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by com2kid 4mo ago
Seattle ones are works of art with trees and native flowers and sometimes art pieces. They are more than just a small concrete circle. :D
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by com2kid 4mo ago
Hah! Yeah I also live on a neighborhood greenway street with a traffic circle in Seattle and the odd stop sign layout. It confused me for a year until I learned about the greenway program. Seattle has plenty of traffic circles just laying a
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by com2kid 4mo ago
America just ended a nearly 2 decade experience of failing to teach kids how to read English due to a NZ teacher scamming the English speaking world. So doing better than that isn't too hard.
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by com2kid 4mo ago
The majority of drivers don't know the signaling rules for roundabouts so the end result is no one uses signals on them for anything and this you never know what people are going to do next when they are in one. All in all they end up
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by com2kid 4mo ago
They exist so people cannot run through the stop sign. Their only connection to a round about is the shape.
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by com2kid 4mo ago
I live in Seattle and we have a fairly large library system. They have none of the fraggle rock books. A once huge series, now gone. Same for the Mr Men series. Just may as well not exist. My son very much enjoys my old fraggle rock books,
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by com2kid 4mo ago
It's funny how over saturated that green is on my phone's OLED screen vs my desktop's LCD. The green is retro on my desktop my very not retro on my phone. It is supposed to be a subdued retro green not the overly saturated co
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by com2kid 4mo ago
After the latest round of cloud storage price increases my non technical wife has been asking if we can do local backups instead...
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by com2kid 4mo ago
Ooh do me! My site is purposely annoyingly retro! https://generativestorytelling.ai/
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by com2kid 4mo ago
Public education is about forcing kids (the vast majority of whom are literally incapable of long term planning) to become educated so as to have a stabilizing effect on society. An uneducated populace is easily lead astray, am existential
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by com2kid 4mo ago
We don't let kindergartners use calculators before they learn how to add numbers. We shouldn't let LLMs write papers before kids learn how to write for themselves.
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by com2kid 4mo ago
At this point I would support a ban on generative AI by anyone under 18, or even perhaps 21 years of age. A bunch of science fiction stories had "first connection to cyberspace" as a coming of age event, maybe those authors were o
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by com2kid 4mo ago
> Because companies are betting that this spending will allow them to reduce cost by firing people. I've never worked at a company that didn't have a technical backlog measured in years.
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by com2kid 4mo ago
I'm in Seattle and everyone knows exactly where human trafficking is happening and the police are doing nothing about it. Teenagers are being pimped out all along Aurora and literally nothing is happening despite literally years of pub
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by com2kid 4mo ago
Even older chemistry EV batteries last over 200k miles. Given that so far in my 20 years of driving I've only racked up around 80k miles, that 200k "wear part" will out last the rest of my time on earth.
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by com2kid 4mo ago
On Band we had one of the top firmware engineers in the world who got our power situation setup and figured out that bug. We had another bug involving a single cycle timing tolerance of memory on a bus, we were one cycle off in our config.
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by com2kid 4mo ago
My team (Microsoft Band) discovered the reason why the surface's keyboard sometimes wouldn't work when connected. There was a hardware bug in the cortex MCU the keyboard used involving waking from deep sleep. One of our FW enginee
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by com2kid 4mo ago
I was not aware there was a new Star Wars movie out until I just read your comments. So maybe that is part of their problem...
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by com2kid 4mo ago
Sure, but most recipe books are just copies of other good recipe books. There are only so many ways to bake cookies. I've always been a pretty good cook, but I've been able to pull off some really cool stuff with the help of ChatG
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by com2kid 4mo ago
> The trouble I find with LLM generated recipes is they miss the nuance of the technique. Often the success of a depends on a single step or ratio. For instance “fried chicken” has a million incarnations the world over, but you can’t jus
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by com2kid 4mo ago
I already paid for contexts because I didn't know this existed. Contexts does some extra things I love (type to switch to a window) so it is worth the price IMHO.
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by com2kid 4mo ago
There is that famous study from a few years back where people value IKEA furniture they put together themselves more highly than pre-built stuff of a better quality.
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by com2kid 4mo ago
Depending on the job, you can also do it better yourself than what you can reasonably pay for. I built a custom shelf for my closet. It'd have costed me an arm and a leg to have someone else do that, even with a tech worker's sala
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by com2kid 4mo ago
It is suggested to set aside 1%-3% of your home's overall value for repairs every year. Most people do not do this, and many homes thus slowly degrade in value. It is a fast track way to destroy potential generational wealth. Home repa
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by com2kid 4mo ago
Typescript supporting runtime usage of types instead of making me define them in Zod first would be 100x better. Or at least support a standard for code transform plugins.
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by com2kid 4mo ago
The other side of this is how powerful small and medium parameter models are. 24b param models today are way more powerful than 24b param models 2 years ago.
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by com2kid 4mo ago
Every non-runtime language is dynamic after being compiled to x64 machine code! It is illusions and lies all the way down the instant the compiler finishes its job.
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by com2kid 4mo ago
Us Node folks adapted typescript because we wanted static compiled types. I wish TS had more of a runtime. The only thing I'm jealous of with regards to python is how seamlessly you can do JSON schema enforcement on HTTP endpoints. The
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Hilariously I pay less for a vultr box than what nearlyfreespeech charges. Vultr is really damn cheap.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
> The cost and extra time it takes saves lives. That's the bottom line. It's your attitude that gets people maimed and killed. My argument, and I should have made it clearer, is that we are paying a huge penalty for people who

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