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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
You are waaaaaay too optimistic about RAM prices. This is not a one-quarter crisis and you need to settle in for the long haul: the era of "hardware always comes down in price" is over, definitely for the next 3 years and possibly
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
There's a guy in Germany making homages to the cosmonaut watches under the Strela name (maybe he bought the rights? I don't know how IP works re: former Soviet brands) which have Chinese Seagull movements in them. They look really
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
LPEs do need to be fixed, but for most people it's not a threat model they need to worry about.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
No, the people responding to you are correct: even the crummiest mechanical watches should not drift by more than 10-15 seconds/day. COSC certification, which most nice mechanical watches have, requires no more than 2 minutes/mont
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
I don't know if watchmaking is one of them, but there are a bunch of traditional crafts which are actually approaching a danger point because there aren't enough up-and-coming acolytes in the discipline to replace them, even thoug
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
This kind of shoddy, surface-level "incentives alignment" analysis can just as easily be used to prove the opposite: with the "pay once, then pay for upgrades" model, sellers are incentivized to never actually fix all th
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Construction companies can still turn a profit building and selling them. The idea is that houses should be depreciating assets, like cars. If houses are appreciating in value it means you're not building enough of them.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
“Building wealth through real estate” should not be possible, and it’s half the reason we’re in this mess: people treating their homes as a store of wealth and blocking new construction to protect the value of their investment has locked yo
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Remember to flag it, I've been doing this consistently with AI slopicles. Eventually we can build a social consensus around this and stop having to see them.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
I'd say that about several other CEOs too if their fanboys wouldn't jump down my throat about it. Zuckerberg is just universally unpopular enough that you can get away with it
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
In its defense, it actually asked me whether I wanted to spend my 500 bytes on more resolution for the main continents or more landmasses, and I opted for the former. You can blame me for that, not Claude :)
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Fable did that, I pretty much just told it to find the best Fourier sum which can draw a map of the world in less than 500 bytes of R. It downloaded geo data and made the curves to fit that on its own.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Well, here's what Fable came up with in 499 bytes of R in about half an hour: https://pastebin.com/sBsiGD9t , result: https://imgur.com/a/W3eDdIC . Probably with sitting down and tweaking you could
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Presumably you could precompute some parametric function (probably a Fourier sum) which draws a reasonably close map of the world, and get that into 500 bytes with a math-focused programming environment (R, Julia, etc.)? I might try throwin
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
In the 2010s Seattle briefly legalized SRO-like "pod apartments" of 300-400 sq ft, and several were built. A friend of mine rented one for several years and it was fantastic. But nothing makes NIMBYs throw a shitfit like the word
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
It might also be that you just don’t want or need an ortholinear layout, plenty of people don’t. If you like the split design and programmability of the Moonlander but not the layout and associated relearning curve, I can recommend the UHK
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
Heh, it's not crazy if you're here in the Bay: I know multiple people who more-or-less disappeared for days when Fable came out because they were running their benchmarks, and only emerged blinking into the sunlight when the USG b
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
That's not what I argued and you are misrepresenting my point. My argument is that, at least sometimes, Goldman invests in positive-sum trades which make the world better off, even if they extract too much for themselves in fees and le
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
Honestly, that comparison is insulting to Goldman Sachs. Goldman at least sometimes provides funding for things beneficial to humanity: infrastructure projects, small business loans, and the like. A16Z has transitioned fully to various inca
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
I'm speaking from painful experience here: if you assume RFC 5322 has anything whatsoever to do with how email addresses actually work in the wild, you're in for a world of hurt. Popular email providers don't give a shit wh
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
When I quit Amazon and went to work at Google I had my mind blown by actually getting compensated to be on-call outside work hours. My coworkers shook their heads and told me I wasn't the first.
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
I think you underestimate just how much money is being poured into LLM SEO at the moment. It's real quiet because they don't want to draw attention and countermeasures from the frontier labs, but this is getting huge investment, a
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
Some people don't like the scratchy feel of linen compared to cotton, although there are now linen-synthetic blends which ameliorate this almost entirely.
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
So far the main effect of "computers think" has been making my job both more precarious and more miserable— talking to agents all day instead of writing code sucks ass and I want to die by the end of it, it's like spending al
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
I assume these aren't being published by major publishing houses but rather microbrands and print-on-demand services. They're, like, bypassing gatekeepers and democratizing knowledge, man. Why do you hate freedom so much?
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
RAM prices started climbing more than 18 months ago. Apple’s contracts are long-term but not that long-term: they probably just expired. (If you assume a 3-year contract, 18 months is how long it would take on average for a specific marke
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
I think Manufacturing Consent is a deeply outdated book. It was fine for the 80s, but if you use it as your source for how the media works today you're going to reach silly conclusions and see outcomes you can't account for. The b
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
Do these companies know they're letting their source code (and internal documentation, chats, communications, etc.) get used as training data? On the flat-rate consumer subscriptions, everything you send is fair game to train on, which
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
> The frontier labs have already lost the war for coding You are way too deep in the HN bubble.
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by Analemma_ 4mo ago
> I wonder how many cumulative hours of human life have been wasted waiting on Anubis. "How dare that mugging victim fight back". The choice is not between Anubis and no Anubis, the choice is between Anubis and my website going

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