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by alwa 10mo ago
Then again I understood exactly what it was saying every time, which is more than I can say for some of the other traffic on that recording. I’m not sure synthetic-sounding means bad here.
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by alwa 10mo ago
Then again, some governing actually does need to get done. That’s not much time to do anything that requires patient coordination and thorough consideration—especially anything of any complexity—even when people broadly agree that it needs
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by alwa 10mo ago
Cash requires in-person exchange. To use it electronically, you’d need to participate in the formal banking sector. Many people can’t or don’t. Instead you can take your cash to any of a large number of retailers and acquire a card that sit
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by alwa 10mo ago
> This is exactly the behavior that “never happens from a legitimate business” except when it does by the tens of billions of dollars. > As Bits about Money has frequently observed, people who write professionally about money—inclu
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by alwa 10mo ago
I read it as a more-or-less kind comment: “even though you’ll notice that they let an AI make the writing terrible, the underlying point is good enough to be worth struggling through that and discussing”
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by alwa 10mo ago
They claim 75% efficiency AC-AC [0], and they point out that there’s no degradation with time. What estimates are you using to arrive at the 25% figure? [0] https://energydome.com/co2-battery/
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by alwa 10mo ago
Paste my private keys into a form control on the web? What could go wrong?
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by alwa 10mo ago
I admire your attitude and the clarity of your thought. It’s not as if today’s juniors won’t have their own hairy situations to struggle through, and I bet those struggles will be where they learn too. The problem space will present struggl
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by alwa 10mo ago
How do you suppose the old guard are filling their days now? At some level, aren’t you describing the age-old process of maturing from junior to mid level to senior in most lines of work, and in most organizations? Isn’t that what advancing
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by alwa 10mo ago
I can’t put my finger on anything within the last decade, but I seem to recall it running in something close to its current form on a single core on a single server for a long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52295
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by alwa 10mo ago
Or an upstart AI firm trying to puff up a forthcoming marketing piece, gushing about how they’ve made Internet backbone engineers obsolete. “Our AI invented its own AI-native protocol for other AIs, see? Far beyond human comprehension, but
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by alwa 10mo ago
In some places where I’ve lived, local LE mounts ALPR systems atop most of their fleet. Those read “formal” plates as vehicles pass near the cruiser, and they proactively alert against a watchlist. Which presumably somebody’s hooked up to p
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by alwa 10mo ago
I sure do like the way the Supreme Court sets its type [0]. I’d always imagined it must be laid out in the way you describe, with a LaTeX transform or something—it sounds like it’s really a manual kind of affair? Of course the first comment
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by alwa 10mo ago
That’s my sense too. I wonder where the new foca are starting to form, as far as where people will look to serve the purposes that this slop’s infiltrating. What the inevitable alternatives to the New Inevitable start to look like. At the r
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by alwa 10mo ago
As a recent example, Jon Haidt seems to have used this kind of tactic to pull off a coup with the whole kids/smartphones/social media thing [0]. Everybody knew social media tech was corrosive and soul-rotting, but nobody could mov
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by alwa 10mo ago
The behavior that this article outlines is outrageous. But it makes me uncomfortable for this to be the kind of place where anonymous strangers self-investigate lurid allegations against random accused, no matter how disturbing the allegati
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by alwa 10mo ago
I imagine it’s a nod to the way the stated goal would normally be pursued, but in this case is not. It sounds like a good idea to establish a uniform national policy! And the federal government can do that (although only for the very specif
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by alwa 10mo ago
My impression was that their update cadence is ~never and that the Jelly Max is rather closer to iPhone-SE-sized. The last one I handled was for ephemeral use on a trip abroad. It was durable, functional, and it worked wonders as far as bre
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by alwa 10mo ago
Ha!! That may be the first time I've been cited in a search result! I'm flattered :) Though of course Google's Gemini-whatever does manage to subtly miss the mark even there: I said (and think) that the typing experience is
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by alwa 10mo ago
Not quite right, but not quite wrong, no? The pattern seems similar, but I think of litotes (as the Wikipedia article suggests) as a rhetorical device: the assertion-by-negation carries an ironic charge, and strikes the (Western) ear by sta
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by alwa 10mo ago
Except that it always used to work well on the SE / 13 mini form factor. That was part of the original iPhone-vs-BlackBerry magic, wasn’t it? It’s phenomenally hard to make typing work on a soft keyboard, especially at that size, and
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by alwa 11mo ago
A silly name, but I’ve definitely watched peers coax sensible results out of braggadocious LLMs… and also watched friends say “make me an app that enters the TPS report data for me” (or “make fully playable Grand Theft Auto, but on Mars”) a
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by alwa 11mo ago
I do think it would be useful to normalize pasting a link to the full transcript if you’re going to quote an LLM. Both because I do find it useful to examine others’ prompting techniques, and because that gives me the context to gauge the r
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by alwa 11mo ago
I tend to trust the voting system to separate the wheat from the chaff. If I were to try and draw a line, though, I’d start at the foundation: leave room for things that add value, avoid contributions that don’t. I’d suggest that line might
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by alwa 11mo ago
Aren’t some of these “accommodations” for “disabilities” things as simple as, like, asking their professors not to put them on the spot in class if they have crippling social anxiety? Because while that might “toughen up” some people, with
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by alwa 11mo ago
But, like—isn’t the bleaker thing that that seems so existential of an outcome? The vast majority don’t go to Stanford. The vast majority of those aren’t valedictorian. And the vast majority of that vast majority’s lives in the US work out,
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by alwa 11mo ago
I’d be curious what you identified as the shortcomings of e.g. MSF or Mondragon. I might throw semi-decentralized social ventures like the IFRC in the mix there too: that emblem alone sure carries an almost-talismanic degree of social weigh
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by alwa 11mo ago
[0] seems to be dated 1994–is it still current? I’m curious how it’s evolved (or not) through the rather dramatic demographic shifts there over the intervening 30 years
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by alwa 11mo ago
I tend to agree: I don’t understand what the “one-off app” is trying to achieve. In the example of the rental apartment—the user specified the parameters in the query. Just apply them, right? I offer this in the spirit of feeling like I’m m
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by alwa 11mo ago
It counted up the tokens that users on “unlimited” Max/Pro plans consumed through CC, and calculated what it would cost to buy that number of tokens through the API. $60K in a month was unusual (and possibly exaggerated); amounts in th

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