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totetsu

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About totetsu

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    Comment #49209587

    I thought it was just translated with AI..

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    Comment #49206563

    Could it just set up to do like Command | tee -a activity.log | tail -5 So the context only gets a few lines but everything is still logged?

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    Comment #49169202

    And if your in the mood for a hard rain there is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvZmrygK3F0&t=3790s

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    Comment #49163296

    I think you’re making a category error in your definition of politics here. Certainly technologies can favour winners and losers, but the struggle is an inherently human one.

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    Comment #49153513

    I'm sorry your comments keep getting flagged. a bit ironic given the content. I suppose its not really inline with the decorum of HN. Or maybe HN moderation know better and this is…

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    Comment #49140684

    do you mean like Xīn Kǎilái 新凯来 "new triumph" could also sound like 芯凯来 "chip triumph" ?

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    Comment #49132010

    It seems that dropping its own boarder enforcement, is a political lever that the Moroccan government sometimes uses in disputes with Spain. Is that what happened here? And these i…

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    Comment #49130243

    > "what do we mean when we use the word 'reasoning'" This is exactly the most interesting and important point. Because the word reason has been subject to so much philosophical deb…

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    Comment #49123603

    What makes you feel you’re there already?

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    Comment #49118409

    I have been rolling over the idea of “reasoning deserts” in my head, akin to food deserts. Places where economic calculations lead to only a facsimile of the real thing being provi…

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    Comment #49095793

    Even if your kindle is on older firmware that doesn’t have some of the kernel extensions needed by Tailscale to create the .. TUN ? Type network interface, you can still kind of ge…

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    Comment #49054719

    This is fascinating not because I’m interested in visiting any of these. But to see the communities in Alaska with courses, or to look at the most concentrated places and wonder wh…

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    Comment #49053291

    You forgot to somehow blame it on Biden

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    Comment #49030044

    This Eclipse Phase scenario is a good example of this in Sci-Fi https://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/2011/09/genre/... > “We call it the gorgon-in-a-box problem. There is …

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    Comment #49017625

    I am hearing this point come up a lot. That in previous bubbles, there at least was useful infrastructure left in the aftermath. In the case of an AI bubble there is a lot of short…

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    Comment #49015595

    >every word processor, code editor, and browser text area you've ever used. yes that should have been the author saying "..I've ever used"

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    Comment #48992453

    I always think now it’s funny that we Hated valve when steam was first introduced. Their pioneering of always online DRM and no physical media, soon to be followed by Bethesdas hor…

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    Comment #48955362

    Seems like its point is to help people practice themselves. > Vāgbodhinī A Sanskrit chant tutor. Paste any śloka (or prose) in any script, hear its metre-aware reference chant rend…

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    Comment #48944542

    10-15 Years ago it was a was a really fun limited Comic series by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente, called The Private Eye. About a world where the Cloud had Burs…

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    Comment #48942735

    To achieve this level of total surveillance it would trillions and trillions of dollars to be invested in a massive roll out of data centers. I just dont see it happening.

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    Comment #48914778

    Cool. Makes me wonder if anyone has made emulators of the Cassio and the like electronic dictionaries.

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    Comment #48914763

    Maybe that's the kind of reality that the posted article is about, but I would say that, soccer is already just a made up game that has no inherent claim to reality, and pro-soccer…

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    Comment #48914689

    I think we might about have the technology to build the bad thing blocking sunglasses now.

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    Comment #48906461

    It’s a nice quote. But what about the notion that we’re always believing in something, and sometimes those beliefs tune closer to something objective but if we keep tuning past tha…