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satellite2··on Are hard drives getting better?
At least if you don't encrypt and those are jpeg it doesn't matter. I lost two discs at once with theWD debacle a few years back and couldn't recover anything as I encrypted the disk. Another drive that got bad, I easily recovered 90% of the files using foremost.

So no encryption on the local backup for me, only the emails dump by encrypting the zip that contains them. It's not perfect but that's the compromise I (think I) have to make. (The remote one is encrypted though)

satellite2··on Are hard drives getting better?
M-DISC. It's more expensive by size but for (private I'm assuming) pictures it doesn't make a difference.
satellite2··on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
I see you are citing a 6 month old post which itself isn't really well sourced isn't really reaching consensus and doesn't have a definitive answer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43287208

The article in question doesn't mention subpar ARM optimizations.

satellite2··on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
I edited 15sec after posting but you got me on speed.

It's interesting I've seen that often on trending posts. There is enough traffic that any variation of a comment will have readers

satellite2··on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
M4 23884

365 29861

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+M4+10+Core&id... https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+AI+9+365&...

satellite2··on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
For the same price you have an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 which has 50% higher performance in cpubenchmark
satellite2··on Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
Where do you get your conclusion from?
satellite2··on Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years (2019)
I'm more surprised they did not mix with local species. Are those not genetically compatible?
satellite2··on WASM 3.0 Completed
That sounds like WASM is going into the Java direction. Is that really a good thing?
satellite2··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Could it be possible your pet theory is pretty generalisable?

My pet theory is that innovation happens when you look at https://xkcd.com/1205/ and estimates it's not worth it and do it anyway.

satellite2··on VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
Elevenlabs v3 (not local)
satellite2··on What happens when ambassadors are summoned by the host country?
Or that Washington has lost interest in diplomacy
satellite2··on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study
Visibly there is already Sanogyl Complete Essential Care that includes some.

I wonder how they got the idea to put some in it

satellite2··on Ollama Turbo
"All hardware is located in the United States."

If I use local/OSS models it's specifically to avoid running in a country with no data protection laws. It's a big close miss here.

satellite2··on Following Up on the Python JIT
100% or even 200% seems nice, but at least at the time when I compared with JavaScript it was 4200% faster than would have been needed. Let's not even mention go.

At least for now it seems that Python can still only be used to call some Pascal or cuda bindings if one needs performance

satellite2··on New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
After the black bar finish narrowing the red circle gets smaller slowly
satellite2··on Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”
Using an ozone generator you can remove all odors in a medium sized room in less than 30min. Only poorly organized cleaning staff would have this issue.
satellite2··on Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement
Well Europe haven't enacted policies actually breaking American monopolies until now.

Europeans are still essentially on Google, Meta and Amazon for most of their browsing experiences. So I'm assuming Europe's goal is not to compete or break American moat but to force them to be polite and to preserve national sovereignty on important national security aspects.

A position which is essentially reasonable if not too polite.

satellite2··on François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]
Didn't he say that 70% in a random sample of the population should get it right?
satellite2··on Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits
Fantastic. Now we're promoting script kiddies scamming airlines. That's a new low for hn
satellite2··on Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello
I'll take anything that allows more than one assignee per task. Is that the case?
satellite2··on Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work
It's just going to make low battery devices with consumer grade compute drain faster while bot farm with access to to ASICs will have a negligible increase in cost. This approach is going to have all the same problem to distribute work democratically as cryptocurrencies had. And as far as I know crypto didn't solve this.
satellite2··on What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics
Intimacy being almost the exact same number as warfare is pretty sad.

On a more joyous note, it's really neat projet, thanks.

satellite2··on Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
Countries that don't regularly have popular votes face the challenge that any vote is considered as a vote of confidence in their current government. It basically only reflects the popularity of the government and people do not evaluate the face value, the core of the issue. Having a real democracy takes a lot of training and effort.
satellite2··on Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating
That's correct, but that also imply negative interests in inflation adjusted dollars. Isn't that included in this score?
satellite2··on Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria
Thanks a lot for this research. Seing the comments here I think it's really important to make breakthroughs and progress more visible to the public. Otherwise the impression that "we're always 50 years away" stays strong.

Here was my completely layman attempt to forecast fusion viability a few months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42791997 (in short: 2037)

Is there some semblance of realism there you think?

satellite2··on Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
Something something AT&T might work as well.
satellite2··on Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired
While YouTube still displays it word by word, forcing you to not look at the video.

Cheers to Netflix in the age of user hostile and anti ergonomic patterns (while they still have their fair share of sins in this area, at least one good news)

satellite2··on Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety
I had a dinner with a friend which is a doctor and one which is a dentist.

They famously consume movies/series that perfectly fit your description.

They told me after a full day being kind and empathetic while also spending a lot of time standing, you just want to see the world burn.

Very enlighting, especially since most of our society works in services

satellite2··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
That's the thing here. We're so used at the concept of money that you described that it's very hard to reconcile with what money really is.

You can take any introductory banking system course and it will tell the same story. (I recommend Economics of Money and Banking by Perry G Mehrling)

It's not really a finished exchange.

Money represent a debt.

It's a one sided exchange against the promise of the completion of the other side of the exchange in the future (by someone else in this case).

It's like the amount in your bank account is not really money. It's a debt from the bank: the promise that it will deliver this amount as cash if you ask. (M1)

And money is so liquid that we never think about it that way. Except during hyperinflation periods. And bank account are so solid that we think about them as cash. Except during bank runs.

As a side note, the theory that barter really meaningfully took place is being challenged as there is no real evidence of this.

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