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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
This reply helped me think more about what I want. I do my thinking when crafting the prompt, and I want to be able to do several passes. So the first draft I like to dictate and be able to live edit with my voice, but then I want to do a s
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
Yes, because it is the actual dimensions of the real shirt.
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
What I want is a 1940s style “taking dictation” where the words I say go through a step where the goal is to create the text Im imagining. So if I say “… very significant, actually just significant…” what Claude Code receives is “…significa
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
I would argue it’s a matter of degree, not of kind. “Private equity” is a rhetorical device to convert “I run an unglamorous business” into “I’m the kind of person who gets the private tour”. All the status stuff can be bought.
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
Tangential a bit, but I grate at using “elite” as a synonym for “rich”. It adopts the framing favored by powerful people as if they have an inherent difference and aren’t just some people that society allows to have more resources. It promo
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
Aggravating the issue is the administration’s goal. They want an undereducated population and are using the more popular issue of student debt as a fig leaf. Note especially how it’s on the university to prove that each program justifies it
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
You don’t think investing in arts, humanities, and music contributes to a functioning democracy?
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
Which is why OpenAI and Anthropic think it’s fair play for other companies to distill their models, right?
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
It’s basically a clearance sale, is the theory.
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
As ever, there's a relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/932/
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
I actually think it’s even worse than the author suggests. Acronyms promote the illusion of understanding. You know the words the acronym stands for and it makes you feel a little bit like you know what it means, but you don’t. All names ar
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
I think that was the gist of the first point: “show you’re a serious person”
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
This is largely a function of exchange rates. If you are paid in USD, then Japan will seem cheap in a way it does not for people paid in yen.
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by collinmcnulty 3mo ago
5-4 on the Constitution. Kavanaugh's concurrence is that birthright citizenship is controlled by a law that Congress could change.
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
You’re in luck, they made a great paper on this! https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/three-states-plan-ai-of-fea...
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
Sometimes I’m washing dishes and she walks into the room and doesn’t immediately know if there’s sound in my ears. It’d just be a nice little affordance to be able to proactively signal that.
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
What I would really love is an option to have a small indicator light or visible signal on my earpiece that means “there’s no sound playing”. And if I’m using them just for noise cancellation but want to appear approachable, I can turn it o
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
Then run a hyperlocal party if you really have a constituency that cares deeply about their local issues and win enough votes to get a seat.
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
An interesting mathematical curiosity, but kinda seems to ignore the political realities that make gerrymandering happen in the first place. If you had the will to make this happen, why would you not just do proportional representation? The
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
Unfortunately there is another possibility: a return to great power competition.
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
As Terry Pratchett put it in Carpe Jugulum: > And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
We’ll see how it goes, but we also have suits like this that push back on that narrative as if you’re going to say your tech protects against a certain kind of tragedy, and that tragedy actually happens and you didn’t protect against it, ma
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
Yeah but SpaceX says you need 3% of the company to sue, so that fiduciary duty is never going to be enforced.
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
I don’t think this is correct. Gains historically accrue to a small number of companies in a given time window. If you buy all the grocery stores, you’re exposed only to sector risk, if you pick one or two, you’re also exposed to the risk t
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
The fact that you know there’s a large pool of price insensitive buyers only 15 days away has to have some price impact.
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by collinmcnulty 4mo ago
I am aware of the existence of the web series but have never seen any of it, and I felt it was a great standalone experience. The lack of explanation I think worked really well.
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by collinmcnulty 5mo ago
I think the parent comment is suggesting that residential units should not be allowed to be built around it, rather than that once someone builds a house around it the plant has to shut down.
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by collinmcnulty 5mo ago
I am glad that I’ve read your story, and I’m glad that the Internet, for all its faults, is still a place to share stories of our lives with each other.
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by collinmcnulty 5mo ago
That would be any industry where investors expect you to mostly give them money rather than vice versa.
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by collinmcnulty 5mo ago
It’s the difference between taking a shower and getting caught out in the rain.

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