Aurornis

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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> Seems like you don't have to rule it out completely? This is what I was talking about in the second half of my comment: Every time I bring up the fact that these proposals would be overbearing, people start brainstorming infinite
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
You simply cannot put enough activated carbon in a little foam thing that goes in front of a filter to do anything useful. The real activated carbon filters have 10s of pounds of carbon. The little black foam thing that comes with those 2-i
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
Getting rid of the VOC source, if possible, is much easier than trying to filter it. > Those 2-in-1 filters do exist but cost more. And many are scams because they don't have enough volume of activated carbon. Any filter with a litt
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
Living very close to busy highways is known to generate poor air quality. I recommend anyone in those locations buy an air purifier for their kids' rooms. I bought a couple reasonably priced HEPA purifiers and I change the filters on s
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
It's a pattern I see in a lot of communities now. Some of the open source projects I follow have had their communities collapse the same way: Some group comes in with all smiles and energy to help out, then they brings their friends in
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> I’ve not noticed a mushy feeling on my wife’s Mazda CX-9 with CC2s, but tbf it’s an SUV. One of the sportier SUVs around, but still. They are not great in that regard. Casual drivers won't usually care, but anyone who pays attenti
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
This would include everything from my Spotify recommending new music that I like to my Netflix showing me similar shows. I'm a responsible adult. I want those things. I make use of them. They make my life better when I'm trying to
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
For jobs with high compensation, RSUs are such a high part of the compensation that it's often more than the base salary.
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> The downward pressure that should exist is high earners retiring and low earners just starting their career. > and the remaining 94% increase their earnings. This is an extremely unrealistic expectation. There are a multitude of re
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
I included Peter Principle in my comment above because it's one of the rhetorical tools these people invoke to comfort themselves.
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> 1) You are wrong about them being incompetent The older I get, the more I recognize how often these takes are just sour grapes from watching other people succeed. It was most obvious when I was doing volunteer mentoring for early-caree
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
Design and compound matters a lot, but it's still a tradeoff. The easiest way to increase rolling resistance is to reduce the tread depth. Less deformation of the rubber leads to less rolling resistance. So to improve rolling resistanc
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
You left the "and" but left out the critical part of my quote: They're not as good as summer-only tires in the summer. > A lot of people don't live in climates where winter tires are even sold The CrossClimate 2 tire
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> The Michelin CrossClimate2 tires are arguably the best traction tires, In their class, but not in general. They are all-season tires. They don't perform as well as winter tires in the winter, and they don't perform as well as
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
It's even worse than that. Rain performance and rolling resistance are conflicting goals. A good rain tire will need more voids to channel the water, but adding a lot of voids increases rolling resistance. California is a large market.
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> It seems you only had exposure to a limited set of MUDs that died quickly Limited set, yes. I was never a hardcore player. I would drop in for some months, then disappear again for months as I had other things going on in my life. Quic
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> There are a ton of niche books like the one the parent is speaking of which might not be considered hugely valuable by the general public or less specialised second-hand stores, but are both rare and valuable in their niche. I'll
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
All healthcare systems have administrative overhead, including completely nationalized systems. The US discourse on health care overestimates the administrative overhead by a large amount. We could remove all insurance company profits and a
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
They all had stories of friends, family members, and siblings who died at young ages from conditions that are treatable with modern technology. My grandfathers both benefited greatly from new technology of their times like hearing aids and
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
Their cutoff point for where technology stopped being good and exciting was prior to when this author thought technology was fun and exciting. It’s a personal feeling. Once you get comfortable with the way the world is, you start wishing it
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
I remember my grandparents making this exact same complaint: All of the new technologies during their younger years were amazing and improved the world. All of the technologies that came along in their later years were only complicating lif
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
I have a love/hate relationship with my memories of the MUD era. I loved exploring different worlds and interacting with some of the brilliant people who took the time to help teach and encourage others. I was a casual who would disapp
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
Insurance pays the higher of their negotiated rate or the billed charge. Medical facilities set their billed rates so high that they’re guaranteed to be higher than all negotiated rates, ensuring that they get paid. When you see $37 aspirin
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
They cannot do those things. The reason they’re scanning the books is because it’s not possible to legally obtain or transfer their digital copies. They have to do their own scans and keep them in house.
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> Ideally they'd upload them to Anna's archive too Not only can they not do that, they must scan physical copies because they are forbidden from using digital pirated copies from sources like this. Anthropic had a big settlemen
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> As if the AI industry is only shredding "crappy" books. Do you, or anyone else, have any source suggesting that they’re buying highly valuable rare books and shredding them? The kind of $150 rare book that you had to buy from
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> My first book sold tens of thousands of copies even though the writing was not just trash but a crime against humanity against anyone who had to read it. I’m sure I never read your book, but there is something cathartic about reading a
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
> "Rare" meaning inclusive of high-quality items, This is the citation needed that is missing from every report so far, including this one which deliberately refuses to reveal anything about these books. You’d think if there we
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
The length of this article and the unnecessary visualizations felt like a waste after getting to the end and discovering they won’t reveal anything about the books that were scanned. The closest they got was admitting that the rare books we
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by Aurornis 2mo ago
ChatGPT can’t diagnose problems like this on symptom descriptions alone. Doctors can’t either. You have to see a specialist and let them use their diagnostic tools to start gathering information to get a diagnosis.

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