Insanity

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by Insanity 6mo ago
I buy both physical and digital books and much prefer digital, reading on my kindle is more convenient (especially to adjust the font size). For sharing with family, I have a family library set up with Amazon and the experience is really sm
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by Insanity 6mo ago
Book 1-3 of Dune are masterpieces IMO. Book 4 was still good although I didn’t enjoy it as much as the trilogy. But I still consider it part of the same overall “Leto/Paul arc”. Book 5-6 were okay, but didn’t live up to expectations. T
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by Insanity 6mo ago
The last 2 chapters made me not want to recommend the book. I’m so divided about it because the book started of incredibly strong.
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by Insanity 6mo ago
I do something similar - but I'm quite picky with books I buy due to limited physical space.
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by Insanity 6mo ago
Same! I just finished the book a few days ago. The first half is really good, a cool premise and interesting story. The second half just got a bit too weird for me and by the final chapter I was happy it was finished lol.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Well technical difficulty is one piece. Cost and ROI are a different one.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Have you missed the events of the past year under Trump? With literal claims of taking over EU territory? I know that Trump is the equivalent of a hallucinating LLM, but you can’t just ignore his words whenever convenient.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
GH being bought by MSFT way precedes their OpenAI involvement IIRC. And I don’t think it was even needed to train their models given Anthropic does fine without owning GitHub. So this logic doesn’t pass the smell test to me. EDIT: seems the
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Honestly given that they’re nowhere near profitable even with their main product this is the right move.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I started out gaming on CRTs in the late 90s. Moved to LCD in the mid-2000s and haven't looked back. I don't miss CRTs, not least the bulkiness of them lol.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Yeah, moving from EU (induction) cooking to Canadian (electric) stove took some getting used to. Boiling water takes so much longer lol.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
That’s unfortunate! But you can start your collection going forward haha :) Yeah Sabaton is great, I’ve been a fan since Primo Victoria, their debut album. They’re also doing an NA tour this year (after rescheduling some dates). I’ve mostly
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I think what the article is driving at is that The Ramones are the _first_ band where that became true.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I’m a big fan of rock and metal music and often go to concerts. I’ll always buy a t-shirt of the main band I go to see, even if I don’t particularly vibe with the design, because I know it’s an additional way to support a band I like. In my
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I find that many online payments require CC. And yeah credit score is the other issue.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I wonder how much these are still being used though. None of my friends or family in EU use these, it's mostly induction stoves nowadays.
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Meta is laying off employees, source says(reuters.com)
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by Insanity 7mo ago
The third point in this article is what really gets me. The credit card culture in Canada and the US is just insane to me, coming from a European point of view. You can get by without credit cards in Europe, and most of my family only has o
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Yes, and I'm increasingly bored of talking about 'the internet'. AI definitely plays a part in that, I don't want to deal with randomly generated articles or content. But even regular content, like YouTube shorts, are un
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Pretty large amounts of energy go towards training large language models. Running them is also a non-negligible energy cost at scale. But yeah, there's way worse industries out there when it comes to climate change impact.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I had assumed heat generation on the controller if it's continuously reading. But maybe it's not actually bad.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
"Once you stop learning, you start dying." Don't know if that quote is actually by Einstein or just attributed to him, but it rings true for me. Back when I studied philosophy at university, the oldest person in my class was
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by Insanity 7mo ago
This is a pretty cool project! Essentially this is like using Swap memory to extend your RAM, but in a 'smart' way so you don't overload the NVMe unnecessarily. I do wonder in practice how the 'smarts' pan out, beca
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Disagree with this. Sending a text saying "Can we call when you're free" is more considerate of the other persons time than a random call. It sounds like you're trying to make it sound absurd by your 'send an email
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by Insanity 7mo ago
100% this. Apart from my SO and scammers, no one randomly calls me. If my brother would call me out of the blue I'd assume the worst. (Also, the one random call I vividly remember getting the past years is my mom calling me to let me k
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I'd hate that. I have a (small) group of friends, and we play games (almost) every weekend morning for 1-2 hours while on voice chat. I really enjoy that time but we have to schedule it in advance, we all have stuff going on. But we&#x
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I like his videos, I'm not in 'aviation circles' and I find his videos both educational and I like his demeanor. Do appreciate the link to Blancolerio, I hadn't heard of him (I'm not super into aviation videos). De
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by Insanity 7mo ago
No, but I'm just saying, people vote based on feels.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
mh. Guess my view of betting is too naive. I wouldn't have expected anything beyond (1). With my usual addictive behaviour, I think it's prob best I stay away from that though.. :)
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Highly skeptical of using a betting platform as an indication of insider knowledge and something to base your decisions off of. People will bet, and it's a 50/50 decision between "ceasfire yes / no". People vote wit

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