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khannn··on 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)
it will as soon as openai gives us dirty mode
khannn··on 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)
In my day professors said that you'd never have an AI in your pocket
khannn··on We Will Not Be Divided
Shades of "He Will Not Divide Us"
khannn··on Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
It's funny that residential VPN botnets aren't uncommon now. "Free VPN" if you allow your computer/phone to be an exit point.
khannn··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
I like them too. About the only other contender I see is maybe techcrunch.

Need to set an email address and browser up only for sites that require registration.

khannn··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
Is there anything like a replacement? The three biggest tech sites that I traditionally love are ArsTechnica, AnandTech(rip), and Phoronix. One is dead man walking mode, the second is ded dead, and the last is still going strong.

I'm basically getting tech news from social media sites now and I don't like that.

khannn··on Building a TUI is easy now
Notice how many times Claude Code was mentioned in this blog post nee advertisement?
khannn··on xAI joins SpaceX
Don't forget that a lot of US mil stuff is launched by SpaceX so in a very real way they are the prime defense contractor in space for the country. If the public offering doesn't work, Unc Sam'll bail them out. Wonder if Trump will want a stake in the company this time.
khannn··on Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
NO

"Me furiously trying to decide what a EURO thinks a motorcycle is" for 60s

khannn··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
Increased supply comes in majority black and/or low-income neighborhoods here and it's "luxury" units all the way down. Gentrification is the name of the game, while simultaneously reducing social services.

In that light, this move is A-OK with me.

khannn··on alpr.watch
"Posting quotes that indicate that you didn't successfully identify sarcasm makes your L even worse"

-Me

khannn··on My payment agent is named George, not stripe-agent
The only reason I can think of is to not duplicate AWS's "us-east-2" region name
khannn··on alpr.watch
Don't worry, a random Ring cam will record everything. Hope my neighbor likes keeping track of me checking my mail.
khannn··on alpr.watch
If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide
khannn··on Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices
And Pizza Hut ran itself into the ground despite being incredibly popular when I was a child
khannn··on A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave
I was accepted into a PhD CS program despite applying for a masters. The advisor had something on his door about the limited number of slots open for people who graduate from grad school. Tried to discourage me from the program.

Quit after two semesters.

khannn··on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
> * The price isn't right for small businesses. These trucks are quite expensive

> * They're difficult to repair. A regular F-150 is designed to be repaired; these things are designed like iPhones to be disposable.

Add in the crap tow range and it looks like Ford upmarket, as it's known to do, and failed. Just reading these points makes me think that it was designed to fail.

khannn··on Rob Reiner has died
He directed The Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men, and Misery. Didn't know this, but he directed a sequel to This Is Spinal Tap.
khannn··on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
ProtonVPN stinks. Websites refuse to load and I get autobanned on Reddit etc.

Mullvad just worked everywhere. I'm going back when my year plan on Proton ends.

khannn··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
It's hard for me to use a laptop with win11 and one game (BG3) installed on a 512 GB SSD.
khannn··on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union
I'm not a fan of parrying in any game and mentally put Eternal into the "Wait for cheap Steam sale" pile when I saw the shield. I wanna rip and tear in Doom.
khannn··on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union
I don't understand the video game industry from an insider perspective, but is it wise for id Software to unionize after Doom: The Dark Ages didn't do as well as Eternal? I haven't spoken to anyone who mentioned D:TDA IRL, but knew a fair amount of people who preordered Eternal.
khannn··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
Their technique makes it so that the normal person with a ~base SSD of 512 GB can't reasonably install the game. Heck of a job Brownie.
khannn··on Patterns.dev
People were shifted from Java to Javascript and kept the Java patterns and maybe the organization had standards requiring their use.
khannn··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
Who cares? I've installed every graphically intensive game on SSDs since the original OCZ Vertex was released.
khannn··on NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
Just like the comment I was replying to and your comment. Both add nothing and deserve nothing but flippant responses to this discussion.
khannn··on NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
$1.50 toll on rideshare drivers/users and/or people getting dropped off at work.
khannn··on NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
The European mind quivers at the thought of a state with a bigger area than most EU countries

I like walking around new cities, but a lot of people are car life types

khannn··on The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat
>AI is a filter.

>It strips away everything that can be automated, leaving only what requires actual thinking: creativity, collaboration, real-world problem-solving.

This is rich coming from an article written by AI instructed to SEO it to the moon.

khannn··on NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months
Regressive tax keeps the poor out of area with their older vehicles that pollute more than people who can afford to pay a $9 fee per day. News at 11.
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