cogman10

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by cogman10 4mo ago
We actually do. There's a lot of claims in the exodus story which would have left behind corroborative histories. For example, the death of a large amount of the population along with the pharaohs son. The destruction of pharaoh&#x27
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by cogman10 4mo ago
They do, some of the best of any language. That said backwards compatibility problems still hit as some libraries enjoy using internal APIs. It's not an every time thing and it's been easier and easier with updates.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> Otherwise, what if I am only “taken care of” if I have a beachside penthouse in Malibu and also a pony? That's a false equivalence. We aren't talking about giving people penthouses. We are talking about providing EMS. Heck,
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by cogman10 4mo ago
I think the main expense you are missing is medication and disposable equipment and insurance for the ambulance and medical malpractice. Otherwise, yeah, I suspect the other major cost is the "It's the mayor's brother's
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> It is not the government’s job to “take care of” anybody. That is literally the only job of government. The entire reason we have a government is to serve the citizens in some fashion or another. Even for most libertarians, they'
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by cogman10 4mo ago
US EMS quality isn't exactly something to be proud of. It's been private equityified. Just recently (last winter) I nearly lost an aunt because of our stellar EMS system literally doing a transfer from a hospital to a hospice.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
It's very often not a choice. But also, those rural areas are often the breadbaskets of the united states. Taking care of our farmers is important. Trying to frame it as a choice also misses a lot. It technically is, but you have to
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by cogman10 4mo ago
A pretty large number of EMS is also volunteers. Basically wherever you have a volunteer fire department, you'll have volunteer EMS (if it's there).
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by cogman10 4mo ago
We need to bring back standardization and regulation of cars. Aftermarket parts for cars has mostly collapsed because NHSTA has deregulated almost everything. Auto manufacturers have worked hard to try and stop any 2 vehicles from sharing
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The labor is a major part of the cost and a major reason for the lawsuit in the first place. JD is charging anywhere from $130 to $210/hr [1] for labor. That is my point. And that $120 part can only be replaced by their technicians w
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Sorry but you are misreading the cost. The part itself is $120. The fee for the tech to travel there wasn't specified.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> It's far down the list as to why I decided to subscribe, but I do like the idea that if I lose my phone, my data won't be lost forever. You can pay for backup services with both google and apple. There's really no reaso
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Strong is exactly the type of subscription that I hate. This is the sort of app that can be "complete". It doesn't need any sort of backend and doesn't have any sort of real operating expenses. So why is there a subsc
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> But ownership just doesn't make a lot of sense when talking about a mobile app. Why shouldn't it? Why does my calculator app need a subscription? Why does it need constant updates? There's no reason the ownership model
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> I’m honestly not sure what that means. You can’t take Cal.ai and Flighty out of your phone and put them on your shelf. These things are only going to work as long as they’re maintained and updated. It’s not 1995 anymore. Yeah, that&#x2
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by cogman10 4mo ago
First, I like how all this works, it's great. Can you run tests serially in the (horrible) case when tests need to build on one another? How are you querying for the tests? Is that just built into rust's test stuff? Would it be po
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Price no, process yes. John Deere hasn't been insane enough to soft lock their oil filters. But they do soft lock about everything else they can. https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08&#x
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Yup. The two things John Deere did was make it impossible to diagnose problems with software lockouts and they did software locks for common parts. Imagine, for example, needing to pay $1000 to replace an oil filter because you needed to
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by cogman10 4mo ago
It honestly seems like there's not a great way to currently benchmark AI. The ideal way to run these benchmarks would be to give a 3rd party the model to run in an isolated environment so the prompts don't make their way back to t
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by cogman10 4mo ago
What makes PFAS so difficult to deal with is the fact that they are particularly inert. Teflon works because it doesn't react with almost anything. I've seen some studies about using UV light to kill off PFAS, but that's no
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Personally, I think these data centers should be championing and pushing for district heating and cooling. Even smaller data centers will be producing enough waste heat to heat 10s of thousands of homes. So why not make residents love you
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Unlike all your examples, switching out an LLM is both cheap an easy. So easy that every 3 months or so new models are released and people grab them and start using them. The UX is the same regardless the provider. You send in a prompt, i
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by cogman10 4mo ago
A recent study I saw suggests that dietary cholesterol may in fact reduce LDL cholesterol. [1] [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10697-z
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> Any of the thousands of billionaires on this planet. Fun fact, there's only about 3000 billionaires on the planet. It's a pretty exclusive club.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Philips is great for what it's designed to do, strip out. But for electronics I basically never want that behavior.
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We are talking about plastic parts and metal tabs. I'd be shocked if the actual impact on per unit price was above $0.10. Perhaps the most expensive part of this whole process is then engineering time to figure out how to place a repl
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by cogman10 4mo ago
Red alert 2 was released in 2000, which means it was developed probably in 1998->1999. Life was different back then. Source control systems were a LOT worse (this is CVS era for open source development). We certainly weren't in th
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by cogman10 4mo ago
lol, I'd expect that as it starts reading of sections of code dealing with the chinese and terrorist factions.
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by cogman10 4mo ago
> The predictions of this theory continually fail. No they don't. There are surprising and unexplained aspect (why is the expansion currently accelerating? That's an unknown afaik). But the baseline prediction and observatio
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by cogman10 4mo ago
For those to be effective, you do need good walking infrastructure. I'd grab one of those except for the fact that I don't have a sidewalk connecting me to the grocery store. Totes end up working better for me as a result.

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