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by arjie 3mo ago
Oh that's a fun fact. It reminds me of the comments on HN recently that pointed out that almost all photos of bicycles have them facing towards the right so that you can see all the parts. Same reason as on these locomotives. Indeed it
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by arjie 3mo ago
Haha, I agree. I always thought Corporate Memphis people looked extraordinarily fat. The colours chosen to accompany were always rather jarring too. But then again, I won't claim to be much of an artist. My wife was at Figma's con
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I think it's interesting how the superstars of a space dominate the design signal in it. Other parties trying to associate with the space are then forced to participate. The AI lab being a beige background with serif fonts and an abstr
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by arjie 3mo ago
To put actual numbers to "way more likely". Using https://www.bayareaequityatlas.org/indicators/experiencing-h... and the census. The rate is 42/10k for non-Hispanic White and 56/10k for all others
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Apparently it’s going to take the 3 of us to do this, mate. Going to get so much reading done.
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I can't believe "Rendering The First Frame..." is not "Reticulating Splines..." :) Cool UI.
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From London proper, it's best to take the train to the airports. If you're lucky you're flying out of London City Airport, but most of the time I'd go to Gatwick or Heathrow by train and it's a good way to get there
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by arjie 3mo ago
ULEZ cameras are also run by private contractors: Capita and Yunex. Is the entire objection centered around the distinction between owning vs. operating? i.e. if each city owned their network and used it (as ULEZ cameras are - in addition t
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by arjie 3mo ago
Yeah, maybe like 10:1 bot to human traffic. I'm just a rando blogger so I have principally machine readers - which is not a thing I mind. But I do use Cloudflare everywhere and I could just as well have PEBKACked a setting somewhere to
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by arjie 3mo ago
I used this for a bit and then some sites would just not work. I get it. It’s a hard thing to do and I admire it but getting blank result is far more frustrating than clicking accept each time.
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Good grief no. Using websites in the UK and the EU is an exercise in pain. Every single one of them has the doorway effect where you follow a link to them and you’re faced with some Subway sandwich grade range of choices to be made and you’
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by arjie 3mo ago
Yeah it’s quite common it seems. Similar to the ULEZ camera takedowns. And the ULEZ cameras were also supposedly a tool of government control. As were SF’s speed cameras. And so on and so forth. I am not convinced. I am happy with the speed
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by arjie 3mo ago
The wonder of modern representative democracies is the ability for people unlike me to extract progress for my objectives. I don’t require cos(them, me) = 1. I only require my objectives to progress more than they would under the alternativ
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by arjie 3mo ago
I think it is very funny that the author has decided to start with a layman’s introduction to the concept of resistance after saying that you need familiarity with the behavior of operational amplifiers. Who is in that category of familiari
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Well notably the loss of skin pigmentation evolved in two different ways after migration into Europe and separately into East Asia. There is strong selective pressure in Africa so pigmentation remains there. And lactase persistence is quite
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by arjie 3mo ago
Can’t agree with the premise. It seems that through changing regulatory regimes and technology a 1 in 10 chance is the economic optimum for this. Interesting stability, certainly, but I’d expect that as technology improves success rate, fun
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This is fine so long as it’s easy for me to turn off. I just don’t want to accidentally lose all AI traffic one day.
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I would imagine local credit is more expensive to access and doesn't have the pre-existing structure to account for more reliable collateral. Another user here[0] says that using cows as collateral is an old scam there. So either this
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It is actually interesting. A comparison that’s striking is the story of the song Bittersweet Symphony where all royalties and credits went to the Rolling Stones after they sampled 7 seconds. It seems like Jagger and Richards did eventual
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by arjie 3mo ago
I’m fond of the New Yorker ’s fiction section but there is this genre of “long-form writing” purporting to be non-fiction which is just text expansion that I too dislike. I think The Atlantic is probably the top example of this and I, li
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Some code bases better than others but the top models can.
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Looks like some developer just suggested an idea. Doesn’t seem concrete.
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I once had a scriptures class where I had to hit word count on an essay and replaced every instance of “Jesus” with “Jesus the only begotten Son of God who died on the cross so that we may be saved from our sins”. So, yes, humans can also e
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by arjie 3mo ago
Incredible. I missed the launch but exciting to see the remarkable success. Boy am I hoping we go to the Moon and to Mars and to all the other places!
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It’s just the end_conversation tool probably: https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations
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One nice thing but ChatGPT is that good image model means it can generate good infographics occasionally to illustrate. These become naturally compact in text.
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The home directory rm situation also adds credence to this take. The Claude series is much better aligned in comparison.
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Ah but it’s 1% that you bought though 2 out of 100 of the last flights crashed. You ask for a refund or you pull out the pandas to check the likelihood they aren’t living up to the promise?
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by arjie 3mo ago
You’re describing the “whale model”. The entire product is aimed at the few big participants and everyone else is brought there only because there’s a chance they might be one. So it’s a probabilistic thing. In any case, I don’t actually ag
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by arjie 3mo ago
You supply it to an LLM, I suppose. In my case, both my parents are surgeons so I have a highly aligned information source but with the most modern LLMs and good prompting discipline (you have to be good about encouraging anti-sycophancy et

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