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kleton
·14 days ago·discuss
> Zuckerberg knows that threatening Wynn-Williams for standing in wooden silence on a stage makes him look like history's most guillotineable billionaire.

That might be a bit generous to assume that he has this theory of mind
kleton
·last month·discuss
> only my friends' status updates

I think that is the Feed's tab, though I have not used the blue app in a long time
kleton
·last month·discuss
hellottec is down but a cdn mirror of the product: https://ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/tesancdn/hellottec/2_BH_...
kleton
·last month·discuss
The real problem with Magnifica Humanitas is that it will be impossible to produce the first sentence of the canonical Latin version in which the first two words are "Magnifica humanitas" but carries the same meaning as the first sentence in the English version published.
kleton
·2 months ago·discuss
It's amazing how Karen Hao's (Empire of AI) confusion of cubic meters with liters of water for datacenters continues to get amplified, even after this error was publicly revealed.
kleton
·2 months ago·discuss
> The Wikimedia Foundation closed last fiscal year with $208.6 million in revenue. It holds $296.6 million in reserves, 17.1 months of operating expenses.

The actual physical cost of hosting Wikipedia is < $5 million per year.
kleton
·2 months ago·discuss
Yes. We are cladistically more related to a goldfish than it is to a shark.
kleton
·2 months ago·discuss
> First, “seed oils” is a marketing term, not a nutritional category.

"Seed oils" (commonly used cooking oils extracted from plant seeds excluding coconut) are as valid of a construct as "reptiles" (quadrupeds excluding aves and mammals) or "fish" (vertebrates excluding quadrupeds)
kleton
·2 months ago·discuss
No, I meant Iranic. Pashtun and Parsi "Dari" speakers are canonically Iranic ethnic groups.
kleton
·2 months ago·discuss
It would not be that stunning, given that a much poorer Iranic country decisively defeated the U.S. in a ~20 year war ending only a few years ago.
kleton
·2 months ago·discuss
Truly a case where the old word polytropōs applies.
kleton
·2 months ago·discuss
It is this compound https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39106304/
kleton
·2 months ago·discuss
Any quarters and dimes he would have received in change would have been about 90 per cent silver.
kleton
·2 months ago·discuss
Apple normally just does prepayment for capacity- funding the capital for the production line they need
kleton
·3 months ago·discuss
Gen X and Millenials don't share Boomers' obsession with green lawns, so it's a race against time, whether Boomers or lightning bugs will go extinct first
kleton
·3 months ago·discuss
Don't inference servers like vllm or sglang just translate these things to openai-compat API shapes?
kleton
·3 months ago·discuss
I would like to see them include some analysis of the first recorded audio conversations such as on wax cylinders or the 1930s WPA/Federal Writers’ Project. Was sentence complexity the same as it is now?
kleton
·4 months ago·discuss
Because chromium III oxide is a very light-fast pigment
kleton
·4 months ago·discuss
There are hundreds of PRs fixing valid issues to your github repo seemingly in limbo for weeks. What is the maintainer state over there?
kleton
·4 months ago·discuss
A lot of culture was lost in the Cultural Revolution