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by djoldman 10mo ago
I'd be pretty surprised if any adult could be convicted of CSAM possession when they didn't act to obtain it. Otherwise you could send one image to every American email account and put every American adult in prison.
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> Getting the actual GPU working was also painful, so I’ll leave the details here for future adventurers: > # Data Center/HGX-Series/HGX H100/Linux aarch64/12.8 seem to work! wget https://us.download.nvi
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Shortage is almost always used with a hidden assumption that the current price is "bad." Truckers are currently retiring faster than they're being replaced. So some folks are saying there's going to be a "trucker sh
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Scientists Found the Secret to Roman Concrete in a Pompeii Living Room(zmescience.com)
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> And here's what I've been circling around: I think the only reason any of this is true is because of death. Without that horizon, we could defer everything indefinitely. Why start the difficult journey today when you have inf
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I think it's interesting how "shortage" is defined across different products. From an economics standpoint, "shortage" isn't a useful word, unless it's applied in the extremely unlikely scenario where ther
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by djoldman 10mo ago
> The United States is short 4 million housing units, with a particular dearth of starter homes, moderately priced apartments in low-rises, and family-friendly dwellings The number cited links to here: https://upforgrowth.org&
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by djoldman 10mo ago
The current upvote/downvote mechanism seems more than adequate to address these concerns. If someone thinks an "I asked $AI, and it said" comment is bad, then they can downvote it. As an aside, at times it may be insightful o
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> The calling agent then decides how to use those snippets in its own prompt. To be reductionist, it seems the claimed product value is "better RAG for code." The difficulties with RAG are at least: 1. Chunking: how large and h
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All the Places(alltheplaces.xyz)
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I upvoted you. This is a fundamentally interesting point. Taking your comment as HN would advise, I totally agree. I think genAI freaks a lot of people out because it makes them doubt what they thought made them special. And to your comment
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by djoldman 10mo ago
As a consequence of my profession, I understand how LLMs work under the hood. I also know that we data and tech folks will probably never win the battle over anthropomorphization. The average user of AI, nevermind folks who should know bett
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by djoldman 11mo ago
In my experience "just put 40 hours in Salesforce with the project I’m assigned to" matches folks expectations. However. If you're ever on a project that doesn't turn out so well, it may suddenly become critical to accou
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by djoldman 11mo ago
This has been illegal since 2018. I think you'll find that pharmacies have a book to show you every price if you ask. See S. 2554, the "Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act"
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by djoldman 11mo ago
> When you trade CME bitcoin futures, your settlement is guaranteed by the clearing entities of Chicago Mercantile Exchange which are bulge bracket firms of TradFi. The CME clearinghouse itself is the guarantor. And below it are the clea
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HTML Components (1998)(w3.org)
3 points by djoldman 11mo ago|0 comments
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Interesting "ScreenSpot Pro" results: 72.7% Gemini 3 Pro 11.4% Gemini 2.5 Pro 49.9% Claude Opus 4.5 3.50% GPT-5.1 ScreenSpot-Pro: GUI Grounding for Professional High-Resolution Computer Use https://
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by djoldman 11mo ago
Oh man, this link is worth it just for the "Reflections from the Selection Committee." These days, abstracts are so marketing/advertising forward that it's hard to even understand the claim.
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I have JS off by default and click one button to turn it on per website. You might be surprised how much faster the web is and how often you don't need JS.
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A couple interesting things I've come across over the years: 1. Western politics seems tragically reactionary and concerned with short-term issues. "Boring" stuff like infrastructure maintenance gets set aside. Deferred maint
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by djoldman 11mo ago
Please, please try using weight whenever possible, aka for all amounts >= 2 grams. 1. People are bad at measuring volume. This has been tested. There is much more variance in amounts measured by volume than be weight. See "science a
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From the paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651781v1 > ... we report the discovery of Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a novel archaeon with an unprecedentedly small genome of only 238
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by djoldman 11mo ago
Maintainers and repo owners will get where they want to go the fastest by not referring to what/who "generated" code in a PR. Discussions about AI/LLM code being a problem solely because AI/LLM is not generally a pr
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by djoldman 11mo ago
Folks may be talking past each other on the "100 mile" issue. The dissonance arises from these contradictions: 1. Federal regulations specifically state "100 air miles" with respect to the US Border patrol: https:/
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The question is, can we patch our browser to respond with whatever we want when getCurrentPosition() is called? Then we can be wherever we want, super precisely!
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Clearly a British concoction... United States doesn't start here until 1784! :)
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> The proposal now heads to the European Parliament and the EU’s 27 member states — where it will need a qualified majority — for approval... Not a done deal.
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> The difficulties in search are almost entirely dealing with the large amounts of data, both logistically and in handling underspecified queries. Large amounts of data seem obviously difficult. For your second difficulty, "handling
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It's possible to do this without disabling the brake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzxYdB-LBB0&t=220s
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Something close to that is the table here: https://ucs-detect.readthedocs.io/results.html It's not at the lowest granularity though.

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