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by bsder 9mo ago
And, yet, that reporting is better than what 99% of the public have in their brains on a subject. Want an interesting discussion? Talk about "AI" to your non-technical family members. You'll take the NPR Gell-Mann effect an
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Yes because people are famously good a judging their own work accurately Sorry, not going to let that slide. Just because Dunning–Kruger exists does NOT exclude the fact that people are good at judging some things. This is especia
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by bsder 9mo ago
Perhaps. But my friends aren't ... ahem ... very polite. If it wasn't better, I'd hear about it. However, now that you've mentioned it, Occam's Razor could also suggest that many of my friends are on semaglutide (
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by bsder 9mo ago
> They’re quite literally engineered so that you want to eat a lot of them and buy more. Even if it's not intentional, I find that the enshittification seems to run along these lines. The things that finally drove it home for me thi
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by bsder 9mo ago
Well, be glad you're working for a company that is still willing to stump up properly for hardware. Too many companies are balking at spending money on hardware right now. While I would love to think that this will drive Linux adoptio
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by bsder 9mo ago
> how am I suppose to make it "more constructive"? Obviously by shutting the hell up, you ungrateful serf. The beatings will continue until morale improves. Seriously, though, if you want this to stop, people like you are goin
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by bsder 10mo ago
This is old anecdata, but as someone who taught at the CalState system in non-entry technical courses (so most outright failures already washed out before me): 1) 4 year students had my best average, but also my widest standard deviation.
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by bsder 10mo ago
> fentanyl powder and pills were losing potency just as overdose deaths were falling Combined with the already dead, does this not explain things? Illegal drug suppliers don't make money by killing their customers. Consequently, th
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by bsder 10mo ago
This is part of the issue I have with the original article. When these kinds of "unique" people are rare, that's ... sorta okay. Once you get too many of them, it's no longer interesting and becomes an active hazard. I
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by bsder 10mo ago
> Is that a coincidence Mostly it's about penetration. Any radiation that can get through your skin can do damage. Once that happens, the question is then how much flux is there doing damage.
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by bsder 10mo ago
The whole thrust of modern nutritional research is to prove that your statement is wrong. For example, a steak is better than pastrami. This is the point of not eating "ultra-processed" food.
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by bsder 10mo ago
The problem is that when people say "red meat" they're almost always referring to the modern "hamburger-like substance" which almost certainly high on the ultra-processed scale. An actual steak or hamburger ground a
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by bsder 10mo ago
While the author doesn't seem to be aware of state of the art in the field, vector rendering is absolute NOT a solved problem whether on CPU or GPU. Vello by Raph Levien seems to be a nice combination of what is required to pull this
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by bsder 10mo ago
> Glue is typically used in traditional joinery, so less glue would actually have a negative effect. And a lot of traditional joinery is about keeping the carcase sufficiently together even after the hide glue completely breaks down so t
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by bsder 10mo ago
The open models don't have access to all the proprietary code that the closed ones have trained on. That's primarily why I finally had to suck it up and sign up for Claude. Claude clearly can cough up proprietary codebase example
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by bsder 10mo ago
> A return to the original recipe would win me back, and I’m willing to bet I’m not alone. People don't notice the gradual enshittification ... until they do. The problem is that, at that point, they're not just going to switc
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by bsder 10mo ago
SO is dying simply because SO became garbage. It became technically incorrect. You couldn't dislodge old, upvoted yet now incorrect answers. Fast moving things were answered by a bunch of useless people. etc. Combine this with the c
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by bsder 10mo ago
Yes. And they are pretty uniform in believing that the addition of the US military will in no way improve their situation.
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by bsder 10mo ago
Avalanches start with small movements ... I'd argue that its drips and papercuts all over. Everything is trying to extract rent, and that makes things unreliable enough that even basic users are starting to notice. Um, can't co
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by bsder 10mo ago
> So what's your point other than trying to argue over the definition of poor? Because people make political decisions about programs that support the "poor" and the definition matters. In particular, if a program supports
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by bsder 10mo ago
> There are people who make six figures who are in debt because they overspend and food is often one of the biggest factors in that Those people aren't "poor". They aren't worried about eating or staying warm. "
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by bsder 10mo ago
Heavy metal stops Alzheimer's! Yeah! \m/_(>_<)_\m/ Huh? What did you say? You'll have to speak up louder, though.
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by bsder 10mo ago
> Poor people should properly budget and cook at home to avoid staying poor You can't budget your way out of being poor. Most actually poor people (as opposed to people who have a substance abuse problem) I know have a very good
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by bsder 10mo ago
Wealth does that.
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by bsder 10mo ago
> One-off tables in a garage might not be a great business, but millwork, built-ins, and cabinetry in homes is a great business. I'd like to see numbers backing that up. My personal impression is that you have a small number of cus
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by bsder 10mo ago
Also the need for an "occupancy tax". You can claim whatever rental rate you want as a basis for your financialization agreements, but you should have to start paying taxes as though you are receiving that number as actual cash r
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by bsder 10mo ago
> to splice a 20 second mention of something into a stream I'm seeing the start of this already, AFAICT. There have been a couple of YouTube videos with embedded ads that YouTube flipped over to a YouTube ad at exactly the point
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by bsder 10mo ago
I would simplify further: 1) Implement 2D shapes and sprites with blits With modern compute shaders, this has 95% of "How to use a GPU" while omitting 99% of the "Complicated 3D Graphics" that confuses everybody.
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by bsder 10mo ago
I would actually argue that your examples prove my point. The best transit systems are the ones that are almost fully subsidized with a token payment that doesn't price discriminate. We have strong examples of the problems with price
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by bsder 10mo ago
> Overall, I think fare at point of use is a great structure. In the past we couldn’t enforce it but now we can do this for more things. I don't agree. Price "discrimination" for government services is not acceptable.

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