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by benzible 9mo ago
I would love to use this but it breaks Ghostty's native scrollback (two-finger scroll), which I want more than I want to solve the flickering. The PTY proxy intercepts the output stream so Ghostty can't access its internal scrollb
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by benzible 10mo ago
You may be confusing jameslk with me - I'm actually the one who linked the CASPEH exec summary. Your underemployment math is interesting, but I'd note the study also reports 34% have limitations in daily activities, 22% mobility l
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by benzible 10mo ago
[niche professional vertical] in my response was a stand-in for the specific vertical my startup targets, which is light years from computer security. Computer security is a vertical where the practitioners are often developers or developer
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by benzible 10mo ago
The OSS point doesn't apply to every vertical. Open source applications come about when developers scratch their own itch. Developer tools, infrastructure, general purpose CRMs, project management get OSS alternatives because developer
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by benzible 10mo ago
I've read Manufacturing Consent more than once - it's one of my favorite books and Chomsky one of my favorite thinkers (really dismayed that he associated with Epstein but I digress). Anyway, you've got it backwards. The prop
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by benzible 10mo ago
UCSF published a comprehensive study of homelessness in California in 2023 [1]. A few relevant points: The ~1/3 substance use figure holds up (31% regular meth use, 24% report current substance-related problems). But the study found ro
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by benzible 10mo ago
> All credibility goes to the journalist . People is just a brand that hires journalists of a wide variety of credibility, like any publisher. That's not how any of this works. Publications have editorial standards, fact-checking p
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by benzible 10mo ago
The Bob Lee comparison doesn't really hold up. The "random street crime" narrative there was driven primarily by right-wing tech executives on social media - Musk, Sacks, etc. - not by news outlets making factual claims. Fox
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by benzible 10mo ago
I don’t have a news app. That was a maybe too subtle bit of sarcasm aimed at the guy I was responding too who is apparently the creator of a news app called Particle, and who mentioned that he is following the news of these deaths on Partic
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by benzible 10mo ago
I'm CTO at a vertical SaaS company, paired with a product-focused CEO with deep domain expertise. The thesis doesn't match my experience. For one thing, the threat model assumes customers can build their own tools. Our end users c
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by benzible 10mo ago
I had the same thought almost immediately about being thankful that Carl Reiner wasn't around to see this. Related, I love how close Mel and Carl were until the end: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/feb
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by benzible 10mo ago
> Thanks. I’ve been following unfolding coverage at https://particle.news/share/lRL-d but hadn’t caught the Rolling Stone article. I've been following it on my own news app as well, just didn't share a lin
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by benzible 10mo ago
Here's another independent report: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/rob-rei... Also, People is credible for this type of reporting. They're owned by a major company, IAC, and they don
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by benzible 10mo ago
Reportedly killed by their son, who had struggled with addiction: https://people.com/rob-reiner-wife-michele-were-killed-by-so... > In a 2016 interview with PEOPLE, Nick spoke about his years-long struggle with drug addi
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by benzible 11mo ago
Unfortunately, 600K people and counting are no longer in a condition to be restored... > As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them chil
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by benzible 11mo ago
Dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032539 [edit: not a dup!]
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by benzible 11mo ago
The one-time head of the most elite academic institution as well as the US Treasury is an insecure 12 year old boy at heart. Summers clearly saw Epstein as aspirational for his "success" with "women". But this isn't
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by benzible 11mo ago
Yep, it's David Lee Roth's brown M&M trick https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-did-van-hale...
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by benzible 11mo ago
I'm sure you have a list of things that you would not want to be "one typo away" from.
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by benzible 11mo ago
This was done by adding instructions to the system prompt context, not through training data manipulation. xAI confirmed a modification was made to “the Grok response bot’s prompt on X” that directed it to provide specific responses on this
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by benzible 11mo ago
I'm confused. You're commenting on an article where a progressive writer critiques AI as "Dunning-Kruger as a service" and attacks techno-optimism, while claiming progressives can't critique new technology. The auth
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by benzible 11mo ago
https://archive.is/bDc8R
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by benzible 11mo ago
These weren't inherently $15M properties - obviously price is no object for him and once he started buying adjacent properties the prices went way up. Zuckerberg paid $14 million in 2013 for a 2,600 sq ft house that was valued at $3.17
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by benzible 1y ago
Cool concept, but I picture Quibbler as an off-brand Batman villain.
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by benzible 1y ago
I haven't read "The Innovators" but I've heard good things about it. However, Isaacson's recent Musk biography was pretty widely acknowledged as being a hagiography, and the NY Times reporters who wrote "Charac
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by benzible 1y ago
I've enjoyed this exchange, but I think we've hit a point where our worldviews lead us to different conclusions about probabilities. You're drawing a distinction between "technical change decisions" and strategic on
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by benzible 1y ago
If you enjoyed this, you might check out "Hackers" by Steven Levy. I read it as a kid when I was first getting into programming, and revisited it recently. It really held up for me. The book traces hacker culture from the MIT AI L
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by benzible 1y ago
I'm hungry for good news about technical solutions working - especially right now when Trump just killed the US's largest solar project (6.2 GW in Nevada), ended USDA solar support for farms, and posted "We will not approve..
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by benzible 1y ago
You just moved the goalposts from "I have literally 0 times in my career observed a change like this come from the top" to "well of course the C-suite makes those decisions - that's their purview." Which is it? And
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by benzible 1y ago
Where did I claim my personal experience gave me insight into C-suite decisions? I haven't appealed to personal experience for anything - I've cited court rulings, financial data, and documented executive behavior. But since you&#

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