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denom··on Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
if and when the AI bubble bursts, we'll know if local models will hold up. Assuming the cyclical pullback in investment is strong enough to see local machines with 512gb or more of RAM
denom··on MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark
Ducklake works well. So far it is still under active development (post AWS acquisition). There is support for local disk-based and remote S3 based datalakes, so integration tests become really easy. Seems stable and all the bugs I've found have already been patched.
denom··on Things to know when you get cancer
Treatments like hormone therapy for estrogen positive breast cancer are meant to attack the cancer's metabolic signaling mechanism. Intermittent fasting, like taking 12 hour breaks with no food every day, is something else that you can do to try and stress cancer cells.
denom··on Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
> ... a person who cannot grow, and never will , vs. a person who changes completely every seven years

Wow, that is unexpected. But honest?

denom··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
What's the going rate for pardons these days?
denom··on DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser
Seems stable enough, they patched a bunch of things.
denom··on Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges
The shooter’s final comment in that video I think accurately sums up his mental state: completely disconnected his actions.
denom··on A wild 'freakosystem' has been born in Hawaii
With our consumption humans are drawing down on the ‘reserve’ that ecological services have built up.

Human activities lack the sophistication of an ecosystem that is in balance and cannot recreate the network of benefits thereof.

denom··on A wild 'freakosystem' has been born in Hawaii
I think your judgement here sets aside the value of ecosystems in balance.
denom··on A wild 'freakosystem' has been born in Hawaii
Tropical forest ecosystems with introduced species thrive in a way others (e.g. boreal and oak savannas) do not.

Not all ecosystems are resilient enough to handle invasive species, and can be destroyed with the introduction of a single aggressive species.

denom··on The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now
The post war scientific edifice is being shattered in a monumental act of vandalism.

It’s not just defunding childhood cancer research, but also dismantling the very idea of agency in the broader society. Science and basic research are worth pursuing. And the cost is a pittance.

denom··on ILGPU: Write GPU programs with C# and F#
> Moreover what kind of habit of thought are you in that being called out for that is read as vitriol?

That’s as much a matter of personal identity as a ‘habit of thought’, friend. Otherwise, we could we comment on the basis of _your_ perspective as some mutable affectation, no?

You see, we are shadows of ourselves. An inquisitive play, or let’s say a “judgment” about Cuda economics: aspirational, errant? Then, the linguistic phalanx: honed no doubt by long running needs to be heard and seen and listened to.

denom··on UPS driver pay and benefits deal in US to be worth $170k a year, firm says
Awesome news! I'm glad for the workers and their families. That is a great wage and one that will pay dividends in terms of their health and the health of their communities.
denom··on Git archive checksums may change
Exactly this.

Tbh, i would expect some developer working on this feature to have an ‘a-ha’ moment: ‘I’m a homebrew user … hey wait a minute’

denom··on Git archive checksums may change
Alternatively, they could extract the compression code and maintain it for repo tags created before the git algo update release date.

Isn’t that the only humane course given all that depends on this?

denom··on Git archive checksums may change
In my particular use-case, I'm using a set of local dev tools hosted as a homebrew tap.

The build looks up the github tar.gz release for each tag and commits the sha256sum of that file to the formula

What's odd is that all the _historical_ tags have broken release shasums. Does this mean the entire set of zip/tar.gz archives has been rebuilt? That could be a problem, as perhaps you cannot easily back out of this change...

denom··on A method to promote sleep in crying infants using the transport response [pdf]
I think of it as a fitness measure: Are you active enough at moving towards food gathering sites, preparing and surveying the landscape, creating and fine tuning your tools? If it is an approval of sorts on behalf of the child, then it also points to some really basic learning that is beginning to flow between the parent and child
denom··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
Physical votes, people’s lives, including leaderships, were at stake.
denom··on Georgia election server showed signs of tampering, expert says
It also means that dynamic of political polarization become more prevalent. Imagine being accountable to only one side of the electorate and how that shapes media and institutions. It will only make the divisive, angry rhetoric worse.
denom··on It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains
Maybe we should use wood instead of plastic.
denom··on How YouTube converted people to flat Earth
If we expose people to the most sophisticated system of disinformation ever created in the history of mankind, with no restrictions or supervision of any kind, and then watch democracy collapse, it's not enough to to say "Welp! Democracy is a failed concept".

This is not about censorship. This is about each of use trying to help educate, uplift and enlighten those around us. In other words, it's up to us to help our fellow citizens. If you want to punt on that project, then so be it. But not all of us have given up.

denom··on NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time
How thin is the barrier between lawful collection and "accidentally" sucking up all the communication in the USA?

Seems like a major screwup like this is pretty normal for the NSA. Or at least they execute it with aplomb.

denom··on Prisons Are an Abomination
Your phrasing is really unfortunate in the sense that it limits our conception of how to deal with other humans. Yes, if we are trying to keep the malignant hoards at bay, then 'incentivize' with a whip. It's a fundamentally negative view of humanity and human nature.
denom··on Is Matter Conscious? (2017)
For a phenomenological treatment, see The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram.

The idea that consciousness exists throughout the world as a gradient is not new.

The modern industrial conception of mind (newly transformed by the technological revolution) prescribes a more limited domain for theories of the mind.

denom··on Facebook Has Behaved Like 'Digital Gangsters,' U.K. Parliament Report Says
It shows how much emotion and frustration is directed at Facebook these days. Unfortunately, there's not a clear outlet for that frustration, politically or otherwise.
denom··on First .dev Domains Go Live
I sort of get the appeal of a '.dev' TLD, but I wish that google donated the whole thing to those who were using it informally for local development.

That would have been a good gift to all the devs out there.

denom··on Yangtze River Port and Logistics: On-The-Ground Research Shows Assets Fabricated
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/sunday/lu-guang-p...

“For five weeks, the world has had no idea where Lu Guang is.”

denom··on Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
Did the OS keep the data or use it in any way beyond what the OS needed for display etc?
denom··on UIs that accidentally preserve memories
The reason that we need a right to be forgotten is encoded in this 'UI-forced' remembering. Forgetting the awkward moments is one thing, but it is natural to be born, grow, and change. In those earlier centuries, it was only the remembrances encoded in our cultural practices and personal intent that governed what remained. Even the organic, compostable material of everyday life (like wood and leather) would decay to nothing. Liberation by time and forgetting can be a lonely thing, especially considering the ultimate ends of all our endeavors. By comparison, the memoria we maintain today is akin to plastic floating in the ocean, we don't need it, it will outlive us, and periodically it collides perfectly to bear the fruit of a poignant nostalgia.

In the previous ages, we buried our ancestors and in turn were buried.

denom··on Hydrofluoric Acid: An Invisible Fire (1996)
There was an explosion at a refinery in Superior Wi last week. The blast and resulting fire was within 200 feet of a tank that can hold 76,000 pounds of hydrogen fluoride (only 15,000 lbs were in the tank at the time).

Needless to say, officials are reconsidering the use of Hydrofluoric acid at the facility: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/energy-and-mining/...

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