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MonkeyIsNull··on Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters
"It was load-bearing"
MonkeyIsNull··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
Wow, just a quick check .... it appears you are correct.

  Golf: ~531 billion gal/year
  Data centers: ~17 billion gal/year
  Golf ≈ 31× as much
Indirect Water footprint via Electricity Usage:

  Golf: ~500–531B gallons
  Data centers including electricity: ~228B gallons
MonkeyIsNull··on EFF is leaving X
Unfortunately this is true. Around a year, or two years ago the WaPo (back before it was a total shill, yes it was still bad but... you know) had an article about how all the rhetoric from the far right in the US was almost, word for word, what was said a little more than 100 years ago. It was downright scary. Some part of the US has _always_ been that way. Maybe someone can find the article.
MonkeyIsNull··on Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
Everytime I see a trailer for an american film I feel like it's the same crap just re-hashed with different actors and the same plots over and over again. Give me something original. Something from Japan, Turkey, India, someone with a new idea. The Koreans? Yup, they push the boundaries of story telling. For example the School Nurse Files, that was either one of the best or the worse series I've ever seen. I'm still trying to figure it out. No way a Hollywood studio would take a risk like TSNF.
MonkeyIsNull··on Show HN: Zenòdot – Find if a book has been translated into your language
> Version 145.0.7632.160 (Build officiel) (arm64)

Yeah, I've tried switching the languages, not ALL the text on the page changes from the default language and I've tried not changing the lang. Same thing.

MonkeyIsNull··on Show HN: Zenòdot – Find if a book has been translated into your language
ahh right, wrong error. This is the one I get: Uncaught Error: Minified React error #418; visit https://react.dev/errors/418?args[]=HTML&args[]= for the full message or use the non-minified dev environment for full errors and additional helpful warnings.

That's from an incognito window on Chrome

MonkeyIsNull··on Show HN: Zenòdot – Find if a book has been translated into your language
wow, ok. I definitely need this! This is my life now with French, Russian, German and whatever language of the moment I am messing around with.

However, it stills looks like it's tied to localhost? I get a web socket error (to localhost:8081) and when I type the name of the title into the search title. Nothing happens and the button doesn't look like I can click it (no highlighting)

MonkeyIsNull··on Trump Worries Iran's Leaders May Be Just 'As Bad' After War
> It’ll be Cuba

Yes, who is taking bets? Gotta get money on the line.

MonkeyIsNull··on Trump Worries Iran's Leaders May Be Just 'As Bad' After War
Shocked. I'm truly shocked. Absolutely, completely and utterly shocked. Who woulda thought?
MonkeyIsNull··on Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
Yeah, I never got pulled into Hyperion but The Terror was.. something else. Just a masterpiece, and the TV series came nowhere near.
MonkeyIsNull··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
Nothing in France takes Discover, and my bank decided to go with Discover about 6 months ago. "Great" decision, thanks.
MonkeyIsNull··on OpenClaw is changing my life
Look I already told you, I deal with the @#$% customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people, can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
MonkeyIsNull··on Cows can use sophisticated tools
That definitely counts!
MonkeyIsNull··on Any level of alcohol consumption increases risk of dementia
>I have never heard of them, those are the mythical beings nobody has ever seen.

Cue my father-in-law.

MonkeyIsNull··on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit
“Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence”
MonkeyIsNull··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
For those of you without a security dept, hopefully this is of some help: https://github.com/Cobenian/shai-hulud-detect

more updates soon and PRs welcome.

MonkeyIsNull··on Morse Code Translator
This is comment I was looking for. Can't wait to read about your learning experience and thanks for the link to morsecode.world
MonkeyIsNull··on Tilck: A tiny Linux-compatible kernel
Go for it. All that sounds like fun.
MonkeyIsNull··on LLM Inevitabilism
> 2. Almost three years in, companies investing in LLMs have not yet discovered a business model that justifies the massive expenditure of training and hosting them,

I always think back to how Bezos and Amazon were railed against for losing money for years. People thought that would never work. And then when he started selling stuff other than books? People I know were like: please, he's desperate.

Someone, somewhere will figure out how to make money off it - just not most people.

MonkeyIsNull··on Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds
> Non-sequitor.

> Red herring.

> Must be true!

Someone took a class (or two) on Arguments!

MonkeyIsNull··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
> I’m autistic, but this won’t only affect autistic people. A lot of people are going to have problems with this. I hope there’s a very prominent way to turn it off.

How can that possibly be? Didn't he say it will: "bring joy and delight to _every_ user experience"

That means YOU as well. No way he could over-selling something. Inconceivable.

MonkeyIsNull··on My Engineering Craft Regressed
Yes, especially if you don't take care of your body and your mental health.
MonkeyIsNull··on EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation (2019)
Leigh is fantastic, I would also recommend Shaila Catherine's book `The Jhanas: A Practical Guide to Deep Meditative States`
MonkeyIsNull··on Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds
Well obviously the roads, the roads go without saying, don't they?
MonkeyIsNull··on Don't be terrified of Pale Fire
> Much more fun than university seminars on Tolstoevsky, не так ли?

Только если вам не нравится Достоевский! Но мало кто может сравниться с Набоков.

MonkeyIsNull··on Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
Back to Firefox!
MonkeyIsNull··on The case for never reading the book jacket
I remember reading Ender's Game and being blown away by it when I was younger. Years later I picked up a new edition of it in a bookstore and read the back cover. The spoiler is right there. IMO that ruins the entire book if you know. I still can't believe the publishing house did that.
MonkeyIsNull··on Marissa Mayer admits Yahoo should have bought Netflix instead of Tumblr
Douglas Crockford used to work there and several other JS programmers that were doing really interesting work. In a span of about 3 months they all left. I remember thinking WTH is going on there that they all bailed that quick?
MonkeyIsNull··on Marissa Mayer admits Yahoo should have bought Netflix instead of Tumblr
The exodus of technical staff when she came aboard was astonishing. There was something definitely wrong with Yahoo back then .... wait, there's STILL something really wrong with them.
MonkeyIsNull··on My customized Wim Hof breathing method
What this misses is that to keep the high going remove all breath holding. It just becomes continuous circular breathing — no holds, no pauses. This has been popularized by a lot of different people: Dan Brule, Leonard Orr, Binnie Dansby, Judith Kravitz. It comes under various names like: rebirthing, transformational breath and holotropic breathwork.
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