billbrown

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by billbrown 1y ago
What an odd response! I never mentioned ICE so I suspect you're arguing against someone else. The 40% "wasted sunlight" doesn't have a cost—sure, yes, kind of besides the point—but it also generates no electricity. That
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by billbrown 1y ago
My personal true claim about solar that is generally ignored or unknown is that dust reduces solar efficiency by 40% and that the mitigation is frequent washing of panels, which results in considerable water use in precisely the worst areas
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by billbrown 1y ago
I feel like Kagi's version is better. https://translate.kagi.com/?from=nl&to=en&text=MiJNHEER%2C+i...
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by billbrown 1y ago
Toyota did this with the EV mania until they lost their nerve and got rid of Toyoda as CEO. I hope Apple doesn't fall into the same trap. (I never thought Toyota would give in either.)
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by billbrown 1y ago
The bunny will often include patches in its replies that the PR author can commit. I've never been clear as to which of us is doing the committing but that could be the need for write access. (I always do it myself but I can see how so
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by billbrown 1y ago
They're working—almost done—on a CUDA backend for their Apple Silicon framework: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/pull/1983
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by billbrown 1y ago
The oil sheikh with dozens of supercars is what drives the mega rich to aspire to own two supercars and the deka rich to fret about maybe buying their first one.
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by billbrown 1y ago
This is very helpful context. I have disparaged HathiTrust in my mind for several of these public domain problems and it makes sense that it's actually a Google Books problem.
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by billbrown 1y ago
The use case for LLM assistance that provides value for me is solving obscure lint or static analysis warnings and errors. I take the message, provide the surrounding code, and it gives me a few approaches to solve them. More than half the
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by billbrown 1y ago
It remains to be seen whether it's a net value once the VC firehose dries up and the true costs are revealed. It's quite possible that the profitable price is not worth it for most companies.
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by billbrown 1y ago
That was my initial thought, too. But I didn't know what the original Google search consisted of and the site didn't show up in a couple Kagi searches I tried. (Aside from the obvious titular one, of course.)
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by billbrown 1y ago
For me (a multi-year paying subscriber), one of the many indications of Kagi's difference is a) that it has a changelog and b) that the changelog shows so much granular work. https://kagi.com/changelog
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by billbrown 1y ago
Orion (made by Kagi) is a WebKit-based browser that eliminates the need for an extension.
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by billbrown 2y ago
I compare LLMs to a door with a slot where you put a piece of paper with a request on it and you get something back related to that request. If it's the same every time, great. But it might be different or completely wrong. You don&#x2
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by billbrown 2y ago
I found it via Kagi[1] as the first non-video result. https://www.aslobcomesclean.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/D... [1] https://kagi.com/search?q=dana+white+5+rules&r=us&sh=-_l
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by billbrown 2y ago
Readwise Reader does PDFs very well (and apparently can do TTS on them, but I've never tried that). https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/faqs/text-to-speech
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by billbrown 2y ago
I find Readwise Reader to be a great RIL tool and I've used their TTS on my phone. I can't say I use it enough to know if it addresses your needs so I share this as "this might work for you." https://docs.read
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by billbrown 2y ago
They have! https://help.partiful.com/hc/en-us/articles/26526557943067-H...
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by billbrown 2y ago
Not Venice? Heh https://www.thecollector.com/alexander-saint-marks-tomb-veni...
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by billbrown 2y ago
The Salesforce account executives will definitely drop by before or around negotiations and take decision makers to dinner. They'll even host a Top Golf evening for the team, just to put faces with names. eyeroll
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by billbrown 2y ago
Sunk cost fallacy: they've spent so much money on it already, they have to keep using it or that was a waste. Salesforce's view of this: lock-in.
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by billbrown 2y ago
I was laid off from a company that spent two and a half years transitioning to Salesforce (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Experience Cloud, Scheduler, 600+ seats) and decided to re-platform to Shopify plus a co
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by billbrown 2y ago
Maybe Timery? I've never tried it since I learned about it while laid off but I will definitely use it when I get a job. https://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-time-tracking-app/
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by billbrown 2y ago
Regarding the last paragraph, I'd recommend the feature film "Mystery Men" and the graphic novel series "Astro City." The Amazon TV series "The Boys" also covered this ground but did it a little too ham-ha
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by billbrown 2y ago
Congratulations on your independence. May I recommend her other novel The Fountainhead, which is about the war between individualism and collectivism within a person?
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by billbrown 2y ago
Scrumbags
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by billbrown 2y ago
There was a satellite analysis of rock gardening earlier this summer that also had similar findings. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado1459
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by billbrown 2y ago
You don't and they won't.
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by billbrown 2y ago
Good point—added to the Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponyms_(A%E2%80%93K)#...
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by billbrown 2y ago
e*trade is not, thankfully.

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