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DesiLurker

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    Comment #49032092

    yup I am dead certain that they realized the whole 'our AI is too dangerous' punchline is too played out and they needed something that makes actual splash. Also this incident woul…

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    Comment #48988642

    even before that, by some accounts I hear the reason VCs over invested in dot com was primarily because they saw something that could not easily usurped by Microsoft by releasing t…

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    Comment #48983966

    I know people flip out when they hear the word crypto but this is exactly why you need blockchain. immutable land registry thats public(anonymized).

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    Comment #48923208

    problem with solar is that in itself it is great, but here in US if you look at the cost per watt produced it is heavily inflated with permitting and marketing costs. which is basi…

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    Comment #48749645

    let me put it this way .. it will come before the wallet gives out! (for masses)

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    Comment #48559531

    I am seriously thinking about adapting Kate with a fully opensource ai harness. it should be good enough for mac and linux for most devs. it already supports lsp server & has a est…

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    Comment #48281896

    I actually think Chinese models have already popped the bubble, we just dont see it yet. the only way to justify AI IPO market cap is basically if they get to hold most sw industry…

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    Comment #48281760

    this is the reason I refuse to budge from my index portfolio besides small 'play money' ventures. My investing philosophy is basically by the time it hits wire you dont know what p…

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    Comment #48277220

    SSS works pretty well. IIRC somebody in bitcoin community started using this for storing private keys using 3/5 schema. they basically divide the secret keys into 5 parts out of wh…

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    Comment #47873436

    We need a 'Framework (as in laptop maker) for physical devices'. Basically most of this physical tech can be relatively easily recreated with current tech and 3D printing. In fact …

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    Comment #47758038

    they also need to strike down the state laws restricting collection of rainwater on you own property.

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    Comment #47758031

    what happened to the old gerrit reviews, I loved its handling on incremental patchsets. github is primitive by comparison.

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    Comment #47719139

    its free for all at the moment. its not like any of these rule were ever enforced before, lots of our govt worked on honor system & DJT exploited the heck out of it all.

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    Comment #47677384

    the biggest red flag I see is this: https://youtu.be/iOyFja87uyw?si=5INnIG1kZI0AbCGa tldr: they are trying hard to change S&P500 inclusion rules so that they dont have to wait 12mo…

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    Comment #47588816

    you are missing a but 'given a choice' disclaimer. Meta is pretty much a monopoly in social space. So is Android. given a choice people will absolutely gravitate towards not-always…

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    Comment #47575731

    is this the new age .. how to run doom on it?

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    Comment #47560150

    why? its all private money funding AI at the moment, sure some data centre reality companies would go belly up but you will be surprised to find out how much of it is big headlines…

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    Comment #47374185

    oh you'll be able to run a vm but they'll screwup support for anything that matters like graphics or gpu-compute stack.

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    Comment #47366007

    share some good (easy on remembering keyboard & mouse) tmux configs. I usually struggle with copy pasting many scrollback lines from/to tmux. would love for my claude to be nativel…

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    Comment #46947677

    makes me wonder what if I just wanted to sync with nfc every once in a while. wifi seems overkill for this. maybe it could be done much cheaper with nfc sync witha phone twice a ye…

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    Comment #46947166

    looks kinda like wolfarm physics project: ref: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-t...

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    Comment #46579078

    I have a less charitable and more direct answer. Right now there is a notion in Left that Israeli are the oppressor. In Iran large majority of population is Persian but MINO (Musli…

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    Comment #46503124

    thats a strawman, its not like advertisement & brainwashing people is the only way to make money in tech. I am old enough to have seen how valley was before this big-tech ad garbag…

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    Comment #46341579

    check if they accept zcash

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    Comment #46341570

    not if you use Zcash with shielded addresses. zcash is based on zeroknowledge proofs ground up so anonymous by default not with some mixer addon.