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by apothegm 2y ago
A single income household with a homemaking parent requires that wages or salaries be offered that can support an entire family on a single income. In most states, minimum wage (and even most hourly jobs that pay above minimum wage) isn’t e
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by apothegm 2y ago
Are these less useless for translation than f-strings?
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by apothegm 2y ago
More likely they’re used as an excuse to roll back workforce protections, child labor protections, minimum wages, environmental protections, and consumer protections to the levels in the countries that have been producing these goods until
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by apothegm 2y ago
There’s a book called The Mom Test that you might find useful.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Thanks! So this could actually be worth running on a mid-specced recentish Mac laptop?
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by apothegm 2y ago
What sort of hardware is needed to run a model like this at a vaguely useful speed?
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by apothegm 2y ago
Why not both?
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by apothegm 2y ago
Shorter sentences are better for communicating information in a way that’s easy to absorb. Longer sentences can help establish tone and mood in certain ways. But if you’re accustomed to shorter sentences they can be offputting. As a teen so
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by apothegm 2y ago
I agree with you on the plague of financialization. Just not that it’s driven by government debt. My take is that it’s caused by growing inequality and trickle-up redistribution of money from those who don’t have enough to spend to those wh
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by apothegm 2y ago
Better cats in a place where you get food than mice and rats, which are the alternative.
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by apothegm 2y ago
I am astonished and delighted to see a reasoned and reasonable stance on keto on HN!
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by apothegm 2y ago
There are always people for whom renting is a better idea than ownership. Especially younger people and many single people, but also those who want to be able to move easily for career or family reasons. Also, capital upkeep and repairs are
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by apothegm 2y ago
We might be able to help you find alternatives more easily if you told us what it does in the first place.
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by apothegm 2y ago
There’s a huge and worsening shortage of people in trades in major cities as people who would have gone into them a generation and a half ago have increasingly been choosing college and white collar work instead. As a result, they can charg
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by apothegm 2y ago
Thank you!
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by apothegm 2y ago
> using RAG not for its ability to expose more info to the model than can fit in context, but rather for its ability to hide info from the model until its "discovered" in some way Would you be willing to expand on this?
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by apothegm 2y ago
Coke zero is still murder on your teeth, though. (And not fluoridated, of course.)
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by apothegm 2y ago
Sadly, an alarming percentage of Americans don't drink water. I’ve spoken to way too many people who think water tastes wrong because it’s not sweet enough.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Just starting, for 95% of products I recommend a Heroku-alike. Don’t worry about scaling or scalability until you’ve figured out your PMF. Don’t invest in the infrastructure involved in affordable scaling. Just build. At most, containerize
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by apothegm 2y ago
Wouldn’t a millibyte be a thousandth of a byte?
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by apothegm 2y ago
That will fall to pieces executing basic maneuvers?
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by apothegm 2y ago
On the other hand, retail and fast food also are blue collar. I’m guessing most older people aren’t quitting the rat race to do things that are tough on the joints the way trades are. (Acknowledging that retail and fast food do require a lo
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by apothegm 2y ago
Of course, a lot more people at age 55 back then were eligible for social security or corporate pensions than now. So not working was something they could choose to do not out of despair but for the sake of enjoying a comfortable retirement
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by apothegm 2y ago
Here’s just hoping that we all get the chance to not do it again. I haven’t really gotten the impression that our current overlords are big on free and fair elections.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Find somewhere else that better values the less quantifiable ways you contribute?
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by apothegm 2y ago
Also bank loan. But risk. “Friends and family”/angel investors, too.
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by apothegm 2y ago
“Strategically”?
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by apothegm 2y ago
They use that telemetry to understand how users in aggregate use the product so they can prioritize maintenance and improvements. Like any other software. Anyway, you can disable that telemetry in the prefs UI with a single click.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Anything too complex for the dead simple calculator on my phone ends up in a spreadsheet. I’m not generally graphing anything or doing complex calculus, tho. Mostly finances. For algebra, geometry, and any calculus that’s about manipulatin
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by apothegm 2y ago
> Removal of all telemetry within the browser. May I ask what telemetry this refers to? What telemetry is bundled with Firefox that can’t be easily disabled in prefs?

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