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by barrkel 2y ago
Inflation is increase in the cost of living. You've linked to a privately written article ("The views authors express in Economic Commentary are theirs and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland ") by
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by barrkel 2y ago
Indeed, why would you want to know if the keys to your correspondence, bank accounts, investment logins, crypto fortune, backup OTP codes or whatever you might be using a password for, are sent in the clear to a third party.
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by barrkel 2y ago
I agree that it's not realistic to expect cross-continent trips to be common, but I think there is a real difference in the west of the USA vs most of Europe. In the American central and western areas, things are more spread out and dr
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by barrkel 2y ago
Two things: capitalists don't not work; and if you have a sizeable portfolio, you may not need to work and may earn plenty of passive income, yet still work because you add more value at the margin working than fiddling with stock allo
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by barrkel 2y ago
Software engineer salaries and stock compensation can be enough to shift alignment somewhat, especially after many years of capital accumulation.
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by barrkel 2y ago
Be aware that ZFS performance rapidly drops off north of 80% utilization, when you head into 90%, you will want to buy a bigger array just to escape the pain.
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by barrkel 2y ago
If I had to hypothesize further, I'd say that macOS may let its DNS resolver cache interact with its TCP stack. It's not inconceivable that the TCP handshake is used to make a rough estimate of network latency.
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by barrkel 2y ago
When I travel in Germany I use a Deutsche Telekom pay as you go SIM in a 5G hotspot, and generally get about 200Mbit throughtput, which is far higher than you can expect any place you're staying to provide. It's €7 a day (or €100
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by barrkel 2y ago
My hypothesis: he's running on macOS and he's seeing the same behavior from Safari as from curl because they're both using OS-provided name resolution which is doing the lowest-latency selection. Firefox and Chrome use DNS ov
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by barrkel 2y ago
LLMs tend not to volunteer information without the right prompting. The more you yourself know, the better use you can get out of an LLM, because you can steer it in profitable directions. This article could just as easily have been found b
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by barrkel 2y ago
It's fantastic to look at an old newspaper from those times. Such an abundance and density of reading material.
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by barrkel 2y ago
What is coding? Actively typing in code, maybe 30 minutes long term average, with spikes up to 8 to 10 hours when the road ahead is clear and what to do is obvious, which happens about once a year for a few weeks. It's quite rare outsi
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by barrkel 2y ago
This is only a problem if you mistake words for scientific classifications, instead of ways to convey meaning between communicating humans. Very few people using the word "berry" are discussing scientific classifications. It would
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by barrkel 2y ago
Yeah, the Voodoo 1 converted a typically 320x240 pixel soup into 640x480 at about 60 fps - it was night and day, a 4x improvement. But 3dfx weren't really able to advance much. The Voodoo 2 and 3 were just more of the same, only faster
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by barrkel 2y ago
The contrast here is real: there are pixel space diffusion models and latent space diffusion models. Pixel space diffusion is slower because there's more redundant information.
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by barrkel 2y ago
The DB navigator app is actually decent. The one downside is it kicks you out to a website to book many international tickets, but you can still plan and track your journey delays etc. in the app.
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by barrkel 2y ago
Cars also have a huge subsidy in the form of roads
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by barrkel 2y ago
The amount of food you eat isn't a habit. And I don't know what it is that makes people obese, but I don't think it's simply "bad food" as in the stereotype of bad food. It seems clear enough to me that there i
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by barrkel 2y ago
It's the other way. When you eat more than your energy consumption rate, you're less hungry. When you eat less, you're more hungry. You think the activity would stop you getting obese, but it's actually that you aren&#x2
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by barrkel 2y ago
It's rather that if there's a continuous inflow of traffic that usually doesn't take one of the exits, then all traffic coming coming from that exit doesn't get a chance to join the roundabout. What usually happens is th
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by barrkel 2y ago
Nobody is thinking about converting the case of ASCII characters. To be thinking that, they are explicitly excluding most of the world's cultures from entering common names correctly. Restricting thought to ASCII is a lack of thought,
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by barrkel 2y ago
Self-sufficiency is poverty.
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by barrkel 2y ago
I guess military, oil rig workers etc. should stay out of their children's lives too, right?
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by barrkel 2y ago
It's often slightly more expensive to book direct but if you want to e.g. buy extra baggage at a discounted online rate (i.e. not an airport mugging), there is no guarantee that a third party will have a UI for that.
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by barrkel 2y ago
I named my son after him, and had to rename my cat after he was born - my cat is now Mr Cohen. I did not discover him, though, I grew up to the sound of Suzanne and the rest of the Songs, one of the tapes my mother played fairly regularly w
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by barrkel 2y ago
The word chosen at the end of the article: > I’m sure the international tax lawyers around the world are strategizing new tax evasion strategies even as I write these words. It should be clear that tax avoidance and evasion are quite d
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by barrkel 2y ago
Personalized to doesn't mean focused on; it means subjective and relative to the critic. The "social purpose of the critiques is universal" is saying that, in opposition to the disparate and varied, personalized , nature of
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by barrkel 2y ago
Read the second paragraph as if it's paraphrasing the people he's pointing at in the first paragraph. I found it quite clear. But then I agreed with it.
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by barrkel 2y ago
You are absolutely right that a large % of people, when confronted with evidence of the kind of obsessive focus required for unusual success, have mental antibodies activated which reject the message, to preserve their ego and sense of self
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by barrkel 2y ago
Don't forget about o1-mini. It seems better than o1-preview for problems that fit it (don't require so much real world knowledge).

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