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by californical 6mo ago
Yes, I believe we could cut beef consumption in half in the US and probably be healthier for it, without even compromising people’s standard of living (beef more as a “treat” than everyday ingredient). We’d be healthier, and the reduction o
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by californical 6mo ago
No, layoffs happen due to leadership’s expectations. It’s never been about reality, layoffs and both massive hiring to ramp teams are based on vibes. The lack of results is felt by those using it to assist with their work daily.
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by californical 6mo ago
I just run two drives - one with windows and one with Linux. I treat the windows one as a console essentially, not even logged into my password manager or email or anything. It is only for games. Basically an Xbox, with all sorts of normal
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by californical 7mo ago
Both bad, and one is more bad than the other. They’re not equally bad but they are both very bad
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by californical 7mo ago
They may have less money but also more time for things they care about, and less burden and stress in daily life. So it is going to be a feeling. Is their smaller income going much farther now in how it benefits them, if so they feel better
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by californical 7mo ago
My parents refused to digitize their precious memories stored in VHS tapes. We’ve watched them every few years, and whenever I’be tried to convince them to digitize the tapes, my dad says “oh we’ve been hearing about vhs tapes degrading for
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by californical 7mo ago
Damn that’s actually a crazy thing to think about but makes perfect sense. Thanks for sharing
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by californical 7mo ago
> I have no idea why anyone would even consider building a PC with prices this inflated. I did recently, specifically targeting lower capacities for the components that have been increasing (RAM and storage). It didn’t seem like prices w
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by californical 7mo ago
This is the biggest fear! I don’t see an easy fix. Will the developer of a new programming language be able to reach out to model companies to give a huge amount of training data, ensuring that the models are good at that new language? I do
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by californical 7mo ago
The thing that really messed with me recently was when I started thinking deeply about the fact that I’ve been seeing so many Southwest ads about their switch to assigned seating… I realized that they probably made that whole change, along
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by californical 7mo ago
Genuinely I think that perspective is still shared by many/most engineers. I think we’ve seen a wave of bad actors - either employees of LLM companies, or bots - pushing the idea hard of code quality not mattering and “the models will
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by californical 7mo ago
It’s true, but somehow there still seems to be a market for those things to keep existing. Which to me is also interesting, that everyone knows there’s no point but people still buy them
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by californical 7mo ago
Two things 1. It’s closer to 50 years, and even a partially degraded panel will work, just with less output 2. Even if we say 20 years, that means that you only need to buy panels once every 20 years! Not continuously. A complete and total
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by californical 7mo ago
My parents used Linux as their home computer for three years, regularly updating it and doing basic document writing with open office, as well as all of their banking etc They don’t know what Linux is, and know nothing about tech, they just
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by californical 7mo ago
Actually same happened to me - small group of friends maybe ~14 years old walking around late at night through our middle-class very safe neighborhood. Two cops in a car rolled up and jumped out of the car with guns drawn and screamed at us
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by californical 7mo ago
I mean, yes - you’re reviewing and architecting, but not creating. Same as if you use an image diffusion model. You can describe very clearly what you want, and iterate carefully until you get a picture that looks good. But nobody would say
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by californical 7mo ago
This is a hell of a straw man. The body is very well adapted to natural foods, and is efficient at using nutrients supplied in natural ways. Engineered ingredients may or may not be equivalent, but they often remove nutrients that existed i
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by californical 7mo ago
Yes exactly If a person has a shitty idea that sounds good, they start writing about it. If they exercise some care in their writing, the act of writing itself is enough to make them realize that their idea is shitty. By the way, it happens
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by californical 8mo ago
Yes - if you’ve intentionally given them access, then it is your job to ensure they use it responsibly
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by californical 8mo ago
Obviously someone stealing a vehicle is different, as long as you’re reasonable about it. Leaving an unlocked car with keys in the ignition outside of a bank being robbed is different from someone breaking the window and spoofing your fob,
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by californical 8mo ago
Yes, vehicle ownership is a level of responsibility, I believe it is just to be accountable for what happens with it.
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by californical 8mo ago
Driving cars is a dangerous activity that deserves higher levels of accountability and responsibility. It is commonplace to drive, but has high potential for danger and death. It seems ok to me to have a level of care required for owning a
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by californical 8mo ago
I see your point, but these are civil tickets rather than criminal charges. And since there’s already many laws and regulations around owning a car, such as registration… isn’t it trivial to say “you are responsible for a car that you regis
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by californical 8mo ago
And it also doesn’t care about arbitrary country boundaries. But it is affected by total emissions, and per-capita measurements is one fair way to judge how a country is doing
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by californical 8mo ago
I feel like the possible real estate crash could be really interesting. Even different parts of a city would likely be affected very differently, where the edges near the fire risks crash, and the even mildly safer areas boom with high dema
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by californical 8mo ago
To steel-man their sentence, it’s a large number to extract from US citizens, nearly $500/person. But it’s a small number in terms of government deficit and current spending
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by californical 8mo ago
But it’s worth being careful - you could’ve said the same thing 3 years ago about NFTs. They were taking off and people made very convincing arguments about how it was the future of concert tickets, and eventually commerce in general. If we
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by californical 8mo ago
That’s why I’m hoping the news picks this up more - especially about the intended integration with flock/ICE. That might be the issue that brings awareness mainstream beyond the tech-aware circles
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by californical 8mo ago
I think their point was about “most popular” not necessarily meaning “better”. I don’t think they meant anything more by it
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by californical 8mo ago
I think they meant the resulting LLMs, not the speculation of AI which is currently the biggest driver right now

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