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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
Mythology? Dogs are a natural predator of all small mammals, cats included. Prey drive is a big reason that extreme caution is advised when introducing an adopted dog to a cat with an unknown history.
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Really risky play. AMD took more than a decade to recover from the ATI acquisition. There isn’t that much business integration between GPU and CPUs, it’s why Intel has always struggled mightily to develop a competitive GPU themselves, finan
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
The lack of iterative decision making is definitely a huge problem in studies like this. My own experience with GPTs for debugging software show that iterative performance is honestly atrocious. The machine will go all-in on dead-end soluti
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
I have no idea how this went on so long. I work in banking and we have so many automated systems for automatic fraud detection. There is no way the bank should have let the gigantic deposits go unchecked for so long. I’ve had my own checks
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
The article briefly touches on it, but complicating things are practices like tip pooling at restaurants (tips are shared among all low wage staff, regardless if they did anything) and tips going into the revenue bucket of the business. I’m
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
The success of CUDA is basically a dual effect of AMD devices being inefficient and bad for years, plus AMD having no answer to CUDA for a solid 7+ years while the foundations of GPGPU were being laid down. Mindshare shifts slowly.
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
Problem is the CUDA advantage is gigantic and it has been known for years in GPGPU processing, way before AI was a meme. AMD has lost countless developers over the year just on hello world style projects. Developers had a solid 6-7 years of
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
Depends strongly on the geology. Clay will compress greatly, but bedrock/limestone will not at all. Most aquifers consist of a diverse range of geologic materials in varying thicknesses with different ingress types that will vary in c
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
Sirius is easy these days, it’s a 2 minute phone call. They’ll offer a discount rate, decline it, canceled and refunded. Gym memberships and newspaper subscriptions is what needs to get targeted next. They are aggressive and lots of gyms wi
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
The first officer made a mistake and the captain quickly corrected, per other articles on this. A lot of the headlines around this have been very click-baity, trying to imply that it is a Boeing or Max problem when it is just old-fashioned
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
This is false, it is perfectly legal to give water to workers in the South (and in every other state).
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
There is definitely a strange stereotype of suburbs in online discourse. Pretty much every suburb I’ve been part of (6 or 7 across 4 states) have been quiet with low traffic, low speeds, and even kids playing outside. About half of those it
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
The southern U.S. has the highest rainfall, year-around crop growth, abundant/cheap freshwater, and due to high humidity, is probably the best equipped for higher temperatures thanks to universal air conditioning and heat pump installa
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
I normally don't comment on stuff like this, but this is dishonest at best. The bible is a collection of multiple books, some are stories and myths, some are historical, some are divine law / ways to live. The vast majority of fai
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
I love older cars, but they are significantly more dangerous. My 93 pickup had no airbags and was notorious for the engine intruding into the passenger compartment in collisions. My 91 sports car only has an air bag for the driver as a prem
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
LASIK is amazing when it’s no side effects. I’m needing to repair my corneas about 7 years post LASIK through stem cell therapy. My eye surgeon told me that LASIK severs an incredible amount of nerve endings and many eyes basically stop pro
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
People are de-facto forced to hold stock in states that have no defined retirement benefit that can be lived off. The 401k in the USA is a good example. I don’t think punishing stock holders makes any more sense than punishing all of German
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
I tried this when I first got a house. The leaves decompose and you end up shoveling a layer of mud off your waking surfaces. It also becomes incredibly slippery when wet. A dense layer of waxy oak leaves can be like walking on ice.
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
Not quite. Tesla has a high valuation mostly because traditional auto carries an enormous amount of debt on their balance sheets. I think Tesla is one economic downturn in a high interest rate environment from meeting the same fate. Once an
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
This exactly. Every self replicating organism will eventually use all the energy available to it, there will never be an abundance. From the dawn of time, mankind has similarly used every bit of energy it generates. From the perspective of
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
Data isn’t necessarily good because medicine and biology are messy and inaccurate. I just went through a scare myself with elevated markers on a typical blood panel. Lots of fuss, anxiety, and cost for zero gain. At the end, I learned that
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
I’m not sure why this myth is so pervasive on HN. You do not need a 4x8 truck bed to move sheet goods, you only need a bed 4 feet wide and a tow flag. Google is full of pictures of people moving stacks of goods with mini trucks and even sed
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
The large intestine is fairly deep in the abdomen, there’s a lot of tissue and mass between a hoodie pocket and the colon.
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
Square space IPOd in a borderline delusional environment of retail investing, stimulus money, and massive free cash flow. Pretty much every IPO from that era looks awful on paper, but the companies are fine balance sheet wise.
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
As a gardener, fungal diseases probably cost the most each year in plant loss. They are very difficult to eradicate once established and fungal spores are microscopic and very good at spreading. I’ve had years of 100% loss on tomato’s, pepp
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
Woodworking (or any interesting manual labor) as a hobby is fun. Doing it as a job though is brutal, repetitive, boring, and dangerous. The client relationship is even worse —- at least most devs have insulation through the agile system fro
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
Woodworking is insanely expensive from my experience. I saved way more money when computers and electronics were my hobby. Some software is like what $50-70 max? A full 3d printing kit is $1000. Buying mere wood to start a project is in the
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
It’s not limited to these big chains at all — the vast, vast majority of restaurants in the States are at the mercy of Sysco. The restaurant industry is absolutely brutal right now. They are barely profitable and the best restaurants surviv
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by cityofdelusion 2y ago
This. Gene Amdahl himself (of Amdahl’s law fame) gave up on wafer scale, proclaiming it to be 100 years too soon. Now it’s looking like it was only 40-50!
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Traditionally, that has been the issue with wafer scale processors. Cerebras is supposedly selling these things to production customers for obscene pricing, probably offsetting the low yields. Who knows if it’s profitable though or still bu

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