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by jkestner 1y ago
Food insecurity is a choice in the US? I suppose yes, if you mean it's the government's choice: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/food-banks-usda-cuts-im...
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by jkestner 1y ago
I like closing the loophole, but the overall turbulence seems to have made many sellers just turn off US sales. I had sourced an off-the-shelf part for our product, so cheap that I wouldn't mind paying 300%, but I can't see the pa
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by jkestner 1y ago
I mean, aside from the profits. Very exciting that we can't predict how much extra we'll pay by the time our orders hit the shores.
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Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' in Public, on X(404media.co)
14 points by jkestner 1y ago|1 comments
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Yet these superrich people crave respect so much that they endlessly poast on social networks, or buy a social network.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Maybe the fact that you haven't been exposed to the "good enough" third parties is an indictment of the current system of media gatekeeping.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Property is people too.
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by jkestner 1y ago
Yes, I recall there was a war fought. Intrinsically, of course not, but how about due to laws/culture/training?
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by jkestner 1y ago
What was the app feature you worked on?
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Tiny, hackable telepresence robot for under $100(hackaday.com)
9 points by jkestner 1y ago|2 comments
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by jkestner 1y ago
Did this a while ago for a table as a design exploration. We encoded a 2D file (because the table only required cutting sheet materials) and still had to use a custom compression algorithm for the proof of concept. https://johnke
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by jkestner 2y ago
I've had the same issues of decay. I used to be able to say "call Mom" but now it will call some kid's mom who I have in Contacts as "[some kid's] mom". What is the underlying architecture that simple heur
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by jkestner 2y ago
They’re even adding Greek letters, very intelligent. https://x.com/Brendan_Duke/status/1907741651172311353
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by jkestner 2y ago
Hence why they've now said they're a robot company. Yet any bullish targets now are more likely to be based on Musk awarding himself large government contracts than technical advancements.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Pinboard pricing model escapes containment.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Same, except my 2009 Mac Pro made for a better space heater, until I replaced it with an MBP M1 that doesn't have the decency to make noise to let me know it's working. Only downside of upgrading is that I had to get off of Mojave
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by jkestner 2y ago
Even other more complex appliances get tossed too easily. My spouse’s desire to get rid of our 15yo microwave was replaced a while ago by the satisfaction of being able to keep it going. I’ve fixed it twice with a few bucks of parts (wavegu
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by jkestner 2y ago
I wonder what the convenience does to our strategic planning skills. I spend a decent amount of effort building up kids’ impulse control, and they’ll need it in a world of marshmallow tests.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Maybe it’s more of a Futurama-style future.
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by jkestner 2y ago
The more relevant quote is Grover Norquist: shrinking government “down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub”
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by jkestner 2y ago
Ah yes, the world is very simple, isn’t it? Private organizations like all of Musk’s companies, built on government subsidies?
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by jkestner 2y ago
80% of this hemorrhaging is due to the prefunding pensions requirement that Congress put upon the USPS. And it’s a service! It’s not supposed to make money. The government is not an investment firm for taxpayers. You might as well ask when
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by jkestner 2y ago
To my understanding, your board is a subassembly and not subject to the tariffs. There’s an existing semiconductor tariff as well as this product tariff, and various categories that make it hard to untangle. Anyone correct me if I’m wrong -
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by jkestner 2y ago
I wonder how it compares to Svelte for people. I weighed both but Svelte didn’t require me to learn Ruby (as much as I’m sure I’d enjoy it).
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by jkestner 2y ago
I have two geese as well—have you found they help against predators? Anecdotally, we've had no predators steal any chickens since we added them (though a coyote got some goose tail feathers at first), though our neighbors down the stre
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by jkestner 2y ago
I think it's like the rest of the school experience—your parents are the major influencers here. Our kids like what we like because we've fed them what we eat, from sardines to Sichuan to sushi. They take leftovers to school — che
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by jkestner 2y ago
I told the kids not to name the roosters, but we eat them regardless. Once again, humans excel at holding contradictory thoughts.
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by jkestner 2y ago
Then you’ll know what the naming AI was trained on.
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by jkestner 2y ago
One of my favorite Kickstarters was for a new NES game, because the updates were deep dives into different aspects of NES development and the tradeoffs on that hardware. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1101008925
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by jkestner 2y ago
> DOGE claims to be auditing FEMA. But sources within FEMA report that the DOGE employees are primarily “computer science guys” and do not understand the basics of financial management. In one instance, a coder brought in by DOGE confro

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