itsoktocry

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by itsoktocry 1y ago
For every fringe conservative conspiracy theory you can find an equivalent stupid left wing version. Not being able to see that says a lot.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Not every change is good, so we should be cautious. That's also a cornerstone of conservatism.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Is this supposed to be witty or something? Employees are human resources.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Smaller banks aren't competitive with larger (global) banks.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> You are wrong about rush hour. You need to provide good service all day, not just during rust hour. Your first half talks about how high the hourly rate to run a bus is. Then in the second half you recommend the same service level fo
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> they transform your codebase into embeddings (knowledge), giving them a much greater advantage in understanding larger contexts and effectively acting on the code. Is this true? Isn't the context size controlled by the model? Is
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> Retards here just want more connectedness. What besides a storage backend, a UI frontend, and analog audio do you need? Little harsh, but yeah. People are in here saying, "I love controlling receiver through my Apple TV!" T
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
5% of the US population self-report alcoholism. Why does food addiction encompass 40% of the US population?
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Is it normal to expect a process to work when you don't follow the process?
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> If you eat out, portion sizes are off the scale And yet in a sister thread about Deliveroo we have people talking about what a "game changer" the delivery services are, eating 2 takeout meals a day without really understandi
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> Just a few meals out and not tracking my calories and I fell off of maintenance quickly. This is the big thing: it's amazing how little you can fall out of line and gain weight. A couple hundred calories a day and you're a
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> Is discipline why some other countries have a lot more skinny people than the US? Yeah, I think it is. It's easier to be in bad shape than good shape. I'm curious what you think it is?
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Your last point is the most interesting: restaurants are now optimizing for cranking out generic slop.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> if food is cold, you probably have a microwave? Order $40 of mediocre food and pop it in the microwave when it gets to you, cold. No surprise this is the community that brought us Soylent. Do these people even like food? Fine if no
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> Food delivery is a game changer with little kids to feed. Can you elaborate? I have little kids. We buy food at the grocery store and cook it. What game is being changed? You're talking about ordering takeout.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
My life is greatly improved by owning an automobile. Always tradeoffs. If you choose to live in the city, you have to deal with city problems.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> Then in 2008 it was magically worth only $125K after being appraised a year earlier for 350K. And what's it worth today? What is the average annual price appreciation since you bought it? Watching "home value" month-to
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
Theme: normal people who know nothing about technology "have an idea for an app" with no clue what that actually entails. It's a shame they got swindled, but the company had totally unrealistic proposals. I bet these people s
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> In that scenario Tesla still starts with a large advantage in cost per cab over everyone but BYD. They literally don't have a cab. Waymo is driving people around right now.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
They told us it was going to be the best selling car ever, over one million pre-orders. Reality: fewer than 100k actually sold. The truck was everything anyone with half a brain thought it would be.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> It's a cool concept... looks good to my eye, small trucks are neat And it's barely a truck, 1000-lb towing capacity. A VW Golf can tow twice as much.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> You can probably squeeze an extra decade out if you're willing to swap out the motor or transmission In many parts of the country (I'm Canadian, I assume the same for the US) the body and undercarriage are going to rot befor
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
I'm not sure anything on your list is even about "the internet", as opposed to other tech around it. Do you know what people mean when they say "the internet?".
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> the absolute cesspit reddit was at the time (as you mention) You prefer the corporate, censored, ad-ridden site that reddit is now? That is bizarre. The internet of old was better, in my opinion. It took work to be there; now it ta
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> we do waste a ton of money on consultants I bet the median skill of a Deloitte consultant is higher than that of the average government office worker.
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by itsoktocry 1y ago
> existing, actual waste Where are you getting that this is "actual" waste, because you read some mean things about consultants? Go easy on the kool aid.
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by itsoktocry 2y ago
> Moving from an accounts-receivable/accounts-payable model to a insert-coin-receive-service model would be a huge advantage. Why would the method of payment affect how you track accounts payable/receivable in your books?
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by itsoktocry 2y ago
> She just told me to focus on trying to get 1 gram of high quality protein daily for pound of body weight. You hear this a lot, but it is incredibly difficult to eat eg 175g of protein every day. That's 4 chicken breasts, every d
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by itsoktocry 2y ago
It hasn't arrived at all.
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by itsoktocry 2y ago
Two hours of daily commute to work, to live in a dense suburban hellscape is "good"?

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