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98Windows··on Archiving pirate radio station Kool FM
The transmitters would get seized often but the pirates would just buy more equipment and setup elsewhere
98Windows··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Isn't the point that these agents were supposed to be sandboxed. It makes no sense to give them an official channel
98Windows··on GPT-5.2
or maybe 5.1 was an older checkpoint and has more quantization
98Windows··on X is justifiably slow (2022)
How about TWPKAT? It looks a bit like twat
98Windows··on Europe's quest to lead in AI regulation is in serious doubt
archive link: https://archive.is/xhhJO
98Windows··on Show HN: If ChatGPT is WhatsApp, we created its Telegram version. Privacy First
What is this?

I don't fancy logging into some random website without knowing what it does first.

98Windows··on Arc browser built-in AI features [video]
Hmmm I tried using Arc and I just don't like it. The sidebar feels really cluttered and unnatural. I like having the full width of my screen.

I feel like Arc gives me OCD about organising my spaces and folders etc. I'm happier to just close chrome when I get to like 15 tabs and start again.

98Windows··on The X220 ThinkPad
Having a VGA port is such a waste of space
98Windows··on How to Run Linux and MS Operating System in a Single System?
What does interrupting Windows mean? Like keeping windows running while you install Linux?
98Windows··on We’re all just temporarily abled
I became disabled after a music festival last year. The music was too loud and something broke in my ear.

Now every sound hurts me, my voice is far too painful, going for a walk outside is too painful. Basically I can't do anything but sit in a silent room and browse the internet.

Pain hyperacusis sucks. I wish I'd been more careful with my hearing.

98Windows··on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2023 [pdf]
This needs more attention, really crazy
98Windows··on The UK is wasting a lot of wind power
Please stop, bitcoin is a waste of electricity, it has no economic value. Its cancerous. Just make hydrogen or some other storable material.
98Windows··on Amazon Is Running Out of Warehouse Workers. Cue the Robots
The bots are in production and live.

The warehouse still needs lots of staff but less than a supermarket

98Windows··on Random Google Street View
Is there some kind of bias, I kept being sent to Croatia
98Windows··on Twitter Is Down
Maybe Elon has launched a DDOS
98Windows··on Crypto assets are ‘worth nothing,’ says ECB’s Christine Lagarde
Or they want their citizens to avoid investing in a ponzi scheme which steals their hard earned cash?
98Windows··on Crypto assets are ‘worth nothing,’ says ECB’s Christine Lagarde
> The question should be, does Bitcoin help the real world economy?

That's a fine question too and I would argue that it doesn't help the real world economy. It just consumes energy for 0 utility except to facilitate ponzi schemes and money laundering

98Windows··on Crypto assets are ‘worth nothing,’ says ECB’s Christine Lagarde
I believe Taleb's timeline is not as long term as the heat death of the universe or end of civilisation.

He's saying that a rational market should value bitcoin at 0 because it has 0 utility. If I buy shares in Walmart I receive a dividend, if I buy shares in Amazon I know they will do share buy backs with their profits and hence increase the value of my investment.

Bitcoin has zero value or utility for me, unless I can sell it to someone else before it eventually goes to 0.

98Windows··on Crypto assets are ‘worth nothing,’ says ECB’s Christine Lagarde
There's a difference between value today and expected value in the future. A loaf of bread has value today but I wouldn't stockpile fresh bread because I know it quickly loses value
98Windows··on Crypto assets are ‘worth nothing,’ says ECB’s Christine Lagarde
Taleb has a paper arguing Bitcoins expected long term value is infact 0: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14204
98Windows··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
Have you tried twitter lists?

Also doesn't following 5k people make your timeline way too chaotic?

98Windows··on What Rising Covid-19 Infections in the UK and Europe could-mean for the U.S.
I'm in the UK and covid is over and I don't think anyone will ever accept anymore restrictions

We've just got to live with it now, fatality rates are below that of seasonal flu

98Windows··on The undiscovered country: Can suicide be predicted?
You have been blessed with a happy life then, feel glad you don't understand the appeal of suicide
98Windows··on Semantic segmentation algorithms do not generalize to off-road datasets
Any one know of any datasets for pavement/sidewalk based robots?
98Windows··on The Ecommerce Surge
When did you last order with Ocado?
98Windows··on Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety
There are lots of ways to do "Mindfulness and meditation" so I'm not surprised.

I've always found group meditations to be the most beneficial for me while solo meditations are harder and less likely for me to feel better afterwards (although I've had some really good ones)

98Windows··on What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?
Putting carbon into the atmosphere much easier than removing it, I don't see how this could ever happen
98Windows··on SpaceX NASA returning human spaceflight to United States today (canceled)
Sorry to hear you guys haven't had lunch for so long
98Windows··on Bye, Amazon
What does entirely automated mean??
98Windows··on Instacart announces new Covid-19 policies and plans to hire 250k more shoppers
What makes you say that? New registrations have been closed for a long time
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