jMyles

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by jMyles 2y ago
> there's always the feeling of missing out on something a couple hours away. Yeah, I've certainly had that feeling many times. :-) But I do think there's a categorical difference: in several US cities (I use St. Pete as
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by jMyles 2y ago
> just a train away I don't think any continental European city has the quality and diversity of live music that St. Pete has. Prague is perhaps closest. Obviously Dublin and Glasgow are world class, if they're a train away f
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by jMyles 2y ago
I don't want to take away from the importance of clean beaches and water, but there are many good answers to your question, at least as St. Pete goes: * Live music * Great food * Bike and pedestrian friendliness * Wildlife * Sports and
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by jMyles 2y ago
Perhaps you've got it right for the wrong reason. > Take the pristine state of nature in some location prior to human interaction, and then anything a society of humans does in that location is in some sense going to injure that sta
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by jMyles 2y ago
/thread and well said.
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by jMyles 2y ago
Vanilla VLC still feels like the best user experience to me.
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by jMyles 2y ago
I had more-or-less the same position, until the childish and violent responses to the protests began. The spraying of water - on a day below freezing - at the food and water station is perhaps a back-breaking straw. https://www.
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by jMyles 2y ago
Yeah, I do nearly all of my grocery shopping IRL, and about 75% of hardware shopping (at Rollin' Oats and Ace Hardware, respectively, here in St. Pete). Last few things I bought on Amazon, that I'm not sure where I'll get, at
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Ask HN: Are you crosssing the Amazon picket line? If no, where are you shopping?
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by jMyles 2y ago
Gotcha; thanks for the tip. Gemini seems to be much, much worse at the interpersonal dynamics that are important to us. It can't seem to keep track of who has what life experiences and how they might be relevant to our problem-solving
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by jMyles 2y ago
Those are great tips. The RAG thing looks doable. Is there a pre-fab solution, or do I need to use one of the APIs for the big-box providers? My concern is: although it looks relatively easy to implement, I'm not sure I want to build
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Ask HN: Have you hit a context ceiling with an LLM? What did you do about it?
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by jMyles 2y ago
Reports like this play into a very loud narrative that adults (in the United States) are getting stupider, but I really don't think that's true, and I also don't think that it is supported by these results, for at least two r
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by jMyles 2y ago
Drug _consumption_ causes "drug related criminality?" The evidence is quite strong that _prohibition_ causes criminality. Consumption in the absence of prohibition requires no illicit market or cartels.
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by jMyles 2y ago
> Blame isn't a zero sum game. ...agreed... > A swatter is just as culpable for someone getting killed/hurt, even if theoretically the actual act was caused by police negligence. ...but this is a horrifying and repugnant exa
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by jMyles 2y ago
On one hand, it's great that this kind of material is being authored and released as CC4. The formula in academia for this has often been: lump all conspiracy theories together, regardless of their plausibility or evidence, until one
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by jMyles 2y ago
This paper was life-changing for me as an undergrad (and I didn't discover the rest of his body of work until I ran into it later here on HN in 2010 or so). We are blessed as a species that John stuck to his principles - and his thirst
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by jMyles 2y ago
...I mean, police are deeply unpopular in the American political consciousness, and have been since prior to their rebrand from "slave patrols" in the 19th century. Surely you recall that, only four years ago, millions of people
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by jMyles 2y ago
My sense is that the constituency of people who prefer deprecation of the US state is much larger than just anarchists.
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by jMyles 2y ago
> throw out people's stake in how their lives are run FWIW, you're talking to a professional musician. Ostensibly, the IP complex is designed to protect me. I cannot fathom how you can regard it as the "people's sta
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by jMyles 2y ago
Rapidity of Godwin's law notwithstanding, I'm not disputing the importance of equity in decision-making. But this matter is more complex than that: it's obvious that the internet doesn't tolerate censorship even if it i
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by jMyles 2y ago
Obviously we're all impacted in these perceptions by our bubbles, but it would surprise me at this particular moment in the history of US politics to find that most people favor the existence of the state at all, let alone its ability
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by jMyles 2y ago
Am I jazzed about Sam Altman making billions? No. Am I even more concerned about the state having control over the future corpus of knowledge via this doomed-in-any-case vector of "intellectual property"? Yes. I think it will be
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by jMyles 2y ago
Maybe. Or it might be referring to a particular phone bitch which it is imploring the viewer to put down.
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by jMyles 2y ago
Interesting - I'd love to know more about this, and perhaps assist with the data model. While purpose-built traffic calming infra is super nice to have, I'm somewhat more interested in the much more prevalent (at least, outside Eu
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by jMyles 2y ago
Yep. This is the a crucial cycling feature that's missing. Ideally, I'd also like to highlight roads with diverters, circles, chicanes, bumps, tables, etc.
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by jMyles 2y ago
While I think most of us agree with the spirit of your argument, we may have different impressions about the degree to which market forces _are even allowed to operate_ in this environment. Consider the combination of: * winner-picking trad
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by jMyles 2y ago
> English is not my first language; is a constabulary not a police? Totally understandable - English _is_ my first language, and the terminology is a clusterfuck to the point where nobody can clearly talk about it (which at times has see
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by jMyles 2y ago
I've been working on a system for my own bluegrass shows of free-to-enter, pay-for-a-ticket-if-you-want-to. Not sure how it will go, but an interesting experiment I think.
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by jMyles 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand your argument: you're saying that, in order to conduct an investigation, we need to have a special class of society that has different powers, and different access to weaponry? Investigations have been ha

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