ball_of_lint

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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
I've seen a lot of people complain recently that Claude outputs are super verbose - maybe this setting will help.
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
Instant pot went through bankruptcy, at least in part because they made a good durable product. The durability resulted in them not geting many repeat customers. People liked it so they bought one and it just worked for years and years, qui
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
Because there's (at least a perception of) less money to be made making a product that doesn't break within a few years. As an example of this, look up Instant Pot.
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
It shouldn't be illegal because it's stupid, it should be illegal because it's a needless artificial restriction that the product would be functionally identical without. It would literally have cost them less development tim
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
On the Bose one: Consider if your laptop was paired to it's specific charger and would refuse to charge with any other cable or charger. Lose or break your charger and suddenly your $2000+ laptop is irreparable. That seems obviously st
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
It turns out that best of 2 random draws outperforms best of 1, best of 3, and best of all in many load balancing scenarios: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html It's a bit unintuit
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
I find the technical reasons for this quite dubious.
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Reddit will require you to login to access old.reddit.com(reddit.com)
6 points by ball_of_lint 2mo ago|2 comments
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in... is the post announcing this. Probably this is a better post if it would link to the actual news and not insult me/you.
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
It's very unfortunate that this is the way ~every social media site is going. But ehh, I guess it'll _finally_ get me off of reddit though. Maybe I'll go try out Lemmy again.
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
Or you could have 10 pages, it actually copies 9, and reports 20 anyways.
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
Al Zimmerman ran some related contests last year: http://azspcs.com/Contest/ThoroughlyMagicHexagons http://azspcs.com/Contest/ThoroughlyMagicHexagons
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
I'm proud to say that I am person number 1089456347 who is not part of the statistical masses.
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
Jobs are the simplest and most striking example of incentives. "Do this and you will get money, which you can spend on food and shelter". Where a person living in abundance can choose to ignore monetary incentives, most people can
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by ball_of_lint 2mo ago
Does human nature explain the difference in regulation and therefore progress between US and China Pharma? I mean to say: Yes it's certainly a factor, but we're also leaving fences in our own way.
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by ball_of_lint 3mo ago
Oh it's so nuanced and hard to parse that he's arguing for compromise. The trouble is, compromise isn't really a tenable option with encryption. Either you make a draconian law that forces all electronic devices to run approv
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by ball_of_lint 3mo ago
This. Author does talk about a lot of facts but seems very defeatist wrt whether an anonymous, encrypted internet can be preserved. I do recognize their point that it's been made very hard to catch and prosecute cyber criminals. I thin
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by ball_of_lint 3mo ago
Wow, I'm surprised you can write a prescription from just a blog post.
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by ball_of_lint 3mo ago
Daniel Naroditsky is dead
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by ball_of_lint 3mo ago
Every argument in this thread comes from a value judgement? If you don't have personal privacy as a value then the answer is obvious - this is going to save kids from porn for no harm, let's usher it in. Only if you do value priva
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by ball_of_lint 3mo ago
Every one of those can be stepped over at the discretion of a parent. I can buy an M rated videogame for them. I can show them an R rated movie in theater. I can let them have wine. Plus the bulk of what you're referring to (ESRB ratin
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by ball_of_lint 4mo ago
A significant part of the cultural value of the internet comes from free anonymous expression. As a key example, look at 4chan - anonymity taken to it's extreme has resulted in on one hand yes a lot of disgusting stuff, but also a cult
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by ball_of_lint 4mo ago
Why do you or anyone besides me (and my partner) get to decide what is ok for my kid to see? If you want your kids to not see porn on the internet, cool. Don't give them Internet access. You don't need to make the internet worse f
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by ball_of_lint 4mo ago
I linked it in my direct reply, but - we don't need to guess at why these bills are being introduced or who by. We have evidence. It's malice. https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1rsn1tm
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by ball_of_lint 4mo ago
I strongly disagree. You're framing this as some desirable thing that could be good except that a bad implementation erodes privacy. That's wrong at every step. These bills originate from big tech such as Meta that literally profi
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by ball_of_lint 4mo ago
Probably Grip?
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by ball_of_lint 4mo ago
This is simply not true. Pride flags. Edit: Also the Esperanto Flag.
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
In my (possibly flawed) understanding, it's a franchise so they were able to dissolve the LLC that owned this particular store. The franchise is what has physical possession of the lego and signed the consignment contract.
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
The police are literally in on it. It's very likely they've violated Ben's civil rights, roughly at the behest of the new franchise owners (who they know personally through the LDS church). I hate to say 'details in part
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by ball_of_lint 5mo ago
3x/week is wild. I'd get a different type of grass at that point.

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