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by californical 5mo ago
What would this mean? Like would you be driving to a library and leaving a car there, then hiking into the woods nearby to camp? As someone who may occasionally need to stealth camp on road trips I’m curious what you learned, or if it would
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by californical 5mo ago
Generally, lots of debt, but they still do it. I know people who go into debt for “fun” purchases, then complain that their credit card bills are so high they can’t afford anything
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by californical 5mo ago
They’re talking about pickup trucks, not delivery semis. And if you look at pickup trucks, they’ve gotten way taller since the 00’s, for no reason except style.
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by californical 5mo ago
Ah I was proposing the tag as another option - maybe a news article is fine for kids but the comment section is unmoderated. That way they could still read the article but not the comments
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by californical 5mo ago
Come up with a few categories and let the browser/OS decide. Websites by default are ‘true’ for every category, unless they specify. Categories are, for example of some: nudity, sexual, violence, etc. It doesn’t have to be perfect but
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by californical 5mo ago
It could request access to a specific domain which you can approve or deny
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by californical 5mo ago
That’s like telling people not to get homeowners insurance for the same reason Like, yes, it’s technically a bad deal. But it’s still worth the extra cost for most people
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by californical 5mo ago
Not necessarily- many blow out black smoke when the throttle is pressed hard, but not when pressed gently. From what I understand there is a way of tuning the ECU to do this. But also there can just be a switch
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by californical 5mo ago
That sounds kinda like carbon capture, but decentralized to these light nodes
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by californical 5mo ago
That’s a very MBA way of thinking. If we extend the logic, if we have 0 employees then profitability is maximized right? Then shouldn’t every company have 0 employees? Obviously hiring increases profitability, otherwise some of the biggest
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by californical 6mo ago
Because you may not know the specifics of the assembly being generated, but you’ve likely learned a language built on top of assembly. And the compilers do some great tricks behind the scenes to generate efficient assembly, but those tricks
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by californical 6mo ago
Generally I agree, and we’ve known this for a long time but people stay in denial. It’s the same thing in Miami. Unfortunately though, the solution isn’t that easy. For one, if you own property there, you’re basically either caught holding
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by californical 6mo ago
I just got a big “We respect your privacy” banner, with a big green ok button and a “manage data collection” tiny print text that had consent for everything automatically approved
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by californical 6mo ago
The crazy thing is that this isn’t even a hypothetical. Some random dude was watching your kids from an office building with spy cameras
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by californical 6mo ago
If only it were true today :|
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by californical 6mo ago
I mean maybe it’s a losing battle today, but it is correct. So in a few years when the dust settles, we’ll probably all be using LLMs as clueless automatons that still do useful work as tools
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by californical 6mo ago
Coffee and tea! Chamomile is nice in the evening, always makes me feel cozy
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by californical 6mo ago
But I bet whenever (if?) you do have a beer or two again, you’ll notice how it affects your sleep and probably just makes you feel kinda meh. I say that as an occasional drinker. Some of my family loves to drink, nearly every evening. But I
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by californical 6mo ago
Why no? It sounds like you agree with the person you replied to
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by californical 6mo ago
Yes, in sane countries the rules are attempted to be defined in a fair way, and you can follow them. Not perfectly of course, but with that goal. Like the Netherlands, it is (A) not possible to park in bike paths without going intentionally
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by californical 6mo ago
Yes that is one key that resonated with me. The author did a great job of putting these recurring concepts into their own words The other that really resonated was something that I read before along the lines of… we think that once humanity
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by californical 6mo ago
I mean there’s that quote from Bezos: “ When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right” Sure a single anecdote is unreliable, but common feelings of a generation probably point to the data not capturing reality we
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by californical 6mo ago
I’m guessing that predicting the failure modes of a computer is more taxing than your brain using pattern recognition of what it needs to react to. If you’re driving, your brain can automatically prioritize the importance of things that you
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by californical 6mo ago
I guess instead of answering your first three questions, I’ll say this: Our world would be better without being completely dependent on cars. You can see this in a few select cities or neighborhoods that have avoided the worst of car depend
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by californical 6mo ago
And to bring it back, AI and LLMs are currently in the early phase. They haven’t yet done damage like cars which will take centuries to revert
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by californical 6mo ago
I’m not saying that they will, but that investing in advancements to AI overall could do that. Not making predictions that they will, just trying to give an example of a benefit that we may get out of this
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by californical 6mo ago
But what if we could predict which treatments would be most successful with ~70% accuracy? It would potentially speed up the feedback loops right? There may also be downsides, like skipping testing things that would enhance our fundamental
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by californical 6mo ago
Personal cars are not the same as using them for logistics. Yes cars/trucks/busses are still useful overall and are an incredible last-mile solution for freight. But on a personal level, it means we all must live far apart and mai
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by californical 6mo ago
Price discrimination is basically corporate speak for giving discounts to those who wouldn’t or couldn’t afford to pay full price. And it makes perfect sense in this context - if you make $200k salary you probably don’t care enough about a
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by californical 6mo ago
Well nobody is upset at the cows. We’re talking about excessive consumption of cows, in agriculture.

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