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by macNchz 9mo ago
Ironically they could probably do some really useful deduplication/normalization/search across questions and answers using AI/embeddings today, if only they’d actually allowed people to ask the same questions infinite differe
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by macNchz 9mo ago
Examples of US-facilitated regime change that resulted in lasting stability/democracy are more the exception than the rule, when you look at the track record overall.
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by macNchz 9mo ago
Gas is certainly less of a problem than coal, but they still produce plenty of bad stuff: nitrogen oxides and bad VOCs like formaldehyde that are well studied to increase risk of asthma and some types of cancer. I certainly wouldn’t want to
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by macNchz 9mo ago
I remember this being a problem when we first bought a DVD player in like 1999.
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by macNchz 10mo ago
I've had an iPhone since 2009 and feel they have gotten much more confusing over time. It seems to be there has been some sort of internal conflict between the need to add basic functionality to be remotely comparable with Android, and
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by macNchz 10mo ago
Growing up in a quaint rural town where high-powered people from NYC liked to "get away", this is very common situation, and the inability to disconnect and adopt a slower attitude was, IMO, the primary cause of friction between t
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by macNchz 10mo ago
SameSite=Strict is belt-and-suspenders protection in the case where you could have GET requests that have some kind of impact on state, and the extra safety is worth the UX impact (like with an online banking portal). Discussions about th
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by macNchz 10mo ago
It's surprisingly good! I wouldn't want to type on it all day long, but it works pretty well for me. I just did a cold typing test, not having typed on it in a few days, and got 55wpm touch typing the normal way, and 40wpm with th
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by macNchz 10mo ago
Hiring a housekeeper to come every couple of weeks has pretty much directly bought me time, at a pretty reasonable price. I like living in a neat and tidy home, but never cared much for scrubbing grout or polishing the stovetop in my free h
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by macNchz 10mo ago
I recently bought a GPD MicroPC 2, a 7” laptop with a real keyboard. It runs Linux just fine, and it has been a fun experience of having a “real” computer with me much more often than I otherwise would. My version of programming on the subw
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by macNchz 10mo ago
New York actually does have a points system, but since they're tied to the driver's license rather than the car itself, you only get them if you're actually pulled over, not from cameras. Within NYC there's a fair amount
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by macNchz 10mo ago
I have noticed this going between Switzerland and Italy in particular—all of the cars going incredibly fast on the autostrada seem to have Swiss plates!
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by macNchz 10mo ago
When New York State authorized the NYC speed camera program they explicitly precluded it from reporting to insurance, and made it not part of the “points” system that triggers license suspension if you accumulate too many infractions, so al
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by macNchz 10mo ago
It’s a very widespread problem, I think, and probably has a complex mix of causes, but my perception as a NYC runner, cyclist, and driver is that there’s a fairly small percentage of extremely antisocial drivers who we allow to behave badly
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by macNchz 10mo ago
There’s nothing super special about it, it’s just handy if you have some instructions that you don’t need the AI to see all the time, but that you’d like it to have available for specific things. Maybe you have a custom auth backend that
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by macNchz 10mo ago
I also have a 980 that's going strong. A number of parts replaced over time, so refreshingly repairable. My mother in law has had a whole lineup of Chinese robot vacuums in the time we've owned Roomba and they haven't seemed
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by macNchz 10mo ago
I do occasionally wonder how different things would be if JavaScript had come with a very robust standard library from early on.
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by macNchz 10mo ago
I think it's a significantly lower barrier than employing people to watch feeds non stop or review every instance of motion or person-detection. It would be pretty straightforward for the camera maker to test and evaluate a handful of
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by macNchz 10mo ago
Google has great distribution to be able to just put Gemini in front of people who are already using their many other popular services. ChatGPT definitely came out of the gate with a big lead on name recognition, but I have been surprised t
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by macNchz 10mo ago
All hype and thought experiments about superintelligence and open questions about creativity and learning and IP aside, this is the area that gives me the biggest pause. We've effectively created a panopticon in recent years—there are
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by macNchz 10mo ago
I did have Prime for like 10 years, I just eventually realized that between the not-infrequent annoyances with shipping and the endless search results full of total junk and/or fake products it wasn’t as convenient as I’d thought, it
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by macNchz 10mo ago
I disagree with this article—its premise relies too heavily on the oft repeated, oft misunderstood line “there is no security in obscurity.” This concept is used to argue that obscurity shouldn’t be used at all as a defense mechanism, whe
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by macNchz 10mo ago
People in my circles in the US (in an area with tons of alternative options) look at me like I have two heads when I say we don’t have Prime and never shop on Amazon. For many, I think, Amazon has simply been the default option to buy anyth
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by macNchz 10mo ago
A lot of my notes and tasks wind up having bits of code and sometimes large data files associated with them, so I've landed on a similar path of using plain text/org mode files, but aided by a little shell function `today` that cr
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by macNchz 10mo ago
I always figured it was an engagement optimization thing—there were people mass producing content using popular characters and just throwing tons of stuff at the wall, and the ones that veered unsettling/bizarre wound up getting lots o
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by macNchz 10mo ago
The notable source of bad tailpipe emissions in NYC are heavy diesel trucks, which, to my understanding, produce a large proportion of tailpipe particulates (and NOx) in the US, despite being a small fraction of overall vehicles on the road
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by macNchz 10mo ago
If you're interested in much faster LLM coding, GLM 4.6 on Cerebras is pretty mind blowing. It's not quite as smart as the latest Claude and Gemini, but it generates code so fast it's kind of comical if you're used to th
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by macNchz 10mo ago
An interesting test in this vein that I read about in a comment on here is generating a 13 hour clock—I tried just about every prompting trick and clever strategy I could come up with across many image models with no success. I think there&
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by macNchz 10mo ago
Those do exist, they’re called cell signal boosters. Once upon a time, I believe, some American cell providers would give you one for free if you had bad signal at home, which mattered a lot more before phones all had wifi calling.
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by macNchz 10mo ago
What is the actual return on that investment, though? This is self indulgence justified as « investment ». I built a pretty beefy PC in 2020 and have made a couple of upgrades since (Ryzen 5950x, 64GB RAM, Radeon 6900XT, a few TB of NVMe) f

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