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by chromacity 7mo ago
Your response is even more misleading than the misconception you're trying to correct. The complexes formed in (charged) lithium batteries are unstable and reactive in ways quite similar to the base metal. The salt molecule, in contras
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by chromacity 7mo ago
There's some comedy in this article having all the hallmarks of LLM writing.
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by chromacity 7mo ago
> Which is all fine and dandy. But why play the "You simply don't understand it as well as I do" I'll say this from the perspective of a person who publishes content online: because people's revealed preference
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by chromacity 7mo ago
> and then the machines run directly from one leg to neutral (230v) And then every machine has a switching power supply to convert this to low-voltage DC, and then probably random point-of-load converters in various places (DC -> AC -
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by chromacity 7mo ago
They are trained and evaluated on correctness benchmarks. But correctness on benchmark questions is only loosely coupled to correctness outside the benchmark, in part because LLMs aren't grounded to the same biological reality as human
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by chromacity 7mo ago
> The thing that didn't make sense with this app: who would ever want to scroll only AI generated videos over a combined feed? It's not an exaggeration to say that this is how millions of people use Facebook. It might be not ho
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by chromacity 7mo ago
> If you showed someone what our computers can do with the latest LLMs now to someone 5 years ago they would probably say it sure looks a lot like AGI. But this is a CPU! It's not a GPU / TPU. Even if you think we've achie
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by chromacity 7mo ago
> Claude Code was released for general use in May 2025. It's only March. Detractors of AI are often accused of moving the goalposts, but I think your comment is guilty of the same. Before Claude Code, we had Cursor, Github Copilot,
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by chromacity 7mo ago
> I think this article is making a pretty big assumption: that people making things with AI are also going to be publishing them. And that's just the opposite of what should be expected, for the general case. The premise is that AI
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by chromacity 7mo ago
Come on. This article isn't about the joys of doing things the hard way. To quote: "Then, at the start of 2022 I got my first analogue film camera: a Leica M6. (I know... I dived straight in the deep end.) This was my first introd
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by chromacity 7mo ago
I don't want to dunk on people who are discovering the charms of retro tech, but as someone who started with film and spent a fair amount of time in the darkroom, I was delighted to discover the hassle-free simplicity and dependability
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by chromacity 7mo ago
You're kidding, but it could be true? Many areas of mathematics are, first and foremost, incredibly esoteric and inaccessible (even to other mathematicians). For this one, the author stated that there might be 5-10 people who have ever
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by chromacity 7mo ago
I don't think that follows. There's not a single large organization - private business or a government - that can claim to be 100% hacker-proof. A lot of "cyber" problems are also people problems: humans make mistakes, d
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by chromacity 7mo ago
It could be that it's confused about the expression "geschniegelt und geschniegelt"... no, wait, that's not right... the phrase is: "geschniegelt und geschniegelt"... okay, that's not quite right, the fina
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by chromacity 7mo ago
> Someone blows exactly the limit that is within the error range of the breathalyzer? I hate to say this, but how about... not drinking and driving? Drunk driving is a massive problem in the US and accounts for a good proportion of all d
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by chromacity 7mo ago
I have zero love for OF, but shouldn't your reasoning also apply to Patreon, Gofundme, and so on? They all let you collect small fees for completely unverifiable services.
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by chromacity 7mo ago
> This country is so hell-bent on making criminals' lives worse and worse as a never-ending punishment. Interlock devices are typically mandated for 6-12 months if it's your first DUI. In California, you will be mandated to use
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by chromacity 7mo ago
The prevailing sentiment on HN is that AI will make coders 10x more productive, but that we'll all keep our jobs and salaries, with the possible exception of people who don't embrace AI quickly enough. But let me ask you this: has
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by chromacity 7mo ago
It's not either-or. Companies care about security because of the consequences. If you're a big company contracting a small one, you don't want to get owned through that vendor because you know you'll be the one holding t
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by chromacity 7mo ago
"You" probably don't, but it's not just "you". There's also the counterparty who's asking to see that report. Maybe they're doing it for paper-pushing purposes of their own, but ultimately, somew
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by chromacity 7mo ago
I don't think there was ever a solid use case for graphing calculators in school, at least not in my experience? The curriculum didn't make good use of them and I'm not convinced it could have. There's little value in ha
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by chromacity 7mo ago
I agree with the broader point, but I'm perplexed that the author is talking about dogfooding as a "sacred practice in the tech industry" in the context of customer support. Among big tech companies, customer support usually
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by chromacity 7mo ago
I think this is a bit facetious. Although software had a bunch of localized impacts, it killed only a handful of mainstream professions. People still had to typeset articles, there was just less lead involved. For a writer, switching from a
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by chromacity 7mo ago
It's a labor of love and a great reference to go back to, but I wouldn't recommend it for newcomers. Traditional books benefit from having an editor who (ideally) asks questions like "who are you writing for", "what