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slacka

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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…