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deedree··on Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
I use costgoat to be a cheapass https://costgoat.com/compare/llm-api#pricing-guide
deedree··on Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars
We don't need Bio-Industry. So yes, this is typically killing the earth evil.
deedree··on How Soon Will the Seas Rise?
I'm not so sure, ground water will turn salty and make large swaths of land unlivable and river mouths will change stream upwards so all dike infrastructure as it is now will be unusable.
deedree··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
How would you know you won’t get sick? LLM’s scare me with the random stuff. It can be useful in specific cases but I certainly wouldn’t get any recipes that way. I would seriously reconsider friend.
deedree··on Consider Knitting
How do you built your own wheels? Isn’t that super hard without industrial tools? Sincere question.
deedree··on Thousands of octopuses gather off California to brood eggs at a warm spot
I can't decide if you knew it was a reference to the Beatles Octopus's Garden and tried to be even wittier or not.

For me it was instant recognition, I was rather surprised that lived in my subconsciousness.

deedree··on ChangeDetection, monitor any website change
You mean social engineering.
deedree··on Reverse Engineering the Apple Multipeer Connectivity Framework (2022)
I did some lazy searching and it seems it's a well known fact. I don't think the author has to back it up in this case.

Infosec researchers say Apple’s bug-bounty program needs work[0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/infos...

deedree··on Superrational
If you had allocated one second to rational thought you would have realised you are not the intended audience because you don’t understand it and thus won’t find it funny.

Before reacting to what might seem like flame bait, I tried to stay in style to the article and would like to point out that the ‘gag worthiness’ is intended and part of the joke.

deedree··on XGen-7B, a new 7B foundational model trained on up to 8K length for 1.5T tokens
But if you don't know a certain amount about a subject already you won't know when it's lying to you. That would probably be the case here.
deedree··on Z-Library Returns on the Clearnet in Full Hydra-Mode
Per the Torrenfreak article: https://singlelogin.me/ to login on Z-lib
deedree··on Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU
Did you forget about alcohol, nicotine, caffeine? Totally legal addictive alternatives.
deedree··on To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways
You might wanna argue his characteristic nose is the biggest giveaway.
deedree··on Show HN: The Bitcoin Note – Secure, Self-Custodial Bitcoin Wallets in Cash Form
This feels like a Rick and Morty episode to me. They just reinvented cash money, with extra steps.

Only, without the oversight of a central bank.. Without the means to keep the exchange rate in check. They can't change the rate of interest or anything else.

So far with crypto the only use cases seems to be criminal. To buy illegal stuff and for ransomware. Maybe it could be useful in countries where the currency is devalued like some in South-America. But then all the extra steps seem to be a big hurdle to me.

Someone enlighten me on the merits of this idea.

deedree··on Show HN: Grid.js – Advanced table library that works everywhere (2020)
I was looking around last week for tables like this but then with some more intricate filtering with logical operators.

I had in mind something along the lines of query: "columnA: <5 && columnB: >=12" Or am I asking too much of the js ecosystem and should I go back to playing with excel?

Anyone any idea if there's a solution that does what I want?

deedree··on Why America can’t build quickly anymore
That says there’s no evidence. While it may still be true you can’t just state like it’s a well known and accepted fact. That is certainly not true.

If you want to make controversial claims you’d better make sure you can back it up. Right now it does not add in a valuable way to the conversation.

deedree··on MuZero’s first step from research into the real world
I think they are referring to this part, second alinea: “Now, in pursuit of DeepMind’s mission to solve intelligence, MuZero has taken a first step towards mastering a real-world task by optimising video on YouTube.”
deedree··on UK shops fear gaps on shelves as new Brexit import rules hit
How is your first link related to the brexit? Your second link doesn’t mention brexit either and is from 2015.

Not trying to bash you here. But I was honestly wondering if there were any upsides to leaving Europe. With this you’re practically adding to that there’s none.

deedree··on Willingness to look stupid
But why did he want the smallest box?
deedree··on Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide
To be pedantic, you mean immoral right? It's bad, they shouldn't waste usable resources just to fit their marketing scheme.

Amoral means that it is not moral or immoral.

deedree··on Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues
I think it's called Cognitive Dissonance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
deedree··on How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
In your comparison it's about what CAN be done with the highway. For the comparison to hold true it's more like we let them knowingly drive there while we're 100% aware where they are at that moment. So we could have acted on it but didn't and watched them do it.

Threats, slander and misinformation where never part of free speech and never will be. Invoking "free speech" here is disingenuous.

To go back to your comparison, if Parler - or anything similar - was like the highway we wouldn't know about what was going on. But we do, and it's inciting violence so it's basic human decency to stop it. Even apart from anything that a government would say. I don't get it, why are we still talking about this on HN.

deedree··on Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age
From the context I would say, the latest fad. The new hot thing, mode, rage, trend?
deedree··on Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence
Yes, that would be my guess as well. They seem(ed) to be the most aligned with his mission. Giving him the freedom to stay in his home while also being in a corporate environment that could give him the necessary know how and back up to grow his baby.
deedree··on System76 Launches Threadripper Workstations
The universe is big..
deedree··on Firefox Replay
What would apple have to do to let us have this on iOs? I would love to have a choice of browser on my phone.
deedree··on She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals
Tears flowing down my face. Didn't see that coming.
deedree··on Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well
Which musical might I ask? Nothing comes directly to mind. A quick search doesn't yield any immediate results.
deedree··on Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL
You might mean “family resemblance” that Wittgenstein talks about.
deedree··on Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries?
I shouldn't feed the troll. But since you made me chuckle, did you mistake hckrnews for reddit maybe? :P
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