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old.reddit.com 8d ago

Tweak self-hosted SearXNG with Kagi domains (2025)

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Setup your own WireGuard VPN Server with 2FA in five minutes with Ansible

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www.gtbikev.com 3y ago

GTA Bike V – Ride around in GTA V with an indoor bike

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github.com 4y ago

Browser Extension to Bypass Media Sites Paywalls

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Mushroom Cultivation Automation [video]

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www.powerengineeringint.com 5y ago

New Guide for German Agrivoltaics- 4% of Arable Land Can Meet Electricity Demand

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www.pcgamer.com 5y ago

Swedish teen's startup brings us the most affordable VR full-body tracking ever

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ampedcycling.com 5y ago

Hacking a Budget-Priced Aldi E-Scooter

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

High Quality Speakers Made from Flat Ceiling Panels

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qz.com 5y ago

Geothermal energy, the forgotten renewable, has finally arrived

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www.keyboard-layout-editor.com 6y ago

Keyboard Layout Editor Tool

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www.pcgamer.com 7y ago

Retroarch Emulator Platform Is Coming to Steam

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www.ted.com 9y ago

Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming (2014) [video]

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www.nytimes.com 9y ago

Central Banks Consider Bitcoin’s Technology, If Not Bitcoin

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www.theverge.com 9y ago

This Twitter bot is tracking dictators' flights in and out of Geneva

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www.tvoverlord.com 9y ago

TV Overlord- Python-based command line tool to download and manage TV shows

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www.instructables.com 10y ago

Ambilight system for every input connected to your TV

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www.reddit.com 10y ago

ElDewrito 0.5.0.2 Released (Mod of Halo Online Early Build)

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motherboard.vice.com 10y ago

Retrofitting Old iPods to Keep the Perfect MP3 Player Alive

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www.reuters.com 10y ago

Study: Want to play the market? Count the Fed leak weeks

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www.ucc.ie 10y ago

Plan to Restore the Home of George Boole to a Museum

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imgur.com 10y ago

DIY Fully-Functional Overhead PC Control Panel

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www.crispian.net 11y ago

Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense

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www.reddit.com 11y ago

Provably Fair Decentralised Poker with Ethereum

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www.economist.com 11y ago

Too Much Finance Is Bad for the Economy

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www.nytimes.com 11y ago

Scotland’s ‘No’ Vote: A Loss for Pollsters and a Win for Betting Markets

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www.kickstarter.com 11y ago

AirEnergy 3D – A 3D printed, opensource, mobile wind turbine

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www.whackdata.com 11y ago

Harvesting Our Cities' Land for Dollars

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map.ipviking.com 12y ago

Online 'live' hacking map between countries

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www.economist.com 12y ago

The rich have begun to work longer hours than the poor?

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Here are my settings:

  hostnames:
    # Kagi "Raised" (k=1) + "Pinned" (k=2)  -> boost
    high_priority:
      - '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?wikipedia\.org$'
      - '(.*\.)?github\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?stackoverflow\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?news\.ycombinator\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?arstechnica\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?developer\.mozilla\.org$'
      - '(.*\.)?arxiv\.org$'
      - '(.*\.)?imdb\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?gitlab\.com$' 
      - '(.*\.)?rtings\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?store\.steampowered\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?serverfault\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?archive\.org$'
      - '(.*\.)?archive\.is$'
      - '(.*\.)?rottentomatoes\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?genius\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?bogleheads\.org$'
      - '(.*\.)?stackexchange\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?rottentomatoes\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?openstreetmap\.org$'
      - '(.*\.)?wikitionary\.org$'
      - '(.*\.)?goodreads\.com$'
      - '(.*\.)?alternativeto\.net$' #great for de-goolging
      - '(.*\.)?investopedia\.com$'

On slide 6, they list the Mag7 stocks (not defined in a foreword), but on slide 8 they list the free cash flow (FCF) of a somewhat different set of companies. Why not stick to the Mag7 FCF only? It muddies the waters.

Brand value of the ‘prestigious’ law firms will still count for something in the minds of C suite executives (who of course will ensure they themselves are not trampled on by AI). The same dynamic will likely happen with high-powered consulting, big 4 audit/accounting firms and so on, even if inside those companies it’s just a shell of its former self.

I’m seeing loads of posts in the likes of /r/n8n where people are figuring out how to do the jobs of multiple people with just one person, using workflows built and enhanced by AI. Copywriting, cross posting on social media, blogging, cold email outreach, fully automated user generated video content, running Facebook and Insta ad campaigns, google ad campaigns and more. All this can can be done once you nail down a solid workflow, powered by the likes of n8n, Claude code etc.

In parallel, local models are getting better and better, so eventually they’ll get “good enough” to run fairly cheaply at a level close to the current Sonnet/Opus models (what I run Claudeclaw with), on Groq, Openrouter or whatever commodity provider. Perhaps even mid to high end consumer PCs when the current RAM madness subsides.

