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reppap··on IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
Ericsson used a lot of power chips in their telecom hardware 10 years ago at least, haven't worked with their stuff since then so I haven't kept up.
reppap··on Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
I wonder how much much renewables you would get for the same 100 billion investment though. How much battery storage does even 50 billion get you.
reppap··on Claude Opus 4.8
The problem with going for open source models is that you are betting on some third party to keep doing expensive model training and releasing it for free, forever. What do you do if deepseek never release another update to the model?
reppap··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
Inference cannot happen without training the model first, so the distinction is quite pointless.
reppap··on EFF is leaving X
I'd rather turn into reddit than turn into a nazi.
reppap··on Honda is killing its EVs
His first sentence is literally disclaiming that he is in an outlier market.
reppap··on The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines
Sam Altman is just another Elon Musk. Saying whatever he thinks sounds good in the moment.
reppap··on Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic
The problem is that Nvidia cannot make infinite amounts of chips so they actually can't pick up both.
reppap··on A simple web we own
The assertion that an uncensored internet is a better world should probably require some motivation.

If everyone was a normal (as far as anyone is normal) law abiding citizen perhaps I would agree, but sadly that is far from the case. I think history has quite clearly shown that there is a minority of people out there that will take advantage and ruin things for everyone else. It's the same reason we have militaries, police forces, government checks and balances, etc. The internet is no exception to this.

I don't think the world is simple enough where anyone could be absolutist about freedom, it's all grey areas and complicated lines drawn.

reppap··on Breaking the spell of vibe coding
But most of their funding comes from speculative investment, not selling their services. Also, wouldn't selling their own products/services generate revenue?
reppap··on Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed
> And they keep forgetting the purpose of software is to serve users, not developers.

Developers are the users of these software stacks though? I don't really understand your point.

reppap··on Breaking the spell of vibe coding
One thing I like to think about is: If these models were so powerful why would they ever sell access? They could just build endless products to sell, likely outcompeting anyone else who needs to employ humans. And if not building their own products they could be the highest value contractor ever.

If you had midas touch would you rent it out?

reppap··on End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git
Stop just making up excuses for these companies. Other comments on this story have showed the bots are using openai user agents and making requests from openai owned ip ranges.
reppap··on Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition
Azure keeps randomly breaking our resources without any service health notifications or heads up, it's very fun living in microsofts world.
reppap··on Data centers in space makes no sense
I think it's actually the other way around, satellites need to be specifically designed to burn up fast in the atmosphere. See for example the warnings about space debris from Chinese satellites not designed with this in mind.
reppap··on Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support
Are you entitled to the LFS developers time? They build the system they get to make into what they want.
reppap··on Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device
The built-in OS on my LG is honestly good enough for me. There's a jellyfin client in the LG app store that works well enough (it's just a wrapper for a browser client as I understand it). But I only use my TV to watch shows/movies, not sure about other usecases.
reppap··on Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites
My customer's site got a 100% while running on azure.
reppap··on Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives
As long as people claim it's revolutionary it's fair to compare it to other revolutions.
reppap··on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
People will want more GPUs but will they be able to fund them? At what points does the venture capital and loans run out? People will not keep pouring hundreds of billions into this if the returns don't start coming.
reppap··on Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
I think you would have to sit further back, almost tv watching distance.
reppap··on Gentoo Linux 2025 Review
And that's fine! No one cares! Keep using it!
reppap··on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
Domain knowledge is a real thing. Sure I could be replaced at my job but they'd have a pretty sketchy time until someone new can get up to speed.
reppap··on Gentoo Linux 2025 Review
I'm sorry but this is just completely disconnected from reality. Wayland is being successfully used every single day. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's inherently bad.
reppap··on AI coding assistants are getting worse?
That seems like a lot more code than a tool like that should require.
reppap··on 2025: The Year in LLMs
I'm not threatened by LLMs taking my job as much as they are taking away my sanity. Every time I tell someone no and they come back to me with a "but copilot said.." it's followed by something entirely incorrect it makes me want to autodefenestrate.
reppap··on Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
Yeah, my bad sorry.
reppap··on Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
I'm curious what OS you are running that has broken screen shots on wayland because that hasn't been my experience on Fedora.
reppap··on Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
I'm running fedora and have been screenshoting and screen sharing (with the teams PWA) just fine. So might be time to get something newer.
reppap··on Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
I don't really understand what is supposedly missing in Wayland for productivity users? At work I have been using gnome with the wayland backend for years at this point and I can't really figure out anything that's missing.
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