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by jameslk 1y ago
This is not the end. This is the beginning of another Iraq war, set up exactly the same way: claiming, with dubious proof, an imminent risk from weapons of mass destruction. Iran’s options here are to bomb US bases, which are a lot closer b
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Human History Timeline(humanhistorytimeline.com)
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> we don't have "instictive visual cues" for refraction and lensing Do you have anything to back this up? Seems a lot of your argument is hinging on this point. I’m skeptical that 1. this is true, and 2. Apple wouldn’t hav
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by jameslk 1y ago
Performance is not a metric. I mentioned web perf metrics that focus on UX, such as usability: https://web.dev/articles/user-centric-performance-metrics
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Yes the fuzzy use of “complicated” is part of the problem with this article. I am assuming “complicated” here means it’s consequential to users from a bad UX perspective because the article mentions some business stats: > Google's r
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by jameslk 1y ago
Kind of a low effort article? Forms an opinion on web perf trends based on a design awards site, pulls some basic stats you can find on wpostats.com, and then uses irrelevant metrics such as page weight[0] instead of user centric perf metri
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by jameslk 1y ago
They took away the <blink> tag from us, due to what can only be explained as the high costs to maintain such a complex feature in modern browsers, and late stage capitalism. However, thanks to the brilliant hard work of the open sourc
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by jameslk 1y ago
I remember meticulously using the photoshop slice tool To export gifs meant to be positioned perfectly in HTML tables For designs suited best for 800x600 All those moments lost in time, like tears in the rain
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by jameslk 1y ago
Yes I agree. I was using US stocks for the sake of comparison against US bonds. Otherwise, a diversified portfolio with risk adjusted to goals is what makes sense
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The same type of argument can be made about bonds and even cash. And if a diversified portfolio of US stocks all suddenly go bankrupt, that probably means the US is toast and therefore bonds are screwed too. Outside of catastrophic black sw
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by jameslk 1y ago
On the timescale of 30 years for gov bonds vs diversified US stocks, this is almost meaningless statement. The longer a risky asset is held, the less chance of loss you’ll have. Short-horizon returns are extremely volatile, but that volatil
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by jameslk 1y ago
Cursor wishlist item for any PM listening: When reviewing the changes made from agent mode, I don’t know why the model made the change or whether the model even made the change versus a tool call making the change. It’s a pain to go fish ou
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by jameslk 1y ago
We are in the fleeting era where AI models are not entirely corrupted by marketing and propaganda. Like the early web circa 1990s. It will never be this pure while also being this up-to-date ever again. Enjoy it while it lasts
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Keynes suggested that by 2030, we’d be working 15 hour workweeks, with the rest of the time used for leisure. Instead, we chose consumption, and helicopter money gave us bullshit jobs so we could keep buying more bullshit. This is fairly ev
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by jameslk 1y ago
When Postgres takes a while to answer analytical questions like "what's the 75th percentile of response time for these 900 some billion requests rows, grouped by device, network, and date for the past 30 days", that's wh
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by jameslk 1y ago
What if we move some of the website backend workload to the bots, effectively using them as decentralized cloud infrastructure? web3, we are so back
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by jameslk 1y ago
Yeah that was actually what I was thinking of for the idea, but the problem with their firewall is that it doesn’t penalize the big crawlers, like Google’s bot, because Google still sends traffic. Even if Google is sending less and less tra
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by jameslk 1y ago
Business idea: build a firewall for AI crawlers that variably gives them access to customer’s sites based on traffic they send. The more traffic they send, the more they are allowed to crawl.
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by jameslk 1y ago
Isn't trackerless astrophotography one of the main use cases for software that can do stacking like Siril [0] and similar tools [1] out there? 0. https://siril.org/ 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskA
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by jameslk 1y ago
My specific need is I like to reference articles I've read later, quickly. I was using Pocket to track links to articles I've read, keeping them categorized with tags. It's been a mediocre solution for this need (e.g. I'
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by jameslk 1y ago
I’ve been consistently discussing the federal debt through this whole thread. Your accusations seem trollish, disregarding my larger point about fiscal policy/debt and the context of the article (the debt), so I won’t be responding fur
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by jameslk 1y ago
Here’s federal debt: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN A surplus in the billions for a few years did not meaningfully change a federal debt that’s in the trillions. Further, the surplus that paid down public d
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by jameslk 1y ago
This is basically a modern money theory view (correct me if I’m wrong)? It relies on discipline in the government to prevent inflation, e.g. raising taxes and cutting spending. But this is a similar problem to what we have already. There is
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by jameslk 1y ago
How did you come to the conclusion that Clinton balanced the budget? When have any of these presidents successfully pushed for reducing the federal deficit during their tenures? Any actual reductions to the debt you’ve seen? What’s causing
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by jameslk 1y ago
This present issue has been caused by decades of bad fiscal policy by both parties: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S Here for example, the Congressional Budget Office, forecasted federal debt as a percent
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by jameslk 1y ago
It’s the modern day Comcast Triple Play: internet, cable, and phone
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60% of the time, it works every time
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It’s not the last paragraph. The rest of the article is there behind a “Read Full Article” button you have to click
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by jameslk 1y ago
OpenAI is a relatively unknown company outside of the tech bubble. I told my own mom to install Gemini on her phone because she's heard of Google and is more likely going to trust Google with whatever info she dumps into a chat. I can’

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