teknopaul

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Comment · 4 months ago
IMHO that Fable ban is because Grok is now too big to fail and quite far behind so the highly corrupt US govt is banning competition from getting too far ahead of Grok. No seen any idication that it is anything else.

That will likely result in other competition abroad catching up, it usually does.

Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah Claude was down I tried OpenCode and it seems reliable. Any one got any experience with large projects?
Comment · 4 months ago
I don't think that is necessarily the point.

Its about brand recognition they don't really expect you to click just to know that they exist, and are an option when it comes to decision time.

Naturally they have a click to purchase option

Comment · 9 months ago
My reading was that copying the doc's ToC in markdown + links was significantly more effective than giving it a link to the ToC and instructions to read it.

Which makes sense.

& some numbers that prove that.

Comment · 9 months ago
Stats on politicians trading habits, indicates insider trading like this is standard practice in the USofA.

No beleives MAGA nuts are trading experts.

Comment · 9 months ago
I read somewhere that in Shenzhen you can get metal thinkpad clones with any modern hardware you like, made to order, one at a time for a resonable price.

Not sure if it still exists

Comment · 9 months ago
Adams stated he was racist and thought that was aok.

I'd say calling him out as a racist is not exactly speaking ill of the dead in this case.

Comment · 10 months ago
Did a bit of searching: fizzy drinks companies sometimes go and get stored CO2 to put in drinks or make it.

Any atmospheric extraction has a net positive compared to that.

Comment · 10 months ago
Covid proved this generalisation is not a truism.

USofA was probably the only place that actively resisted the global effort.

I think people do want a better world. Greed is not universal. Most countries that grow a middle class find most people prefer to stop work. I.e. there are not that many infinitely greedy humans. And they can be taxed.

Despite neocon economic theory, most people aren't selfish. And those that are, are often happily rewarded with a plaque in their honor or a medal.

Just look at the length Trump goes to for an award.

Comment · 10 months ago
The is one trick that doesn't require political will. If you can make the microeconomics work it can be made to scale it self.

E.G. Make CO2 extraction so cheap it's worth everyone doing it and say, make a market to sell the CO2 to farmers. Then make burying inedible bits of plants so cheap it's done on a large scale.

Then you just wait. Microeconomics takes over.

They did this with plastic clean up. By building a machine that makes plastic into fuel & construction pellets. Then stuck such a machine on a plastic poluted island and waited.

For this trick. All you require from your políticans is that they don't lie or bomb the place.

Comment · 10 months ago
I think OPs point is this tech is good only if you sink it after.

I. e. Collection is half the problem.

Collecting it in a way it's cheap to get it back again is potentially just less than minus half the problem.

Comment · 10 months ago
Economic * need dwarfs problems like an overloaded electric grid.

*greed.

We are well past the point that any economic growth at all is anything but a distribution of income problem.

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Comment · 10 months ago
Bit harsh.

That was probably a node / npm thing, because they had no stdlib it was quite common to have many small libraries.

I consider it an absolute golden rule for coding to not write unnecessary code & don't write collections.

I still see a lot of C that ought not to have been written.

I'm a grey beard, and don't fear for my job. But not relying on AI if it's faster to write, is as silly as refusing a correct autocomplete and typing it by hand. The bytes don't come out better

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