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by jubilanti 5mo ago
You're close, really close! None of us know what it is like to be anyone else, that's the point. We think we can imagine we know, but we truly do not.
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Almost everyone has the capacity for intersubjective imagination or empathy. But part of what it's like to be a bat is to NOT have human level cognition and knowledge, to have grown up with only memories from the bat world, not the hum
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This is about the desktop app, not the claude code TUI
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
You say that as if somehow the trend for cross platform desktop apps to be ridiculously bloated bundles of browser overlays is new? What major cross platform app isn't based on Electron or Tauri? Slack, Discord, VS Code, Teams, Notion.
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
That's not what symbolic means.
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> the GDR was prescient: They had more than half of their population engaged in spying on all the rest. Wrong. It definitely wasn't 50%. This number seems to grow each time I see it referenced. The Stasi directly or indirectly emplo
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Car rentals are a great comparison, but not for the reason you think. Cars depreciate value similarly to GPUs. The depriciation lifecycle timeframe is actually similar between hyperscaler GPUs and mainstream corporate car rental companies i
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Germany and Switzerland have taken dramatically different responses to the migrant crisis.
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> Writing articles by hand isn’t just smart— it’s important. No shortcuts. No filler. No excuses. You're absolutely right! Would you like to delve into more issues like this one?
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#1 this is literally a thread about laws in the US Congress, how is this not about party politics? #2 they are alluding to how, historically, Republicans have advocated against so many regulations and social services, under the rationale of
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
So you're sending your students private data to Anthropic?
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> Because he suffers from MDS and as such can not but complain endlessly about anything which Musk has started. It is an unfortunate affliction for which the only cure seems to be extraction from whatever environment the sufferer inhabit
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> Of the 50 people who end up reading my comment above, every one of you will read it a different way, and it's unlikely very many of you will read it as intended. Because that's how language works. Stop being a pompous self-ri
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Open source and free software has always had a healthy dose of both politics and cringe. If the people volunteering their labor want to name a release after something they care deeply about -- politics, sci-fi characters, furries, whatever
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
Are you also one of those people who believes that advertising works on other people, but not you?
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
Did you get that link from an LLM? Did you actually read it? That is not the methodology page for this survey. That is a general article on the kinds of survey methods you can contract with Ipsos to run.
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
This is almost certainly from an online panel survey of people who are paid to take surveys, which is a mini-industry in itself, people try to make a living taking as many as they can for a few cents. The people who fill these out are compl
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
Apparently if you're a YC alum you can get to the top of the front page of HN posting an advertisement to go read someone's paywalled Wall Street Journal op ed, with a broken link when you click "read the rest".
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
Whelp, looks like I'm going to be following Warren Buffett and moving my investments to all cash.
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> Meta has the capability to find out who authorized the change to this person's account. When they want to. Not when YOU want them to.
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
Sue who? Meta? You "consented" in the Terms of Service to waive your right to a trial and only get forced arbitration by an arbitrator of Meta's choosing. Sue the anonymous person who stole your account and sold it to someone
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
Both of you are being insufferable.
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> The big things about transhumanism are to figure out how fix the things that damage and destroy us, and figure out how to let each person shape themselves to be the best version of them possible. Come on, by that vague of a definition,
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Same size? Maybe by a bit. Cost? Absolutely. Newer flagship models are often slightly larger each generation, but not even 2x. But more efficient architectures are coming out all the time, and it'd be a waste to retrain an old model. S
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Thanks but I'll keep my kettle that works, has a water level, and cost me less than eating out for lunch once.
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The interviewer was right. If you don't know "if substring in string" by memory, your python programming is substandard. This should be automatic for anyone who works with python as a primary language. But if you can't e
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
Nope. "We're just an intermediary between people" is a 100+ year old yarn that casinos and bookies have been trying to spin. If you're presenting a point of entry to a betting line and taking a cut, congrats, you're
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> No fortune 500 CEO is going to postpone a product launch so they can win $5,000 on polymarket. No, but a low paid frontline worker with the ability to throw a last minute wrench into the gears absolutely would.
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by jubilanti 5mo ago
I assume you mean AWS us-east-1. It isn't a single data center. It is a cluster of data centers around Northern Virginia.
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Growing up moving around both conservative and liberal parts of the US, from middle school to college, I distinctly remember several US history classes where I was taught the exact same narrative about Samuel Slater. About how he was an Ame

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