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Now file the patents.
Re:AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2 on Sunday December 14, 2025 @09:21AM (#46263179)
This is a thought provoking piece.

“But at what cost?”

We’ve all accepted calculators into our lives as being faster and correct when utilized correctly (Minus Intel tomfoolery), but we emphasize the need to know how to do the math in educational settings.

Any post education adult will confirm when confronted with an irregular math problem (or a skill) that there is a wait time to revive the ability.

Programming automation having the potential skill decay AND being critical path is … worth thinking about.

Please consume. For the economy.
Re:Create a QubesOS Gaming HVM with GPU PCI passthrough (2023) on Saturday February 15, 2025 @07:18PM (#43063927)
Also worth mentioning Looking Glass which does a similar trick.

https://looking-glass.io/

Re:DeepSeek-R1 on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:23AM (#42769596)
Exolabs claims they can distribute the compute over many machines to use memory in aggregate: https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

Maybe there is enough memory in many machines.

Mega stored files in the US, Carpathia and Cogent were the providers specifically.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload_legal_case

From the outside this incident appears to have highlighted a number of internal and external Crowdstrike skipped checks.
Re:Ask HN: Have coders made stuff complicated on purpose? on Thursday June 27, 2024 @11:50AM (#40811805)
I’ll put this link for the archivists.

“Hanlon’s Razor”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Canada has an attempt at providing the lobbyist information: https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/guest?lang=e...

Here are the monthly communication reports: https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/rcntCmLgs

There is also a statistics section available.

Does the Citizens United ruling have a say?
What about ByteDance’s freedom of expression?
Deepseek (https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder?tab=readme-ov-...) code is MIT and the model license is available too.

edit I should mention that using the Web service Deepseek provides will unceremoniously shutdown terms deemed to be too sensitive. Self hosted models do not appear to be as aggressive.

And chacha20-poly1305 is listed in the SSH MiTM issue.

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-23:19...

Thanks AT&T!
Re:Govt of Canada proposes a 4% Link Tax on Friday September 01, 2023 @04:58PM (#37356116)
Don’t ruin their fiction with facts.
Re:When Did Postgres Become Cool? on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:02PM (#37067650)
Postgres has always been cool.
Another helix formation from Cambridge? Hrm.
Pizza Hut.
Re:Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad on Thursday August 13, 2020 @06:52PM (#24150634)
How did this update get passed the App Store audit?
What does the law require of foreign corporations to operate in China?

The requirements may have been too steep for others e.g. source code disclosure.

Re:I’m Leaving IBM on Sunday June 30, 2019 @07:54AM (#20317739)
Is this the “HCL” of recent Boeing fame?

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