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by crooked-v 3mo ago
Most "IMAX" branded theaters these days are just the biggest screen in the cineplex rebranded and with a more expensive (but still 4K) projector.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
The "eww" part is that normally, anytime you see "talk to us for a price", that means someone is charging an absurdly high amount for the good or service.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
If you look at the location chart and their definition of "starter homes", this just turns into a heat map of housing shortages.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
Arbitrary OAuth built into the spec across the board is extremely useful. It prevents the many, many friction points that come from needing an agent to separately understand the authentication for many different services, or to even know th
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
And don't forget about the `form` attribute to associate a button with any arbitrary form element by ID.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
You're just describing the preexisting problems that led to bans and regulations on sports gambling.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
Day trading is gambling. Buy-and-hold is investing. Algorithmic micro-trading is investing, despite looking like gambling. It's about whether there's an immediate dopamine release or not.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
The "duress PIN that nigh guarantees destruction of evidence charges" functionality is extremely stupid, but otherwise GrapheneOS on a flagship phone is your best bet for an Android phone that can't be cracked by low-effort a
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
This seems like the kind of thing that would put US citizens in way more legal jeopardy than just using a secure phone with a long password, refusing to unlock it, and buying a new one if the officers involved confiscate it out of spite.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
The comment you're replying to was focused on prosecutorial incompetence, not benevolence.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
In the US, if a meteorite lands on your property, it's yours and you can sell or donate it as you please. This homeowner probably made a decent amount on the sale, especially with the emphasis on immediate preservation.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
I leave Claude memory stuff turned off by default for the same reason. It inevitably ends up dragging in things that are unrelated and unimportant to the current task.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
What I'd like is the TNG ship computer: an extremely smart system that nonetheless limits its "creativity" to the clearly marked holodeck, where simple prompting is treated like the casual throwaway diversion it is, and actua
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
Yes, but that's with mostly the same data as before, just with more of the preexisting dataset and more RLHF. We haven't seen the ouroborous eat itself yet.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
There's only 25 theaters in the US that even have 70MM IMAX projectors, so it is indeed pretty limited.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
So the real question is, when will somebody turn this into a Discord client?
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
Are they counting free housing as 'financial support'? A number of states have perverse incentives to delay the legal transfer of a home as long as possible, like with CA's Prop 13.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
That would be USB4 cables. They do have the problem of being awkwardly thick and stiff if you're using them for a lot of things.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
I wouldn't want OpenClaw anywhere near a business I was running, even if I was all aboard the LLM hype train. That codebase is a nightmare. Just take a look at the hundred-plus pages of bugs on the Github repo.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
I still fondly remember my Palm Pre. It felt like something with the potential for as much UX gloss and functionality as the iPhone but much easier to make small apps for.
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by crooked-v 3mo ago
Except in this case it actually passed 49/51.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
Way back, working for the 2010 Census, I had an ex-Navy coworker who did something like that: whenever he was bored in the office, he would do a couple of push-ups before looking for new work to do.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
It sounds like you want a Slate: https://www.slate.auto/en The closest it gets to an infotainment system is a tablet mount.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
Part of that is that Japan actually builds housing, while literally every major US metro area has a massive self-inflicted shortage of housing ( https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives... ).
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
In SF, the apartment vacancy rate was approaching an absurdly low 3% earlier this year ( https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-rent-surg... ). Usual estimates put apartment vacancies at at least 5% just
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
If it was just self-interest from those homeowners, they would welcome densification because that would make land values skyrocket. You can see some of that already in areas under the recent round of city zoning changes, where housing price
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
> Not really sure how rents are skyrocketing when every 3rd person I know in tech has been laid off in the last year. Simple: the amount of available housing really is just that low.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
SF in particular is wild. There are so many people who oppose any and all new housing because "it isn't affordable", as if just not constructing anything, ever, will let anyone afford anything.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
Why not? If it doesn't have immediate side effects for a given person it's unlikely to have them later, and it will be dirt cheap as soon as the patents run out.
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by crooked-v 4mo ago
I have to wonder what small claims court judges would think of it. Get a few hundred cases filed across the US and the travel expense for Sony could be significant.

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