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astroduston Dots: Always-on agents

Excluding some countries, listed as "markets excluding the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK" but possibly Canada, too?

astroduston Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

Narrator: It wasn't.

astroduston Texas police department ordered to close for failing to provide public benefit

Why is it so ridiculous that the state can provide police where and when they're needed, and it's only when you have a sufficiently robust metropolitan area that can afford their own police force that you then have "local" cops?

Or are we all about locally-sourced, artisanal law enforcement now?

astroduston Eric S. Raymond – This is the case against AI Doom – pass it on

To be fair, it does fit his new brand.

astroduston Eric S. Raymond – This is the case against AI Doom – pass it on

An irrelevant curmudgeon says what?

astroduston Java 27

Why not Go, Rust, or C#?

astroduston A 386 PC for Your RP2350

With 8MB it'll be snug.

astroduston Apple is no longer thinking different

The iPhone launch was met with a lot of derision and eye-rolling despite that being the result of a half decade "effort to make themselves distinct from the competition".

Those events are rare, the opportunities to really shake things up are fleeting, as everyone is driving forward with relentless, incremental progress that quickly closes up all but the biggest gaps.

What could they possibly do that wouldn't be slammed as derivative?

astroduston Apple is no longer thinking different

"At the end of the day, a top tier chef just makes food like everyone else."

astroduston Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba

"2.8TB model, fast shipping!"

astroduston Modern email can be built from borrowed parts

The irony here that HTTP headers are descended directly from RFC822 email headers.

astroduston Sorry, the open web is political

"Open Web" as in "Free Speech", where it doesn't mean what it's supposed to mean.

astroduston Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP

NP factorial sounds like NP-ultra-hard.

astroduston Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it

That Claude can't retain and reference these in the future, SQLite could do this trivially, is wild.

astroduston Why Won't Europe Build AI Data Centers in Iceland?

Water cooling loop into a large public pool. If it works for the geothermal power station...

astroduston Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

Amazon is right there, reinvesting profits.

astroduston RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

What in the actual hell is that site? Are we really moving into the stupidest timeline at mach 10?

That page title is utterly absurd.

astroduston What Arm's CEO makes of the Intel debacle

"Shareholders" meaning "executives".

astroduston AmpereOne: Cores Are the New MHz

The article states $5,550USD or so.

astroduston DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

Firefox has made a mountain of money off of their tiny market share. Chrome as a company would instantly rake in billions.

astroduston Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981

Except one thing: Politics.

astroduston Boeing Wonderland: The Fake Cities on America's West Coast (2013)

Ukraine has also been vigilant in making hyper-realistic wooden replicas of various types of equipment, some even including heating elements in them so they look correct on thermal cameras.

If you've seen how glitchy/blurry the drone footage can get with jamming, it'd be easy to be fooled by a decoy.

astroduston Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks

Lawful evil versus chaotic evil.

astroduston Demystifying the regular expression that checks if a number is prime (2016)

Isn't this based on an expression from Abigail then at Perlmonks? https://www.masteringperl.org/2013/06/how-abigails-prime-num...

astroduston New iMac with M4

The Mini is such a potent little machine.

astroduston New iMac with M4

You're not buying a standard, you're buying a module with particular packaging and specifications, all of which have a huge impact on production cost.

astroduston Natural Gas Company Said It Was Going Green but Still Sells as Much Fossil Fuel

Ukraine's doing their part to "green" Russia one drone strike at a time.

astroduston Natural Gas Company Said It Was Going Green but Still Sells as Much Fossil Fuel

Like a parent with several misbehaving kids, we don't have the luxury of focusing on one problem at a time.