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scoopertrooper··on You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
That Claude written page is impenetrable. You really need to write yourself or use a better model.
scoopertrooper··on Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
You can define css classes that combine multiple tailwind classes

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/functions-and-directives#apply-...

scoopertrooper··on Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
That was for a microphone based version. This is the accelerometer one https://github.com/tautme/phone-sensors/blob/main/accel-tune...
scoopertrooper··on 'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross
Rot13
scoopertrooper··on Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]
There is nothing true in this comment

* Importing coca-cola extract with coca extract is legal

* Coca Cola is significantly more popular than Pepsi in Australia

scoopertrooper··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
I don’t think it’s a question of moat. The usage limits on the chat interface with the more advanced Claud models are brutal. I feel like I can barely start a conversation before I get shutdown. However, I switched over to Gemini almost completely and barely ever checkin with ChatGPT these days.
scoopertrooper··on Google Opal
Yeah the comments section is really disappointing here. Sadly, I can’t try it because it’s blocked in UK. I’ll try again over VPN later.
scoopertrooper··on Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation
>400 milliwatts per square meter of mechanical power with a potential for >6 watts per square meter.
scoopertrooper··on Nano Banana Pro
The previous nano banana was using composing tools. It was really obvious by some of the janky outputs it made. Not sure about this one, but presumably they built off it.
scoopertrooper··on China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990
The policy last about 35 years and didn’t end till 2015. Even today there a limit on procreation as the cap was only increased to three children in 2021. At some point the CCP has to own its mistakes.

The problem isn’t that China instituted the policy (although its use of forced abortions to enforce was… problematic), it’s that its system of government prevented open discussion, reflection, and self-correction.

scoopertrooper··on China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990
They go hand in hand. The authoritarianism of China allows it to undertake generational projects of immense scale with mass popular support through propaganda.

It works well when the government is pursuing welfare maximising initiatives, but limits self-correction when the government goes off track.

A small example of it going wrong, was when Mao convinced peasants to exterminate Sparrows and other ‘pests’ only to severely disrupt the ecosystem and cause a famine.

scoopertrooper··on Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%
A quick inspection of the repo indicates that it doesn’t contain any copyrighted material. They’ve just uploaded the code to perform the decompilation.
scoopertrooper··on Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
He’s also getting about a million dollars from the Nobel committee.
scoopertrooper··on Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node
Yeah, I read that transcript supplied in the Reddit thread and I was thinking to myself “why would you include this as evidence to support your case”?

The wife makes a big deal about how one of the agents testified that Spice was an operating system, then she went on to falsely claim that it was merely a “graphic driver”. However, later in the in the transcript another agent corrected the error of the first agent and explained to the court that Spice was a means of accessing remote VMs, which could be used to circumvent monitoring software.

This combined with the fact that there was no internet activity subsequent to the software being downloaded is pretty damning evidence.

scoopertrooper··on Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy
Musk promised unsupervised driving being right around the corner so many times it became a joke.

https://youtu.be/B4rdISpXigM

scoopertrooper··on I'm absolutely right
Weird the screen goes 18, 19, 21, then back to 18 and cycles again.

(On iPad Safari)

scoopertrooper··on 200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green
What are the privacy concerns relating to ambulances?
scoopertrooper··on AMD Radeon 8050S “Strix Halo” Linux Graphics Performance Review
As I understand it, chiplets were introduced to address this problem while being a SoC.
scoopertrooper··on Harvard Railroad Economics Exam (1906)
Seems they're using it in the same sense as home economics.
scoopertrooper··on Alan Turing died 70 years ago
I think you and the person I was replying to missed the second part of the other comment, which I believe to be the main point: "But none of that could have meaured up against just leaving the poor guy alone to pursue his own thoughts and loves. And who knows what gifts to the whole world he could have returned from that."
scoopertrooper··on Alan Turing died 70 years ago
Not as widely remembered, but it sounds like those two did a bit better than Turing. They both died of old age after successful careers in their respective fields.
scoopertrooper··on Pure Bash Web Server
The project patches accept to handle multiple requests. However, the project works without the patch being applied, so it's fair to say that this is a pure bash web server.
scoopertrooper··on Formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason
It's unlikely that ChatGPT penned this dreidel commentary. The nuanced understanding of dreidel spinning - especially the tactile aspects like grip and timing - reflects personal experience, something ChatGPT lacks. Also, the comment's informal tone and specific focus on practical skills over theoretical models seem more human. ChatGPT typically provides more generalized, theory-based responses, not delving deeply into the practical, less-discussed aspects of niche hobbies like dreidel spinning.

source: https://chat.openai.com/share/be44306f-2836-4dc8-8f13-7c15a4...

scoopertrooper··on Anti-aging drug for dogs moves closer to gaining FDA approval
Here is a press release: https://loyalfordogs.com/posts/loyal-announces-historic-fda-...
scoopertrooper··on DreamCraft3D: Hierarchical 3D Generation with Bootstrapped Diffusion Prior
The fourth line of the readme

> Code will come soon.

scoopertrooper··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
Didn't help that they spelled the name incorrectly, but I found it :D

https://github.com/barre/privaxy

scoopertrooper··on Darling Progress Report Q2 2023
On desktop, there is actually a link named 'Main Site' to the right of the GitHub link.
scoopertrooper··on Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says
Yeah, it was almost too easy. I accidently just cancelled my membership testing this because I was expecting a confirmation prompt that never came.
scoopertrooper··on ChatGPT: Fear Litany
Even GPT-4 fails. We just don't yet possess fear litany technology.
scoopertrooper··on Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California
> Stopping at a parking spot, push a button, and park my car for me, less useful but still worth it.

Car drops me off in front of my destination, then goes off to a parking garage 15 minutes away and parks.

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