callmeal

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by callmeal 4mo ago
>They just aren’t in the right circles. Does not matter how good of an idea you have And if you do have a good idea but are not in the right circles, someone from the "right circle" has the "right" to use your idea as
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by callmeal 4mo ago
> Amazon can now deliver me stuff the same day of the next morning. That’s amazing, considering that it’s all done with trucks, warehouses, and other things that already existed in the 1990s. Whoever made that happen when USPS couldn’t d
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by callmeal 4mo ago
>To solve this, New York City (basically) banned Airbnb's and home ownership is now famously more accessible in the City? I don't know about home ownership - but not having random strangers in the building at random hours of th
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by callmeal 5mo ago
>Immigrating to the usa is not a right. It is granted. It's not about rights, it's about keeping your promises. "Join the army and get a green card" -- oops did we say that? But then we have only been fair weather fri
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by callmeal 5mo ago
> The kind that invented the internet Seriously did not expect a MiniTel reference here. Vive Le France‽ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
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by callmeal 5mo ago
See: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ He's been "numbering" for quite a while now.
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by callmeal 5mo ago
>Lightsail, it'll cost you a lot more than almost anything out there, Lightsail is pretty competitive (price wise) with other providers. Been running s B2B app on it for a few years now - nothing much, just your basic crud app runni
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by callmeal 5mo ago
>If it bothers you that you need to open two tabs for cross-checking the costs, you may want to avoid every cloud provider, not just AWS. On Google cloud compute, the ui shows an updated 'cost' as you start building your machin
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by callmeal 6mo ago
>they also flocked to a phone with no replaceable battery, Did they flock to a phone with no replaceable battery the same way we flocked to phones with no headphone jack?
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by callmeal 6mo ago
>I'm sure you can have good public transit in "round" cities too, but it is certainly more difficult to plan. You don't have to be "sure", take a look at London which is a "round" city with excelle
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by callmeal 6mo ago
Yup - family dogs eat what we do. Funny story - my mom's dog will not eat rice unless there's also fish (leftover bones will do). Rice+fish - bowl is cleaned up. Rice+meat - only the meat is picked and eaten.
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by callmeal 6mo ago
>rice is consumed in larger amounts by poorer people who can't afford real food Um, rice is real food too, right?
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by callmeal 7mo ago
>How does this happen? Well, you see a black man became president. And what's worse, he was a really good one, articulate, kind, humble, and emodied all the values we cherish. And that broke people so much they would rather burn eve
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by callmeal 7mo ago
>No amount of beating low level employees will change whether they can accept pdf sent by email or not. Yes, but a boss being unable to receive a fax because the machine is "otherwise occupied" may do that.
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by callmeal 7mo ago
Yup, it's been a problem ever since Regan (a Republican) fired over 11,000 ATC employees. And by "anyone" ITYM "republicans" again, because Democrats have been trying for years . See this article from 2017: https:
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by callmeal 7mo ago
Does your comment also include the police union(s)?
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by callmeal 7mo ago
"Government"? Let's call it what it is. ITYM "Republicans".
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by callmeal 7mo ago
>Somewhat creepy, but if you're imagining that this thing is conscious and knows that it's in doom... yeah definitely not. I don't know if it knows it's in doom - looks like all it knows is to shoot when startled. Mor
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by callmeal 7mo ago
Yes. It's like exercise. Or eating healthy. I don't enjoy working out but I should really be doing it. I really enjoy eating sweets, but I should not be doing that all the time.
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by callmeal 8mo ago
The "predict the next word" to a current llm is at the same level as a "transistor" (or gate) is to a modern cpu. I don't understand llms enough to expand on that comparison, but I can see how having layers above th
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by callmeal 8mo ago
>Authoritarian central planning isn't an inherent trait of engineers and nor should we aspire for it to be. I would say that for long-term engineering projects (building bridges etc) authoritarian central planning is a required tr
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by callmeal 8mo ago
> Trying to reduce China v America to engineers vs lawyers is so reductive it's just mind blowing this keeps getting repeated. Think of it as engineers vs non-engineers (lawyers/mba types/etc). We complain about that on he
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by callmeal 8mo ago
It's the "salt" used in water softeners. Necessary when you have "hard" water. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher_salt
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by callmeal 8mo ago
Oxygen actually - liquid O2 is blue. So to me a 100mi deep mix of 20% O2 may as well be blue :)
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by callmeal 8mo ago
They should all just go home. They already won. Remember this quote? "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
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by callmeal 8mo ago
> The conclusion, that it was not the fault of the developer was correct, but assuming anything other than a problem at some point in the software stack is unreasonable. Aah, the old "you're holding it wrong" defense.
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by callmeal 9mo ago
>I wish I wasn't so tempted after ~4 years, but the battery health has dropped to 75% and the performance has suffered dramatically. Won't help with performance, but I've found that keeping bluetooth and location turned of
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by callmeal 11mo ago
>The very simple problem is that there is no way of providing hard spend caps without giving you the opportunity to bring down your whole production environment when the cap is met. And why is that a problem? And how different is that fr
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by callmeal 11mo ago
>a factory-made carrot cake is labeled UPF, but a home-baked one isn't, even though they're practically the same thing). Actually they are not. "Practically" is carrying a lot of weight there. The factory baked cake w
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by callmeal 1y ago
Improving technology has not increased housing stock or transportation options. Everyone still needs a place to stay and ways to get to/from work. Another issue is that using technology to reduce humans in the loop is what gets us &quo

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