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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> HYSA are in 2026 readily available. The designation of "HYSA" is itself kind of a semantic shrinkflationesque slight of hand. "HYSA"s in 2026 have similar and often worse rates than a standard savings account back i
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> That's Canadians, aged 55-64. And while this is a Maclean's article, so it is understandably focused on Canada, pretty much everything covered in the article is also relevant to Americans with similar numbers... but with the
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> You could have a PhD in AI and as long as you're working 20 years a week at a pizza place, you're "employed." I would hope that someone who can work 20 years a week gets paid a lot, even if they work at a pizza plac
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
Yeah, I was lucky enough to miss the "Datasette" days. I had the luxury of a disk drive, and even eventually had an Epyx Fast Load cartridge to speed (some) things up even further! Practically zooming for the time!
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
Blog poster's early computing history is remarkably similar to mine in terms of years/ages. Got a C64 (with a 1541 disk drive) around late 1983 (when I was 10). Hooked up to a 13 inch CRT TV at first. Got into games, computer mag
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> But there are real problems that it solves and solves better than anything else. Like when a cop wants to stalk his ex-girlfriend, or ex-wife. Who else is gonna solve this problem if not flock?
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
For people I am good friends with we don't sweat owing each other 15 bucks here or there because it all evens out in the wash.
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
I don't know if it is gloating so much as it is recognition that unlike most injustice that happens in the world the people most responsible for it are going to suffer at least some of the consequences along with the hoi polloi. A refr
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> They are probably stronger than ever in terms of games using their tech and collected license fees. True, though they've been acquired by Epic since 2021. They keep the RAD Game Tools branding, but aren't their own separate
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
in your hypothetical 300 million person scenario why even bother with individual face recognition? If you're going to kill everyone you don't need a system to discriminate individual targets, you just need to recognize any target
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> They're fixated on AI itself as the risk ("alignment!!!1!1!!"), as opposed to what humans with these tools will do. What really is the difference? Aligned AI wouldn't help humans do these things. But we've fa
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> Even if I wrote all the code, my understanding of how everything works and fits together decays. Some understanding decays, but in my experience it never fully decays to the point of never having known how it worked. My code from 3 yea
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> I remember when Musk was genuinely trying to make the world better with electric cars. People rarely 'go bad' like that. You just learn more about who they really are over time.
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
My point is that people can choose not to use twitter despite the network effects. I don't not use twitter because I think it hurts twitter. I don't use twitter because I know using it will hurt me. Any politician/business&#
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> it is civic duty for all to commit civil disobedience on this. While I support civil disobedience, it would be more impactful if people just stopped using twitter. I suspect this may be an unpopular take, but this late in the game I si
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> The attack on Iranian school was to the best of my knowledge a mistake stemming from old intel. A mistake in a completely unjust war. And what about the fishing boats we are bombing in the Caribbean and the Pacific? Not even the prete
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> In most modern democratic countries (I don't know about the US, since I'm European) executive and legislative branches are one and the same, so that still holds up! In the US we have had legitimate separation of powers betwee
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> It won't happen to me is what I used to think In my experience this is what almost everyone thinks, right up to the point where it starts happening to them. And it isn't just an individual blind spot, organizations suffer fro
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
That's entirely fair. As a heavily disaffected American (who still can't wrap his head around the fact that we let this happen twice) I support any form of protest against us.
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
Hadn't seen this channel before. Its great, but also pretty tragic. For those who also haven't seen it before who might follow: the presenter (who demonstrates the mechanical mechanisms) lost his wife to a heart attack in 2024, ke
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians A little bit of Canadian/non-American English slipped in (eg. enrol, behaviour), which AFAIK would have been flagged for a real Amazon post because as
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> I will believe that "AI will do all the work" when private prisons stop contracting inmates to do slave labor and employers stop hiring undocumented migrant workers. The majority of the slave labor in prisons in the US make f
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> Some other commentators said this was AI slop. To me it read like a combination of human written and AI slop, as if the author had Claude write it and then rewrote portions of it, or the author wrote an initial version and told Claude
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> Is this automated CEO any good? Most importantly, what is its golf handicap?
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> And it sounds like it saves money on commercial font licensing. Nebula Sans is a derivative of Adobe's Source Sans which is available to use for free for any purpose include commercial under the SIL Open Font License (the same lic
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
If only ChatGPT existed in 2013 to ask it how to hide an STD from your wife.
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
> It took over a century to go from Oliver Twist to the broad Post-WWII Middle Class. How long this time? It may be optimistic to assume any path even exists this time (or at least that any path exists without violent revolution). I won&
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by georgemcbay 1mo ago
I guess I'll just never read another tweet again. For the past year or so I've only ever read them (rarely, and only when tipped off about something worth reading from an external source) via xcancel. Would rather just not read an
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
Cool stuff, but they've been talking about this tech since at least SIGGRAPH 2012 ( https://developer.download.nvidia.com/devzone/devcenter/game... ) and AFAICT 14 years later its still just internal Nvidia-pro
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by georgemcbay 2mo ago
Also, just logically considering hundreds of thousands of students have been part of Harvard reading periods over the years, and there are two unicorn events where reading period may have played some small part in the formation of a trillio

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