Skunkleton

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Comment · 2 days ago
There is a Windows 98 mode w/ minesweeper, solitaire, and clippy!

Edit: oh neat! Its self editing.

Comment · 3 days ago
I asked a question about 15 years ago. Lots of responses/engagement and a good answer. I just got an email a month or so back telling me that question got closed as a dupe. I checked...it was not even close to a dupe. Exhausting.
Comment · 6 days ago
"Unlimited" for a consumer will probably take a form like limited parallel agents at max intelligence for X amount of tokens, followed by either single threaded agents or nerfed intelligence or both.

This is the same mechanism used in unlimited mobile internet for example.

Comment · 12 days ago
What? Setting aside the valid arguments elsewhere, the graph doesn't even show that. Switch it to "log" and look at a straight line through the data points. The recent data points are within regular variation.
Comment · 27 days ago
The hybrid power train isn't about carbon emissions at the race, its about advancing lower carbon technology.

That said, its still dumb since consumer cars are moving on from hybrids it seems.

Comment · 27 days ago
I've never understood the security argument people are making when they complain about `curl foo | bash`. I get that these scripts sometimes mess up your bashrc or whatever, but from a security perspective I see no issue. You are already installing software from the same domain. If they were going to do something nasty, they could do it with any of the software you are using from them. It doesn't have to be the setup script.
Comment · 1 month ago
In the before times, and sometimes now even, the way I always coded was by thinking/discussing the work, then hacking up various interesting bits, then throwing it away and doing it the "right" way. Plan mode makes it harder to go back and forth between "hacking" and "thinking" phases.
Comment · 1 month ago
Related username?

To answer the original question, most people who care about their filesystem at all care about its stability. Not just "does it work now" but also "will it work and improve over time". Infighting puts the future at risk.

Comment · 1 month ago
If you ignore the ethical issues, and you shouldn't (!!!), there is an appeal to mined diamonds, and it is exactly what you say above. The idea that some dinosaur or tree or whatever got mushed down is really interesting too.
Comment · 2 months ago
> In the first case, TFA refutes by claiming 'wrong' repeatedly, which does not convince me of anything. If anything, Zitron is probably right in this regard, since the majority of progress in recent LLM tech has been setting up of guardrails to cajole the models using 'agents'.

You don't have to like them, use them, or consider them "good enough", but the idea that models haven't gotten better in the last two years is ridiculous.

Comment · 2 months ago
I wouldn't trust it with a credit card, or really any sort of non-reversable decision making. Most of what I do outside of work either requires physical interaction, or is something I do for fun. For now, I assume that is what people use this stuff for. Fun.
Comment · 2 months ago
You are forgetting that there are multiple multi-core servers.
Comment · 2 months ago
Kagi is an aggregator for other, some paid, search APIs. They have, at least in the past, served some percentage of their results from Bing's API among others for example. Kagi seems to me to be dependent on these APIs being available, if they were to go away, so would Kagi.

I am a happy subscriber of Kagi though, they provide a really excellent service.

Comment · 3 months ago
Or get this - you get a drm free copy and they let you redownload/stream it for and undefined (hopefully long) period of time. After that you can play your copy or use a copy from elsewhere.
Comment · 4 months ago
If your goal is to understand the quality of the espresso shot, rather than experience a high quality espresso shot, letting it cool off provides a useful data point.

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