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by api 6mo ago
Aviation is a few percent of global emissions. All aviation. It’s probably the hardest thing to replace but if we can’t we will be okay. Long haul trucking and shipping and remote site power are probably the next hardest things, and maybe c
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by api 6mo ago
Think about browser fingerprinting. Every little bit of info is literally one more bit, so by the time you get to 32 bits you’ve narrowed it down to one in four billion. An oversimplification but that’s the idea. Being strongly private onli
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by api 7mo ago
I call it being an edgelord, and it’s a great way to get attention, and it worked because we are talking about it.
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by api 7mo ago
I'm not really hating on NYC so much as the pretentious gravitas machine that seems to be permanently stuck on early-mid 20th century avant garde tropes and derivatives of them. There just happens to be a crapload of that in New York,
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by api 7mo ago
Yes, it is, and that's the irony, making it meta, which makes it the very kind of pretentious bullshit it is critiquing, which makes it brilliant, which also makes it bullshit, which is amusing. It's great satire. A version of thi
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by api 7mo ago
Someone should make a site for literature, music, art, etc. that uses a filter to exclude anything from New York. I mean it's not like everything from New York is bad, but even the good stuff there is eclipsed by the sheer volume and a
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by api 7mo ago
Utilities and roads out into the suburban may be underpriced, but there’s a dark side to cities too. The suburbs and rural areas are often where people can afford homes. I’ve had this hypotheses for a long time that the car is, at least eco
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by api 7mo ago
Every use case isn’t security critical. There’s a lot of AI used to render silly images and films, generate marketing copy, play games, proofread social media posts, etc. You solve this by charging a little more for security certified AI th
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by api 7mo ago
In cold climate markets with a lot of fiber or other very fast access like very good 5G, why don’t AI companies or their cloud vendors market home or building scale heating compute nodes? They could be built so that they exhaust waste heat
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by api 7mo ago
A huge amount of nonfiction writing, especially nonfiction books, feels padded to length. It’s something I’ve gotten out of AI. Summarize, please, and it’s pretty good at extracting the key ideas. If I want a story I read fiction, which is
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by api 7mo ago
We love solutions to housing that sound good but won’t work, like rent control and subsidizing demand. Building more is unpopular because it would actually work. The same goes for homelessness. Feel good sound good solutions are popular. Ho
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by api 7mo ago
I’ve wondered before if the idea that life originated on Earth might be the last geocentrism to fall. Speculation of course, but it would fit a certain historical pattern. Maybe life is all over the damn place, just a thing that happens und
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by api 7mo ago
Some of the groups around Asheville were "eco villages" that could get rather culty, including the kinds of high control abuses that occur in cults. All groups weren't like this but I recall hearing some crazy stories involvi
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by api 7mo ago
But that’s “natural.” This is the underlying idea, that nature absent human influence is inherently more pure and good. I used to associate antivax with the loony left and with primitivism, which is the idea that if we abandon technology an
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by api 7mo ago
It’s an extremely privileged kind of nostalgia. Only the wealthy can romanticize poverty. The solution to nostalgia for farming is for people to try it. I used to live in Asheville NC years ago. There were a lot of hippie back to the land t
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by api 7mo ago
The answer is that most people did not live like what you remember. For most of the last many thousands of years most people worked very hard for very little and died young of disease and war. If you got injured or sick there was no real he
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by api 7mo ago
Made me coin a term. Ad hominllm : the dismissal of a work or an argument because an LLM was, or may have been, used in its construction or editing.
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by api 7mo ago
The solution is to have your bot read the sloppypasta for you!
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by api 7mo ago
Yes, it’s next level and clearly a period of decline. This is Nero and Caligula stuff. We’ve been sliding this way for a while. It doesn’t mean this is the end of the USA. All civilizations go through ups and downs. This is, at least cultur
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by api 7mo ago
That was my oil pipeline and he broke it! Did not! Did too! But he drove his tank on my side! That’s not your side! That’s my side! Is not!
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by api 7mo ago
I’ll admit to having done that before. Sure. When people say you’re wrong it triggers cognitive dissonance and social threat brain stem stuff that had to be consciously mediated. Even if you’re someone who makes an effort to do this it can
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by api 7mo ago
One thing you learn growing up is that there, in a sense, are no such thing as grownups. Nobody knows what they are doing in the sense we think they do when we are kids.
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by api 7mo ago
That’s the difference though. Put macOS on a phone chip and it’s now a “real computer,” just a smaller one. The M chips are mostly just roided out A chips: higher clocks, better cooling, more P cores, big GPU, and I think deeper pipelines a
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by api 7mo ago
Are they unique? What would happen to an ordinary person if you gave them a billion dollars? One of the things this does is gets you surrounded by supplicants and yes-men trying to tell you what you want to hear to get your money. It destro
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by api 7mo ago
Other than UI and other surface differences, the fundamental distinction between a Mac and an iDevice is... what it is. A Mac is a real computer. I can run any code I want on it. I have root. An iDevice is like a game console. I can only ru
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by api 7mo ago
That's one of the most disappointing things to me. These people have such resources and the limit of their vision is: bang young girls, accumulate bling, push divisive hateful politics, start wars. That's it. That's the best
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by api 7mo ago
This could also be done with a fair amount of commercial software, especially anything that's basically a wrapper around APIs, databases, etc.
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by api 7mo ago
Any pattern executed robotically like this becomes a self parody.
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by api 7mo ago
The pre-Internet BBS era is something I remember fondly. I was a kid, so there's that halo effect of course, but I loved the indie DIY nature of it and the diversity and community you'd get. There's a site called textfiles.co
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by api 7mo ago
I'm a bit in the middle. I enjoy the craft but I also seek and enjoy the result. The thing about AI is that you don't have to use it for everything. Like any other tool you can use it as much as you'd like. Even though I like

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