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by eth0up 3mo ago
We certainly diverge a bit beyond the surface, but I think there is a similarity too. And yes, how could I not know mochi! Honestly, I would have to ponder this all for a while to say anything of value. I am very tired, and I figured better
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by eth0up 3mo ago
Yeah, I am quite opposed to grass in general, as an ornamental in Florida. But I do appreciate the link and advice. Samples over surveys. Remembered!
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by eth0up 3mo ago
Just slipping in to encourage you to ignore the vacuous comment. I am aware of all the things you alluded to. Land restrictions can be surprisingly strange. I mean, I know geriatric people who've been fined and endured attempts by the
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by eth0up 3mo ago
Are you the only reasonable person on HN today? Others are framing this author as some official journalist who must be held to rigorous standards and has violated every rule of the trade, with wanton contempt. The author has failed to produ
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by eth0up 3mo ago
Many blessings! Thank you for this! My friend just grabbed 5 acres near a phosphate processing plant and was very concerned about the soil. Still waiting on lab results, but the deal is sealed I think. He intends to occupy and farm it. Orga
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by eth0up 3mo ago
PS: the diarrhea machine was a reference to the Active Denial style tech they used to make Maduro's soldiers shit themselves. I'm no fan of narco, but with all the prejudicial executions of boaters and such, I really think Claude
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by eth0up 3mo ago
"There's nowhere near enough public information about the xz vuln to be worth turning into a book," As an actual person, who reads, and having glanced at this book, I do not agree. I can already see part of the purpose is to
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by eth0up 3mo ago
I think it's more accurate satire than insight, but you know, maybe people really don't see it. I suppose to some, it might not even make sense. Give it a few months though, when it might qualify as insight, or prescience. All I c
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by eth0up 3mo ago
"separation of self and others." This matches my own perspective. I began suspecting long ago that part of the nature of consciousness is based on limits, or that limitation is the nature of consciousness, in that we have the whol
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by eth0up 3mo ago
I really hope they do well. I remember over ten years ago wondering if they could get as far as they have, and now seeing they got farther.
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by eth0up 3mo ago
I have over 6gb of material resulting from interactions with AI. Even a micro-essay of mediocre quality requires dozens of prompts. Why post dozens and dozens of prompts if the final product is cleaner, and easier to process? I see utterly
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by eth0up 3mo ago
exactly. If I am writing a free book with solid information, well, I am not writing it, because I am not writing free books -- I don't have time. But if AI can arrange my data, thoughts, perspective, and articulate it effectively, then
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by eth0up 3mo ago
"free book" "no paywall and nothing to buy." Might this not actually be a reasonable purpose for AI? I can tolerate the quirky style and AI signatures for something honest and free.
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by eth0up 3mo ago
AI may have made a few mistakes, e.g. suggesting the US abduct a sitting president (Claude), and maybe went too far with the whole diarrhea-vomit machine thing, but you can't say it doesn't write a clean python script. Maybe if we
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by eth0up 3mo ago
With cost of healthcare, inflation, unemployment, housing crises, wars and whatever else folks have to be thrilled about these days, I am willing to risk assuming alcohol consumption is not going to be on a permanent downward trend. And pai
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by eth0up 3mo ago
So a guy who beckons to "Keep HN weird." and has a history of non-strict adherence to subject titles with his/her own comments implies I must not challenge a title that claims "no adverse birth outcomes" from acetam
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by eth0up 3mo ago
Poison center stats, annual, acetaminophen... https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... Emergency department visits ~56,000 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16294364/ Hos
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by eth0up 3mo ago
Because we couldn't possibly modify "we have no substantive or high-quality evidence that the drug is unsafe." - (damn all the research showing it is) --to "we have no substantive or high-quality evidence that the drug i
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by eth0up 3mo ago
So you think the cobbler should be only a cobbler aye? Pinko much? That really does model technocracy and authoritarianism well. What's your argument that enforcing ignorance on the working class and restricting knowledge to utility wo
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by eth0up 3mo ago
If you do start munching on advil; note there are rumors, by medical researchers, case reports, and more, that if you dig beneath the shiny surface to find, do show a lot of compelling data for GI damage, heart risk and other serious side-e
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by eth0up 3mo ago
Just for the sake of honest balance, with minimal commentary and no opinions: Acetaminophen and dementia correlation: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2877629/ https://www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F
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by eth0up 3mo ago
Thanks for mentioning both of these, the xteink and the nook resurrection. My old nooks are all slimy with the black material liquifying, and unusable just for that, else I'd pursue the XDA option. Looking into the xteink now, else Kob
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by eth0up 3mo ago
Is the whole Straight of Hormuz fertilizer shortage just FUD, or should we be preparing to see this "real"ness get a lot more real in the coming months or season? I think it's a legitimate concern, and just one of many proble
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by eth0up 3mo ago
The critique of my performance you are making is not an insult, not necessarily disagreement -really big juicy emdash- but a somber reference to the common punctuation style that many are understandably becoming frustrated with. Edit:
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by eth0up 3mo ago
You are right on one thing.*1 But I need to push back on something.*2 The claim that everything is real is too broad and I'd urge caution in making such a blanket assumption. It would be epistemically reckless of me to agree here. It i
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by eth0up 3mo ago
Slightly off topic, but earlier today I was bored, having a kibitz with Claude, and I asked if it played chess. I was surprised when it confirmed, with a humble yes and disclaimer of its mediocre strength. I then asked if it happened to als
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by eth0up 3mo ago
Ja man. We had enough trouble with a small handful of HN monsters chewing up perfectly innocent threads. Now we have LLMs on the loose too. Soon mortals won't be able to leave a comment anywhere without risking limbs. Life is getting t
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by eth0up 3mo ago
In Sarasota FL, if I remember correctly, since about 2009-ish, Police need either a two-year degree, or military service. Judging from my personal observations and encounters, more than a few had/have well deserved degrees. The prior C
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by eth0up 3mo ago
A friendly reply, and surprise which I rarely see here. Despite my misinterpretation of your original comment, somehow I managed to be wrong but still right, and indeed you admit to having considered similar grid vulnerabilities. I can imag
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by eth0up 3mo ago
I hope to meet you some day, before I am withered altogether. If you could not identify me, I am sure we could have some fascinating conversations. Take care. Thanks for the insight.

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