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nish__··on Digital minimalism
It's programmable, so you're not just running useless hashes. And with Proof of Stake it's way more efficient than Bitcoin.
nish__··on Digital minimalism
> Images and/or auto-playing video?

This is the problem. Text only allows you to consume a certain amount of information at once. Anything more is harmful imo.

nish__··on Git for the US Code
It definitely does...
nish__··on Git for the US Code
Y Combinator is based in the US.
nish__··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
The IDEs for Android and iOS dev are heavy plus devs tend to run a lot of VMs so extra ram is nice.
nish__··on GPT-6.1 Terra
> In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes.

Maybe stop using version numbers then and just name models like you'd name children.

nish__··on A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting
> Budapest around 1900 produced an absurd cluster of minds: von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, Edward Teller, Leo Szilard, Paul Erdős, Theodore von Kármán, George Pólya.

Not to mention Nikola Tesla about 20 years prior.

> When several of them turned up at Los Alamos and realized they had gone to high school together, Szilard joked that Hungary was a cover story for a Martian landing.

What if there actually are people who go to Mars in the future but regret it and the only way for them to come back to Earth is to invent a time machine and be reborn as a mathematical supergenius. That would explain this at least:

> At six, Janos (the OG hungarian name for Johnny) could divide eight-digit numbers in his head and hold a conversation in ancient Greek. He later added Latin, French, German, English, and Yiddish. The rumor was that he remembered everything he ever read. Many years later Herman Goldstine decided to test this by asking him to recite "A Tale of Two Cities." Von Neumann started on chapter one and had to be asked to stop fifteen minutes later.

nish__··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Tesla autopilot has also killed dozens of people.
nish__··on Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France
It makes me feel like the rules are "for thee, not for me." Like it proves that the rich can just do whatever they want.
nish__··on Quad9 to exit France
No it doesn't. Most projects are MIT or some other permissive liscense.
nish__··on Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France
Copyright laws don't benefit independent artists. They only work for you if you can afford a litigation team.
nish__··on Quad9 to exit France
How have our democracies not abolished copyright law yet? These laws only serve the 1%. I have no idea why we still put up with them.
nish__··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
Not really because this port is based on the Go version. I doubt it would be as easy for an LLM to port the TS 6 codebase.
nish__··on Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests
Its biblical. Cain the farmer slays Abel the shepherd in Genesis.
nish__··on Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech
All new iPhones.
nish__··on Apple's Dimensional Drawings
It's so we can make cases.
nish__··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Makes perfect sense.
nish__··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
It's accidental. This mixup is essentially a meme at Shopify this point.
nish__··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
You're never going to win against a black box algorithm. Just let Spotify do it's thing or go back to hosting your own music if you don't like it.
nish__··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Shopify has gotten quite a bit better tho.
nish__··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
Most people have friends and family to "glaze" them anyway. I don't see it as a major danger. Also, it's gotten better with the glazing lately anyway.
nish__··on iPhone Duo
Been using a galaxy fold for years now. This is the future.
nish__··on Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify
I knew this would happen.
nish__··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
Right. But when when a group blows up hospitals, schools and other infrastructure and murders 70,000 civilians (Israel)... Why is that not disignated terrorism?
nish__··on PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history
At the end of the day, nothing beats hydro electric power. It's hidden, consistent and the technology is very mature. Really the OG of renewable energy. If we could get our appliances running efficiently enough, I think we could run the whole grid on it.
nish__··on GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
Wouldn't any metal app have to be written in C++17?
nish__··on Incident with Github.com
Amazon. I fired up a vps to replace GitHub.
nish__··on The most official water costs $120k a gallon
Tobacco tax is actually crazy. I can get 200 cigarettes for $10 CAD from the natives because it's tax free.
nish__··on Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS
At what point are we going to realize that computers will never work for floating point math. If your numbers are not exact there will always be a better solution for what you are doing that does not involve a computer.
nish__··on Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Intellectual property is a dead concept.
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