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by koolba 5d ago
Put all your backups in one basket, and then pray that nobody crushes the basket.
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DraftKings Uses A.I. To Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose(nytimes.com)
66 points by koolba 7d ago|16 comments
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by koolba 8d ago
From the article, emphasis mine: > Anthony Thomas Hoover II was 33 when he arrived at a hospital in Kentucky, unresponsive after a drug overdose. Doctors told his family he was brain-dead, and the family agreed to remove him from life su
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What I Found Out About Organ Donation Shocked Me(nytimes.com)
8 points by koolba 8d ago|1 comments
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by koolba 8d ago
> He was elected by the board too, rather than directly placed by Warren. I don’t think the last name hurt his chances in 1993 either.
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by koolba 8d ago
> I also have a few skills from the internet setup. https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill being the most important one. From the README for that skill: > Install the skill, and Claude debugs your code the way
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by koolba 9d ago
> So if Canada tries to make friends with anyone other than the US, it's a hostile act? I believe the terms in human relationships are coercive control and social isolation.
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SEC clears path for tokenized stocks, bringing the market closer to 24/7 trading(cnbc.com)
1 points by koolba 9d ago|0 comments
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by koolba 16d ago
> Our Mitsubishi has other nice features like it can recirculate the water in the bath through a heat exchanger after you already filled it and got in, so it will keep the water from cooling down to lukewarm, and you can even adjust the
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by koolba 17d ago
> Evan Hubinger, Anthropic's staff lead on keeping the technology aligned with human goals and values, backed up Coxon claims in a follow-up post of his own, though he didn't quit the company. > "Jacob is correct here —
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by koolba 18d ago
My favorite movies review was for a film in the late 90s. The name of the film escapes me, but at the time it had full page ad in the paper with quotes from the review. It said “ Watching X like a beach vacation ”. I randomly stumbled upon
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by koolba 20d ago
A corporation is just one or more people pooling their resources for legal and accounting purposes. Theres nothing inherently virtuous or evil about the concept. Going back to my original example, why is it okay for a media company to use t
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones(nytimes.com)
9 points by koolba 21d ago|2 comments
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by koolba 21d ago
> I don't know, if we'd had an overwhelmingly Democrat-dominated government, we'd have comprehensive bans on government insider trading We had two years under Biden with Democrat control of the House and the Senate. They p
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by koolba 25d ago
> Data retention. Our new system of Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS) gives customers complete privacy (the same as a zero data retention policy) while still being state-of-the-art at preventing adversarial use. EFS works by storing d
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by koolba 1mo ago
The prefatory clause of the 2nd amendment’s usage of “well-regulated” means “well-equipped” (i.e., they should have lots of guns!). It’s been repeatedly established through multiple SCOTUS interpretations that it’s just one example of why s
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by koolba 1mo ago
> Its like being kosher. Some people choose to not eat non kosher food. I choose not to consume AI generated materials. This is great analogy when you consider the sheer deliciousness of pork and shellfish.
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by koolba 1mo ago
Yes it’s only bad when Trump does it. Refusing to enforce drug laws or immigration laws is perfectly fine. Ditto for refusing to honor the 2nd amendment.
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by koolba 1mo ago
There’s trade offs for performance, access patterns, throughput, latency, concurrency, workloads, rigor, type systems, extensibility… really every characteristic you could imagine. It’s not a solved problem because each iteration of technol
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by koolba 1mo ago
My complaint is not with the approval numbers. Those go back and forth. It’s with referring to half of the country as morons. If that’s the starting point for a debate it’s not likely to be a sincere one.
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by koolba 1mo ago
Spending money on don’t have with no financial repercussions is known as the elusive “infinity money hack”. Which clearly does not exist. Of course there’s going to be a a cost to spending beyond your means.
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by koolba 1mo ago
> It’s the people that are the problem. These policies and politics will outcast Trump because middle Anerica and The South are filled with morons. What a sad and tired take. Trump won both the electoral and popular vote. Discounting the
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by koolba 1mo ago
No deal is a bad deal. Just for an indefinite term.
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by koolba 1mo ago
> Need an end table that is lacking? End table? That’s a server rack: https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/List_of_IkeaRacks
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by koolba 1mo ago
People who add sugar to coffee miss out on the sweetness of everything else by contrast. The bitterness itself is enjoyable, but the natural sweetness of everyday foods is also magnified.
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by koolba 2mo ago
Everybody was already lazy. Now they have a means of demonstrating it.
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by koolba 2mo ago
Pandoc is awesome. My fav usage is configuring git to use it to normalize binary docs to markdown (like a .docx) so they can be diffed. Works amazing for redlining contacts.
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by koolba 2mo ago
> A good goal as a developer is a high commit message to change ratio. The more lines of code that you change, the more comments explaining why you’re changing the code. More message and less code changes per commit is generally a good i
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by koolba 2mo ago
Why couldn’t he have used the same laptop many years after its release?
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by koolba 2mo ago
The open source version of this has existed for decades as well. There’s the doers that actually enjoy the craft, want to share what they’ve done, and contribute to things they genuinely find intellectually stimulating. And for each of thos

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