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by arjie 5mo ago
Tragic. But spaceflight isn't easy. Easy to have your expectations shifted as a watching fan after so many successful launches in recent times.
902.
by arjie 5mo ago
One surprising thing I learned over time from news articles is that "won a judgment for $x from person y" actually doesn't mean very much in the US. The first thing that came to mind is a parachutist site in Lodi, but this on
903.
by arjie 5mo ago
This is a personal pet peeve though in a descriptive sense the language has moved past us https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-12-10/Trespass Personally, I have decided that The Lord's Prayer now
904.
by arjie 5mo ago
Okay so it reads: > A recipient of assistance under title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling. Okay, I'm glad that's killed. I love the speed cameras near my
905.
by arjie 5mo ago
Interesting. A $3m house is often valued at $300k so this is actually narrower than one would think. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/62-Beach-St-APT-2F-New-Yo... Wild that there are so many rich people in NYC. Truly
906.
by arjie 5mo ago
Fascinating. I was able to escape the suffering by simply not purchasing a top hat. An interesting lesson that the pursuit of conspicuous consumption is the root of one’s own suffering. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
907.
by arjie 5mo ago
These kinds of things are always full of psychoanalysis that I don't think actually qualifies. We've had beanie babies before. My daughter ran around and played on a large one at Taipei Taoyuan Airport and there were a few of them
908.
by arjie 5mo ago
Wait, Duck Duck Go has some 50 million MAUs and that went to 65 million MAUs or so. Google has 5 billion MAUs, so some 15/5000 users went to Duck Duck Go. That doesn't seem damning. 99.97% of Google users didn't go to DDG.
909.
by arjie 5mo ago
First of all, common people are not living paycheck to paycheck in the sense that they're at risk of not having money[0]. This is corporate content marketing that has entered the collective memory of people, not anything close to reali
910.
by arjie 5mo ago
The nomenclature that makes sense for me is that the agent is the combination of the harness and the model. The model provides text-completion, the harness provides the loop around it, and the agent is the full structure of both. However, n
911.
by arjie 5mo ago
This was one of my favourite games. City simulators took up an enormous amount of my childhood and I still dream about arcologies. When I see a modern development like Brentwood in Canada's BC or some older ones like along the river in
912.
by arjie 5mo ago
I had Claude Code implement this for me with the data and information from there and it seems all right. Maybe it works well for substitutions rather than recipe construction: https://viz.roshangeorge.dev/recipe-model/
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by arjie 5mo ago
It's so funny how those things go. By contrast, to go full social media, this is our condo building WhatsApp group in SF's SOMA district: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/File:Screenshot_Montage_-_Pa... I wond
914.
by arjie 5mo ago
Scott Alexander is a smart guy, but not everything needs to match taste. For instance, he describes the writer of the book Sadly, Porn as remarkably erudite and so on. The community he belongs to has the habit of describing each other as
915.
by arjie 5mo ago
There's a mod for Battletech (the video game) where people act realistically and it is catastrophically boring. The second you get sufficient advantage over an enemy they panic and promptly eject to save themselves at the cost of their
916.
by arjie 5mo ago
That's interesting. I suppose you can't run that kind of thing in an S-corp and pay yourself the regular salary. It's what I do. You have a W-2 and everything. But I'm doing the other kind of SW: software.
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by arjie 5mo ago
Seems to me that it is downstream from the fact that China's economy is growing strongly and strong state power means that they see infrastructural improvements. US and European governments reflect the views of their people which are g
918.
by arjie 5mo ago
Surely the purpose of Wikipedia is not to pay Wikipedia employees except where it serves Wikipedia's purpose of collecting knowledge. If a team is no longer required or is not fulfilling a function required of the organization, it make
919.
by arjie 5mo ago
My friends who have been there for many years are overall very wealthy and continue to earn enormous amounts. So the pay continues to be good.
920.
by arjie 5mo ago
It will be interesting to see what happens. One thing I really like about the US federal system is how each jurisdiction applies massive economic interventions. We get to run many experiments and see what happens. I recall that I was curiou
921.
by arjie 5mo ago
Where is this? Our dream is to live in the city for independent access to amenities and frequently visit the woods. I have the economical means for this but the city is not the thing people say. As an example, Taipei had zero traffic deaths
922.
by arjie 5mo ago
A skill is just a program for an LLM agent. This just seems like works-as-expected. Are the five lines in the skill notably innocuous or something? I don't mean to dismiss it out of hand but I don't understand what happened here b
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by arjie 5mo ago
Boy pricing is pretty nuts these days. I have half a petabyte in Seagate enterprise drives myself and I didn’t pay anything close to that to acquire it. Such a pity about the flash storage. 2 years ago we built 200 TiB or something of flash
924.
by arjie 5mo ago
The local stores in Japan and Taiwan are really nice. 7/11 and Family Mart are these pleasant places where you can see schoolchildren sitting chatting and eating. That’s not something you’d see in San Francisco. You’ll see adults with
925.
by arjie 5mo ago
But not in flash. I have an appreciable fraction of that but in spinning rust.
926.
by arjie 5mo ago
This can’t be right. 2 PB of flash is like $200k. It’s within reach of many individuals. Then again I guess you don’t need that much storage so maybe it is.
927.
by arjie 5mo ago
What is the actual procedure through which this happens? You buy the land and then are granted permission on a discretionary basis? It seems to me that if you were a small business this becomes much harder to participate in because you need
928.
by arjie 5mo ago
The way the Dutch deal with this is changing. The predominant view now is depolderization. Environmental concerns indicate that they should return the land to the sea.
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by arjie 5mo ago
Historically that doesn’t make sense. Usually by not relocating you can extract greater concessions from your fellow citizens. As an example, if you left Rancho Palos Verdes when signs showed up you could have bought an equivalent home. But
930.
by arjie 5mo ago
I do like using Rust quite a bit, but the presence of arbitrary build-time code in build.rs is very risky until we get better at implementing dev-time sandboxing.

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