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vaxman

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    Comment #47503435

    There is an entire WORLD that lives in your computer below the operating system (eg, OpenWRT). For example, in your Raspberry Pi 5, there is a chip called the VideoCore GPU and it …

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    Comment #47502409

    > Their exact warning to me was that those who don’t adopt it now “are gonna find themselves in a tough position later.” A long time ago Apple learned that even the very best softw…

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    Comment #47501339

    The Spirit of this law __must__ also now apply to SoCs produced by non-allied nations that feature USFCC-approved RF microelectronics, such as __ESP32__ Here's to hoping USFCC gets…

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    Comment #47282113

    Are we in the Cathedral or the Bazaar now? I get that confused. Everyone upload their code to GitHub --keep your truth (philosophically AND mathematically) in the Cloud ;) Oh and d…

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    Comment #47139832

    At the outset of the fastest increase in interest rates in 40 years, Fed Chairman Powell explicitly stated that the Fed would not mind seeing what he viewed as inflated home prices…

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    Comment #47139573

    Won't China seize Apple's assets after it attacks Taiwan? Isn't one of the first things to happen in a kinetic conflict that TSMC permanently loses its domestic production capacity…

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    Comment #47134453

    IBM plunges? Anthropic? COBOL? Is Deirdra Bosa somehow involved in this? Consider that back in the day, we once had a situation where the shared runtime library supporting a progra…

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    Comment #47094778

    OpenAI is not worth $860B to anyone other than to the companies hoping to inflate their own valuations by selling it goods and services, at least until OpenAI inevitably goes to ze…

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    Comment #47043437

    1. Yes, replacing millions of employees with autocomplete running on nuclear powered vector processing units is totally ridiculous on its face, 2. but Perception is Reality in busi…

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    Comment #47036275

    No crash yet, just a bunch of lawless stock manipulation by people raising money to feed gear to their LLMs. It's scaring students into other fields due to the attempt by these AI …

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    Comment #46987040

    Maybe have a look at this video from 1987. After sidelining Steve, John Sculley came up with the term PDA and intended to evolve that vision as the mission of Apple, beginning with…

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    Comment #46978644

    A: The cardiovascular impact of caffeine on blood circulation through the brain and its stimulation of the enteric nervous system.

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    Comment #46942321

    ..was totally expecting this article to be written in Chinese, because it is an active attack vector being used to infiltrate western IT infrastructure by pre-loading spyware into …

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    Comment #46926800

    Almost positive 'ol Bessent has by now warned Trump that there is an issue with the AI queens breaking 1930s securities reform laws. Last week's stock market and crypto moves have …

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    Comment #46888811

    I even understand what Brilliant Pebbles was about.

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    Comment #46888772

    Only theoretically at this point, though they will tend to speak confidently enough about such untested capabilities so as to cause millions in investment losses to others. One wou…

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    Comment #46888503

    Classic Apple; cannot possibly be the same developers (not) doing this kind of thing after all these years, so it must be a systemic issue.

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    Comment #46868016

    Nope, it's 100% about building the stock valuation of SpaceX for an IPO in the face of significant risk from a cold war its CEO started on X with the U.S. federal government and in…

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    Comment #46754805

    I mean, some people show up to the blow out party three years after it ended, sure. That they're still talking about it 33 years later gives you an indication of what the main even…

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    Comment #46729424

    Can’t even imagine what kind of social media influence that DOGE sycophants have on The Hacker News. Makes it tough to post a mainstream account of USDOJ confirming DOGE workers pr…

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    Comment #46728748

    It isn’t a duplicate- that’s a Flagged article on a political website. I posted a mainstream media article that extracts the salient points and was broadcast to over a billion peop…

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    Comment #46702751

    [cue https://youtu.be/o5FPPoLqkCk ] Is the probability non-zero that the properties and characteristics of most Americans born after 1874 are now running in a Colossal simulation? …