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iszomer··on How Meta trains large language models at scale
More to do with bent pins, material obstruction, or something as trivial as cable management (eg: bundles of qsfp weighing down the ports that are press-fitted not soldered).
iszomer··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
13686723.

That feeling is mutual.

iszomer··on Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
Still can't get over "The Sony P.O.S. that doesn't goddamn do what it's supposed to" video..
iszomer··on Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app
You'd be amazed at the length of time people will hold grudges; to the point where it's engrained into their culture.
iszomer··on Firefox Is Bringing in Tab Grouping Feature
Unless Firefox crashes or you restarted after an update on Linux.
iszomer··on Government Does Stash Billions of Pounds of Cheese in Missouri Caves
I thought the American Slice is it's main source.
iszomer··on FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric from 25Mbps to 100Mbps
I think I'll keep my Verizon 100/100 for ~68$. Still using the old copper coaxial not straight FttH though.
iszomer··on The False Promise of Carbon Capture as a Climate Solution
Almost saying planting trees with high carbon sequestration would be the more cost-effective long term solution (eg: gingko biloba).
iszomer··on One place Planet 9 could be hiding
"Don't Panic."
iszomer··on Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals
iirc. NurdRage had a video showing soda cans aren't made completely of aluminum and that there is still a plastic coating lining the interior.
iszomer··on What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientists have an answer
It can be from a secularization point of view.
iszomer··on Show HN: Bitwise Liminal – A Short Film in 256 Bytes of Code
This made my 5560U ramp it's sysfan up 100%. :-)
iszomer··on Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse
Depends on your definition of reality (but I'm not saying it is mine).
iszomer··on Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs of collapse
Wasn't there a film on this topic called The Day After Tomorrow?
iszomer··on Apple is lobbying against right to repair 6 months after supporting it
What's worse is potentially using parts that may have once belonged to stolen Apple devices as there was a significant market for them in Shenzhen. Even Scotty/StrangeParts was able to build an iPhone from scratch with parts sourced from there.

That may also be one of the contributing factors to why Apple began enforcing serialized parts in their product lineups but in my opinion, isn't anything new: we have such a system at my workplace that prevents components from being illicitly used or is blocked from being allowed onto a test flow because, this is "what the [big] customer wants".

iszomer··on A practical guide to quitting your smartphone
I've taken a more subtle approach:

- In my daily commutes, I dedicate my smartphone screen time to creating art and short animations.

- If I ever do feel the urge to read news, I'll pull up HN via the Harmonic app. If I stumble upon an interesting post with healthy comments threads, I'll bookmark it to read on a properly sized screen when I return home.

- My monthly data plan is purposefully capped at 4GB. I use an app firewall to whitelist the most essential apps while everything else is blocked by default from accessing cellular data.

- I don't use streaming services at all but I do occasionally pre-fetch longform podcasts for later consumption. I also disable all phone notifications and wear a "smartwatch" to tell time, track my step counter and monitor barometric pressure in that order.

iszomer··on Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups
The Dead Internet Theory is becoming truer by the day it seems.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

iszomer··on Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups
edit: I was missing some context.

- https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-new-ai-chatbot-trai...

iszomer··on Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups
Except from their own subsidiaries?
iszomer··on The Far Side – By Gary Larson
Or the prepper in his bunker without a can opener.
iszomer··on Military action against land-based targets in Yemen moves a step closer
When people talk about "diversifying their income stream", whose to say this cannot be applied from a geopolitical or much less an ideological view?
iszomer··on Starlink launches "cellphone towers in space" for use with LTE phones
eg: LINE bars the use of GV numbers as does Discord. It used to be possible in GV's early years to make a call from your American GV number while in another country but seems to be no longer the case.
iszomer··on Military action against land-based targets in Yemen moves a step closer
Have you never encountered the idea of a proxy war before?
iszomer··on Starlink launches "cellphone towers in space" for use with LTE phones
GV requires an active and linked landline or mobile number to be functionally useful and some major services will prevent you from registering a VoIP number (eg: banking).
iszomer··on Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?
Winamp and Descent, off of a CD included in a magazine iirc.
iszomer··on 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead' Review: An Ancient Guide to the Afterlife
*Plot twist*: an AI rediscovers it's identity having been LLM-trained on all HN posts, replies, and comments..
iszomer··on Seven great but notoriously hard-to-finish books
Apart from this list, I found Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness a hardcore literary grind in my first year of college.
iszomer··on September 11th That You Have Never Seen
As do I.

The first thing/meme (before R. Dawkins coined it) was a screenshot of CS1.6's "Terrorists Win" overlayed on top the billowing of smoke where WTC was. The last was a short video where someone created a montage utilizing the parallax effect as well as added the instrumental portion of "Teardrop" by the band Massive Attack.

iszomer··on Origin of mysterious green 'ghosts' in the sky has been discovered
Yep, for those times when the Youtube algo can't satisfy my general content cravings, Pecos Hank's channel is the first I scroll to in my subscription list.
iszomer··on Amazon Unveils Graviton4: A 96-Core ARM CPU with 536.7 GBps Memory Bandwidth
They get recycled and put back into inventory as spare parts for existing SKUs they currently have deployed. And just fyi, Annapurna Labs (creator of the Graviton family) was acquired by Amazon AWS back 2015 iirc.
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