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Comment #48798041
Do you mean the glowglobe rather than an umbrella? The glowglobes were used for lighting.
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Comment #47365989
It was removed. Here is the archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313125244/https://old.reddi...
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Comment #47312830
Sounds like a massive waste of your time for NextDNS admins and a poor UX for end users. If your security relies on trusting old domains, then you need to rethink your security. Al…
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Comment #46278518
You're missing the point. The effective tax rate of many billionaires is lower than ours. "Musk with a fortune of $244 billion, paid an average effective tax rate of 24% from 2018 …
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Comment #45169945
I too found that interesting that Apple's Neural Engine doesn't work with local LLMs. Seems like Apple, AMD, and Intel are missing the AI boat by not properly supporting their NPUs…
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Comment #45071269
FastVLM: https://huggingface.co/collections/apple/fastvlm-68ac97b9cd5... MobileCLIP2: https://huggingface.co/collections/apple/mobileclip2-68ac947...
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Comment #44946528
Very interesting model. Some key points from the blog: * NVIDIA is also releasing most of the data they used to create it, including the pretraining corpus * The model uses a hybri…
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Comment #44704175
Higgs Audio V2 is an advanced, open-source audio generation model developed by Boson AI, designed to produce highly expressive and lifelike speech with robust multi-speaker dialogu…
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Comment #41404697
How is this the trolley problem for someone with a terminal disease? I assume the sick population are the people in the trolley and the experimental patient is the person on the tr…
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Comment #39804688
Why don't recommend atop ? When a system is unresponsive, I want a I want a high-level tool that immediately shows which subsystem is under heavy load. It should show CPU, Memory, …
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Comment #39083247
All of the features descried in the article are supported by clang except maybe for the constexpr keyword. By your own list, neither one supports all the features. Also, gcc only s…
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Comment #39043324
For the Internet as a whole, yes, but not for this narrow case of legitimate news organizations. If Facebook could have building full of moderators to review flagged content on the…
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Comment #39032597
So you prefer, the DSL or GPL over GPLv2? The Doom Source License (or DSL) is the original source code license under which the Doom source code was released in late 1997.[1] I'll t…
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Comment #38664594
This vulnerability is about injecting keystrokes into connected wireless keyboards and mice.[1] With the phone industry adoption of USB-C, they've made wired easier than ever befor…
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Comment #38611419
Did you even read the post before you commented? From the post: > I believe this only triggers on software decoding, which is why it particularly affects us (and not, say, macOS wh…
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Comment #38162387
Would be interesting to see a a Debian derivative that combines this with the Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils.[1] Could be a big win for memory safety and performance. [1] htt…
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Comment #37814301
Cat fluff piece. Owl’s are far more “evolved” to their predatory niche. In addition, every land animal of prey are on are on the menu for wolves. Cat’s lack of social evolution gre…
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Comment #37504263
The author said he is just starting on the book, so he's not claiming it's perfect. And the beauty of github, open source is you can fix them with a pull request. For example, the …
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Comment #37456215
Counter point, I've been using a VoIP service called GrandCentral since college. Google purchased them. Nearly 20 years later, I'm still using that same number with far more featur…
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Comment #37283328
Network level ad-blocking like Privoxy and pi-hole have so many downsides like they can't handle inline adverts. My pi4 pi-hole is unplugged right now because it just didn't work w…