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teknopaul

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About teknopaul

Hacker, in the original sense.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48647748

    IMHO that Fable ban is because Grok is now too big to fail and quite far behind so the highly corrupt US govt is banning competition from getting too far ahead of Grok. No seen any…

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    Comment #48647680

    Yeah Claude was down I tried OpenCode and it seems reliable. Any one got any experience with large projects?

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    Comment #48647664

    I don't think that is necessarily the point. Its about brand recognition they don't really expect you to click just to know that they exist, and are an option when it comes to deci…

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    Comment #46818686

    My reading was that copying the doc's ToC in markdown + links was significantly more effective than giving it a link to the ToC and instructions to read it. Which makes sense. & so…

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    Comment #46683528

    Stats on politicians trading habits, indicates insider trading like this is standard practice in the USofA. No beleives MAGA nuts are trading experts.

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    Comment #46666720

    I read somewhere that in Shenzhen you can get metal thinkpad clones with any modern hardware you like, made to order, one at a time for a resonable price. Not sure if it still exis…

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    Comment #46605086

    Adams stated he was racist and thought that was aok. I'd say calling him out as a racist is not exactly speaking ill of the dead in this case.

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    Comment #46446806

    Did a bit of searching: fizzy drinks companies sometimes go and get stored CO2 to put in drinks or make it. Any atmospheric extraction has a net positive compared to that.

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    Comment #46446705

    Covid proved this generalisation is not a truism. USofA was probably the only place that actively resisted the global effort. I think people do want a better world. Greed is not un…

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    Comment #46446639

    The is one trick that doesn't require political will. If you can make the microeconomics work it can be made to scale it self. E.G. Make CO2 extraction so cheap it's worth everyone…

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    Comment #46446553

    I think OPs point is this tech is good only if you sink it after. I. e. Collection is half the problem. Collecting it in a way it's cheap to get it back again is potentially just l…

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    Comment #46444527

    Economic * need dwarfs problems like an overloaded electric grid. *greed. We are well past the point that any economic growth at all is anything but a distribution of income proble…

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    Comment #46293639

    #6 in hacker news ChatGPT images announcement doesn't work in Firefox Android as a perfect example. https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-images-is-here/

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    Comment #46293366

    Fire fix usage went from I forget what but really significant down to the level people don't build site for it anymore. Pretty sure it's because they made security changes that bro…

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    Comment #46200720

    Bit harsh. That was probably a node / npm thing, because they had no stdlib it was quite common to have many small libraries. I consider it an absolute golden rule for coding to no…

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    Comment #46152067

    I don't understand how yous can be ignorant of this. In the USofA you get advertised at continuously by drug companies. Do you really think they spend that money advertising, and t…

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    Comment #46151843

    What they get is amphetamines, legally. 38% of stanford kids taking or selling drugs, legally, because they are rich kids: and the poor kids get jail time for buying it off them. G…

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    Comment #46151750

    Oh and the fact that in USofA, Big Pharma in cahoots with corrupt doctors and a broken police/judicial system let you legal amphetamines if you have adhd is, of course, nothing to …

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    Comment #46081224

    22 years in the same Corp, targeting Linux systems since day one, and only in the first two years, and this year, have I been permitted a Linux desktop. +2 years slugging in a vm. …

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    Comment #46081159

    Click Linux

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    Comment #45462378

    Not being able to install and remove software on your computers was always going to be a problem. Authoritarian tech companies were the precursor to authoritarian government. Via T…

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    Comment #45203104

    Someone needs to make bash_completion really trivial to write. It isn't: and even copy paste is hard. Clever people write apps that are bash_completion friendly. If first main arg …

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    Comment #44961038

    Oh and debugging builds is a charm: Ssh in to the remote box, and run the same commands the tool is running, as the same user in a bash shell(the same language) . CI debugging at m…

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    Comment #44961005

    I wrote Linci to tackle this issue a few years back Https://linci.tp23.org Ci is too complicated and are basically about locking. But what you (should) do is run cli commands on de…

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    Comment #44960627

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