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Your work is using personal subscriptions? If not a corporate client is probably paying per token via the API and you're just feeding money to them not sinking their bottom line.

Not a great use case for Claw really. I'm sure ChatGPT can one shot a Python script to do this with yt-dlp and give you instructions on how to set it up as a service

With regard to Tether none of this is applicable as they aren't compliant with the GENIUS Act. They are in fact attempting to launch a totally separate stablecoin to try to get som…

No it really isn't. Is Jackson Pollock entirely directing each drop of paint or is there some inherent randomness that is being guided and directed at a higher level? There's a cle…

That would only make sense if they had a lot of net worth which is clearly not the case. If they have $400 in their checking account and a ton of student loans or other debt inflat…

It's obviously tied pretty closely to any theory of large scale structure formation too

There was a somewhat similar search for these duplicate galaxies as evidence for a universe with positive curvature. Because in that case if you look deep enough you'll see more im…

I've got a site that is basically infinite scroll of mostly YouTube, SoundCloud, and Reddit embeds and had to do this for YouTube for it to even be functional. Using the YouTube pr…

The benchmarks for all these CPUs that my personal view point is based on are all out there. Anandtech was my favorite source for this at the time due to relatively detailed testin…

I'm quite familiar as I worked for Intel for over a decade as an engineer. It's absolutely true that leadership has fluctuated a lot but the 2003-2010 era had fairly clear cut lead…

Is he really trying to say that AMD had a superior product in the Core 2 Duo era and Intel was only dominating due to marketing? It's hard to take any of the rest of his opinions s…

If you are curious and able to self teach effectively I'm impressed if you get through an entire CS undergrad without picking up the basics of git

If I understand correctly this is what they want to do eventually (delete the info used to create the iris hash) but isn't actually what they are doing. The impression is that once…

https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0934

Picked up a NUC and moving my apps there (several BE only things like bots with FE served off GH Pages and one small app with some server processing that gets like 600 unique visit…

Yes you could follow friends who could republish from their feeds onto a feed you could subscribe to and eventually it supported comments on those items which would allow discussio…

Some of the later books in the Culture series (most directly The Hydrogen Sonata) deal with civilizations trying to get a leg up on the galactic tech ladder by scavenging the leavi…

Cloud9 used to be my primary development environment for anything Node-based or intended for the web. Loved the features and the anywhere-access of an online IDE. Then Amazon bough…

Quantum communication isn't communication in the sense that you can decide what to send. You have a shared quantum state due to entanglement and you can guarantee that both sides s…

There are collision attacks against it but GitHub should be detecting and protecting against those. See https://github.blog/2017-03-20-sha-1-collision-detection-on-...

Courts have ruled that providing a password to decrypt something is not in itself testimony and isn't protected by the 5th amendment. Judges can certainly hold you in court indefin…

Lot of details relevant to this question here: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/Rocket/r...

The first set is doing chip design and layout (think of this like the circuit diagram for the CPU). The second set is doing the actual manufacturing after being delivered a complet…