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LeoPanthera

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About LeoPanthera

Mastodon @davidga@mastodon.xyz email david@gloveraoki.net

Computer Chronicles: https://computerchronicles.tv

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49266255

    > 37% foreign criminals Why is this statistic relevant?

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    Comment #49252278

    > IDK why it's so much more chill than the "child abduction" alerts I get. Japan, who had the first earthquake early warning system, did research and discovered that scary sounds m…

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    Comment #49227820

    Outside in the real world? Sure. Here on HN? I don't believe that.

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    Comment #49227806

    It's surprising that it's not common knowledge that "Chiropractic" is not medicine, nor a science, and the field is associated with vaccine misinformation and unproven supplements.…

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    Comment #49227720

    It's funny how virtually everyone on HN is using AI to write code and simultaneously dismisses all interesting new software as written by AI.

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    Comment #49214959

    It is the work of but a moment to check for trustworthy sources. It's sad that this skill seems to have been lost. https://eu-space.europa.eu/components/earth-observation-cope... h…

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    Comment #49206139

    Fun fact, two (very expensive) wristwatches have actual atomic timekeeping in them, instead of just receiving a radio time signal: the Bathys Hawaii Cesium 133, and a few different…

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    Comment #49130965

    I don't see how. One is a full-screen commercial. The other is a free album in your library.

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    Comment #49065851

    Someone correct me if I'm wrong, and maybe it depends on the type of the black hole, but if you were to fall directly into one, or even enter an orbit too close, you would still be…

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    Comment #49052194

    Republicans are not on the side of liberty and privacy. So emphasizing that he's a republican makes the case even more strongly. You can argue that this shouldn't be about politics…

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    Comment #49051584

    When did we stop making buttons that actually look like a button? The bas-relief era of UI design now feels like a golden era, and the early "Aqua" versions of Mac OS X the ultimat…

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    Comment #49038532

    Presumably, it’s cheaper.

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    Comment #48987037

    This only works for two dimensional mazes where both the entrance and exit are on an edge and there are no loops in the maze. If you introduce a bridge, or a tunnel, or put the goa…

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    Comment #48983087

    Doom cannot have hallways above or below other hallways without teleport hacks. But you could do it in Quake.

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    Comment #48928611

    "If we want to order food in a country where we don't know the language at all, we're forced to go into the kitchen and use a see-and-point interface. With a little understanding o…

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    Comment #48917380

    I always have history disabled mostly because I don't want Claude judging me for re-asking questions based on information I learned during the first pass but now realize should hav…

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    Comment #48916203

    The Macs won't old school at the time. They were high-end workstations for anyone who didn't need Unix and wanted a GUI that worked.

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    Comment #48915674

    That is what it's supposed to do, though. It's not a secret.

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    Comment #48913897

    The UK is passing a law which makes it illegal to resell event tickets for greater than the face value.

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    Comment #48900106

    It's funny how I hear both "Claude uses too many tokens" and "Claude won't talk for long enough" complaints.

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    Comment #48899338

    This has nothing to do with ICANN. Status flags are set by the registry.

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    Comment #48888675

    Clacton is a town in the UK. The election was triggered by Nigel Farage, the right-wing leader of the Reform UK party, resigning his parliamentary seat in early July amid a parliam…

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    Comment #48876848

    But this refers only to ChatGPT 4o, which was famous for being obsequious.

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    Comment #48876524

    This is a serious suggestion, not a joke: Have you tried being nice to the model? There are so many criticisms here that I just don't see myself. If the models have been trained on…