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by alwa 1y ago
I don’t think so at all—for that matter the Americans still execute prisoners, and still send news crews to attend the executions (though not to show the dying person directly). I was more thinking about TFA as specifically a British object
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by alwa 1y ago
Bizarre that this category of touring show continues after all these years. It seems like such self-consciously guilty behavior on the part of the organizers: you don’t accidentally end up with human corpses (that you’re selling as entert
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by alwa 1y ago
For that matter I think a large part of what makes anything “otherworldly” is beauty in things unfolding outside our normal experience of the world: I don’t see what distinguishes glorious NG photography from the other methods. It’s only na
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by alwa 1y ago
Oh man buttered toast with honey... English muffins... But most controversially, and most deliciously, it dresses up a pizza something lovely... For me the shift happened when I stopped thinking of it as a sweetener for liquids and started
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by alwa 1y ago
Does this extend to the heuristic TFA refers to? Where they end up (voluntarily or not) referring to what LLMs hallucinate as a kind of “normative expectation,” then use that to guide their own original work and to minimize the degree to wh
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by alwa 1y ago
Immensely popular, delicious, and very beautiful on a plate or in a bowl, both whole/boiled/stir-fried and as snack packs of pre-peeled tails! See, e.g., https://mychinesehomekitchen.com/2022/06/24/c
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by alwa 1y ago
It felt pretty insulting to me. It had the smug, sarcastic, holier-than-thou kind of flavor to it—"there are only 3 ways to think about things, I already know more than you do about who you are and what you believe, you must be one of
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by alwa 1y ago
My favorite part: "Amazon only stopped for PR reasons at the start of the George Floyd protests, and even then they only issued a “one-year moratorium.” This has since been extended indefinitely, but frankly that doesn’t matter."
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by alwa 1y ago
Oh my. “Based on: An original idea” I suppose so…
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by alwa 1y ago
That’s a delightful concept to think about! I’m not sure what conceptual information the translation layer would add to the LLM’s internal representation of the state space. But the broader concept of asking it to translate something struct
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by alwa 1y ago
Dang, second one in a week... https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2025/06/MSG_20250630... Must be heady times for some security-oriented folks around here...
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MethaneSAT 'likely not recoverable' after losing contact with Earth(theregister.com)
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by alwa 1y ago
Couldn’t his claim apply equally to investors and employees? In both categories, people who are there to do stuff for mercenary reasons are likely to be (in his view) missing some of the drive and cohesion of a group of “true believers” wor
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by alwa 1y ago
Since sibling commenters asked—the abuse mainly involved a heckuva lot of phishing, last I heard; for example: https://threatpost.com/spear-phishing-exploits-glitch-steal-... https://www.netskope.com/blog&#x
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by alwa 1y ago
It sure does get there quick though. And heads back to the warehouse for free if you don’t like it.
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by alwa 1y ago
$5 of cost, $195 of foregone profit...
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by alwa 1y ago
(2017) Also worth a nod toward @mitxela’s gorgeous and absurd Precision Clock series, the latest of which pretty much nails the 7-segment elements TFA references… https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iv Disc
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by alwa 1y ago
And spread across a nation of ~1,450,000,000 people.
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by alwa 1y ago
And more than a little Juicero energy, for a lateral flow strip: “Inne’s technology uses a lateral flow strip similar to those used in COVID-19 or pregnancy tests. Users place a small amount of saliva on the strip, which contains antibodie
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by alwa 1y ago
For sure. I’m among them—very sensitive both to human (and animal) odors and to fragrances. For me at least it tends to be fragrances—usually synthetic ones associated with body or room products—that people are able and willing to concentra
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by alwa 1y ago
Lord help us if “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” and the remedy (or the portent [0]) is throwing open the platform to everyone to advertise this way… That element of “well it’s different when we do it” is what’s so uncl
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by alwa 1y ago
I feel like there’s a taste aspect and also a focus/discipline kind of dimension to it. For the longest, they’d essentialize everything almost brutally: like that whole thing about the iPhone coming with no manual since you didn’t need
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by alwa 1y ago
From chummy nerd fora we arise, and to chummy nerd fora we shall return…
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by alwa 1y ago
If we’re all smelly, then none of us are smelly! Only half-joking: I really do think people habituate quickly to fragrances and scent norms. I’m hygenic but I (and the people around me) really do avoid scented personal care products. I rea
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by alwa 1y ago
In fact, it was specifically one of those alternatives which was under test here: “a fragrance-free body lotion containing linoleic acid (Neutral, Unilever body lotion for sensitive skin; 0% colorants and 0% perfume)” Sounds like they bla
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by alwa 1y ago
Speak for yourself! The best defense against those sneaky Toxins is a good thick armor of crust… if you waste it on the trough, it’ll take months for you to build it back! Remember personal care startup Mother Dirt, who briefly flirted with
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by alwa 1y ago
It was forced onto your device to the extent that any other of your library songs or iTunes purchases were, whether that worked out to be streamed on demand or downloaded locally. Space was never the issue, forcing bad music in my shuffle p
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by alwa 1y ago
Accuweather, who also depend on this same USG sensor data for their modeling… I don’t think anybody wins from this. See e.g. https://www.accuweather.com/en/press/accuweather-does-not-su...
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by alwa 1y ago
For that matter—the apps that communities are using that aren’t so aggressively exploiting addictive patterns—like the one you and I are using now—could it be that they’re at some level the norm, they’re just kind of boring beyond the sma
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by alwa 1y ago
With technological products in particular—where an idiosyncratic nerd with an old computer under the desk can run a vibrant forum, a couple of plucky young “cofounders” can conjure a company from nothing, and HN (at least at one point [0])

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