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by bhelkey 5mo ago
> I still haven't heard a solid explanation of how taxing loans as "income" is going to work. The idea is that taking a secured loan out using an asset as collateral would be a taxable event for that asset. That is to say,
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by bhelkey 5mo ago
I don't believe this is accurate. From the wiki: > The caps at both poles consist primarily of water ice. Frozen carbon dioxide accumulates as a comparatively thin layer about one meter thick on the north cap in the northern winter,
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by bhelkey 5mo ago
Maybe a dumb question, why do electric cars have issues with water? My understanding was that ICE cars have trouble because water get's drawn into the engine. Water in the engine causes it to stall. And the engine must have air in flow
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by bhelkey 5mo ago
Mars also has two polar ice caps [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_polar_ice_caps
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by bhelkey 5mo ago
Ollama works with Claude Code: $ ollama launch claude --model qwen3.5 [1] [1] https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/claude-code
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by bhelkey 6mo ago
I think it was a joke that 98.59% has 2 '9's: 9X.X9%.
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by bhelkey 6mo ago
Can't you use Claude Code without a Claude model? E.g. can't you use this with a local model? Folks are assuming that only the $100 plan will include Claude Code access. I think a more likely scenario is that everyone will be able
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by bhelkey 6mo ago
There wasn't always an external resource to go to for help. Especially for legacy pieces of software, it was easy to become the person with most context on the team.
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by bhelkey 6mo ago
There was not a single moment in time in which all nuclear power plants were simultaneously shut down. The shut down was gradual [1]. 2011 is relevant because it is when the German government decided to phase out its remaining nuclear power
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by bhelkey 6mo ago
> Nuclear energy was at the same time very expensive and only a very small percentage of the energy production The Guardian reports that Nuclear power produced ~20% of Germany's electricity in 2011. [1] https://www.thegua
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by bhelkey 7mo ago
I don't agree with your framing but let's accept it for the sake of this conversation. The UK and Japan are not the only countries with more efficient healthcare systems than the US. We can look at a variety of countries, some of
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by bhelkey 7mo ago
Public perception is that the US is not willing to pay for universal healthcare. However, the US spends enough money, it just spends it inefficiently. The US spends ~$900 Billion a year on Medicaid [1] and ~$1.1 Trillion a year on Medicare
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by bhelkey 7mo ago
I would love to see DDR4 vs DDR5 bitflips. As I understand it DDR5 must come with some level of ECC [1]. [1] https://www.corsair.com/us/en/explorer/diy-builder/memory/is...
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by bhelkey 7mo ago
I believe the fee is only 20% if you use a third party billing system. If one uses Google to process the payments the fee would be 25% (20% service fee + 5% billing fee) [1]. [1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/202
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by bhelkey 7mo ago
The article is confusingly worded. I think Google's announcement is more clear [1]. My read is: * Developers using Google to process payments should expect to go from a 30% fee to a 25% fee (20% service fee + 5% billing fee). * Subscri
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by bhelkey 8mo ago
Is this sarcasm? The US held elections during World War II [1]. [1] https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-...
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by bhelkey 8mo ago
> The iOS keyboard has been broken since at least iOS 17...But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty So the keyboard has been broken since iOS 17 (>2 years [1]), and to show your displeasur
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by bhelkey 8mo ago
> "Why can't you just like, ..., remove the GPUs from the server, then crack them open, turn them outside out and put them back in to see if they perform better" I don' know what "turn them outside out" but
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by bhelkey 8mo ago
> when they found out it could generate CSAM, they didn't try to prevent that, they advertised it. Twitter publicly advertised it can create CSAM? I have been off twitter for several years and I am open to being wrong here but that
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by bhelkey 8mo ago
One downside of Termux is the package management as described here [1]. Some new phones have access to Android Linux Terminal [2]. It is similar to Windows Subsystem for Linux. Like WSL, Android Linux Terminal lets one use apt directly. [1]
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by bhelkey 9mo ago
Some sites block or offer a degraded experience for VPN traffic. This happens occasionally when I use Mullvad. Some examples: Imgur loads but does not display any content. USPS's website does not load.
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by bhelkey 9mo ago
> EDIT: And fwiw, "Why would you continue doing business in Italy?" is not what is being proposed. They are threatening to block 55 million people from ~20% of the world wide web. There is no mention of blocking people in Italy
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by bhelkey 9mo ago
All we know is the lower bound. Google donates >= $5,000 a month.
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by bhelkey 9mo ago
Oh interesting, I had figured tele-operation would count as a disengagements. Looking into reports you mentioned in a child comment, CNN reports Cruise needed human assistance every ~5 miles [1]. And I certainly wouldn't call a system
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by bhelkey 9mo ago
I would agree with you if the author wrote, "I don't count as home robots small four legged robots as they don't navigate around clutter, they just go over it" but the author didn't write that. The author quoted two
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by bhelkey 9mo ago
The author quotes that their predictions are for Level 4 autonomy: > The definition, or common understanding, of what self driving cars really means has changed since my post on predictions eight years ago. At that time self driving cars
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by bhelkey 9mo ago
The American Medical Association has long lobbied to reduce the number of medical schools, reduce the number of positions for new doctors, and limit what tasks nurse practitioners can do [1]. [1] https://petrieflom.law.harvard.ed
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by bhelkey 9mo ago
> Predicting well absent lawyering is really hard! The author engages in rules lawyering of the evaluation of the predictions . The original predictions are clear. Another example of this is the author's prediction that no robot wi
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by bhelkey 9mo ago
Of the predictions I read, I found that the author engages in pretty heavy handed rules lawyering in order to make their predictions accurate. For example, the author takes the stance that current self driving cars (Waymo, Zoox) do not coun
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by bhelkey 10mo ago
> When can I ship my own web browser with my own JIT? Do you live in Europe or Japan? If so, you can [1][2]. If not, Apple forbids you from doing so. The US, Department of Justice is suing Apple [3]. Maybe the US will be added to this li

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