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New comment by stallmanite in "K-9 Mail is back"

stallmanite — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 06:16:07 +0000

I share your “rare grip” precisely and also adopted it to alleviate pinky pain. To add another anecdote to the pile I also prefer UI elements at the top although a toggle in settings or at least a configuration file would be best. I don’t understand my own preferences on this issue though because the arguments for the bottom position are completely convincing to me. (Thumb is closer, top of screen is better used for displaying messages, etc)

New comment by stallmanite in "GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model"

stallmanite — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:08:44 +0000

Thanks for posting this. As someone who was almost religiously excited about GPT3 then progressively more annoyed that I could never get access to the point of giving up this is wonderful news. Your blog post is an invaluable starting point. Seriously thanks

New comment by stallmanite in "Telehack – Simulation of a Stylized Arpanet/Usenet Circa 1985-1990"

stallmanite — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 13:25:24 +0000

Digging the aesthetic.

New comment by stallmanite in "Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity"

stallmanite — Sat, 29 May 2021 07:34:46 +0000

Just point them at a multipool and you can set it up to auto-switch to whatever "shitcoin" is currently most profitable and auto convert everything to BTC (or your output coin of choice). As someone who lived through the original GPU->FPGA->ASIC arms race it's surprising to me but you can make decent amounts of BTC with just a high end CPU let alone GPU rigs or old sha256 ASICs.

New comment by stallmanite in "The Aphex Face (2010)"

stallmanite — Wed, 12 May 2021 05:22:50 +0000

Wow thanks for the tip on "Blood-Evil" been a fan for decades and it never occurred to me. Also was really into Gescom back in the day so maybe people who like hiding data in recordings have good taste.

New comment by stallmanite in "Man sues Apple for terminating Apple ID with $24K worth of content"

stallmanite — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 02:03:03 +0000

They still buy cds

New comment by stallmanite in "The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (2009)"

stallmanite — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:44:01 +0000

Well said. Reading Banks was the first time as an adult that I had hope for the future. The resulting exhilaration literally kept me up for a couple days. Later the same year he passed and it brought home to me the gratitude I have to him for expanding my conception of what a good future (in the context of humans and super-intelligence co-existing) could be.

New comment by stallmanite in "Public Lab calls for the immediate removal of Richard Stallman"

stallmanite — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:09:16 +0000

“How long shall they kill our prophets, while we stand aside and look?” - Bob Marley

New comment by stallmanite in "What Went Wrong with IBM’s Watson"

stallmanite — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:57:58 +0000

Was skeptical about a Slate article but they pretty much nailed it.

New comment by stallmanite in "Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur"

stallmanite — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:06:38 +0000

Dumb question: How does this differ from setting the view in the file selector to thumbnails?

New comment by stallmanite in "Fake naked photos of thousands of women shared online"

stallmanite — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:20:57 +0000

Serious question: Are you asserting that imagining women naked is wrong in the general case?

New comment by stallmanite in "Fake naked photos of thousands of women shared online"

stallmanite — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:18:44 +0000

What problems does this material cause generally?

New comment by stallmanite in "AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology"

stallmanite — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 11:46:14 +0000

Your argument doesn’t follow. How would being a software developer be the worst job because they “automate their own work away” when in fact they’d have a job until they automated everyone’s work away? It’s likely a given developer would reach retirement before that happens. Meanwhile tons of other people are out of a job.

New comment by stallmanite in "Microsoft's CEO is tired of working from home and he's not alone"

stallmanite — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:38:16 +0000

Wow Nadella just passed Ballmer as my least favorite Microsoft CEO. Who could possibly endorse this idea in good faith? It sounds like something you’d use to keep 10-13 year olds accountable for schoolwork not something fitting for adults in a dynamic working environment.

New comment by stallmanite in "IBM is splitting itself into two public companies"

stallmanite — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:30:54 +0000

This is an excellent question that I’ve never seen addressed. Replying just to call attention to it in the hopes that someone knowledgeable HN’ers can answer. It seems like cloud would quickly become a commodity but I have no special insight.

New comment by stallmanite in "Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a rebrand"

stallmanite — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:20:03 +0000

If you’re searching for terrible terrible captchas though, it’s the undisputed champion.

New comment by stallmanite in "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020"

stallmanite — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:39:36 +0000

Ok that explains how space becomes timelike. But I never hear anyone address how time becomes spacelike. In what sense does it become spacelike? Can one move back and forth in time inside the event horizon?

New comment by stallmanite in "John Pilger – Witness to the Agony of Julian Assange"

stallmanite — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:41:34 +0000

Can anyone point to anything to support the state’s case here? It seems perverse and like they’re not even pretending to seek justice.

New comment by stallmanite in "Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (2010)"

stallmanite — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 22:12:41 +0000

The substance starting with a D was probably Dextroamphetamine. It’s the old standard and has been around forever. It’s basically Adderall with just the R isomer rather than a mixture of Levo & Dextro isomers.

New comment by stallmanite in "Publishers worry as ebooks fly off libraries' virtual shelves"

stallmanite — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 13:16:14 +0000

The local library here makes a point of never keeping a history of what books you’ve checked out. It’s actually been a problem for me when trying to remember something I read a few years back. They’re pretty big proponents of privacy.