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by delecti 7mo ago
I can't necessarily speak for that specific book, but a youtuber I follow (who has POD books as one of her particular bugbears) has stopped recommending bookshop.org after personally getting POD copies from there.
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by delecti 7mo ago
Watching a movie using a service the parents were likely already paying for has no marginal cost.
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by delecti 7mo ago
I think it's more about being unwilling to pay so much when a free version is just a few months away. Streaming is too good and too cheap compared to the theatrical release.
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by delecti 7mo ago
Is all of it shit, or you just can't find the good stuff? "The struggle will completely shift to how to get traffic" is from the business side, and you're experiencing it from the customer side.
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by delecti 7mo ago
Realistically that's an increase of maybe a couple percent of cost per employee. If it truly does end up being a force multiplier, 2-5% more per dev is a bargain. I think it's exceedingly unlikely that LLMs will replace devs for m
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by delecti 7mo ago
There's probably a selection bias involved. I haven't been a regular user for a while now, but the big threads like that were significantly outnumbered by individual posts. Meanwhile I'm not likely to send a link to someone o
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by delecti 7mo ago
They don't have any concept of their "personal" bias, so they'd imitate whatever training data they received that was tagged as not being biased, if there even was any.
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by delecti 7mo ago
LLMs have no awareness of their own bias, and no incentive or ability to mitigate it. A human can, in theory, realize "hey, I tend to be a little harsh on <demographic>, is this negative judgement just that?" while an LLM co
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by delecti 7mo ago
Yep. And in fact there's been a ton of resistance for 20 years to rolling out an alternate form of driver's license which does act as proof of citizenship. See the REAL ID, which even now is only kinda a requirement to fly dom
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by delecti 7mo ago
If it's actually really mandatory, my manager will probably also relay that directly to me. And that resets the count for "less mandatory the more layers up you go".
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by delecti 7mo ago
In the 56 years since UTC was established, there have only been 37 leap seconds. At that rate it would take more than 5400 years before it would affect solar noon more than DST does. I'm more than okay kicking the can that far down the
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by delecti 7mo ago
I'm surprised to hear that it works with fish in particular. I wouldn't have thought it could replicate the flakiness of real fish. That's great to hear honestly. I'd assumed it would mostly be limited to cultured ground
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by delecti 7mo ago
Not to be glib, but the shelves of most American grocery stores do a pretty good job demonstrating that that segment of the population isn't dominant yet. There's a glut of processed food full of ingredients much harder to pronoun
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by delecti 7mo ago
No, Hackintosh specifically refers to running MacOS on non-Apple hardware. I don't think there's a word for running other OSs on Apple hardware, because it's officially supported.
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by delecti 7mo ago
As a high-fiber food eater, I think Big Toilet Paper actually gets less money from me than they would otherwise.
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by delecti 7mo ago
How is it not falsifiable? They found a correlation between susceptibility to bullshit and the result of a previously established cognitive tests. > Imagine if I said "People who skip breakfast are worse at their jobs". Its so
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by delecti 7mo ago
I worked with a junior dev who suddenly got really excited about Clean Code. Every example he brought up left me feeling that there was a kernel of good advice, but the book wanted you to take it to such an extreme that it would result in
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by delecti 7mo ago
It's funny that you frame it that way, because it's the mirror of (IMO) one of their best features. When using one to debug something, you can just stop responding for a bit and it doesn't get impatient like a person might. I
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by delecti 7mo ago
Also, some non-standard hardware looks very standard. (At least some) Dell motherboard/PSU connectors infamously are physically compatible (the plug fits the socket) with the ATX standard, but the wiring is sufficiently different tha
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by delecti 8mo ago
Work where "crap" is an acceptable level of quality is work that probably doesn't need to be done. So I think it's more likely that LLMs unravels the "bullshit jobs" entirely, rather than replacing them with cr
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by delecti 8mo ago
Is it adding to the conversation to add that observation so many times?
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by delecti 8mo ago
A great deal of effort and money is spent running studies. I'm inclined to assume the experts in the field are more aware of the tradeoffs of that decision and how to mitigate the downsides than probably all, but certainly the overwhel
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by delecti 8mo ago
Oh neat, I didn't know that. Thanks.
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by delecti 8mo ago
What mac hardware still has Firewire ports? My exposure to their hardware is mostly limited to the Macbooks of coworkers and family members, but I didn't realize there was any overlap between Tahoe support (seems to only go back to har
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by delecti 8mo ago
I don't think openness to feedback is the main metric, but rather ability to objectively measure outcomes. It's just harder to objectively measure usability than the presence or absence of a bug or performance problem.
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by delecti 8mo ago
That's my point, you don't generally have to "do" anything to get to "hot". If you open a /r/all or an individual subreddit, the default view is the "hot" algorithm.
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by delecti 8mo ago
Reddit's "hot" algorithm (the default view in most contexts) is not persomalized. It's basically just the rate of upvotes.
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by delecti 8mo ago
It seems like Claude's settings let you pick the system font. Is there a reason to not change your system font to something you don't find distracting? It seems like it would have knock-on benefits by making every application le
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by delecti 8mo ago
Those attacks were horrific, but certainly nothing that rises to the level of an "invasion".
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by delecti 8mo ago
And what exactly does Iran feel the need to "resist" against?

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