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actionfromafar··on Why Did Trump Order Up 660M Pounds of Mystery Meat?
Probably to feed Meal Team Six https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMoW6CZj5QQ
actionfromafar··on C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)
If anyone was thinking, but in practice it is a low level language, behold Fil-C.
actionfromafar··on Netherlands pulls gold out of the US
Yeah, until they run out of coal.
actionfromafar··on How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret
Obviously the big companies look after us.
actionfromafar··on Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
But but ... how will they now win against iranian bears in hand to paw combat?
actionfromafar··on IBM Bob
"Just" feeding paper is extreme engineering. And a disposable vape has more compute in it than a toner cartridge. (Though there is insane non recurring engineering in an inkjet cartridge. But I bet just the warehousing of a printer is a significant part of the total cost of a printer.
actionfromafar··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
And the ones who believes Mr Trump drained the swamp.
actionfromafar··on Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it
You really OUGHT to.
actionfromafar··on Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
Not to mention, the model has very little if any self insight.
actionfromafar··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
Got you covered.
actionfromafar··on Salad Theory
The salad theory of Mathematics:

Sufficiently advanced Pedantry is indistinguishable from Mathematics

actionfromafar··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
But that would be like GDPR and that is EU which is communist which is satanic. QED.
actionfromafar··on Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush
Concussive maintenance
actionfromafar··on SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030
As soon as they figure out how to grift money to the Trump family. But they have such a backlog, it might take a while to figure out the details.
actionfromafar··on ReactOS 0.4.16
Well, Excel has AI now, so maybe it can help.
actionfromafar··on The Finn – an agent that lives in my router and complains about it
A joke, perhaps, but I also think you stumbled into some of that unevenly distributed future.
actionfromafar··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
And murder foreigners, of course. It's allowed in the Constitution!
actionfromafar··on U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479122
actionfromafar··on Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise
But batteries can be very distributed and stabilize and prop up the grid in ways a huge plant can't without building out distribution. (Situation dependent of course.)
actionfromafar··on Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise
Yes. They are apparently scrubbing the truth but archive.org still has it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250507123042/https://docs.nrel...

actionfromafar··on What Running Kafka on VMs Taught Us About Systems Thinking
I wanted to read about running Kafka on VMS.
actionfromafar··on Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak
It would not expose SSH keys, but the location of SSH keys.
actionfromafar··on Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force
From your downvotes, I can only assume some people think this is the cool cyberpunk stuff. :-D
actionfromafar··on Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force
They need protection from other oligarchs, and they know the Prince hasn't read chapter 23.
actionfromafar··on The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
And no monitoring of the proxy for unusual activity, either.
actionfromafar··on Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data
"Epidemiologic research indicates that greater average daily light exposure is associated with a reduced axial elongation during childhood"

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25158414211059246

actionfromafar··on Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here
Social networks are/were like a self-learning system optimizing for "engagement" i.e. rage.
actionfromafar··on Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it
You forgot swipe up down, down down, double tap, left, up.
actionfromafar··on Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data
OTOH turns out spending time outdoors during childhood appears to reduce the risk of developing myopia.
actionfromafar··on Queryable Executables
Do you have any problems with antivirus or Defender complaining about the embedded VM?
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