brandonmenc

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by brandonmenc 8mo ago
It's hard for me to trust a site that looks like a cryptic design portfolio from the early 2000s.
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by brandonmenc 8mo ago
Keep dreaming. I'm not sure why so many people believe that what - jury nullification? - is going to happen.
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by brandonmenc 9mo ago
The generous interpretation is that it's meant to incentivize "carpenters who refuse to use power tools" for their own good.
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by brandonmenc 9mo ago
I have the smallest of both: 8010As and a 7040A sub. I'm sending almost nothing to the sub, and I'm guessing the 8030s would provide most of what I'm using the 7040 for without the inconvenience. I'm in a small room and
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by brandonmenc 9mo ago
People seriously underestimate how much trouble a pickup truck rental from U-Haul can be. I’ve wasted so much time trying to track down which location near me has one available on the exact day I want to do major yard work. Often I have to
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by brandonmenc 9mo ago
These laws are like requiring a license to watch R-rated movies on your cable TV. How is this even enforceable? Block the sites at the country level - good luck with that - or stfu. This is never going to work, and in 20 years we'll al
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by brandonmenc 9mo ago
I admit to pangs of this, but it's really never made any sense because the implication is that the profession is now magically closed off to newcomers. Imagine someone in the 90s saying "if you don't master the web NOW you wi
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by brandonmenc 10mo ago
I rented a van to move a bed frame and I needed straps. Not a big deal, but things still slide around in a van.
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by brandonmenc 10mo ago
All of these are "not launched yet." I thought the Slate looked interesting. Then the price started creeping up. I'll just buy a Ford Ranger or Maverick instead.
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by brandonmenc 10mo ago
> Why do you need a truck? To haul dirt. To haul junk out to the dump. Etc. Do people load their Transits with piles of dirt and mulch? I doubt it. I live in the US and have a small house in the city, and I haul stuff like this all the t
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by brandonmenc 10mo ago
Drug companies net profit margin is 2x that of a typical company. EU and America have equal size populations. Back of envelope, if the total cost of that drug went solely to profit, and profits were cut in half, it would cost $200 for both
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by brandonmenc 10mo ago
We'd have to grant some form of blanket immunity to drug companies the way we currently do with vaccines. Also, aren't most mostly benign drugs dangerous when combined with the wrong other mostly benign drugs? The gatekeeping prot
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by brandonmenc 10mo ago
Who said they're not allowed to sell it? I used to own an OP-1 and I thought it was great.
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by brandonmenc 11mo ago
If Teenage Engineering made a computer. Expensive, not ergonomic, probably totally useless.
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by brandonmenc 11mo ago
Agree. Everyone would be singing a different tune if say, Fox News were asking for this.
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by brandonmenc 11mo ago
Yes.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
It was my desktop daily driver circa year 2000. Not sure what people use it for now.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
People are nostalgic for the pixel art made specifically to look good on CRTs. It’s like sometimes preferring 24 fps cinema or oil paints over photography. It depends on what’s being displayed.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
Same. I'm half convinced it's something like blood vessels too close to sound receptor thingies in my ear. Or something similar. I had a hearing test done a few years ago and my hearing is actually slightly above average for my ag
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
Next time a jihadist invites you to their wedding... politely decline.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
Stop charging $300k for the medical degree.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
> out of spite Or, they're just protecting their property value and neighborhood composition, like anyone else would do.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
> Newly elected Representatives in the 119th Congress had a median age of 47.8 years. > Similar to the House, the incoming class of Senators in the 119th Congress was also younger, with a median age of 50.4 years. > The average age
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
I use LLMs daily as a software engineer and they save me dozens of hours a week and I can’t imagine going back to a time without them. But call me when you can load all human knowledge circa 1905 and have them spit out the Theory of Relativ
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
You can be arrested for not paying your parking tickets.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
LLMs are more powerful/capable on any number of axes than the other stuff, so it’s going to cast a wider net.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
We’re allowed to posit and discuss an idea before someone gathers the data. As far as I can tell, that’s almost always the typical order of operations.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
> Her husband, she said, had no prior history of mania, delusion, or psychosis. He'd turned to ChatGPT about 12 weeks ago for assistance with a permaculture and construction project Suspicious of “no prior history.” All the people I
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
I say "https" because sometimes even regular people know what that means.
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by brandonmenc 1y ago
> Bob Ross as we know him only blew up in the 2010s in the internet/YouTube/streaming age. Uh, what? Bob Ross was very popular in the early 90s while he was still alive. So much so that he even did a promo for MTV. https:&#x2F

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