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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
It's absolutely true that ISPs in the US are horrifically anti-competitive, and also that they should be treated as utility carriers, like electricity companies, not as "optional" services. But that said, it took more than fo
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
Just the standard online typing tests you can find by googling. In fairness, 120wpm is a maximum. I'm often slower than that. But always over 100. Edit: For those who are curious, I took this test: https://www.typing.com&#x2
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
Yeah, I've been told this. And I can type the "right" way at like 40-60 wpm. But I haven't seen any real reason to bother.
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
I type 120 wpm using a bizarre method I acquired through trial and error as a kid. It uses mostly my thumbs and index fingers and has been described by observers as "disconcerting". But it works great for me, and about perfectly m
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
The problem is that cats can flawlessly detect when something was made for them to use, and then will not deign to use it. Meanwhile, the cardboard box you have forgotten to take to the recycling for three weeks will become their palace.
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
Why would you come to work if you weren't getting paid at all? I'm not following that. Because you assume you'll get backpay? That aside, I simultaneously hold several thoughts about this. The first is: The TSA probably doesn
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
I am not Tim Sweeney's biggest fan. I know he and his company have many detractors. Please read this comment with that in mind, because while I don't love them, I also think that as layoff announcements go, this is good. No beatin
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
I'm sure this will work out well and in no way impact the quality of their product.
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
The $12,000 one also requires it.
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
There's some irony in the fact that this website reads as extremely NOT AI-generated, very human in the way it's designed and the tone of its writing. Still, this is a great idea, and one I hope takes off. I think there's a g
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
Another good look at what IVF is really like, albeit with a really dark tinge that is not likely true in the vast majority of cases, is The Retrievals[0]. I recommend the podcast version. What I find most incredible about it is the number o
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
> According to Chater, our minds can only do one thing at a time — that is, that we cannot have two thoughts at once, and the idea that we can is an illusion. On a pure neurological basis, this is just untrue. It's well-established
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
> Research. It has been extraordinarily helpful in giving me insight into how to design some larger systems when I have extremely specific requirements but don't necessarily have the complete experience to architect them myself - I
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
I always find these "death of the X" articles frustrating. Books didn't stop existing when the radio came out. Radio didn't stop existing when television was invented. If you go back in time a thousand years, people were
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by ivraatiems 7mo ago
I remember that when I was in school, teachers hated my ever-present netbook laptop and the disinterest I had in their classes. Which were already repetitious and not very exciting to me. To see it half reversed now - every student must hav
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by ivraatiems 8mo ago
> If it's not dark and edgy, it's not profound. I think this is exactly it, and it's frustrating, because some of the most profound works of science fiction are things like Star Trek, which are idealistic and hopeful. They
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by ivraatiems 8mo ago
I'd really enjoy a return to classic space opera. I think a world where technologies like AI actually work out okay to some extent is a) closer to fiction than the alternative, and b) more interesting than another dystopia. I'd
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by ivraatiems 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_strikes_on_Irani...
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by ivraatiems 8mo ago
> In this situation it is a fair request by the US to sign a nuclear deal that heavily restricts Iran's ability to enrich, and as Iran due to ideological reasons refused, and IMO miscalculated this will be a win-win, as losing will
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by ivraatiems 8mo ago
If we attacked every country in the world killing thousands of its own people we'd be at war with half the world right now.
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by ivraatiems 8mo ago
I was discussing this with a friend today. It just feels like there's no point to these actions. Not in the sense of "I don't ideologically agree with our decision to do this," but in the sense of, "I do not see how
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by ivraatiems 8mo ago
This investigation aligns with my experience in a lot of ways. I'm con-the influence and behavior big AI companies, but lukewarm-to-pro the actual use of the technology itself. I use Claude and other models frequently (mostly via Curso
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by ivraatiems 8mo ago
This article has literally nothing to do with "The AI Age" but keeps saying it over and over, why? For marketing purposes? It's weird. Human CEO made bad decision. Human CEO at another company made good decision. Neither deci
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by ivraatiems 8mo ago
Informality and bad grammar but otherwise sound decision making is fine, I think everyone's arguments for it here make sense. But let's not pretend that, at least in the US, that's what it's limited to. Our current and i
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by ivraatiems 9mo ago
First of all, like you say, those registries can have an LLC's name or the name of a trust, etc. It may not be my name. But some rando showing up doesn't know me, they want to occupy my house. Second, those registries are much har
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by ivraatiems 9mo ago
This is good advice and probably an avenue I need to explore, thank you.
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by ivraatiems 9mo ago
I have had people show up at my house to ask if it was for rent, based on a fake post on Facebook using photos from Zillow from before my home was sold. My realtor helped me get the photos taken down, but the Facebook ads for it are up to t
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by ivraatiems 9mo ago
XFCE and LXDE are saviors for old machines. I frequently install Xubuntu and Lubuntu on old Chromebooks (e. g. HP Chromebook 14 from around 10 years ago, 2GB RAM, Celeron processor), and you can quickly get a fully functional, usable system
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by ivraatiems 9mo ago
(For anyone looking now, the case has been removed to federal court for the moment. Caption "Surman, by and through the Administrators of her Estate, Gregory Surman and Karen Connolly et al v. MONGODB, INC.", 2026cv00166 in SDNY.)
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by ivraatiems 10mo ago
For what it's worth, this is essentially the policy my current and most recent previous workplace followed. (My employers before that were pre-LLMs.) If you are the one with your name on the PR, it's your code and you have to unde

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