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by blacksmith_tb 4mo ago
Not the OP, but I think the implication is you can't run a consumer economy if the consumers aren't making any wages to buy the products and services those cheap and efficient robots are churning out. Or pay taxes. So the entire s
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by blacksmith_tb 4mo ago
Maybe it would explain itself better if that said "specifically designed for writing fiction"? (lots of other sorts of writing don't have characters, for example...)
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by blacksmith_tb 4mo ago
Also possible that people have paid for licenses / apps and thus want to stay with the OS those will run on, instead of having to pay again (if it's even an option).
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by blacksmith_tb 5mo ago
That seems like it would depend quite a bit on the project? I would think many nonprofits would want a webapp of some flavor, and Ruby (or Python) are still not bad choices there - my experience with Claude is that it handles Ruby well.
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by blacksmith_tb 5mo ago
Embarrassing, but the statistic cited there is 6 cases in 2017 for a single crossing point, looks like there are ~1.5M visits a year[1] so I would imagine even if we're talking hundreds of cases (generous), still not too common? 1: ht
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by blacksmith_tb 5mo ago
Angle though isn't ideal, unless the PV panel pops off the lid so you can position it better (and still be able to open the screen far enough back to read - though that's often not great in bright sun). I remember the OLPC could b
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by blacksmith_tb 5mo ago
Sure, so a solar-only laptop is not practical, but generating the power in its battery on your roof is a solved problem. This MOST process doesn't immediately look like it has home-scale applications (maybe in cold climates), but for h
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by blacksmith_tb 5mo ago
Not the OP, but some older laptop designs had a small trackball where modern machines have a touchpad, e.g. the early PowerBooks[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_180
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by blacksmith_tb 5mo ago
Is that reason customer service? My only experiences with AWS along those lines have not been great...
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by blacksmith_tb 5mo ago
Don't miss the Low Tech piece on Chinese one-wheel wheelbarrows: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/how-to-downsize-a-...
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by blacksmith_tb 6mo ago
I have an even cheesier competitor, which randomly has a dragon on the lid (it would be a terrible choice for all but the wimpiest casual gaming... but it makes a good Home Assistant HAOS server!)
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by blacksmith_tb 6mo ago
There are quite a few x86-64 machines in the 70mm x 70mm form factor[1], which is close? 1: https://www.ecs.com.tw/en/Product/Mini-PC/LIVA_Q2/
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by blacksmith_tb 6mo ago
Hmm, isn't that a little like saying "now that we have cameras, no one needs to paint any more!" AIs can generate realistic video and images, but for me the fun of generative art is that it isn't realistic, it has textur
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by blacksmith_tb 6mo ago
From the paper: "Crashes kill 1.3 million people per year including 700 children per day." I have always thought it's striking that people drive so much in spite of knowing that each time you could easily kill or be killed. I
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
Beautiful work, but the cup can't hold water (or tea, or wine) now I assume? So a partial restoration. It does make me wonder if you could do a mechanical repair like that and then reglaze and refire it (but I suppose that'd melt
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
But the "fact" that I told the OS I was 99yr old might be the data they're getting? To anyone who's setting up their own machine, it will be effectively optional: if you just want to make sure you fall in the "adult
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
I appreciate the principled stand, but on the other hand the CA law only requires users to self-identify when setting up accounts (and then the OS will expose age to apps), that seems fairly toothless (though wrongheaded) compared to TX and
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
"The simple truth" being Genesis, for which there can be no evidence possible?
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
That's a strong libertarian position I think few would agree with. A similar case would be fentanyl - what harm does it do to me if people are dying on the sidewalk from overdoses? Well, the cumulative impact of that on society is cons
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
That's an interesting idea, though of course while we've done that with crop or livestock futures, we seem to have coped pretty well without betting on absolutely everything until now.
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
Let me make an obvious opposing argument: what is the social benefit in allowing people to gamble on the outcome of a sports match, or any other event? We encourage investment in the market in theory to allow companies to grow and produce t
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
Ah, that's a good point, it would make sense (and be a small but real gotcha of using a phone CPU in a laptop).
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
I think that makes it a non-standard implementation though (I agree it's certainly more practical for the user), sounds like it's usb-c pd but with nerfed data, an odd choice that feels like it would actually have cost more to dev
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
Not really different from "just cuz" is it? Though I suppose it is a little worse, given that it's a different word, not an obvious contraction. It doesn't make me want to explode like "pacific" instead of &quo
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
It's interesting to see that argument was based on Amazon having dedicated employee time to blocking Perplexity. Obviously bots can be a drag, but if these were agents shopping on behalf of users, that seems counterproductive (I take i
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
I could agree to a point, the most commonly planted GMO crops are Roundup-Ready grains and soy, which encourage spraying even more atrazine on fields[1]. That does of course also mean increased yields, but the tradeoff is not unambiguously
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
That's the nuance missing from the parent's snark, masks are most effective at preventing the wearer from transmitting infections to the people around them (especially important in an operating theater). Masks may also help preven
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
I don't get the impression Anthropic tried to walk anything back, they just balked when they were informed that the DoD wasn't willing to abide by their terms to refrain from using Claude for surveillance or straight up selecting
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
Odd then that with 25 of the 120 people who have crewed the ISS[1] being women we haven't seen anyone develop serious clots? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crew_of_the_Internatio...
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by blacksmith_tb 7mo ago
Ironically, the Lack's top is made of a cardboard honeycomb laminate that looks quite a bit like a wasps' nest in fact: http://www.imajeenyus.com/optical/20131206_xray_ikea_vhs/ind...

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