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by lkbm 4y ago
This is true, and a very good analogy, but I'm not sure it holds up when every form of productivity has shifted from fun+challenging+useful to just fun+challenging. Maybe this is a mindset we'll get over. The degree to which ma
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by lkbm 4y ago
I'm one of those weirdos who enjoys cycling, and the biggest threat to my life, by far, is humans driving cars. Drunk humans, tired humans, humans eating food, humans otherwise distracted, or humans just being human. When I think about
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by lkbm 4y ago
> It's big because the people doing it call it big. How does "[It's big b]ecause sustainable positive energy out has never been achieved before in 60 years of research" translate to "because we say it's big&
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by lkbm 4y ago
Irrelevant? Seems like Q is one of two factors in that calculation. If the throughput is tiny, you're useless, but if your Q is too small, the same is true. The higher the Q, the lower throughput needed for feasibility.
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by lkbm 4y ago
Scott Alexander didn't give a number, but reported the advance was less than he would have made if he just did the default system, as of March 2022[0]. He also points out that Taibbi says "Every one of the Substack Pro writers I k
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by lkbm 4y ago
I used Livemocha a bit in ~2008, and it does this.
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by lkbm 4y ago
I recently created an account on Waze and it was quite a challenge. Kept giving me errors, and giving me impossible instructions. It was one of the jankiest/most broken experience I've had in an Android app. Then in my last trip I
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by lkbm 4y ago
I agree that it's not a simple plant opens => China invades, but this does feel like we're starting to see the dominos line up. If it's about talent, it's a lot easier to quickly import people than to import a massive
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by lkbm 4y ago
Hmm, my understanding was that fabs needed an initial supply of water, but then could cycle that same water for a long time. A quick Google[0] suggests that they've only started doing this heavily pretty recently, but I'm guessing
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by lkbm 4y ago
Even if it is true, as another early-40s, I've got 25 years to the regular retirement age. Maybe it won't recover in a year, or even five, but 25?
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by lkbm 4y ago
As a vegetarian, I'm going to eat the vegetarian food I like, and that includes fake meat. I've lived with dozens of other vegetarians, and I've heard the "I don't like fake meat" position a lot, but it's
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by lkbm 4y ago
I've been vegetarian for a couple decades and have no problem with vegans. I don't think I've ever been to a pizza place that didn't just let me choose a vegetarian pizza with real cheese. I also love Beyond Meat, but mo
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by lkbm 4y ago
> While it does feel closer in taste to beef than impossible burgers, I heavily prefer the taste of impossible burgers to beyond. Impossible burgers have a stronger umami taste and tend to add to the experience. Interesting. I've al
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by lkbm 4y ago
> If it's too critical, wouldn't they send an email about it? Usually no. I very rarely email software providers to complain about their software. I'll usually just uninstall. Some software has more of a relationship with
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by lkbm 4y ago
I think this hits on one key thing that's missing from many TODO lists I've tried: dependencies are important. But the UI feels big and slow and cumbersome. Entering all my sub-tasks is tedious in a way that a simple bullet list i
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by lkbm 4y ago
> Wouldn't it have been more worth it to simply buy an M1 Mac or a Surface? Yes, probably, but I would note that a cheap M1 Mac is 4x the annual cost you cited for the browser, and if the browser is 95% of what you use a laptop for,
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by lkbm 4y ago
These are valuable and important, and perhaps the best that can be done, but this also reminds me of when Google Glass was first announced. People did not like the idea that the person you're talking to could be surreptitiously recordi
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by lkbm 4y ago
> If you have lived in a country with load-shedding and have experienced this before, as far as your average household goes, 3 hours without power is barely an inconvenience. I live in the US (TX) where load shedding is rare, but I did l
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by lkbm 4y ago
Sure, but Cloudflare can't make that happen, so instead Cloudflare is doing what they can.
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by lkbm 4y ago
I would love to use a proper authenticator app or security key for everything important, but the reality we live in is that many financial institutions still only support phone-based 2FA. If CloudFlare ould force them all to add support for
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by lkbm 4y ago
I was just trying to find "The Search for the Elements" by Asimov. It's annoying to me that obscure 1980s children's books from authors no one's heard to are out of print and hard to find, but here's a science
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by lkbm 4y ago
This is obviously not the situation under discussion. The book wasn't released before he earned any money on it. He clearly states "My income dropped almost immediately", which makes it clean that he was earning money from
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by lkbm 4y ago
I could believe it was well-known when it happened, but I suspect that most people not in the industry didn't know, or barely noticed. By ten years later, it seems quite unlikely most people would know. I'm 40, so I was ~1 when it
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by lkbm 4y ago
I haven't looked into exactly what it does, but it seems like there's a (hidden?) watermark: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/blob/69ae4b35e0a...
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by lkbm 4y ago
That article led me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 which I didn't know about, but is very impressive.
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by lkbm 4y ago
> they come outright and say that when choosing between two "similar" employees they will fire the least "diverse" person. They don't come outright and say that. They come outright and say something that could
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by lkbm 4y ago
> Loved the books as a kid and one of the first programs I wrote was a straight up port of one of the books into the computer. Lots of print and if then statements. This was also my first program, except I quickly discovered that I didn&
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by lkbm 4y ago
They also fly less, have smaller cars/apartments, buy cars less frequently, and buy less stuff in general. I think air flight is typically my largest source of CO2 emissions, and certainly will be this year.
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by lkbm 4y ago
I've been biking in Austin TX for 11 years now, and the only time my bike was stolen was when I left it unlocked at my house for several months. I'll grant that I've been fortunate and bikes do get stolen far too often (espec
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by lkbm 4y ago
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