antisthenes

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by antisthenes 4mo ago
You really don't understand that some people will interpret any comment in a competitive environment negatively? It's just a bad culture fit. > It’s not the community’s fault for being toxic. What's toxic to A can be good
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by antisthenes 4mo ago
This is a classic take by a non-competitive player that would be better suited playing PvE or campaign games. That being said, there's nothing wrong with that. Just understand that when people are trying to win, they have skin in the g
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by antisthenes 4mo ago
Wrong. As an average owner I have 0 pull on the local council that instates building codes.
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by antisthenes 4mo ago
> I can sleep, eat, shower, and meditate just as well in the middle of a deadly riot Good for you. I can't. Some people need quiet conditions to focus or sleep and if they don't it feels like active torture.
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by antisthenes 4mo ago
> i said it's a small part of the cost, almost negligible compared to the cost to actually build Actually building is the same as building to regulations. Regulations make it more expensive. You can't just hand-wave separate th
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by antisthenes 4mo ago
Yes, great. Now ask the "why" housing is not being built. And then ask the next "why".
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by antisthenes 4mo ago
It's not deflection to take a reasoned stoic sense. That's just nonsense being pushed by social media to convince you to be upset (or ecstatic) about something.
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by antisthenes 4mo ago
It just depends on the size. I know of several 1000+ acre parks that would be essentially considered wild areas with the exception of a few hiking paths. They are full of wildlife ranging from small rodents to bears.
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
I think you have grazed my stance on this topic in the sense of what separates LLMs from complete human (or any other biological life) sentience. It's the constant sensory input of the world and the realization and drive to survive as
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens. The Onion article should have really been written about the Healthcare system, which every week does more damage to Americans than all of mass shootings have
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
It's insane we've somehow come back to 8GB RAM laptops in 2026. I have an old circa ~2012 era Dell Latitude Laptop with 16GB in it. While it may not be powerful enough to play modern games or anything and may not run Win 11 (altho
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
Do you know anything about Palantir and their CEO's stances?
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
> with a 30 year mortgage you lose like 50% the value of the home in interest payments. You don't lose anything. The interest is the price you pay for the time value of the loan given to you. You also get a tax break on at least 200
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
More specifically than Unions, it was the threat of violence (in extreme cases) and work stoppage by workers against the ownership class. E.g. the Russian Revolution (one of the main workers' requests in the events leading up to the Re
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
Nothing new here. 12100F was the ultra-budget gaming king 4 years ago and still is now (efficiency too). Unless you need 6 physical cores for productivity, in which case the 5500 is best (way cheaper per core too at $70/6).
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
Why in the world does a CPAP machine need a modem?
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
> At that point, is the person still even a person? He's nothing more but a meat RPA, copy pasting responses. You can say nearly the same of someone obsessed with social media and brain-rot. If you don't actively resist, soon y
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
In my experience lifting weights helps you grow enough muscle to actually be able to do 600 minutes of cardio. With small/insufficient muscle size, you simply run out of stored glycogen before you get tired cardiovascularly. > Becau
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
What's the cheapest PC you can buy today that will comfortably run Gemma 4 and everything else you want it to run at the same time? And how many tokens would that buy?
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
That happens on Windows as well. Twice in 1 year I've had my bootloader entry just disappear after a reboot. No idea what happened. Wasn't tied to any particular update either. If I were non-technical, it would ruin my week.
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
Does it ever end? I got bored before seeing the "leaderboards" or whatever. Also, some of these things are definitely not like the others.
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
Yes, I appreciate the expanded list. I should have clarified that industrial fertilizers (and other modern Ag) come from non-renewable fossil fuel exploitation, just as the 90% of the things you listed. Antibiotics and GMO crops are nice to
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
They still exist. You just need to be content with smaller communities.
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
> The classic example of how drastically this kind of thinking can fail is Malthusian theory, that populations would collapse because food growth was linear while population growth was exponential. This was true for all of history until
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
Reversion to the mean strikes again! Dangit!
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by antisthenes 5mo ago
> it's correct to say that it's being smug. It's not correct to say that it's being smug, because when people are being smug, we do it for a purpose - e.g. to signal higher social status or superior knowledge. A machi
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by antisthenes 6mo ago
> We're here to have conversations with people, not to prove fact beyond a reasonable doubt. Maybe you are. I like getting to a reasonably correct model of a topic or issue. Bad human takes can still be useful here. I just get inevi
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by antisthenes 6mo ago
> Would you enjoy the experience of telling your LLM “make a HN-style comment thread on $subject with 200 comments, no trolls please” The reason I'm not simulating the experience with an LLM is because: 1. It costs more time to do s
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by antisthenes 6mo ago
> I am not quite there with Hacker News but I do know for a fact that many "users" here are LLMs. This just makes me wonder...so what? Some of the oldest posters here with the most karma continue to post absolute garbage takes
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by antisthenes 6mo ago
> Go look at the demographics of the last election and then tell me which groups shouldn't be allowed to vote The group that uses the rhetoric like "which groups shouldn't be allowed to vote". You tell me which one th

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