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by jimrandomh 1y ago
When you're selling a physical product at the single-digit-hundreds scale, "thin margin" is a false economy at best, fatal self-sabotage at worst. You should have a thick margin, which you reinvest into scaling up.
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by jimrandomh 1y ago
Your price is too low. You should raise your price until you aren't selling out.
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by jimrandomh 1y ago
I tried Cursor, and will occasionally switch into it, but I'm having a hard time using it because its relationship to extensions (particularly extensions that the user develops and sideloads) is badly broken. I tried doing minor custom
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
The article links to another news article which links to http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-00775-0 which says: > For IHM risk prediction, we utilized the LSTM model, CW-LSTM model, transformer, LR, AdaBoost, XGBo
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
This headline is a lie. A backdoor in a Bluetooth chip would be something which enabled a wireless attacker to gain code execution on the chip. This article reports on something which allows the device drivers of the attached device to ga
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
The HN title added the word "rationalist", which isn't in the source article. This is editorializing in a way that feels kind of slander-y. Their relationship to the bay area rationalist community is that we kicked them out l
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
We see similar issues on LessWrong. We're constantly being hit by bots that are egregiously badly behaved. Common behaviors include making far more requests per second than our entire userbase combined, distributing those requests betw
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
This is yet another in a long line of glucose-measurement devices designed to sell to unsophisticated research grantmaking agencies, rather than to diabetics. Making a device that "measures" blood sugar in a watch form factor is e
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
Mirror: https://arbital.greaterwrong.com/p/behaviorist?l=102
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
Talking about someone's track record of predictions is not an ad hominem, in the context of evaluating their credibility with respect to the subject of those predictions.
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
This is also standard procedure for Falcon 9 landings. They would do it this way even if the launch license didn't require it, because they know the probability of some sort of failure of the booster is high, and they don't want t
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
I looked at the license application that was linked to, and while it contains many tests measuring zinc and hexavalent chromium, none of them are "high levels" (as compared to EPA standards for drinking water).
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
This article appears to be about the false claim that the water-deluge system (which sprays water to protect the launch pad from heat and to dampen noise) was "industrial wastewater". The headline is pedantically true because envi
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
What input method are you using such that this is even possible? Nearly all English speakers are using keyboards with a single apostrophe key which inserts \x27, and could not insert any of the other quote characters even if they wanted to.
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
It's an LG 65QNED99UPA. There are a few caveats: using a 65" display up close imposes some requirements on your window manager (you want to treat the sides more like you'd treat a secondary monitor in a multimonitor setup, ra
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
I tried, and went back to laptop+monitor. In theory it would be great when on the go, but it doesn't really function without a laptop present, which makes it pretty unwieldy as you need two devices. In theory it would be good in a the
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
That's fine for when users are interactively typing commands, but it doesn't work when the command is being run by a non-busybox program which expects commands to exist in the standard locations.
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
The Reuters article says: > "The decision to freeze Starlink's accounts stems from a separate dispute over unpaid fines X was ordered to pay due to its failure to turn over some documents." This is deliberately misleading.
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
If Windows Update replaced components of Wine, that would (a) break people's Wine installs, and (b) give those users a way to legally get Microsoft's versions of those components for use outside of Windows.
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
GPT-3.5 is not the same thing. When people talk about LLMs having capabilities like complex reasoning, they're talking about current-gen models (eg Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4, Llama-405B).
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
If this were a normal commodity like chairs, the prices could not differ like that because people would buy it in a place where it's cheap, transport it to the US, and resell it. The reason this doesn't happen for medications is t
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
If you need to go proprietary to make enough money that's fine, but this is not open source and in particular it is not compatible with the GPLv3 license stated in the README. You have likely already given some users the right to redis
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
There might be reasons to use `bc` like this if you don't know the type of `age` and it could be a non-numeric string. Buuuuut a programming language where a simple integer-comparison leads to two subprocesses is going to be slower t
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
I have it, and am barely using it. It can't do much of anything without being paired to a Macbook, due to being restricted to only running iPad apps (ie no software development tools, only a tablet-oriented browser with weird tablet qu
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
Because there was a significant time period in which the rest of the world had access to Covid-19 tests but the US didn't, and this created political that forced the FDA to allow them. There isn't any similar pressure for other vi
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
I doubt the "internal technical error" was a technical issue. Someone sent the email unilaterally, and other people were upset by what it said. They only said it wasn't fact-checked and "may" be inaccurate; they did
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
Setuid is a mechanism where you take a program, and mark it so it always runs as root (or some other user, but in this case root). The idea is that an unprivileged user can run a setuid program, and the program itself decides what privilege
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
I wouldn't worry too much about that. It's a tricky piece of security-critical software, receiving its first round of outside auditing; of course it has vulnerabilities. Sudo does have the advantage of being much more battle-teste
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
> Or in other words: the target command is invoked in an isolated exec context, freshly forked off PID 1, without inheriting any context from the client (well, admittedly, we do propagate $TERM, but that's an explicit exception, i
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by jimrandomh 2y ago
No, the allegations in that article are not accurate; I remember discussion of it at the time. The story there is that Nya Dagbladat applied for a grant from FLI, passed the first phase of the grant-award process, and was rejected during du

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