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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
Invoking Atlas Shrugged and "the government is punishing the most productive, wealth-generating members of society!" when you run a shitcoin startup is hysterical. Musk is a scumbag but at least he builds real rockets and electric
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
Every single person I've seen trying to defend the government's actions in this case has carefully elided the difference between "not awarding them a contract" (which would've been fine) and "using the law to t
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
Django + Postgres on the backend plus a frontend of HTMX + alpine.js for a light touch of interactivity where needed is a killer combination. Claude is very good at it, and with the right instructions actually keeps things concise and modul
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
A lot of font foundries are switching from one-time payments to pay-per-use licensing schemes, to try and get huge payouts from e.g. companies which serve web pages trillions of times, and those companies are mostly responding by just commi
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
I understand the complaint but a lot of these suggested improvements aren't great either, especially the ones that are close to the name of the app and so would be right next to the app name which is itself a menu header. "Passwor
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
I've banged on about this before, but every state needs to adopt a law where allegations of illegal behavior by cops are always handled by a Special Prosecutor, never the local DA. The incentives are too fucked for a DA to ever be trus
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
I don't have a super-wide gamut of experience here and numerical analysis isn't my specialty, but nearly all trig implementations I've looked into (in both software and hardware) make heavy use of lookup tables and other shor
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
No, it’s not a reasonable feature. If I take a screenshot, I want the image to include what is displayed on my fucking screen, period. What is so difficult about this?
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
The figure I've heard quoted is that 640,000 tons of used books (not 640,000 books, 640,000 tons of books) are shredded/pulped every year for lack of finding a buyer. I assume that very few of these are rare books. I think in the
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
There's nothing in this article supporting the claim that rare books are being destroyed, it just has a link to a paywalled article from 404 Media.
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
DRAM fabs are multi-billion dollar investments which take years to come online. That's the whole reason we're in this situation, there is no quick fix available.
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
I think in NK’s mind all of these reasons pale before the straightforward truth that nukes keep you safe and giving them up fucks you over. Libya: gave up its nukes; invaded. Ukraine: gave up its nukes; invaded. Iran: signed an agreement no
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
Which pre-IPO companies publish audited financial statements?
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
The sheer naked contempt this company has for citizens and the law is staggering.
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
If you like taking pictures with your phone, the cameras are still improving steadily enough that you'll see meaningful improvements if you upgrade every three years
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
The underlying principle here is that secrecy and privacy are not the same thing. The famous illustrative example is that when you’re taking a shit it’s no secret what you’re doing in there, but most people still prefer not to be watched wh
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
I think this is an outrageous abuse of the term “dark pattern” from people who want to be angry more than they want to think. The website mentions repeatedly what the pricing model is, and the operation is “we show you exactly how much valu
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
You are complaining that it can’t instantaneously perform a complete scan of your disk, and then attributing malicious intent to this lack of magic instant scanning technology. What are we even doing here. The knee-jerk conspiratorial fooli
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
On this topic, have people noticed the sudden coordinated media push for Flock Is Your Friend? The Free Press, The Atlantic, and Axios have all churned out pro-Flock articles in the last week. Clearly someone (I assume A16Z, but it could be
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
Bariatric surgery has most of the same upsides as GLP-1s and is a one-time cost. But I agree with the other commenters that "forever drug" is mostly fretting without an actual reason. The Hunger that engineered foods are deliberat
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
Who cares? If it’s taken away from Meta and can no longer be used to build more technologies for Meta, that’s a massive upside to kids all by itself. Doubly-so if the fine incentivizes Meta to stop doing this shit. You could put the money i
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
In a two-party system, not voting (no matter what your stated rationale for it is) is functionally going "I support whatever everyone else picks, whatever they decide is fine with me." Under any reasonable consequentialist ethical
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
I can't think of a faster way to permanently solidify someone's opinion than being told "you only have this opinion because an enemy foreign government told you to; get your opinions from your friendly local government instea
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
People lost their shit when Spectre mitigations added 20% overhead to kernel calls though. Why wouldn't they do the same for microkernel overhead?
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
I mean it was legitimately frontier for all of a week or two, and then OAI and Anthropic made better releases, and then did that several more times over the year. Google’s pace is not cutting it.
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
Isn't it even worse now? The faster computers get, the more that software-induced bottlenecks hurt.
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
The publishing market has been brutal for many years now: even before AI, there have been multiple stories of angry backlash for any number of reasons causing a book to get yanked before it is even officially released. With such a small num
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
For at least a year now the standard reflexive reply to “Google seems way behind OAI and Anthropic” has been “it’ll be ok, they’ve got Dean and Hassabis.” And now they don’t. What reason is there to be bullish about Google now?
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
I get what you're saying, but in this particular case we're talking about Texas. The people down there think that bike lanes and walkable neighborhoods are a plot to send in UN soldiers who will forcibly vaccinate them with 5G nan
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by Analemma_ 2mo ago
I don't think it's Kool-Aid, I think it's "Apple has notoriously low salaries for a FAANG and OpenAI will probably have a trillion-dollar IPO". You can see right through Altman's charade and still want to work

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