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throwthrowuknow··on Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]
There are also dirt cheap human presence sensors that use millimetre wave radar that can detect if a person is in the room even if they’re sitting still. If I can buy these for a couple dollars then what could the military do with a few billion dollars and reaper drone platforms? With a big enough array you might be able to pinpoint everything alive within the area under surveillance.

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throwthrowuknow··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
That isn’t it. If you think bad weather and a flu is something to be scared of, try imagining what several thousand hydrogen bombs would do.
throwthrowuknow··on EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
Consider that stores create reward point systems specifically for the purpose of connecting a customer profile to purchases.
throwthrowuknow··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
Might be worthwhile to find a provider that lets you use a mask and inpainting
throwthrowuknow··on Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
I’m not sure there will be consolidation. There’s too much room for specialization and even when the models are trained to do the same task they have very different qualities and their own strengths and weaknesses. You can’t just swap one for the other. If anything, as hardware improves I’d expect even more models and providers to become available. There’s already an ocean of fine tuned and merged models.
throwthrowuknow··on Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
Somethings not adding up. Why is Amazon making financial plans for the next decade based on continued OpenAI spending but you’re saying AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic aren’t even close to being profitable, so how can they last a decade or more?

Who’s wrong?

throwthrowuknow··on OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
So in reality you’re paying for their food, electricity and heat, letting them rent a room for free, and allowing them the use of the other facilities in your home and on top of that you’re giving them a spending allowance of 300 euro.
throwthrowuknow··on Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
Absolutely crazy they haven’t revived this yet given the popularity of streaming.
throwthrowuknow··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
I was referring to the job
throwthrowuknow··on Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks
Yes and then in the TTRPG Shadowrun
throwthrowuknow··on Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks
That’s exactly what they’re supposed to be. The Flipper Zero is also a type of cyberdeck.
throwthrowuknow··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
There is a possibility that the agents become better at managing the company than the people and businesses become as automated as farms did during the industrial revolution.
throwthrowuknow··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
Your point is understandable but not knowing makes it worse for purposes of discussion since we have to assume the most likely case rather than an exceptional one.
throwthrowuknow··on The paper computer
Unfortunately, I don’t this will work until we have robot secretaries that can automate updating paper wall calendars and documents and books scattered around a room.

The only compromise would be a limited area like a physical desktop that had affordances like an overhead camera and some form of paper output.

throwthrowuknow··on The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
Isn’t the Liberator like 10 years out of date? The last 3D printed gun I saw was a submachinegun capable of full auto. It had a metal barrel but that was described as easy to acquire or make.
throwthrowuknow··on Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war
Poverty and hunger are not famine
throwthrowuknow··on Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war
Except it does? Capitalist countries don’t seem to have any famines. You could argue that for profit prisons are similar to gulags in some ways but the important differences are so vast it’s hard to compare them honestly.
throwthrowuknow··on Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file
I like this version of the game more, keep at it!
throwthrowuknow··on Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file
The text that pops up in the middle obscures the current position making it hard to immediately launch again. Maybe it should be closer to the bottom of the screen?
throwthrowuknow··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

  > We seem to go through a cycle where we set up systems that provide non-violent ways of resolving issues, then people get annoyed with the outcomes
An excellent illustration of the blind spot
throwthrowuknow··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
People who make concrete counter tops use a lot of fibreglass fillers to get them fairly thin but if you wanted it truly light weight you’d probably need to make it out of a dense foam and coat it with something that looks like concrete.
throwthrowuknow··on The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
Then we’ll likely know by the end of this year.
throwthrowuknow··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
Don’t cry while you’re ruining it for everyone.
throwthrowuknow··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
I think maybe you still don’t understand that not everyone will max out their usage, regardless of the methods available.
throwthrowuknow··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
So? Doesn’t make it a universal standard. Just an invented shibboleth for a group.
throwthrowuknow··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
then it’s a custom or etiquette, not a standard
throwthrowuknow··on 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
I agree even though I used to be a die hard Claude fan I recently switched back to ChatGPT and codex to try it out again and they’ve clearly pulled into the lead for consistency, context length and management as well as speed. Claude Code instilled a dread in me about keeping an eye on context but I’m slowly learning to let that go with codex.
throwthrowuknow··on Microgpt
Look up “dataloom”. People have been playing with this idea for a while. It doesn’t really help with spotting errors because they aren’t due to a single token (unless the answer is exactly one token) and often you need to reason across low probability tokens to eventually reach the right answer.
throwthrowuknow··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Check your thinking. Korea currently has a DMZ dividing it from a war that never really ended and was fought to a stalemate. Their nuclear program didn’t result in military action because they currently have a gun to the head of every South Korean citizen and the backing of a large nuclear neighbour. Those are circumstances you can’t easily recreate elsewhere.
throwthrowuknow··on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
1. This sounds more like influencer marketing, I think people are already sick of it.

2. Yes and no. Depending on how you train the model they can output things that you’ve never seen before but the question is whether you want to look at those things. So yes a human has to judge and fine tune the output. This is why many models seem unoriginal, they’re designed to emulate specific styles and tuned based on broad appeal. If you go looking for LoRAs and merges created by “artists” you will see shit you couldn’t dream of.

everything else probably yes.

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