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sobchak

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  • RAM Shortage Expected to Continue Into Next Year or Later

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  • IDK, as I understand it, OpenAI bought 20% of RAM wafer production, mostly just to prevent competitors from getting access to affordable wafers. OpenAI has no ability to do anything with raw wafers.

  • Frank Herbert

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  • I thought Dune was good. I read it while I was in middle-school and thought it was engrossing. I also read a lot of Arthur C. Clarke back then, but I guess some people don't like his style. I tried reading Godel, Escher, Bach as a young adult, and yeah, I maybe finished half.

  • fuck you bill

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  • If the company also trains AI, I'm guessing they're also forcing use to gather training data. I.e. tracking feedback, corrections, etc.

  • Blockade on Iran will continue, Trump says, after Iran says it will reopen Strait of Hormuz

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  • Looks like Trump is waiting on some transaction to clear:

    THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS COMPLETELY OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS AND FULL PASSAGE, BUT THE NAVAL BLOCKADE WILL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AS IT PERTAINS TO IRAN, ONLY, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS OUR TRANSACTION WITH IRAN IS 100% COMPLETE. THIS PROCESS SHOULD GO VERY QUICKLY IN THAT MOST OF THE POINTS ARE ALREADY NEGOTIATED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! PRESIDENT DONALD J.TRUMP

  • Do you think there's too much emphasis in popular media on working your ass off?

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  • That kind of media doesn't really appeal to me so I don't consume it. A lot of rap and country is about that (in different ways; hustling vs working hard at your job). The only recent show or movie I watched that I can think of that emphasizes overworking is The Pitt, but I'm not sure it glorifies it.

    I do think working hard (or smart or whatever) is important and admirable, but only if the work is exceptionally important and beneficial to society (not most work), and not if you're being exploited by your employer (most work). The most important work is probably the labor people don't typically get paid to do (or get paid little).

    I'm also of the opinion that trying to work too much is usually counterproductive and people get less work done. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of studies that confirm this.

  • Thunderbird Team Unveils Thunderbolt Self-Hostable AI Client

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  • I thought gstack already gave developers God Mode?

  • hit counters!

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  • I get an SSL error.

  • ‘Pray With Me Please’: Pete Hegseth Reads Fake Bible Quote From ‘Pulp Fiction’ During Pentagon Prayer Service

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  • Before the Civil War, there was more separation. Things really started going out of wack in the 1950s (that's when "God" was printed on paper money). The swearing on the bible thing is a tradition from England. At US's founding 17% of the population were church members. In the the 1950s, 70% were. Now it's < 50%.

  • Human nature

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  • AFAIK, they aim so that every single person is rotated to every role (and only hold those roles for weeks before being rotated out); it's not like an election thing; it's more like a duty that everyone has to do. Whatever they're doing has been working for 3 decades.

  • Why it is worthwhile to dissect e-waste -- there are sometimes useful gems therein

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  • Yeah, you can buy a cheap USB-to-SATA boards/cables (or enclosure) and use them as USB drives. I have an rPi booting off an old SATA-HDD (more durable than micro-sd in my experience). Unraid supports arrays with mixed sized disks too, so you could make a NAS.

  • Human nature

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  • Zapatistas frequently rotate roles. There are no professional police or politicians.

  • Human nature

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  • Yeah, I think the current consensus is dual power and wait until it's either strong enough or the state is weak enough to revolt.

  • Human nature

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  • So is The Ones Who Stay and Fight.

  • Human nature

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  • I like the ones who stay and fight better.

  • Human nature

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  • Establish customs and structures that prevent power. It needs vigilance. There's evidence that before agriculture some humans exhibited "reverse dominance hierarchy," where if someone tried to assert dominance, the group would team up and ostracise, exile, or execute them.

  • Dry herb vape? Your thoughts

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  • I've got a Dynavap and Tinymight. They both work great. I use the Dynavap the most often, but if I were more social, I'd probably use the Tinymighy more (can pack more herb in).

  • Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, long-term study shows

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  • I saw a test that found Zero filters increased microplastics 10x or something like that.

  • Countercomputing is a descendant of retrocomputing with a focus on radical privacy

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  • I've been noticing a lot of counter-surveillance projects lately too. I.e. Flock-You, Chasing-You-Tail-NG, drone trackers. Most using ESP dev boards or rPis. The cardputer looks pretty cool too. Dunno if that stuff fits or not.

  • Date Structures and Algorithms?

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  • You need to have a general idea what structures and algorithms those libraries are using, so you know if they're a right fit for your use case,what configuration options to use, and how they'll scale. Design patterns are good to learn (required even), but I wouldn't go too deep into them. IIRC, that Design Patterns book goes a little too crazy and gets a little too abstract in some cases, and is what caused all that Enterprise Java craziness. The profession seems to be currently moving away from that kind of OOP, and moving to OOP-ish + some functional programming concepts mixed in (Rust, React, etc).