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by benced 2y ago
Be prepared to up your water intake significantly. In particular, I started sleeping near a full bottle of water.
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by benced 2y ago
You switched from representing consumers to representing a political stance around web standards real fast.
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by benced 2y ago
"only" is a really strong statement. Off the top of my head, here's a few situations where Apple makes things worse for the end-consumer: - Any case where Apple builds a competing product and charges a cut to the competitor t
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by benced 2y ago
This assumes the only thing that can make software worse for consumers is the developers that Apple "checks".
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by benced 2y ago
I mostly agree but I think iOS/Android/Windows (and maybe MacOS) are so important to our economy that they represent a difference in kind and should be regulated more stringently. I don't really care if vacation rentals are m
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by benced 2y ago
It's been nonstop lies from opponents, especially South Bay opponents of this technology with the tiniest kernel of truth that Cruise has not been very responsible. I still can't get over San Mateo County flatly lying about Waymo
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by benced 2y ago
A little nicer but not something I'd pay for if it wasn't driverless. It's significantly more spacious than a Civic though.
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by benced 2y ago
As a cyclist, I trust the Waymos significantly more than human drivers to not hit me (I've been biking in SF since Jan and already had 3 unsafe incidents). The more, the better, I say.
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by benced 2y ago
I just asked GPT 4o to do the following and it succeeded: > Write me JS code that generates a random list of 10 prime numbers, takes the sine of each (as radians), then takes the cosine of each of those values (as degrees) and then adds
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by benced 2y ago
Seems kinda wild that it took 2 years post the big sanctions for this to happen?
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by benced 2y ago
There's a slight difference between cancelling a building in Austin and not building the most precise factory known to man in an active war zone.
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by benced 2y ago
Larger creatures have long gestation cycles and tend to be very sensitive to any any changes. Even killing a few pregnant females a year could have been enough in a given region.
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by benced 2y ago
At this point, I regard most efforts in this direction as silly and ill-fated attempts to exonerate us. I'm not entirely sure why either.
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by benced 2y ago
I like the idea of using JWTs as opaque tokens. It sets you up nicely to migrate to using them semantically and there's very little downside (you just need a JWT library where the tokens are minted and then it's just string equali
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by benced 2y ago
I would find this persuasive if I could find a single mention of this bug in either of the GitLab threads or the original blog post. Also, what was the bug?
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by benced 2y ago
iTerm has had a font fetcher, a crash reporter, and an automatic updater that all hit the internet for a while. Did anyone care? Is there anybody who turned off the crash reporter but started a fairly mean-spirited thread that the crash rep
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by benced 2y ago
Because they’re going beyond their personal preference - which could be fulfilled by never using this feature - by trying to press their legitimate preferences onto others by blackballing companies that even touch LLMs.
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by benced 2y ago
I agree, you should be roughly 50-50 in terms of pressure.
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by benced 2y ago
It's not a war crime but it is against the 1951 and 1967 refugee conventions, both of which Egypt is a signatory to. I wish more time was spent lambasting them for that.
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by benced 2y ago
$6M... isn't that much?
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by benced 2y ago
I wish we had gotten a resolution on whether that report from the Guardian was correct. Regardless, Apple says that credits make up only about 25% of their reduced emissions.
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by benced 2y ago
It bums me out that the way to get rich via AI is to throw an OpenAI API key at a SaaS app, not solving fundamental hard science problems.
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by benced 2y ago
Folks will probably enjoy Matt Lakeman's series on whaling https://mattlakeman.org/2021/06/01/everything-you-might-want...
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by benced 2y ago
Yes, I agree that I was always talking about whether this was good or bad for California. You then provided arguments against non-competes: > Some of those non-competes were ridiculous with their "in perpetuity throughout the ends o
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by benced 2y ago
There's no Taiwanese silicon industrial complex, there's TSMC. The rest of Taiwanese fabs are irrelevant. Intel is the clear #3 (and looks likely-ish to overtake Samsung? We'll see).
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by benced 2y ago
Apple has committed that all of its products will be carbon-neutral - including emissions from charging during their lifetime - by 2030. The Apple Watch is already there. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09&#x2F
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by benced 2y ago
The San Francisco Compute Company has been plastering their name at the 4th and King Caltrain station with a similar thesis: https://sfcompute.com/
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by benced 2y ago
That sounds great for the consumers of optometry services in your area.
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by benced 2y ago
That report does not show it to be false. Imagine if someone was selling a widget for $10 and their cost of materials is $8. Then, let's say their cost of materials increases to $10 and they raise their price to $13. Their gross profit
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by benced 2y ago
I reassembled (using their original report: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/p162318supplych... ) the data they used to create those numbers here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/g

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