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by fwipsy 10mo ago
After my mom's Chromebook died I switched her to Ubuntu + Firefox on a Thinkpad x201 and it's been her daily driver for years. I keep asking to buy her a newer laptop with a bigger screen (800p is pretty painful these days) but sh
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
Regulators can't verify every single Facebook ad. So, they take a sample. Facebook is creating a Potemkin village - trying to provide a clean sample. It suggests they don't believe that a wider sample would pass muster. It's
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
Restaurant seen throwing waste in dumpster after removing it from food inspector's plate. Insists there's no other waste on other plates, apparently without checking. What proportion of the scam ads do you think this approach caug
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
That's exactly what I said and at odds with your last comment. You take responsibility for making the sandwich if possible. If not, you're not responsible for the sandwich, but for refunding the customer or offering them something
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
Bad example. If the toaster carbonized bread in 20 seconds it's defective, likely unsafe, possibly violates physics, certainly above the pay grade of a sandwich-pusher. Taking responsibility for outcomes is a powerful paradigm but I re
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
Do you have a source for sales data when a crack becomes available? If so, that seems like definitive proof that piracy does affect sales.
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
There were only two toys I never got tired of -- legos, and computers. Both encourage open-ended creativity. (I had older lego house sets which were quite flexible. Modern lego pieces seem more specialized.) Unfortunately, so many pieces to
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
Burn-out probably depends on the model, not a lottery, but shouldn't be a major concern for typical usage patterns in recent models. The text issue is caused by a pentile subpixel layout which are no longer common. I love OLED for low-
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
I agree, but hard work is nothing new. Did the average person throughout history have more leisure than we do? I doubt it. I'm uncertain how to think about burnout in this context. Did they have burnout and were forced to work through
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
For me at least, competitive shooters are addictive, put me in an overstimulated reward-driven mindset that seeps into every aspect of life, affecting attention span, enjoyment, mood, and sleep. If there's childlike wonder in there it&
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
I do this too, but it bothers me a little bit to think that my mind needs to be doing something all the time in order to feel relaxed. Video games are fun but the ones I play are not really that restful; ditto web browsing. I've been e
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
"Good enough" has to mean users won't be frequently frustrated if they transition to it from a frontier model. > it is highly task dependent... much could be done without that level of intelligence This is an enthusiast&#x
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
Seems like wishful thinking. > How many TOPS do you need to run state-of-the-art models with hundreds of millions of parameters? No one knows exactly. Why not extrapolate from open-source AIs which are available? The most powerful open
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
I agree it's frustrating, but also fascinating. How many of us would be reading about ancient sculptures today if not for this debate? I wouldn't.
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
This is true, but it wouldn't produce the sort of flat coloring in the reproductions. It would limit the color space but artists could still blend and fade those colors to create intermediate tones. This is demonstrated in some of the
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by fwipsy 11mo ago
This framing is disingenuous. We're meant to say "tear down the orphan-crushing machine!" But in this case there's no machine, only human mortality. You're substituting a simple question ("why are we crushing o
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by fwipsy 11mo ago
They were responding to the first part of the comment, not the second. Doesn't mean they didn't read the second part.
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by fwipsy 11mo ago
Can you post the birdcage thing? That sounds fascinating.
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by fwipsy 11mo ago
Is identifying a difference between two cultures racism? Or did I miss something?
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There's no way this will actually be allowed. Musk is petty, has deep pockets, and giving up the trademark also means losing Twitter.com and all the links to it. This filing must be a publicity stunt.
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by fwipsy 11mo ago
If the baker loans to the butcher so that the butcher can buy from the baker, then the baker comes out ahead only if the butcher is good for the money. You need something of substance exchanged, not just delivered. Nvidia hasn't gotten
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by fwipsy 11mo ago
Amazing and humbling to read about technological marvels from 1400 years ago. It really puts our modern achievements in a new light. It's tempting sometimes to think of innovation as a recent phenomen, but people have been innovating a
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by fwipsy 11mo ago
Right now congresspeople are only paid about $200k. People who want that position are likely to be people who plan to profit off of it in other ways, at the expense of the nation. We should pay congresspeople more, as well as increasing tra
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by fwipsy 11mo ago
Colleges used to be much more affordable even though they covered liberal arts and engineering together. Are all colleges unaffordable? Do all colleges require engineering students to take liberal arts? Maybe this isn't universal, mayb
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by fwipsy 1y ago
Default Ubuntu seems pretty touch-friendly these days with large icons etc.
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by fwipsy 1y ago
Steam is a good experience and a good price relative to consoles, but other PC gaming storefronts do undercut them. See: Epic free games, isthereanydeal.com (competitive marketplace for legitimate game code resellers, which you can register
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by fwipsy 1y ago
Consoles are just loss leaders for software now. Hot take: this is true of the Steam Deck and Machine as well. Yes you can play games from other vendors, but PC gamers are very loyal to Steam and many will never bother. I imagine at least h
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by fwipsy 1y ago
Givewell did an analysis and concluded that while this is a problem, it's not nearly enough to offset the benefit which comes from using the nets for their intended purpose: https://www.givewell.org/international/t
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by fwipsy 1y ago
Hey, no need to be condescending. Some people just haven't read [the xkcd.]( https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/ )
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Devil's advocate: Individual users probably aren't filling a 3tb hard drive most of the time. (This may not apply to HN users, but I imagine most people buy a hard drive larger than they need and never fill it up.) So arguably, Ba

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