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petermcneeleyon VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

What are you afraid of?

petermcneeleyon VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

"My kids grew up under 24/7 adulting and had nowhere to go."

Yes but this has nothing to do with cars. What are you even protecting kids from anyway?

petermcneeleyon VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

You think there wernt cars when I was a kid? I lived in the subs. Kid utopia!

Can you imagine bringing up cars in this thread?

petermcneeleyon Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Internet Traffic (2023)

You know what we are talking about. It was written in the book.

petermcneeleyon Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

They have played us all for absolute fools!

petermcneeleyon South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools

The catholic church fought the printing press for hundreds of years. Lets see how long our rulers fight the internet.

petermcneeleyon Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU

WebGPU (WGSL) handles this by having a specified accuracy for each operation.

https://www.w3.org/TR/WGSL/#concrete-float-accuracy

This is all fully tested in the CTS.

https://gpuweb.github.io/cts/standalone/?q=webgpu:shader,*

petermcneeleyon It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

Isnt the reason to by a Framework (or similar) because you would not want to be part of Apple's ecosystem? Why would benchmarks even matter here?

petermcneeleyon Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

esp when the number is capped at only 64 bits which is quite small for some bigInt style numbers.

petermcneeleyon United flight collides with truck and pole as it lands at Newark

Sure but 911 was in 2001 when fully digital cameras were not common place.

petermcneeleyon New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

Really makes you wonder about other things as well...

petermcneeleyon Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

I dont know who this Group is but it all sounds very schmittian.

It is not my role to convince someone of anything. I have to much respect for the human for that.

You, as human, should seek out the truth in your time and not turn away from it.

So you mentioned the 'truckers'. Here [0] is the truth in your time. I will make no attempt trick you into holding position.

Finally to complete the picture you should understand that the Carney government was recently formed in opposition to the democratic voice of the people. It was formed by nullifying the votes of the electorate. Everyone on all sides know this was a deeply immoral act. One has to ask what kind of leader is this?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307892

petermcneeleyon Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

Come now, that's just the cognitive dissonance talking.

I'm your huckleberry.

petermcneeleyon Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

> Perhaps I would have simply had someone different represent Canadians. Is this too much to ask?

This was in reference to Carney. I dont think Carney represents the people very well.

It is not a sovereign wealth fund. The name is intended to clash with a real sovereign wealth fund like say Norway has. Basically you need wealth and Canada has the inverse of wealth it has deficits.

The fund was created (of course) by debt. It is a bit like borrowing to invest in the stock market rather than trying to invest your savings/income. Canada already has massive federal debt due to insane levels of mismanagment.

So why would Canada create such a bizarre 'fund'. Well it is what happens when you put a banker in charge of a country. You get banking solutions to country problems.

So now you see why Carney's career path matters. This is just the tip of the iceberg. If you want to know more I can link you to many facets that you might find interesting.

petermcneeleyon Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

Your response is the quality of argument that I have come to expect in Canada.

petermcneeleyon Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

Look, I checked my email everyday and didnt see anything.

petermcneeleyon Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

Perhaps I would have simply had someone different represent Canadians. Is this too much to ask?

petermcneeleyon Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

This makes sense once you see the list of Canadian companies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_in_C...

#1 is Brookfield Corporation.

The now prime minister of Canada headed the ESG there. He is also an international central banker.

petermcneeleyon Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone

petermcneeleyon Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway

Wow you know its gonna be good when the first thing you are hit on the page is some sorta bizarre land acknowledgement.

petermcneeleyon Rockstar hackers set to release GTA 6 data breach as 'demands not met'

I dont see how this can be morally justified.

petermcneeleyon Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops

which is?

petermcneeleyon The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances

> Since LLMs are unpredictable and vulnerable to injection attacks, customer service machines must also have limited power

Haha yes. I interacted with a bank one. It was like press 5 for mortgages but with a text to speech front end.

At the end of the day the LLM can be tricked into doing anything.

petermcneeleyon Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

Talk about UI without pictures!

petermcneeleyon Ball Pit

Nice! I raise https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3tcGD2

petermcneeleyon The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos

You know that those pieces of paper mean nothing.

petermcneeleyon Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights

Obligatory Spock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr82dZpCr48

petermcneeleyon Show HN: Robotics runtime in the browser (flight controller, WebAssembly)

Flagged for not loading. Looks to be vibed without love.

petermcneeleyon Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

There are ways to test for AI but sadly it would probably result in violation of other hn guidelines.

petermcneeleyon Millions Of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship but must prove descent

Can you imagine asking someone to define corruption?