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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life. -Dōgen
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veggieWHITES··on Fly.io outage – resolved
Psychoanalysis?

This is a technology review and discussion website. It's poor design to put a link to a pricing page and not list any prices.

You're literally the only GPU provider that does that.

I was trying to give you my perspective as a consumer since I know you frequent these forums but I apologize if I have offended you in some way.

veggieWHITES··on Fly.io outage – resolved
I was considering these guys the other day until I saw their pricing page: https://fly.io/pricing/

(There's not a single price on there, why even create the page?)

veggieWHITES··on Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series Is Ironically Difficult
Been downloading literally whatever I feel like in Canada here for the past few decades with nothing more than an email forwarded to me from my ISP with some "threats" from the original copyright owners :P
veggieWHITES··on Long wave radio fans mourn fading frequencies (2023)
Numbers stations aren't going anywhere soon.

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

veggieWHITES··on A Physicist Reveals Why You Should Run in the Rain
Obviously if you walked at a snails pace, even the lightest rain would get you soaked.
veggieWHITES··on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
While I was initially impressed with it's context window, I got so sick of fighting with Claude about what it was allowed to answer I quit my subscription after 3 months.

Their whole policing AI models stance is commendable but ultimately renders their tools useless.

It actually started arguing with me about whether it was allowed to help implement a github repository's code as it might be copywritten... it was MIT licensed open source from Google :/

veggieWHITES··on Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths
We shouldn't be listening to the NIST for any sort of Cryptographic advice. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Standard...

veggieWHITES··on The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia
> complex questions of what "rightful owner" after hundreds or thousands of years even means

I think that's besides the point.

To me this means a goodhearted effort to right past wrongs.

veggieWHITES··on NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover: Never used, one previous owner
Scary stuff... Condolences :/ Try TOR?
veggieWHITES··on Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
A tax would make it even more dystopian. Imagine the rich paying for the right to murder people on the road.
veggieWHITES··on $105B Electronics Giant Sony to Launch New Bitcoin Exchange
Their stock valuation and chart is looking strong over the past decade. Is Japan playing with their currency valuation that much that it's making failing companies look like rockstars on the charts?
veggieWHITES··on British Museum gems for sale on eBay – how a theft was exposed
Isn't the most surprising thing is that a curator would sell a $15,000 item for $40??? Was he addicted to meth and just really needed an easy $40 or what?

Or perhaps he really was a moron and was just breaking the stones out, selling the gold for melt value, and selling the stones for whatever worthless sum he assumed they were/just rocks?

veggieWHITES··on Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)
>The field of programming is young and still developing rapidly, and it is varied enough to have room for wildly different approaches.

This was an interesting line of thought to digest. He's right, of course. Programming is probably still in it's infancy.

Studying and learning about programming however, can make you believe it's some ancient art mastered by the giants of our recent past, the perfection of which is never to be surpassed again.

veggieWHITES··on Cursor Museum: A (very) brief history of pointing devices
I just found this. I'm sorry.
veggieWHITES··on Show HN: YTPics – Download pictures from YouTube videos
Very cool. Just curious, is this legal? I would assume the legality falls on the user of the service?
veggieWHITES··on What Happened to David Graeber?
Graeber died suddenly from necrotic pancreatitis on September 2, 2020, while on vacation with his wife and friends in Venice. Graeber died during the COVID-19 pandemic and instead of a funeral, his family organized an "Intergalactic Memorial Carnival" of livestreamed events that took place in October 2020. His wife, Nika, attributed the pancreatitis to COVID-19, pointing to his prior good health, strange symptoms they both had for months beforehand, and the connection scientists have found between COVID-19 and pancreatitis. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber#Death