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"Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed"
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Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
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Onur Solmaz blog
Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
This post has made it to the Hacker News front page, see the discussion there. If you like this, you might also like my Instagram channel Nerd on Bars @nerdonbars where I calculate the power output of various athletes and myself.
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Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway
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AP News
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with novels from Faulkner and Hemingway
Popeye the Sailor and the Belgian boy reporter Tintin lead the class of characters and works of art becoming public domain in 2025.
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Pelicans on a bicycle
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Simon Willison’s Weblog
Pelicans on a bicycle
I decided to roll out my own LLM benchmark: how well can different models render an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle? I chose that because a) I like …
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Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API
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go.dev
Go Protobuf: The new Opaque API - The Go Programming Language
We are adding a new generated code API to Go Protobuf.
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Making a watch from scratch
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Reddit
From the watchmaking community on Reddit: I made a watch from scratch. Link to the build pics in comments. Making more and looking…
Explore this post and more from the watchmaking community
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Always go to the funeral (2005)
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NPR
Always Go To The Funeral
As a child, Deirdre Sullivan learned from her father to always pay her respects at funerals. Now, this NPR listener believes those simple acts of human kindness are as important as the grand gestures.
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Backward-incompatible GRUB2 change causing BIOS setup bootloop
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op-co.de
Backward-incompatible GRUB2 change causing BIOS setup bootloop
Analysis of a 2022 GRUB2 fwsetup feature that causes a bootloop when loading a new config on an old GRUB2, and how it bit me two times
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EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Starlink
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TechCrunch
EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Musk's Starlink | TechCrunch
The European Union has signed a $11B deal to build a sovereign satellite constellation to rival Elon Musk's Starlink.
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The Year of McDonald's
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Thefp
The Year of McDonald’s
In 2024, we watched American life unfold beneath the golden arches—from Trump’s drive-through stunt to Luigi Mangione’s final hash brown.
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Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident write-up
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Surfing Complexity
Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident write-up
OpenAI recently published a public writeup for an incident they had on December 11, and there are lots of good details in here! Here are some of my off-the-cuff observations: Saturation With thousa…
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New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs up to 75%
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VentureBeat
New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs up to 75%
Universal Transformer Memory uses neural networks to determine which tokens in the LLM's context window are useful or redundant.
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The higher fertility of TSMC semiconductor workers
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www.boomcampaign.org
On the higher fertility of semiconductor workers
One in every fifty Taiwanese babies is a TSMC baby.
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Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS
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sailor.li
Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS
Solving AoC on the DS with Rust.
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Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo
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Waymo
Partnering with Nihon Kotsu and GO on our first international road trip
こんにちは(Konnichiwa) and hello, Japan! We're thrilled to announce that Waymo, in partnership with Nihon Kotsu and GO, will bring our autonomous vehicles to Tokyo for our first international road trip. There, our Driver will learn and adapt to left-hand traffic…
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Settlement from Meta for Australian Users Impacted by Cambridge Analytica
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OAIC
Landmark settlement of $50m from Meta for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
The Australian Information Commissioner has agreed to a $50 million payment program as part of an enforceable undertaking received from Meta to settle civil penalty proceedings.
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Images of gamma-ray flare from supermassive black hole M87
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UCLA
Astrophysicists capture astonishing images of gamma-ray flare from black hole
The jet is tens of millions of times larger than the supermassive black hole’s event horizon.
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MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
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MIT News
MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
An MIT study on “legalese” suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in legal documents. The researchers also found that even non-lawyers use legalese when asked to write laws.
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Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z
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Make your QEMU faster (2022)
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Charles de Gaulle manunoscripts discovered in a safe
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Smithsonian Magazine
A Forgotten Collection of Charles de Gaulle’s Personal Letters, Speeches and Manunoscripts Has Been Discovered in a Safe
Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a bank vault owned by the French statesman's son
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