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by jrmg 1y ago
What are ‘large primes’ here?
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by jrmg 1y ago
AI will democratize search regardless What do you mean by this and how will it happen?
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by jrmg 1y ago
With the dearth of drivers as described, how do the manufacturers even know that all the hardware works? That there are no flaws in how it’s all wired together? How do they test everything?
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by jrmg 1y ago
Ah! Like Full Self Driving!
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by jrmg 1y ago
The work this degree will credential you for is so is so disconnected from the areas of study in your degree program - presumably in the same field as the job - that the majority of the things you might learn would not be valuable? I can’t
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by jrmg 1y ago
As far as I remember, this ‘try us again for 30 days’ promotion was explicitly for previous subscribers, so I would not say this was a corner case.
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by jrmg 1y ago
It’s plausible that I didn’t see the email because it got spam filtered away, so I totally believe that one was sent. On contacting support: to your (Kagi’s) credit, Kagi did cancel the subscription and refund the fee after I contacted supp
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by jrmg 1y ago
Watch out - I got the email offering a new 30 day free trial, and at the end of the month they did nothing to inform me and started charging the credit card they apparently still had on file from when I subscribed for a month or two a few y
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by jrmg 1y ago
What’s stopping you from writing papers in the style of your blog posts (this is an actual question, not a ‘why don’t you just…’)
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by jrmg 2y ago
They’re not suggesting no-one has to work. They’re suggesting that no-one has to live without necessities like food, shelter or medical insecurity.
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by jrmg 2y ago
You don’t even write down temporary notes? Or doodle geometry when coding UI?
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by jrmg 2y ago
On the question of “why do they collect all this data” - brightness, battery life, headphone usage, volume etc: It’s not just because the data is valuable in itself, it’s also to ‘fingerprint’ the device across IPFA boundaries and in the fa
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by jrmg 2y ago
When I moved internationally, I found out about the ‘M-Bag’ service. The post office gives you real mail sacks (hefty, expensive seeming things!), which you can directly fill with books and printer matter (and nothing else!). They’re then t
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by jrmg 2y ago
And if house prices are lower, it’s cheaper for you to get a better house. I always try to think of our house as ‘well, no matter the economy at least we own a house to live in’ rather than think of its monetary value. House prices being hi
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by jrmg 2y ago
For a while, some people dismissed language models as “stochastic parrots”. They said models could just memorise statistical patterns, which they would regurgitate back to users. … The problem with this theory, is that, alas, it isn’t true
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by jrmg 2y ago
It’s a bit of a unicorn. It is of course a great book store - but it’s also a tourist destination. People travel to Portland just to see Powells. And it’s worth it!
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by jrmg 2y ago
It can of course vary considerably by store, and I’ll happily spend time in both but, generally: Second hand bookshops are curated actively - like, they’ll only stock desirable books. They’re owned and run, usually, by people who love books
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by jrmg 2y ago
I seem to be unable to tap or drag letters on my iPad - can’t figure out any way to place them on the grid.
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by jrmg 2y ago
Lots of the modern world still line-dries laundry, but this is exceedingly uncommon in the USA.
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by jrmg 2y ago
> people would own a relatively small quantity of clothes (compared to today), which they'd wear for a long time. That just wouldn't be a tenable strategy given modern quality. I think the point being made by the OP is that it
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by jrmg 2y ago
It was more than just Gawker, it was a whole collection of blogs that I’d say were indeed ‘valuable’. The whole story is too much to convey in a post here, but Wikipedia has good (or, at least, comprehensive) articles about it.* I’m what Tw
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by jrmg 2y ago
It might work in practice, but it really does not seem to meet the spirit to me. It’s definitely not true to just say “being a judge in a hackathon is one of the criterion” directly. Actual regulation is: Evidence of the alien's parti
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by jrmg 2y ago
I love your long perspective!
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by jrmg 2y ago
Growing up in the UK, 45 minutes was about the ‘if we’re going there in the evening we’re going to need to get a hotel’ boundary. Now I live in the US it’s a short drive. It’s amazing how perspective changes. If you haven’t experienced it I
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by jrmg 2y ago
But all the people moving there would drive up housing costs.
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by jrmg 2y ago
Code is a masterpiece. Anyone here who hasn’t read it should do so - you might think it’s ’below you’, but it’s so well written it’s a joy to read, and I suspect you’ll come out thinking of some things differently. It reminded me why I love
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by jrmg 2y ago
Most states have some form of car exhaust noise laws - a few even do state dB! https://www.semasan.com/resources/exhaust-noise-laws-state
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by jrmg 2y ago
All of your examples are not Federal services.
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by jrmg 2y ago
US currency says "in God we trust" …since the 1950s. For a lot longer, it’s said “E Pluribus Unum” (“From Many, One”). The phrase has been associated with the USA since its inception. Diversity is a traditional American value.
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by jrmg 2y ago
Noise pollution (or sound pollution) is a modern day era problem, and if I dare say disease. It’s getting more and more difficult to isolate ourselves, especially in urban environments. This feels true to me, but I suspect it’s not. Victo

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