Lu2025

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by Lu2025 1y ago
Starlink?
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by Lu2025 1y ago
> the provider owning the device, not the user That's been the case since they got rid of removable batteries. You don't own a device you can't reliably turn off.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Yep. AI is wonderful for IP laundering and accountability laundering (is this even a term? It is now!)
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by Lu2025 1y ago
This is correct. People on top are very much ego driven and don't forgive those who say no to them or make them look bad.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Yup. It's a power grab.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
They could have offered a small fee to the original poster but no, they went straight to robbery.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
> I am dumbfounded by the degree of mismatch between capital and utility That's often a sign of money laundering
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Sounds like a kickback
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by Lu2025 1y ago
These are sales speeches. They are over hyping it. AI has its niche but they are trying to plug it everywhere. Maybe they have a point. Maybe hooking people up on software tools so they are incompetent without will pay off.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
>> Without those agriculture advances Funny thing is, it wasn't agricultural advances, at least initially. It was chemistry and mechanics. Haber-Bosch process of ammonia synthesis created cheap fertilizer, mechanization dramatica
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Jeebezus. He's either delusional or a scammer. Can't tell atm
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Another peak of cynicism is that the owners try to argue that the "service charge" is legally not a tip so it doesn't need to be distributed to workers.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
> Then comes that other discovery A lot of us don't get it until the first big loss.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
The thing about autocracies, there is nobody to stop an obviously wrong decision (for example, Russian invasion of Ukraine).
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by Lu2025 1y ago
They don't optimize for our convenience, they optimize for their profit.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Oh no, LLMs won't disappear but they will be a lot less loud. Progress is often an S shaped curve and we are nearing saturation.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
This made me thinking about broader optical corrections. I got an iPhone 16, and the photos look overprocessed. There is a cartoonish HD-like feel to them. I understand where developers are coming from: our eyes have higher dynamic range th
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Try taurine supplements. If you feel better it could be Long Covid.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
> aggressive neglect for 811 Texas regulations are quite something. My friend told me that the closest thing to regulation and zoning they have is... an HOA. This was the first time in my life I heard anything positive about HOAs.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
> the only reason for the cap Correct. It was a very calculated decision. They were squeezing out profits by trying to move heavy users to the next tier of service. But this only works if they have a monopoly.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
> Outside of the major cities, Internet service falls off extremely quickly I live half an hour from a state capital and my only option is cable... the coaxial cable they laid bare on my flower bed decades ago. I dig it up about every o
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by Lu2025 1y ago
> Any time any customers are experiencing an outage, maybe because of a lawnmower that cut their service line Whoa, they are laying cable just like that, in the open?
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Any form meaning passwords too?
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Yeah, just check how many alternative versions they provided for MH17 downing.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Nah. It's just they are upselling us AI so aggressively it doesn't pass the sniff test anymore.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Oh well, at least the futuristic sunglasses are back in fashion.
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by Lu2025 1y ago
> say it’s good enough How do they know?
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by Lu2025 1y ago
> An underrated concern (IMO) is the impact of COVID on cognition Car accidents came down from the Covid uptick but only slightly. Aviation... ugh. And there is some evidence it accelerates Altzheimer's and other dementias. We are s
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by Lu2025 1y ago
Left where?
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by Lu2025 1y ago
At least it allows links; Instagram doesn't without paying.

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