esalman

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by esalman 1mo ago
He's done the math- this kind of moves is exactly what retains support from 30% of the US population - enough to sway elections.
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by esalman 1mo ago
Tariff has already proven to be a bad thing. Prices have increased due to tariff. Government lost a case and refunded money to corporations. Consumers got nothing. Tariff induced inflation has caused volatility in the bond market. I was for
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by esalman 1mo ago
I see it's changed in Google maps. Really lame from Google.
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by esalman 1mo ago
I respected Terence Tao but since listening to his "Mathematics in the age of AI" talk, I've become a fan. I have had nobody else explain so succinctly what is the purpose of Mathematical research, why it matters, and why it
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by esalman 1mo ago
There was a period in time, few years ago, when I was going back and forth between Firefox and Chrome, driven by alternate paranoia about privacy vs performance. These days I don't really have to. Firefox on Android, at least for the p
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by esalman 1mo ago
Well, shut up and take my money haha!
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by esalman 1mo ago
I'm sold as well!
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by esalman 1mo ago
Definitely. This is great considering our family Google One plan has 100GB storage which is more than 60% full, but I don't really need to sweat it because I can back up most things on this phone and ignore Google photos backup alerts.
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by esalman 1mo ago
Actually, because it's a fold and the external screen is very good, I end up checking notifications and stuff without having to open the phone, which results in less distraction and screen time.
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by esalman 1mo ago
Can confirm, pixel 10 is esim only.
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by esalman 1mo ago
Pixel 10 was so bad I had to trade it in after using for a month. The version I got was 128GB for a whopping $600. This was my first Google device after Nexus days and I was bitterly disappointed with weird performance bugs and battery drai
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by esalman 1mo ago
But they don't/didn't have the same level of market share as Nvidia, particularly in the PC gaming market. Nvidia had 65%-85% market share, and still worked with game studios to make sure their competitions failed. That'
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by esalman 1mo ago
NVIDIA introduced programs like The Way It's Meant to be Played, optimizing major game titles specifically for NVIDIA architecture, which made competitions like AMD cards underperform in critical releases. I'm old enough to rememb
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by esalman 1mo ago
What I've learned in last week is that a harness is basically a while loop. In each iteration you make an LLM call, perform some work (e.g. tool call), augment the prompt (append or compact etc.)- not necessarily in that other- and con
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by esalman 1mo ago
As someone who've played video games and obsessed over graphics cards long before this all started, don't get your hopes up.
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by esalman 2mo ago
This is so wholesome. Eminem is a legend on his own right. As a non-american I heard about Eminem before Dolly.
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by esalman 2mo ago
Costco has a standalone gas station in Mission Viejo, CA - https://www.costco.com/w/-/gas-station/ca/mission-viejo/1772 I think this is the only one in US without a warehouse. The prices are at leas
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by esalman 2mo ago
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2025/research-directo...
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by esalman 2mo ago
> it's easier for organizations to work with. I can see that. I am developing my first custom agents. I am finding that if I offload some workflow to another agent (e.g. Claude Code), the simplest way to control what it can or canno
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by esalman 2mo ago
It's probably not coming across because you're looking up too many synonyms.
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by esalman 2mo ago
So it's a problem when a poverty striken nation expect aid to combat child mortality, but shelling out $150m on Juicero or $500m on Theranos is fine? Please try to answer without sounding like a psychopath.
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by esalman 2mo ago
2025 ultra is almost the same spec as 2026, and it's like $600.
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by esalman 2mo ago
Inflation is high because interest rates are high. Interest rates are high because top holders of US Treasury bonds like Japan, UK, China, are all dumping bonds. Why do you think they're doing that?
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by esalman 2mo ago
Let me give you an example of the money laundering operation. Due to USAID shutdown, Bangladesh went from ~$500M in US assistance to ~$71M, with bilateral health funding dropping ~97% in some analyses. Over 100 projects (~$550M) suspended o
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by esalman 2mo ago
Not everyone should have an impact website because not everyone is capable of causing 88 deaths per hour. Scale matters. Take Flock for example. Reading license plate is legal. But when at done at scale, it's a massive loophole into vi
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by esalman 2mo ago
It really depends on the company culture. Where I work (in the bay area) people come to the office two days a week, but those days are when everybody schedule the important in person meetings. Focused work happens rest of the weekdays at ho
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by esalman 2mo ago
-1/12 is the finite offset after isolating the divergent series. Try something more baffling.
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by esalman 2mo ago
They're not, according to "Authorities". > Authorities believe the at-large criminals snuck up behind the cameras with spray foam canisters and sprayed the lenses before the cameras had a chance to ID them. https:/&#
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by esalman 2mo ago
You search for Toyota RAV4, and you get an ad for whoever paid Google the most money to fingerprint your profile and bias your purchase decision. Since when did we start trusting everything we see on the Internet?
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by esalman 2mo ago
Unfortunately I agree with this. For example, CA has very strict environment protection laws and many people hate it. But it's also the reason we get beautiful sky and nature all year round. When I was first landing on US soil in LA in

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