gerlingguy says no HDMI chip (sigh), ah well... where's my Subpac?

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