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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Ackman only puts out stuff like this public if he needs retail to give him leverage on some angle he has. Replace "Ackman" with "Any major investor" except for maybe Warren Buffett.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Because many people in the general public, especially leftists and socialists, believe that the 2008 Great Financial Crisis was caused by... This is a lot like the cost of college and student debt load. A large cause was unlimited, gov
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I was taking these sort of improvements for granted. They'll certainly make ai cheaper, but most of the cost is up-front for generative models, and the models don't seem to be getting linearly better.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
These were interesting when I was a kid, but there are so many specifically rare astronomical events that I'm left with a whole lot of "meh."
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by dehrmann 2y ago
To be clear, this was a personal choice of your son and not because of an injury?
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by dehrmann 2y ago
We love to praise Unix, but it wasn't built for modern multi-user use. FUSE was an after-thought. So were package managers, and they got added, but they require root. Users aren't sandboxed, so they can see what others are doing.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Shares can be sold.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I used to work in this space. Your best bet is a recent iPhone. There are a lot of them out there, they're usually up-to-date, and Apple only releases a handful models with relevant differences per year.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Courts have yet to decide on which it is, and it might depend on how well the model can transform vs. recite.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
This question gets asked all the time, but what's a good setup if I want a real remote and no bloatware? Sometimes people recommend digital signage TVs (does LG make any?) And what's a good device to use for steaming apps? In a fa
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Ever get a $5 settlement check from a class action?
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by dehrmann 2y ago
And that makes the city less desirable, so fewer people live there, and RE prices find an equilibrium.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Not only isn't there a killer app, LLMs are getting to be commoditized.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Supposedly the new CEO is aware the decline of Starbucks as a third place is an issue, but we'll see if anything changes. The business perspective of just doing drive-through and pick-up sounds great, but it loses the "experience&
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I agree on the product and customer service front, but Google's reliability is top-notch.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Scanning for nearby WiFi access points with excessive frequency might be a dumb idea for other reasons (e.g. power consumption) but it should not interrupt the functionality of the current network connection. Scanning works by tuning
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> The opposite of that is some massively funded company taking my content, training a model off of it, and then reaping profits while the authors don't even get as much as an acknowledgement. Taking out the "training a model&qu
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by dehrmann 2y ago
There's an argument that polycarbonate is very well-studied and the BPA released is low, while some of the alternatives have unknown risks.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> used/exploited by things like AI training bots How is this worse than a human reading your blog/code, remembering the key parts of it, and creating something transformative from it?
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I'm confused. He discovered robotics is hard/boring/silly/whatever--that makes sense. Now he moved to Hawaii to study physics (over mechanical engineering) so he can build physical things. It seems like he's relearn
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Funny seeing oil and glue both used as metaphors to describe the same thing.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
I'm not sure what you'd be looking for in a better phone. They're bounded by current CPU, battery, and screen technology, and flagship phones are pretty close to the best that's possible. Unless you literally want a gold
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Apple won only after windows... Apple won after Sony dropped the ball on HDD Walkmans and Nokia, Motorola, Palm, and Blackberry failed to reject carrier bloatware. Macs are a side hustle for Apple, and MS is still the dominant player f
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Polyglot projects are harder to reason about, harder to onboard to, have more complex tooling, and can have weird interaction bugs.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
The real cost wins of self-hosted are that anything using new hardware becomes an ordeal, and engineers won't use high-cost, value-added services. I agree that there's often too little restraint in cloud architectures, but if a bu
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by dehrmann 2y ago
The other part is that when us-east-1 goes down, you can blame AWS, and a third of your customer's vendors will be doing the same. When you unplug the power to your colo rack while installing a new server, that's on you.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
This feels like confirmation bias to me. The author seemed to genuinely consider the question, but didn't think critically about how little value he got from two decades of bookmarking and instead focused on how he could use this archi
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Sounds like you were born around 93, but a lot of the things you're saying weren't the case in 2000. Airports had metal detectors and xrayed carry-ons well before 2000, and drivers licenses also had photos on them around that time
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by dehrmann 2y ago
Boomers can't say in their four-bedroom homes forever.
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by dehrmann 2y ago
> Somehow, COVID vaccinations became politicized It was because of the mandates and outrage over lockdowns.

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