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> It's telling on the users in question and their relationship with reality. It’s telling to Tesla’s brand reputation. This will take decades and billions of dollars to repair, if it even can be fixed. Tesla may become synonymous wi
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> Are people actually interested in more granular pricing options? Yes. Welcome to the world of committed contracts, call-us pricing, and “partnerships. At many-zeroes scale every cent is negotiated to the point that you’ll get different
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> Note many languages have government-sanctioned standard forms of the language, but what I said is still true there too. Nobody speaks that dialect and nobody should be expected to. It's just a "reference implementation".
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The actually sad part is that when you split data by race, white American health outcomes are pretty great and in some areas significantly ahead of other countries (if you have a rare cancer, America is the place to be) whereas not-white Am
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All you need to know about America’s health system is this graph comparing average cost to life expectancy of OECD countries. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health... USA has an order of magnitud
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As of the last few months all citations were correct. I checked and obviously wouldn’t use any that I didn’t verify. I’m using chatgpt so whatever they’re doing is working
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> Somewhere between these two extreme cases, writing with LLMs have the optimal productivity gains. A recent win for me has been to use LLMs for finding references. I’ll write a paragraph about one of those “everyone knows this” concepts
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Yes that’s a pretty good strategy achievable by most people who hang out on Hacker News. Lots of variance tho. Poorly timed life events can really mess it up
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> Generally, this holds true today for most HCOL and MCOL areas. It is still a good idea to buy in a few LCOL areas We have friends who rent to live in SF and buy in LCOL as investment properties. Also seems to work well as a strategy. I
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> This is obviously not true. You don't have to do the math to realize [rent is throwing money away] This greatly depends on your specific numbers. We did the math with my partner: our current rent is 5k/mo. Our mortgage for
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I know people who had that experience. They describe it as a total reset of their relationship with food. Even when pausing GLP after just a few months.
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Yeah totally. Eating less than you feel like is hard and GLP is great for that. I was fat as a kid and then lost it all in high school (and got too skinny). Maybe as a result of that it’s easy for me to not eat. I kinda don’t even realize I
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> For years, i tried to lose weight with gym and dieting. I failed, and now i know i probably never had a chance to, it was a scam all along. > lost all weight i wanted with Wegovy It’s not a scam. The trick is that you probably weren
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> questionable value in making things like bridges modular Aren't most bridges these days modular and made of prefab components assembled on site? Afaik that greatly sped up construction over the past few decades. They're also
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> ut I could never find actual live examples of "cheugy" being used this way, either online or IRL, outside of thinkpieces about gen Z slang. I'm pretty convinced that "cheugy" is a phenomenon similar to the hoax
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> To make the distinction clear, here are example groups unlikely to like AI dev: > 1) people who programmed for ~25 years (to this day) > 2) people who genuinely enjoy the process of programming (regardless of when they started) &
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I am talking about what I do do :) Also I learned in driving school in Europe (and during the motorcycle course in USA) to downshift while braking so your engine helps the brakes and you’re always in the right gear. There shouldn’t be any s
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Agree the engine braking on automatics sucks. If you re-read my original post, it specifically talked about manuals :) And I mean if drifters can use shift lock to literally skid their wheels, then clearly engine braking is effective.
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> If nobody makes them, then how is that going to work? I see it as “Dont write your own X, unless you want to maintain X . Here be dragons, this problem is deeper than it appears, the first 80% will be easy, the next 15% will annoy you
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> Doesn't seem to add up that at "huge" resolution that PNG would be that small either. Well maybe not huge huge. Like 1000px wide so they look nice on retina screens. The key is that these images were just 2 contiguous co
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My favorite real world example of this was adding a bunch of 2-tone graphics to a website that looked like hand-drawn sketches. The designer insisted they have to be SVG because vector graphics scale better. The SVG was 20MB. The PNG versio
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> For racing games or flight simulators or such it is less of a problem, Cars are also easier to make photorealistic. Less uncanny valley effect, lots of flat shiny surfaces. What absolutely breaks immersion for me in most AAA car games
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> The EV slows down much more quickly when slowing down, to the point where it's a good replacement for the brake Are you comparing to an automatic ICE or a manual? In my experience of driving EVs their engine braking is sub-par to
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> And how often did you engine break with that ICE car when driving around the city? Oh all the time. I used to drive like a typical youth. I've been in USA for 10 years now and still hate driving automatics because they shift into
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> My model Y can effect a very reasonable stop in traffic without touching the brake pedal except to hold the car at the end. My manual car could do this 20 years ago. My fully ICE motorcycle can do it today. I know engine braking is coo
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> 1. Bifurcation: Maybe a subset of knowledge workers continue to write and read and therefore drive the decisions of the business. The remainder just do what the LLM says and eventually get automated away. This already happens. Being th
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We do have ~~legal euthanasia~~ assisted suicide! Several countries and even some US states have some form of it! Just not widely advertised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide https://en.wikiped
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> A pilot where the participants know or suspect that the money will soon stop flowing won't capture the real-world effect of this decades-long experiment that we call pensions. There is a big difference in getting a guaranteed inco
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> The idea of sitting down and watching a two hour movie is really quite daunting when you’re used to videos that are at most 30 min and often less than one. Whenever I watch a modern Netflix/Hulu/etc show: I'm on my phone
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> If only governments could provide a very simple “check identity” service online. I think this should be a basic service nowadays. Slovenia issues personal certificates so you can identify yourself online. Mostly used for banking and e-

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