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by cj 1mo ago
At least we don’t gender our nouns! Learning German, I could not memorize correct usage of der/die/das for the life of me
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by cj 1mo ago
In rural America, getting someone into the parking lot isn’t much different than in the front door when the next box store is 10-20+ minutes away. It makes less sense in the suburbs.
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by cj 1mo ago
This study says otherwise: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2007/11/pedometers-he... Even if it doesn’t increase steps on average, it will absolutely still work with someone who’s self-motivated an
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by cj 1mo ago
If your computer never leaves your desk, the iMac is pretty competitive with those features. Even comes with a TouchID keyboard.
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by cj 1mo ago
I like the original commenter’s compromise. > It seems like they could have left it as a pure “paint” app and added the fancy stuff to some new image editor or something. Apple Text Edit vs Pages.
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by cj 1mo ago
If you’re actually intended to Paint in MS Paint, as in create things from scratch, you need to limit the upper end of quality for it to be usable. Otherwise you might as well use photoshop. (But no I’m not kidding myself, I realize the day
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by cj 1mo ago
Pixelation was a feature back in the 90’s and 2000’s. But yea, I guess it’s a bug in 2026.
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by cj 1mo ago
It sounds similar to Lipoprotein(a) blood test for cardiac risk. It's (almost) purely determined by genetics. You can't do anything to improve it, other than to improve every other cardiac related risk factor. (There are some expe
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by cj 1mo ago
> they don't really have that option I imagine it must somehow be possible to update a model's understanding of recent events without training a completely new model from scratch?
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by cj 2mo ago
“There is absolutely no way Bitcoin will ever trade for more than $200.. Impossible!” he said.
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by cj 2mo ago
In my experience, basically all downsides can be solved by lowering the dose, and not escalating dosages as fast as the doctors tell you.
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by cj 2mo ago
The only function of the thumbs up/down buttons are to give feedback to Google. As a user it's pretty obvious that's the purpose of the button.
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by cj 2mo ago
I've never quite understood negative electric/gas/oil prices. Are you literally paid for agreeing to receive the energy?
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by cj 2mo ago
MIT does pass/fail for first semester, but the reason they give is "to allow students to adjust to collegiate workload" -- I'm 100% aligned and support with that. What I'm not in favor of is a college doing the same
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by cj 2mo ago
MIT describes the purpose of Pass/Fail during the first semester as: > giving you time to adjust to factors like increased workloads and variations in academic preparation and teaching methods. [0] I can 100% get behind that logic.
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by cj 2mo ago
I agree that the environmental change is immense and that it's stressful. Do I think a consequence free first semester is needed to address that? No..
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by cj 2mo ago
Starting your first semester in college shouldn't feel like "being thrown in the deep end". You just spent 4 years of high school preparing for it! But I agree that kids are awfully unprepared for the real world, so maybe cod
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by cj 2mo ago
The majority of US jobs are offered by small businesses. The idea of “ease in” periods is nice, but it’s incredibly challenging when the business is understaffed (and hence hiring) for a specific role. You don’t have a lot of extra bandwidt
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by cj 2mo ago
For some reason that doesn't make me feel better. If college is supposed to prepare kids for the real world, we should be creating environments that simulate the real world as much as possible. Creating a consequence free semester is t
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by cj 2mo ago
Gmail's AI is particularly guilty of robbing the writer of their style.
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by cj 2mo ago
Meanwhile, Tesla drivers are driving around with a dozen cameras mounted on their vehicle pointing in every direction. Who would have thought that would be socially acceptable in 2026.
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by cj 2mo ago
Imagine if AOL keywords had stuck around. Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37416005
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by cj 2mo ago
This is also how Y Combinator operates. Founders are first. Ideas are second.
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by cj 2mo ago
Wait, that's an example of something that's supposed to be better?
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by cj 2mo ago
Looking at their 13f filing (filed in may 2026), they had $8 billion of leveraged put options.
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by cj 2mo ago
Sure, but that's okay because you don't need 100% of spam calls to be recognized as spam for the incentive to do its job. The system still sounds like it could still work even if a large percent of calls weren't flagged.
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by cj 2mo ago
Where I live, you typically share house cleaners with your neighbors or family members. My parents, aunt/uncle, grandparents, and one of my neighbors uses the same house cleaner. If she stole from me, I’d immediately tell my family and
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by cj 2mo ago
That's a lot of words to argue that we shouldn't be separating prompts from the (often untrusted) data the prompts are acting on. I still don't see your point.
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by cj 2mo ago
How does it compare to hiring a human? I pay $200 every 2 weeks to have a 3000 sq ft house cleaned. That's about $5200 a year to fully clean a house. And it's a human, so they can also tidy up, clean out the refrigerator, do my la
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by cj 2mo ago
You're posting on a tech forum that includes readers from the highest income sector of the economy. There are a lot of 1 percenters here.

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