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by alwa 2y ago
I’m trying to understand how you took that message from this. The best I can figure, maybe the allusion to Col. Vindman’s bravery sounds a little like it’s referring to his early-career sacrifices in the Iraq war? I think Jeff may have been
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by alwa 2y ago
If this were set in Japan as you propose, and we substituted “onigiri stall” or “izakaya” for “Mexican restaurant,” would that affect the substance of the gp’s observation? To my mind, when gp said “Mexican restaurant,” that conjured a fami
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by alwa 2y ago
Oo! Oo! Is it a free and fair public election?
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by alwa 2y ago
This is not your first day… https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub
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by alwa 2y ago
Amen. > "But emotional stability is also a core job requirement. How can we help you find a more sustainable balance?" Really, the loved ones are eating into The Company’s Time… have you considered just not being exposed to
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by alwa 2y ago
This seems like an elegant approach. Why hasn’t it gained as much traction as these third-party-ID kinds of approaches? Is it just the lack of an organized constituency? Resistance from device manufacturers/store operators? Too much co
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by alwa 2y ago
This delights me. I’ve worked with Soundex, which uses a rather different set of digit/consonant associations, but the “major system” Susam uses was new to me. Apparently [0] it has centuries of pedigree—with the specific pattern Harry
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by alwa 2y ago
Sure, to greater and lesser degrees! Prominent master-planned examples include Seaside, FL [0]; Celebration, the Disney-designed suburb near Orlando with its “town center”; and, in a less ambitious variant, The Villages, a collection of ret
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by alwa 2y ago
> Remember: Their cultural weight does NOT give them permission to override your actions and efforts as a leader. You don’t want the old corrosive culture of the past to subvert the new positive culture of the present. Oh man, how dumb
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by alwa 2y ago
I am curious how the math works out with respect to the delivery trucks. It seems like, ounce for ounce, it’s cheaper to move matter across the ground than to yeet it through the sky. Each delivery truck with 100 orders inside represents so
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by alwa 2y ago
It reminds me of the glory days when “hypertext” was a term uttered with a straight face to great stroking of beards—HyperCard, exercises in nonlinear narrative, VRML-based “navigation,” Apple eWorld [0] and the like. > Would you like t
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by alwa 2y ago
> “Inside his house, with the double-paned windows shut and TV on, Smith could no longer hear the drones.” Well! That’s… a relief, I guess. > If Amazon had conducted the maximum number of flights outlined in its plans reviewed by t
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by alwa 2y ago
https://archive.is/qaFhc
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by alwa 2y ago
Yubico will sell you one for $650 https://www.yubico.com/store/
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by alwa 2y ago
And yet these terms of service—for Firefox—specifically apply the AUP to “your use of Firefox,” no? The entire AUP is prefixed “You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to:”. There’s nothing in the AUP that doesn’t refer to “Mozilla’s se
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by alwa 2y ago
I have yet to meet a person who regrets having successfully weaned themselves off the news-cycle dopamine treadmill. If anything, I find that they tend to be better informed and more thoughtful than they were when they wasted cycles o
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by alwa 2y ago
If you ran the same query set 30x or 15x on the cheaper model (and compensated for all the extra tokens the reasoning model uses), would you be able to realize the same 26% quality gain in a machine-adjudicatible kind of way?
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by alwa 2y ago
This apparently has been a point of commentary, and the (YC-backed) firm is apparently open about it in their job listings (to their credit): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43181601 I feel like we could have done with
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by alwa 2y ago
I don’t know—I work with tight teams of people who respect each other, but who don’t feel like we need to be the best at everything. We’re good at what we’re good at, and we suck at what we suck at. If an aspect of a task falls in the quadr
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by alwa 2y ago
I’m not sure everybody can agree that improving efficiency is necessarily a good thing at all points on the curve, nor even that simple output metrics can fully capture it. Laundry workers at Disney memorably referred to the “efficiency” le
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by alwa 2y ago
Later sold separately as a standalone volume, The Photography of Modernist Cuisine https://modernistcuisine.com/books/photography-of-modernist-... I remember being especially excited about the cutaways: photos of act
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by alwa 2y ago
Except, of course, for Starbucks! [0] And imitation salmon eggs still use that calcium/alginate technique the modernist cooks called "spherification"... [1] [0] https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product&#x2F
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by alwa 2y ago
For what it's worth, I interpreted GP's response as trying to build on the rules of thumb by adding some color in the edge cases, I didn't read it as any kind of a dig at the original proposition.
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by alwa 2y ago
TFA seems to suggest that the thieves modified the signers’ applications to display a routine transaction but actually sign the heist transaction.
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by alwa 2y ago
Why should it go online at all? $1.5 billion buys a lot of plane tickets to the same physical place, and how frequently do they need to be accessing the whole lump, anyway? For that matter, I know signatures are long and human-unfriendly, b
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by alwa 2y ago
Especially if it’s $1.5bn of other people’s money
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by alwa 2y ago
It does feel, doesn’t it, that the cryptocurrency crowd seems mainly to comprise the kinds of actors who correctly anticipate that the legitimate banking sector—and most humans, if asked—will say “no” to them… Which I guess the idealists wo
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by alwa 2y ago
What concerns me is the idea that risks like these might leak into the regulated financial sector. Right now, if I want to avoid my dollars being among those billions stolen, I can (and do) keep them someplace far away from instant digital
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by alwa 2y ago
Throw a high-grade air filter over the intake and you’ve got an air purifier, too!
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by alwa 2y ago
Or maybe, “I want to know the truth , not just what you believe I’d like to hear as truth Which seems… pretty reasonable to me. Both involve the other party substituting some vaguely patronizing judgment of theirs for the first party’s.

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