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_kb

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About _kb

Signals and systems enthusiast. Appreciator of determinism. Technoplebeian.

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    Comment #49252045

    When the glut of GPU arrives I'm sure humanity will find a good use for all that excess compute, like finally getting back to signing monkey pictures and excreting endless hash bas…

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    Comment #49237446

    https://specs.ipfs.tech/ipfs-uri/

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    Comment #49205393

    Building anything is a good way to learn. It’s the industrial design / manufacturing equivalent of perusing or hacking on a good open source project.

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    Comment #49204358

    With a USB-C cable tester tester, of course.

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    Comment #49177394

    Is is a perfectly cromulent use of capital.

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    Comment #49143494

    > Even if it's 50% worse, it's 90% cheaper, so the economics argue against producing any new physically made content. That is an unfortunate pattern I fear is become applicable to …

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    Comment #49131071

    The data is already there. This also gets more interesting when you expand the scope from just elevators to general building occupancy and movement. In the simplest sense, I've see…

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    Comment #49118394

    Yes, but just imagine all the paperclips we’ll have.

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    Comment #48768955

    Those wax cylinders are a modern hack. The curved surface distorts the real artistic intent. The only way to appreciate the true beauty of sound is a the purity of soot etchings on…

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    Comment #48745407

    The reference in the parent comment was already suitably frabjous.

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    Comment #48742218

    IMO the power of NixOS is at the other extreme. Set it up with Impermanence ( https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Impermanence ) and reboot often. Also worth flagging if you are only ever …

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    Comment #48731553

    Great examples. The English lexicon is continuously embiggened by the adoption and expansion of terms.

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    Comment #48729753

    .id.au already has some similar requirements for associating a domain with a real world (human) identity: https://www.auda.org.au/au-domain-names/the-different-au-dom...

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    Comment #48685483

    This is the most dystopic use for that bandwidth I could possibly imagine.

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    Comment #48501639

    https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr

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    Comment #48486121

    It was a bit of humour. It would be much for feasible to have an LLM generate programs that solve those problems rather than solving directly. I tried to make a start, but I couldn…

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    Comment #48468764

    The Riemann hypothesis, PvNP, and the Collatz conjecture.

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    Comment #48453574

    It’s the linguistic equivalent of the loudness wars.

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    Comment #48322522

    Black Mirror already did that episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror) .

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    Comment #48322231

    You mean like this https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aef5697 , or this https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8354557/ .

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    Comment #48322151

    Great to see VR gigs getting a Second Life .

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    Comment #48217762

    Nope. 2007 is like 2 or 3 years ago, tops.

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    Comment #48217341

    What do you mean Windows Vista "nostalgia"? That makes me feel a little long in the horn.

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    Comment #48203004

    For the music application, Max Cooper uses items that appear in the OEIS catalogue pretty heavily. IMO, his works sound amazing. Tracks like Aleph 2 ( https://vimeo.com/367747083 )…