coldtea

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by coldtea 4mo ago
> This isn't enough for me as 82kg mid 30s man. Enough for what? For losing weight, as a 82kg/mid 30s they're fine. In fact, you can live forever (and live longer that on higher calories) on those. And you don't need
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by coldtea 4mo ago
And how much did it make them over those 5 years?
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Yeah, it's like this Dropbox service they made a big deal about, when one could just make one of its own with rsync and some bash scripting.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Can someone explain this to me? I try to stay under 2000 calories. To me it means eating almost nothing. 2000 is "almost nothing"? What are you used to eating? Is it regular natural food or food industry crap loaded with sug
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by coldtea 4mo ago
What if you can't reduce problematic behavior without also reducing desirable behavior (like motivation)?
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Being many things, even if "easy to install" individually, can add up to a hassle to pick, research, install, and configure them.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> if that were to be built on, who would decide what gets put in? A small number of people with taste and experience. Like one hopes to be the case for every opinionated preset profile set.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
The age of affording a car OR having affordable public transportation is over. "You'll own nothing and be happy"
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> And how did you come up with that conclusion? I didn't, the parent commenter did. I simply answered your question on why HE did it, and even said it your question was put "as if" it implied it, not that it necessarily
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by coldtea 4mo ago
If there was anything that made sense to anthropomorphise it would be a machine meant to mimic talking, thinking and answering like a human, one that even passes the Turing test. When we built the idea that anthropomorphising is wrong, we m
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> If you have a toolbox full of similar but different tool getting to know them is a prudent thing to do, not a psychosis Can be both. Use of some tools like LLMs might be more inducing psychosis than others like plain compilers or hamm
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by coldtea 4mo ago
He repeated it because you asked it as if implying it's an argument against "socialized insurance" as opposed to a mere question.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Quite a lot for the first case apparently (see 1). The U.S. had roughly 770,000 people experiencing homelessness in 2024. Even if one-third of cases involved medical debt as a contributing factor, that gives 200 homeless people per 100,000
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> People with good jobs have health insurance, people without get government subsidized insurance. Either way most people are fine with what they have. Clearly, all those people who lost everything or even became homeless from some heal
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Sounds like what the author wants is a hotel room.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> This is how I feel whenever I see bold all caps instructions in a system prompt or someone claims they conducted "research" and found the magic prompt template that makes the model pay out. Maybe it works some of the time but
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> I would love to have a product sheet showing what each models strengths an weaknesses are, so that I can have a clear decision tree of "if this kind of work, use model X", or "model Y should be used in ways Z". But
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by coldtea 4mo ago
As an example of congnitive surrender, the post is clearly co-written via AI. It still makes a useful distinction.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Supply-wise yes. But when lots of jobs are lost, consumer spending is lost, and it becomes harder to sustain a business (whether B2C or B2B) and afford to hire someone...
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Of course it does. They all do. Anybody who though otherwise wasn't paying attention.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
They're proud of their quarterly results, not of the product, that they couldn't care less about. They're not Steve Jobs types. They're glorified bean counters.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> where they can't see how bad and half-baked these customer service agents are They don't care, since the sucker, sorry, the customer, keeps giving them his money
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Well, there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn2933vMylY
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Yeah, so getting 1 out of 10 he mentioned, even if it's their direct neighbor (where disputes happen for all countries), ain't bad! This absolutely means they're the same /s
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by coldtea 4mo ago
It's precisely when I want "nothing to do with your website" that I want to use a private friendly email if I'm nonetheless forced to interact with it...
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by coldtea 4mo ago
AI slop
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Why make a 24-minute Youtube video instead of an article with proper navigation? Because increasingly many people wont even stoop to reading an article, but will put on some bs video - even for tutorials
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> How did people even find out ghost jobs existed? For starters you can find it out from the inside...
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by coldtea 4mo ago
About 60% to 70% of devs in IT use Windows. And it's closer to 95% in some countries, even first world ones.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
That's a pedantic distinction that doesn't matter for the purposes of the argument. "Baby which inherited the money" could just be baby born into wealth, or baby who will eventually inherit billions when it grows older a

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