There’s loads of good discussions about local LLMs in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190997

We’re already seeing the impact of AI in the jobs market for junior devs, and in marketing and more. So there’s unquestionably going to be a rough adjustment period. My thought on it is to build something concrete that I own, and take advantage of the disruption of possible, instead of being crushed by it.

In a similar boat. I’m running “ClaudClaw” a clone of Openclaw to enforce discipline in my limited free time to get an AI agency off the ground, in order to try to escape the miserable corporate grind. On the one hand, it’s a massive productivity boost, on the other hand, this tech is going to further hollow out the middle class everywhere and make so many people redundant. I don’t have the luxury to simply quit and focus on it full time.

Several military leaders expressed surprise at how gung-ho Obama was with foreign policy regarding the gwot. He literally executed an American citizen via drone. He didn’t even pay lip service to hope and change. Dubya also ran on a non-interventionist platform, and Trump ran on “drain the swap” and non-interventionism as well.

Anyway this is missing the wood for the trees. The point is, the uniparty very much exists, despite the downvotes. Foreign policy, bailing out banks, bowing down to the military industrial complex are very much remarkably consistent uniparty positions.

So much of both parties is actually alike, underneath a window dressing of differences (eg woke/anti woke), and a complicit media which does its best to amplify and brainwash people into believing. When it comes to policies that actually affect the elites, the deep state military industrial complex/intelligence services or financial interests, it is a uniparty. Look at how Obama continued the war on terror for example, after running on “hope and change”.

The solution is to get rid of all the people who write and process reports and empower the people who actually produce stuff to do it better.

That’s the solution if you’re the business owner.

That’s definitely not the solution if you’re a manager in charge of this useless activity, in fact, you should increase the amount of reports being written as much as humanly possible. The more underlings under you= more power and prestige.

This is the principal-agent problem writ large. As the comment mentioned above, also see Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs essay and book.

Being a woman used to be: limited choice (now we fortunately have tons of options for women - careers, etc. They can enjoy the same freedoms, fun, and personal investment as men.)

This is the real reason that birth rates are dropping. Women’s prime childbearing years are spent working in an office (usually through economic necessity), and the decision to have kids becomes “oh we’ll get to that later”. Once the switch flipped to DINKY (double income, no kids) being the norm, house prices inflated and that’s where you have to be as a couple to keep up.

how’d you set it up?

I was disappointed by this section. He doesn’t mention which model he uses (or models split by task type for specific sub agents).

I tried out OSS-20B hosted on Groq (recommended by a YouTuber) to test it for cheap, but the model isn’t smart enough for anything other than providing initial replies and perhaps delegating tasks into expensive capable models from ChatGPT or Claude. This is a crucial missing detail to replicate his use cases.

Apple only implemented USB-C due to pressure from the EU.

One area Android has a clear advantage is Android TV devices verified by Google, because there is a much wider array of streaming apps of all kinds available. However google doesn’t seem to focus on this very much, and if you look for forum recommendations for google android streaming devices it’s very often the NVIDIA shield pro from 2019. Hopefully that device will I’ll be supported for a few more years because there seems to not be good easily available alternatives.

This comment comes across as written by someone who hasn't seen a toxic work environment.

Sociopaths often make up an unusually large percentage of the upper layers of management. They won't hesitate to step on people to get ahead, and use the typical conflict aversion of regular people to their advantage- causing drama and fights, wearing others down, and eventually getting their way because most people just want their pay cheque, not to go into battle constantly.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Word to the wise: installing Valetudo can be a nerve wracking task even for the tech savvy. On my model, a Dreame L10s Ultra (there’s about three similarly named models and only this exact one is valetudo compatible, and isn’t sold any more) you are strongly recommended to use a custom pcb and to use Debian to run the commands, and not in a VM. If something goes wrong you can permanently brick your device. I ran into all kinds of esoteric sounding errors, and I half gave up and one point since I was burning valuable free time on evenings and weekends to get it done (busy family with small kids and stressful job). The robot sat unused for several months but I eventually got it done. I’m glad I did it but it was an ordeal.

The monstrously large (5.8 meters) G63 6x6 is considerably rarer (i have never seen one in person).

Those kinds of exotic variants are for the Dubais of the world, for rich Arabs to power up and down sand dunes, not for the Autobahn and narrow medieval streets. I’ve only seen it at a motorshow.

They're not doing it out of the goodness of their heart, they're deploying a classic strategy known as "Commoditize Your Complement"[1], to ward off threats from OpenAI and Anthropic. It's only a happy accident that the little guy benefits in this instance.

Facebook is a deeply scummy company[2] and their stranglehold on online advertising spend (along with Google) allows them to pour enormous funds into side bets like this.

[1] https://gwern.net/complement

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People

The NVIDIA shield doesn’t suffer from those issues in my experience. It’s far superior when browsing menus for example versus on a smart tv as the hardware is still decent even for a relatively old product. I just hope NVIDIA continues to support it for a while more.