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by compass_copium 6mo ago
It's not a communication with a lawyer, though. Asking a guy on the street if it's illegal to sell the meth you have in your pocket is not privileged communication, and he could definitely testify about that after you got arrested
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
This is directly addressed by the author and part of the post? Tools were very expensive until gcc etc., and the internet made excellent free guides available.
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
No one is "forcing" you to drive a car to get to work, either. You could walk 20 miles if you live somewhere without decent public transit. My view is that the author is talking about having a knowledge of career-relevant skills,
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
Aluminum should oxidize essentially instantly.
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
We still expect high school students to learn to use graph paper before they use their TI-83, grade school students to do arithmetic by hand before using a calculator. This is essentially the post's point, that LLMs are a useful tool o
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
New England
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
A Musk joint immediately after an IPO. ATM puts will be trading at what, 250% IV?
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
The market can stay irrational...
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
I used Dogpile "because it searches all of them at once!" until I realized that only Google's results were worth anything.
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
I feel like supermarkets more or less do tell you this--I get expired crap all the time if I don't check myself.
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by compass_copium 7mo ago
Don't want to remember how much money I spent on a Copengagen wheel for my wife when she was in school. At least some kind souls published a way to unbrick it.
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by compass_copium 7mo ago
And worst of all, the momey you pay isn't tied to your license plate. If you overpay, someone else can park for free!!
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by compass_copium 7mo ago
>Will increase your Linux skills because diversity always helps the human brain Is this still true, given how much runs through systemd now? I thought about trying out FreeBSD last time I got a new computer, but decided on sticking with
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
Programs are fundamentally lists of instructions. LLMs are very good at building these lists. That it performs well when you say "Build a list you've seen before, but do it in a slightly different way this time. Here's the ex
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
But the programming language has explicitly laid out rules. It was not trained on those sets of rules, but it was trained on many trillions of lines of code. It has a map of how programs work, and an explanation of this new language. It&#x2
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
Iron Dome is a great example of my point. It is a $50k interceptor designed to take out a propane tank with a rocket strapped to it, not a real ballistic missile like a Scud. Patriot missiles ($7MM) take out Scuds ($3MM).
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
Ah, just time the collapse perfectly. Wish I'd thought of that ;)
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
A missile will always be cheaper than a missile interceptor, and the interceptor will never be a 1:1 kill. Building a missile interceptor system ia a good way to get your strategic opponent to build a bigger stockpile.
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
I care a lot more about my life (or my car's catalytic converter, which was stolen off my car in my work parking lot before they inatalled a gate for the lot) than any of my work-related IT credentials. Health and safety threats are a
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
I also like AntennaPod for audiobooks--fewer apps that way.
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
The post's author points that out as well
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
...am I wrong in thinking that 1(a) is the relevant section here, and shows a lot of red?
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
I have to use Windows at work and I will never have weird cloud authentication issues because I'm required to use a work-provided MS account on the computer. The author says he's a Windows guy, and always will be. This article, an
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
TBF that's a fairly contrarian view from Sheldon. I started favoring the front brake after reading his writing on it, and do find it useful. I do find it easier to go down in the ice that way though, so be careful!
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
An absolute treasure. R.I.P., Sheldon.
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
...sounds about right? Is this supposed to be an injustice? You can't unilaterally shut down a public resource like RF sectiona because you've decided to be the Batman clearing the streets of hands-free cellphone users.
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
In addition to the security issues, they would have to deal with non-negligible transaction costs every time they wanted to convert it to actual money so that they could purchase something. If they were using it as an investment, they had t
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
Sure, but that's kind of like saying meth is a better productivity tool than coffee, it's just a self-discipline issue to use it safely. Phones are inherently designed to be addicting.
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
I believe that was a forgotten renewal of copyright status.
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by compass_copium 8mo ago
Well, I've never seen anything written by AI evangelists that doesn't sound like it was written in day three of an adderall binge. This essay is no different.

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