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by mft_ 2mo ago
You’re right. Two related observations: 1) In the immediate aftermath of Thompson being shot, policies were deliberately briefly softened. Anecdotally, people were helped to live longer by this. It didn’t last long. 2) The response to Thomp
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by mft_ 2mo ago
> 2. 1B parameter model to stay between two lines. Why. Waste of time. Their product hasn’t actually changed in several years because they will never advance past lane keeping SAE Level 2. Maybe... you're answering your own question
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by mft_ 2mo ago
Depends on the ebike and the setting. In Europe (at least; I'm not so clear on rules the US) in most cases the motors on ebikes respond to pedal input, so riding along purely by electrical power isn't usually possible. As such, y
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by mft_ 2mo ago
> How do you get exercise without sweating. Do you sweat a ton when you walk? Yet walking is exercise. The point being, of course, there’s a correlation between how hard the exercise is (plus other factors like clothing and weather) and
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by mft_ 2mo ago
Yup. Falcon 9 first succeeded at landing over ten years ago. What on earth have the (presumably) smart people at Arianespace been doing over that time?
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by mft_ 2mo ago
Go for a slightly more quantised version, and experiment with different MTP settings. I find that MLX versions are marginally faster on my 64GB M1 Max, but I usually use Unsloth's GGUFs via llama.cpp as there's a much greater ran
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by mft_ 2mo ago
Amusingly, the 'histrionic' Reddit post linked to in the article smells very AI generated to me. [0] "And it doesn't stop there. There's the power question." So not only is the Reddit user in question writing i
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by mft_ 2mo ago
In 2010, vaccines weren’t really a divisive topic that was politically aligned. That’s come later as the right started to take an interest, and then accelerated via COVID and disagreements about the various approaches implemented to manage
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by mft_ 2mo ago
The typical position seems to be that my elbows are just off the edge of the table/desk, my forearms just distal to my elbows rest on the edge of the table, and my wrists and hands are suspended slightly to be able to move freely to ty
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by mft_ 2mo ago
Also, Claude has the habit of finding and fixing bugs without being asked - for example, in code that an earlier version of itself wrote. So while you can never be sure, there's a non-zero chance that even if it had copied the origina
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by mft_ 2mo ago
FDA does regulate supplements, but using a different legal framework which is far, far more hands-off than for pharmaceuticals.
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by mft_ 2mo ago
Everyone’s anatomy is different: wrist rests give me significant wrist pain and stiffness in minutes. I either need my wrists a touch lower than the keyboard (I’m okay resting on the desk if the keyboard is thin) or I must hold them elevate
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by mft_ 2mo ago
Let’s not conflate US pharma with their healthcare more generally. The US is dominant in pharmaceutical and biotech, and FDA is generally excellent as a regulator, despite (IMO) sometimes being too conservative and resistant to any ideas no
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by mft_ 2mo ago
> But for those who do have the time/energy/money to dive deeper into things, and intentionally choose not to... those people may be worthy of our contempt Feels like an intellectual puritanism. Of course you must spend your
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by mft_ 2mo ago
The premise of this article only works because the author has taken an overly narrow definition of an 'incentive' - as if an incentive can only be offered by a social media app for a quick dopamine hit. What's they are missin
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by mft_ 2mo ago
So... having given two contradictory opinions, which one are you settling on?
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by mft_ 2mo ago
Have you tried to satisfy your open-minded curiosity on this question? A simple Google search brings up: https://lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ A couple of excerpts from the front page, without even registering to ac
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by mft_ 2mo ago
This just reads like someone's cross at the AI hype and wanted to take a shot, but missed. The underlying point --that network effects exist and determine the success of a product-- has always been the case, long before AI made it poss
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by mft_ 2mo ago
> Another school of thought is that punishment should be proportional to the crime or harm. Maybe harm * wealth. Rich people could be fined proportionally more than poor people. Rich companies (turnover, market cap?) could be fined pro
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by mft_ 2mo ago
I was speaking more generally, but yes, in the increasingly dystopian world of the current US administration, it seems to be even easier for certain people and companies to ignore the law altogether.
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by mft_ 2mo ago
I agree with almost everything you wrote, but... confiscation and inability to operate at a location (as you suggest as a penalty) still ultimately boils down to a financial penalty for an organisation. It feels especially severe in this c
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by mft_ 2mo ago
While organisations are only ever hit with affordable financial penalties, it's rational for them to weigh up the likely penalty vs. the opportunity cost of not doing something illegal in their decision-making. If we want to prevent su
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by mft_ 2mo ago
It reminds me a little of the large number keys (directly underneath the screen) on the original OP-1: https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1/original
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by mft_ 2mo ago
No. But: web access, web search --> basically essential at this point plan, goals, looping --> necessary if this is how you work, and working like this is probably (arguably?) more efficient to-do list --> IME seems to help efficie
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by mft_ 2mo ago
I can't offer a definitive list. But some/all of web access, web search, sub-agents, plan, goals, looping, and maybe a to-do list. I'd suggest the default should be anything that makes the model more efficient or effective t
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by mft_ 2mo ago
I’m going to go against the grain and say that Pi is a little too minimal by default. The emacs comparison is interesting, but default Pi is like emacs that can load files but you’ve got to extend it manually to save or search within a fi
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by mft_ 2mo ago
To build on your analogy, one could easily imagine a situation where there was no need to close the toilet door - because there's no-one around, or if there is, no-one cares about you taking a crap, and no-one pays any attention. In t
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by mft_ 2mo ago
Indeed. It’s essentially the age-old conundrum: I don’t need to worry about my privacy because I’m not breaking the rules… until someone changes the rules.
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by mft_ 2mo ago
At a company I work for, I was recently discussing the need for an AI Code of Conduct plus a discussion - as this is exactly the sort of thing that started creeping in as soon as the corporate Claude account went live. In this case, the
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by mft_ 2mo ago
I’d be okay with only 1.6 TB/s bandwidth in my affordable 512GB GPU. Gotta start somewhere.

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