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by jjav 28d ago
> we cannot rule out that Google deliberately introduced or wanted to keep the leak in place I'd say a lot stronger than "cannot rule out". Regardless of how it was introduced, if it is now known and the issue was closed w
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by jjav 29d ago
> I'm sure there are always some models available under 20K Since you are sure, can you name a few? You can't because none exist. There are no new cars in the USA for less than 20K. The alternatives offered here are nonsensical
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by jjav 29d ago
> I continued to drive that car, until my neighbors complained that the “tank noise” was waking them up in the morning. Curious why not simply replace the exhaust flange? Cheap and easy repair.
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by jjav 1mo ago
Because LG is a large corporation and if there is something we have learned (or had proven) in 2026 is that laws don't apply if you oligarch hard enough.
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by jjav 1mo ago
> "TiVo still exists?" Certainly that's my reaction that made me click on this. Hard to believe. Never used TiVo but I ran a MythTV box for a long time, it was really awesome. But it's been ~15+ years or so haven&#x27
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by jjav 1mo ago
> packing lots of signal into fewer words That is not descriptive of any AI output I've ever seen. Massive walls of words that could've been expressed in 2-3 well-written sentences, that's the norm for AI.
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by jjav 1mo ago
I wonder who might be willing to fund/pay access to every byte unencrypted.
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by jjav 1mo ago
> FFS, Biden won on the most left-leaning platform of any politician in history. This is completely disconnected from reality. Biden would have been considered a republican in any era except the current hyper-extremist times.
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by jjav 1mo ago
> I want my boss shaking me awake at 5am shoving adderall into my mouth Nicely expressed.
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by jjav 1mo ago
> Is the Economist seriously suggesting we should roll back workers and renters rights because AI makes it too easy for the average Joe to actually get those rights? I don't know about the Economist nor about the UK, but in the USA
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by jjav 1mo ago
> A twenty line for loop. It overengineers most things. Anecdote I like to tell.. I was working on a financial planning software, intentionally purely vibe coded as an experiment. I eventually discovered AI had implemented seven duplicat
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by jjav 1mo ago
> You could sell those and have enough money to pay for hosted inference for years. From a quick search a 3090 looks to go for about 1500-2000 USD. So let's say $4K for two. I'm spending far over $1K/month (employer-paid)
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by jjav 1mo ago
Yes you are absolutely correct.
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by jjav 1mo ago
> People really have a twisted idea about how corporate America works. Apple does not have a psyops division cooking up ever more elaborate ways to seed demand for low-end, low-margin Macs via bot armies. This is absolutely how how cor
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by jjav 1mo ago
I suspect because we don't regularly hear of masked armed thugs in Switzerland beating up, sometimes killing or throwing into concentration camps innocent people who were looking to immigrate. Nothing wrong with making immigration laws
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by jjav 1mo ago
> search my old chats easily Don't rely on chat history. Have it write and maintain summary files that you can import into different sessions, at least for anything important.
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by jjav 1mo ago
> As for intelligence, the frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic are still superior I'll grant they are superior at least right now. But also, they are too expensive. We ($work) are finding that it is best to build engineering d
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by jjav 1mo ago
To anyone who has not read the short story 'The feeling of power' by Isaac Asimov, it is a treat predicting this trend from the 1950s. https://dn710709.ca.archive.org/0/items/TheFeelingOfPower/Th...
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by jjav 1mo ago
I'm not assuming, they literally asked. I am guessing on age though, mainly because for anyone who grep up when charts was the only thing that existed, this wouldn't be a question.
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by jjav 1mo ago
That sounds horribly cruel.. little kids are separated from family all week? Is that for real?
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by jjav 1mo ago
> November is going to be a historic electoral wipeout. Unfortunately November is going to be a historic voter supression event like nothing ever seen before.
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by jjav 1mo ago
> Parents aren't allowed to bring them to school. Huh? So if they live 10 miles away they must walk 10 miles? Surely not, but then how does it work?
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by jjav 1mo ago
> It seems like a no-brainer to have people learn on hammers When I was young I attended a karate dojo. One interaction that always stayed with me was when someone asked why the guy with a black belt could do the katas differently. The s
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by jjav 1mo ago
> I think part of the reason the US doesn't feel like the US anymore I guess we can debate if that isn't what the US is about, but regardless, it is depressing. Traveling around the US, the most notable thing is how everything
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by jjav 1mo ago
That is why I gravitated to astrophotography. Truth is that with visual viewing there just isn't that much that can be seen. With photography, even with basic equipment, it's a different game. Take the Orion Nebula as an example.
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by jjav 1mo ago
I love astrophotography and yet sometimes ask myself this question. I can go to astrobin and get any possible image 10000x better than I could ever do. But, why is anything worth doing? For most hobbies the fun is the doing not the result.
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by jjav 1mo ago
> How do you locate celestial bodies like that? Is it just a case of paper maps and a compass? I mean (based on peer replies) it does come off as a funny question, but I guess if you're young enough it is a totally legitimate questi
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by jjav 1mo ago
> Low hanging fruit for cost savings. None, since the USPS is not government-funded.
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by jjav 1mo ago
> imagine if in The Netherlands you can waltz in and say you are this person or that person, without any ID check whatsoever. Europeans might not realize this but that is literally the American system This is of course not true, why say
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by jjav 1mo ago
Burglars also know that they can pretty much pose and smile for the camera before covering it with tape and then breaking into the house, and the probability of consequences is very near zero. Unless they happen to break into the house of a

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