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by ibejoeb 3y ago
I'm glad OpenAI happened, but I'd be happier if it stumbles a little and does not full-on capture the entirety of AI. I think a shake-up is good for the world.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
Was it an old arc lamp?
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
And the threshold might not even be that high. I tried to take $8,000 from an account--at one of the fancy "private client" banks with a dedicated banker--and it took 10 days. This guy wanted to know how I intended to spend it. Es
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
You were never able to do what you want with your money after you've given custody to a bank. For example, try taking it back...
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
Why wouldn't you want your children to go into construction? I can't imagine what the prejudice against building things would be, especially essential things like energy infrastructure.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
That really only matters when the line prosecutors are not hamstrung by DA's agenda, and a lot of Oregon is currently experiencing this. The other side of the coin is that the public defenders might get worse.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
I'll take the worst prosecutor I can get.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
If you've practiced for a decade in one state, and then you moved to another state without reciprocity (many permutations) and want to work, suddenly you have to sit again. That's a very different headspace. This "supervised
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
The industry just went 6 months without producing any content anyway, right on the heels of 2 years of craziness. There's not going to be much to pay for...
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
Absolutely. Become and expert in something, and then make software to solve problems in that domain. That's how you get rich.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
>I pause Slack notifications after working hours. I disable them on weekends. "I go home at the end of the day" -2010
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
Access was an amazing product. It was quick to a hit a performance wall, but damn it was amazing for business applications. Imagine replacing its rdbms engine with sqlite...
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
Like ChatGPT, sure, but Pi uses internally developed, novel language models, not OpenAI's.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
It's a good time to plant some trees
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
There is unbridled immigration to the US. I truly can't think of a cohort for which the US is unattractive.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
With no intention to start a flame war: I don't see a future where affording a government the capability of SOTA AI is helping.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
It's not unusual to restrict arms and ammo operations in wartime. We're blowing through supplies. A few weeks ago, one of the principal manufacturers of 5.56 rounds canceled all commercial contracts and now will only supply to the
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
> you can drop a weight class but not lose strength. Exactly. This aligns to strategic weight cutting. Once you go up and then go back down, you feel stronger than you were for about as long as you continue regular training.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
You might wanna sit down for this...
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
Questions: 1. "In June" or "As of June" really makes a difference. I wouldn't expect record breaking lows northern hemisphere summer, where 2/3rds of the land is. 2. Is it typical to have a record-breaking cold
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
> This discussion started with the topic of video games not really >> Make it apply not just to videogames, but books, movies, music, etc.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
I explicitly disabled all emergency alerts in the myriad android settings, and I kept the radio on just to see what would happen. I got the alerts.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
I'm just describing a potential disincentive. It's not a straw man. That's why the notion of expiring copyright works out. I didn't suggest removing that. And sure, there's plenty of room in between there. What woul
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
Hmm. I don't think I agree with the philosophy of it, even if the outcome is good for consumers. For one, just because something is not available for purchase does not mean that the creator is not deprived of the would-be revenue. An e
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
Not to re-table a long settled debate, but I always knew that the one true pronunciation is gif, and everyone else who pronounce it gif is just weird.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
It's different, and it's not like it's without its problems. Of course there are still depressed neighborhoods, but there are a ton of development projects going up, lots of new restaurants, bars, nightlife venues, and arts a
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
Detroit has really come up in the past 5 years. I recommend folks visit and check it out. Motor City's downtown actually has decent public transit via bus and light rail, and it's very walkable* during the nice season. Lots of ent
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
When I switched from colo and managed datacenter services to AWS in its early days, I saved a ton of money. But all of that hardware was much more expensive back then, and the quality of OSS products wasn't quite as good, and all kinds
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
Some reports claim that there was more than one aircraft. If they were flying in formation, generally only the lead runs a transponder.
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by ibejoeb 3y ago
The article suggests that heating certain plastics to the softening point significantly increases the amount of plastic shed into the food. Despite being only one vector, it could be a very high magnitude. So if you were to make any choice

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