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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
I honestly can't tell whether this is satire. America's founding documents are effectively toilet paper at this point, and have been eroded to the point of being farce. America has a beholden press, a captured media, is governed b
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
Reminder to Americans with a strong sense of American exceptionalism (which is rather incredible given...{gestures broadly at everything happening in the US}): Sovereign states can apply whatever laws they want. They are not beholden to JD
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
What do you think doesn't support it? Affinity supports it. Photoshop supports it. Microsoft Photos supports it. Gimp supports it. Apple has had systemwide support for it since iOS 17+ / macOS 12+, including in Safari and basicall
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
Two things can be true- a) sovereign nations can impose literally any rule they want on foreign businesses, even if those rules are ridiculous, arbitrary, or defy the "freedom" values of some other country. b) This incredibly tire
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
I suspect the "we're an American company and we're going to get the government protection racket to threaten you" gambit isn't going to achieve the results he's hoping for. I was reading through this and at fir
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
The article is ridiculous garbage. I knew the IEEE had fallen to irrelevance, but that their magazine now prints nonsense like this -- basically someone's ad wrapped in an incredibly lazy supposition -- is incredibly indicting. The guy
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
>High fructose corn syrup is 55% fructose. HFCS is from 42% - 55% fructose (the glucose obviously filling the remainder). Many uses are on the lower end. A lot of people think the "high fructose" part of the name is relative to
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by llm_nerd 9mo ago
>Big difference in satiety, but more importantly blood sugar response. There is a negligible difference in glycemic index / glycemic load between the variations of M.F. milk products. Some analysis has skim milk as having a lower GI
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
Phew! Finally Americans can stop eating according to the old dietary guidelines! Everyone clear out your pantries and fridges and get with the new hotness. Those old guidelines, you see, were the cause of all of the obesity and poor health!
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
Not really a counterpoint, but interestingly there used to be a fairly widespread practice of corporations buying life insurance for low level employees. It was often called "Dead Peasant Insurance", and when the employee died the
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
>which literally remove the fats and replace them with sugar. This is not accurate. No they didn't "replace" the fats with sugar. There is a chocolate milk option, just as there was before, but all options need to be 1% or
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
The government and medical groups were advocating lower fat diets for CVD reasons, but among the mainstream it took hold overwhelmingly because it was seen as a mechanism for weight reduction or management. A gram of fat has twice the calor
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
> The next step, often implied rather than explicit, is to push the reader into assuming that the opposite position must therefore be the correct one. See this in the constant "the MSM is imperfect, that's why I trust Joe Rogan
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
I believe they're talking about this UCSF report of a "newly discovered cache of industry documents", which came out in 2016.
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
HN has a subset of users -- they're a minority, but they hit threads like this super hard -- who really, truly think that if they say that AI tools suck and are only for nubs loud enough and frequently enough, downvoting anyone who fin
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
>You AI hype thots/bots are all the same This isn't twitter, so save the garbage rhetoric. And if you must question my account, I create a new account whenever I setup a new main PC, and randomly pick a username that is top of
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
"its building it the right way, in an easily understood way, in a way that's easily extensible" I am in a unique situation where I work with a variety of codebases over the week. I have had no problem at all utilizing Claude
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
To be fair, they claim the adblock engine saw a 75% reduction in memory usage, and in the images they're showing the main browser process generally (I assume? I don't use Brave), or which the adblock engine is only a part but had
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
Can people actually read it with the snowflakes? The motion draws my eyes and makes it extremely unpleasant trying to read the underlying text. Very poorly thought out decoration. And yes, I did think "this is terrible, there must be a
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
All 100% true, it is more muted, but another effect that happens is that when a source is a sure thing on HN, it's self-reinforcing. People start watching those sites for new entries and submit them, and HN's automatic behaviour i
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
I read your comment. This doesn't expand on how dated your claim is whatsoever. Acting pissy and mysterious about your claim doesn't help either. You literally claimed these are exclusive to Windows if not a Mac. Not only do very
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
HN is very fickle with blog authors, adopting certain people basically as their own. If the authors participate here it leads to a protective instinct among many. And I get it. It is a sense of community, belonging, and so on. But at the sa
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
Could you describe the "reality of consumers", because it sounds like you just time travelled from 2011.
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
As the old saying goes, it happens slowly and then all at once. The things tethering people to Windows have largely disappeared for many/most people. One of my sons has a desktop that is quite powerful and overwhelmingly adequate for w
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
Do you mean like...iTunes? Huh? I know approximately zero people who still tether an iPhone to a desktop for any sort of backups.
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
The M3 Ultra was oddly delayed, though rumours are that the M5 Ultra should arrive much quicker. Most are estimating March-ish. We'll see. I think Apple has a much higher motivation to get the M5 higher end variants out given the enorm
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
The memory bandwidth limitation is baked into the GB10, and every vendor is going to be very similar there. I'm really curious to see how things shift when the M5 Ultra with "tensor" matmul functionality in the GPU cores roll
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
This system was originally built as a cheaper version of Iron Dome, useful against dumb, slow, predictable trajectory Hamas rockets. The new drone branding is a twist, but of course it's fully usable against things like the Iranian Sha
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
"Instead, people first observe that government, academia, and corporate workplaces disproportionately use serif faces — or are trained to use them — and only then infer that serifs must mean professionalism and authority." This is
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by llm_nerd 10mo ago
Ah this makes much more sense. So instead of it being a label on the embedded item, it's noting the one that's missing.

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