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r3trohack3r

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About r3trohack3r

The web is dead. Long live the web.

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    > Today’s best atomic clocks are billions of times more accurate and precise than any other type of clock. If they had been running since the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, they…

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    Comment #49201445

    Fascinating! Do you still have any of the code or datasets/datasources laying around?

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    Comment #49192061

    I don't think OP mentioned a machine god?

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    Comment #49178057

    My favorite rendition of this aired on X-Minus One https://archive.org/details/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles/XMinusO...

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    Comment #49169102

    A rendition of this was aired on X-Minus One https://archive.org/details/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles/XMinusO...

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    Comment #49105429

    If you want people to copy it, but want a 20 year temporary monopoly, you can publish an open source step-by-step guide for someone to recreate what you’re doing with the patent of…

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    Comment #49091313

    Food? I.E. avoiding population collapse due to lack of ecosystem carrying capacity? Eliminating famine? etc.

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    Comment #49053436

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instruction,_multiple_d... Looking at the Wikipedia article - I wonder if it is because SIMD and SIMT are enabled by hardware first

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    Comment #49047764

    I'm only to preface 3 but this is the densest download of knowledge I've come across in a long time

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    Comment #49006750

    Amazing work! This is beautiful! > My philosophy with LLMs is to try to use them to achieve levels of quality and polish that would’ve been previously unreasonable. I hope this pro…

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    Comment #49000314

    > To my surprise, he wrote back in horror to say he hadn’t considered that and pulled the bill immediately. I’m proud of having done that. Stories like this give me hope - thank yo…

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    Comment #48968656

    This sounds like you’re arguing against an invented boogyman. For me and my experience, it’s reversed. Someone says some measured statement against a piece of regulation and someon…

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    Comment #48962800

    Many options. Option 1: “we won’t trade humans as slaves at all costs, even if it makes us less competitive in the global market - and we don’t hold that conviction about other thi…

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    Comment #48961987

    Pretty sure you can oppose slavery and support what GP said without significant cognitive dissonance

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    Comment #48958381

    There is an old saying that Red Bull is a marketing company that happens to sell energy drinks

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    Comment #48947505

    Except that’s not the argument being made or the problem being presented. The FCC does exactly what you asked by namesake, regulate communications. > That's despite concerns over t…

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    Comment #48933944

    I know the feeling and similarly miss it I built audile to fill the gap for myself: https://audile.blankenship.io/ It’s not perfect, but it’s still delightful for me. It randomly (…

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    Comment #48926869

    > Under Carr's leadership, Musk's rocket company has effectively been given carte blanche in its efforts to roll out its orbital Starlink broadband service to more Americans This a…

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    Comment #48923867

    > He then reviewed my billing history and account details, confirmed that my service address had never actually changed, and determined that nothing had been moved. As a result, he…

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    Comment #48841247

    > America is European When I hear this, I think of the philosophy, system of laws, language, etc. in America - and not the percentages we get when we segregate the American populat…