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Stallman was right : without the four freedoms your software owns you rather than vis-a-versa. Interoperability is the key to breaking out of walled gardens and owning your own dat…

Predators discourage most rats and kill some. Pray spends less time at a location if there are predators. The prey is skittish. Glue traps kill Rats, new rats fill the niche. Some …

Embrace Extend Oopsy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Root reason & comp sci application is mentioned near start : “ Many moons back I was self-learning Galois Fields for some erasure coding theory applications.” Erasure codes are bas…

Xylitol is a sugar from birch tree sap.

Thank you German is not my strong point

Ironically, a primary use case for AI will be to summarise AI summaries of articles and CVs. In a sea of slop…

I am not an LLM [edit] ( as far as I know ;-), but thanks for the profile crit I probably should tidy it up.

Because the article is currently down so the summary is all there is for now. Yes it provides no extra information but in the [hnews hug of death] of the article it is the only inf…

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Trump has ~91k files in the data https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GomVrWxWMAA5S-_?format=jpg&name=... [edit] site down - reddit link to the 10tb https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comme…

Yes ! tl;dr air pump saves turning the heap, insulation keeps heat in, currently Raspi sensing methane, moisture and temp controlling water & air inputs has improved my home hot he…

A hot heap captures more carbon, releases less methane and makes much compost, much faster, from same amount of base material ( less evaporates ). Ideally takes 6 weeks to compost …

Ultrasound selfies at home, clinical trial reports self administered ultrasound scans on par with professional ones. https://www.nibib.nih.gov/news-events/newsroom/ultrasound-se...…

tl;dr I agree, cool project, and yes the Aaron Schwartz piece is powerful It is good to have heroes, exemplars and role-models to offer inspiration. Especially in difficult times i…

If you treat people as overly simple machines you might as well mechanise that part of the process. Human workers have hand skill, learning, intelligence, wisdom, introspection, co…

It is very well designed, the palette makes the information easy to grok as an overview - without being overwhelming. Impressively subtle design.

From the iPhone 16 settings page : “Apple intelligence is not available when language is set to English ( United Kingdom )”

The workers control the paddle and the scooping of the beads. A smart worker will eyeball their draw for red and redraw a few times until they get a good draw. There may be other w…

Yes, we can but try, and ( only ) in trying find it so. For better or for worse. Fascinating man and pragmatic scholar, James. Empirical and stoic

Scary stuff

Indeed this is the risk if Trump breaches the USA’s 1994 treaty agreement by surrendering territory in a ‘peace-deal’ then not only will the USA be oath breakers but who will trust…

My takeaway ( and an indication of who actually needs a performance review [ e.g. the manager ]) “ It’s my opinion that the biggest factor in an employee's performance – perhaps bi…

The USA & Russia made a pact to defend the Ukraine, based on the Ukraine giving up their nukes. “ As the United States mediated between Russia and Ukraine, the three countries sign…