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postalrat··on Historical memory prices 1960-2026
Two wrongs do not make a right?
postalrat··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
How did nvidia make their most powerful GPUs in 2026? You mean sand and metal?

How does ASML make the most modern chips? You mean light and mirrors?

postalrat··on VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO
If A goes to B who then goes to C does C know A?
postalrat··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
The sun uses much more water on earth than people do.
postalrat··on Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding
Still building my new "approve" button skill.
postalrat··on Anthropic's Safety Superpower
Somehow it's looking more and more appealing.
postalrat··on Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit
If enough people adopt identical or similar js glue then they can use that for a new standard. If people dont care about a standard interface then why both creaing a new standard? Look what happened with jquery selectors and ajax. People loved it and it became the new standard built into browsers.
postalrat··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
It's just the important part
postalrat··on Waymo Premier
Do you think sitting inside you will be protected if someone has a gun?
postalrat··on Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
If measured the same way the sun uses about as much water as 60,000,000 large data centers.
postalrat··on MiMo Code is now released and open-source
OpenCode can merge in all their changes if they want.
postalrat··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
Great. Solve our problems with politics while china solves it with technology.
postalrat··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
We aren't even trying any more. China and the east are the future.
postalrat··on AI will consume as much water in 2030 as 1.3B people
The sun will remain the largest consumer of water for a very long time.
postalrat··on How we index images for RAG
Entirely your opinion? check
postalrat··on Nvidia RTX Spark
Like the math co-processor it might end up just being new instructions for the cpu to handle ai related math.
postalrat··on I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC
Where do you think llms learned to write that way?
postalrat··on I am retiring from tech to live offline
It's very possible in 2 or 3 years there won't be much of a job market remaining and the best thing you can do now is something you own.
postalrat··on Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us
Nah these days you pick a team and cancel the other.
postalrat··on Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
Well that is the goal!
postalrat··on Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation
They certainly know claude. I keep telling them they are all about the same.
postalrat··on Valve raises Steam Deck prices
I have an electric that I can buy cheap used parts for and it doesn't have any telemetry since it's radio is 3g. And if I really want to make sure I could disable the radio and wouldn't notice a thing.
postalrat··on PHP's Oddities
My issue is a ton of people call all maps a hash regardless how it's implemented.
postalrat··on Valve raises Steam Deck prices
Cheap used electric cars.
postalrat··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Some searches might have 99% videos I want filtered out.
postalrat··on PHP's Oddities
Better than calling it a hash.
postalrat··on Apple unveils new accessibility features
You say you don't trust it but whats your alternative assuming you lost your vision?
postalrat··on New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence
Like coding, creating images or text, maybe the alternative of doing it yourself is too easy or enjoyable for you. Don't expect that will be true for everyone.
postalrat··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
Well it worked to get USA and Israel to stop attacking.
postalrat··on America Needs to Build More Housing
Yea sure if we can figure out how to build cheap housing. Nobody can afford building costs unless you are rich.
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