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phronton Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

Maybe giving pi more output by setting higher value to maxTokens will resolve his issue

phronton Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

It turned out that Dino run has deep roots

phronton DeepSeek Harness developer preview

hmm.. what about supply chain security?

phronton Soviet 80s supercomputer project "Start"

Here is an article about Start project (PDF)

https://nccbulletin.ru/files/article/krayneva-i_0.pdf

phronton An end to all this prostate trouble?

i am curious to know can we plan a better vein system and somehow "implement" it

phronton Hiroshi Nagai: Japan's Sun-Drenched Americana

Somewhat similar to EGA graphics

phronton The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

After I watched the old mario bros movie i thought that dinosaurs might have built a civilization but we see no traces of their deeds. It was very sad to think about that.

phronton CPNG, a backwards compatible fork of PNG

meet a new bunch of security holes

phronton Who Got It Right: Orwell or Huxley?

There is a good british movie from 1936 about future https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come

It seems forgotten but i think it is still great and dusturbing.

phronton Young people from Brazil's favelas set out to conquer digital world

I read somewhere that governments rose from theater troupes

phronton Telegram Ad Platform

They made their ads with dark ui pattern: an ad item pretends to be a post.

phronton Valve Steam Deck

What video card is equivalent to this steam deck hardware?

phronton SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering

Maybe its a silly question but can Telegram just give back $1B to all american participants of the project and continue the process?

phronton Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant infection

Realy great result but may it be a major step towards z apocalypse if something goes wrong?

phronton Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon (2016)

I finally understand what has inspired The Mosquito Coast movie.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito_Coast

phronton I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon

Great!

It is interesting, why Google or anybody else have not made a map of Moon just like Googlemap of Earth. Are there some technical problems?

phronton Labor Board Backs Startup Engineers Fired for Unionizing

Not sure about it but why do they want to establish a union? History teaches us that trade unions are mafia-like structures. The cure that is much worse than the desease.

phronton European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case

It seems that it would be better for Google and Apple if Nokia has survived with its own smartphones and OS.

phronton Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in the observable universe

It may be that an advanced civilization doesnt last long. So it is possible that we are somewhere on the very big graveyard.