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blackoil··on Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era
I have very fond memory of these books. We are from lower middle class family in India. My dad was fond of books. Western books were costly, but Soviet and Chinese books were of high quality and cheap. So we used to get loads of them from book fair.
blackoil··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
'Issue' for who?
blackoil··on Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
Better way is to provide a Claude.md with strong stylistic guidelines and loc requirements. Else it will be a chicken and mouse game of what is from AI.
blackoil··on There is minimal downside to switching to open models
Open models hosted in Cloud???
blackoil··on Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel
Need them for trolls to move around.
blackoil··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
> after a weekend reboot

Isn't new outlook lives in the cloud? So this shouldn't be a usecase.

blackoil··on DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)
> duckdb is so nice coupled with claude code

Can you expand upon it? You mean claude code use it to store its memory/state or it can do business queries using DuckDB.

blackoil··on DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)
It is an OLAP db. So you can have a pipeline storing data in parquet files in S3. And then use DuckDB to directly query on it.
blackoil··on GLM-5.2: The Most Powerful Open Model yet and the Brutal Reality of Running It
I think people overrate 'local' part of open Models vs private. With OpenAI my choice is 1. I have to use them, even if they decide to double the cost or work with govt to blow my country. My $5 server can't run GLM but I have choice from many providers based on my requirements of cost, data residency, political alignment.
blackoil··on U.S. science is in chaos
> Models don't know anything across iterations yet.

Can you expand. They have both context and memory?

blackoil··on GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands
Collectively Europe has talent and money to support it. Whole point of sovreignity around it is to have inhouse the talent and capacity to have essential resources even if it can be have for cheap from other nations/alliances.

That is why people lament at idea of being completely dependent on Russian gas, US tech or Chinese manufacturing.

blackoil··on How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data
Gorilla by Facebook had this. Value is stored as delta and time as delta of delta.
blackoil··on How to earn a billion dollars
> You force the founder to give up their private property just because it is valuable?

That's how taxes work.

blackoil··on Historic co-determination helps monasteries navigate digital change
Religion is one of the best at marketing and fund-raising since millenias. Why is it surprising that they adapt to new tech? They have done it for printing press before that.
blackoil··on Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
If that is the question. Those customers anyway won't be using any LLM or cloud services in first place. If you are a jornalist investigating nations, stay away from everything.
blackoil··on New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste
Salt water fish can process sea water, no point in evolving for saltier brine if you have oceans of 3% water.
blackoil··on How LLMs work
Hopefully someone has asked right questions and removed confusing answers/hallucinations.
blackoil··on India's surprise baby bust
In terms of biomass humans are much larger than ants.
blackoil··on Sony Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB'
Are these "pure" Sony or from new JV with TCL?
blackoil··on Warm up your MacBook (2019)
Those were John Ive era laptops where form ruled function. Poor thermal, less ports, less keys were all features.
blackoil··on Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country
Erin Brockovich is popular enough that it justifies duplicacy of efforts, amount of visibility her name will brings in much more value than cost of building it.
blackoil··on Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
During Mao/cultural revolution for all the bad, two good things were great focus on K-12 education and reducing religious fundamentalism (curbing religious powerhouses). Both of them are now biting India, alongwith standard problems of corruption that plague most poor democracies.
blackoil··on Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
Come to an Indian city. You'll have cars, 2w, auto, cows coming from 7 directions everywhere.
blackoil··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
Open Source ASML EUV. But will wipe off trillions from US stocks so 401k may not like that.
blackoil··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Why assume? it should be observable. You can check the code and data traffic to see how it is used.
blackoil··on I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed
Political content is acceptable as long it is negative about certain countries, this isn't about one of them.
blackoil··on Vite 8.0 Is Out
Why are electron apps memory intensive compared to other cross platform frameworks. Is it language, UI system or legacy?
blackoil··on I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
Theory is that Google pushes up pages which have spent on Google Ads.
blackoil··on India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
Your comment raises question, if you have ever been to India. Most of those 20% are old people. K-12 education need to be improved but literacy is not a major problem. Also India has cheapest internet in the world.
blackoil··on India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
> You can make humans more productive

If productivity is 10x unless work increases 10x jobs will be gone.

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