michaelmrose

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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
Designing things that people like to use is a mechanical skill that has little to do with liking others but much to do with understanding others
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
Why would you need a barcode printer? either it has one or it doesn't in which case you look it up and it's added negating any need to print
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Home Depot self checkouts are large touch screens with a nice wireless gun. It doesn't even check weight. It is one of the least shitty SCO experiences unless you have a bunch of bolts and shit in which case why are you even in self ch
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
It's actually not possible to close the transaction before finalizing the items to be added to it. Generally as far as tap is concerned the pinpad won't go into the mode where it can collect money until the cashier totals it. It i
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
The prompt is a fix for an imaginary problem produced by senselessly aping physical limitations. A meter fed with quarters forces you to prepay a particular amount whereas a digital service which has at minimum your credit card could simply
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
Young Earth creationism is a position held by 58% of those who self-identify as Republicans today. Slavery is a position that was supported by the overwhelming majority of southern conservatives immediately prior to its abolishment. The abu
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
I think Nuclear power is an interesting case and can be usefully contrasted with say vaccine denial. The anti nuclear position is one that was certainly correct at someone point in time and retains many good arguments that require technical
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LLM constantly regress towards statistically likely responses. If you trained a model on all of modern science and wanted to inject a pro young earth creationist bias you would find it challenging to keep it on topic and make it useful. Man
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
Elon said we should spend most or all of our GDP building more silicon than we can actually make to launch it all into space where we had no meaningful solution to economically cooling it burning all of our money for a product that currentl
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
Adblocking is an arms race. Google is handicapping adblocking progressively the fact that it doesn't take one day to achieve absolutely doesn't make it a myth. Adblocking is technically worse and the more locked down our environme
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
Extremely if not behind substantially cheaper anti spam measures. Further it may still make sense to use human reports to gate some automation even if it slows response.
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Is it possible for a non-google browser to be said to meaningfully support this given that implementing the features wouldn't necessarily accomplish anything insofar as it wouldn't let you past the google only security gate and wo
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It's not a little over the top its an antitrust issue and clearly and obviously wrong.
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Wouldn't it be easier for them to include a disclaimer in every job listing fulfilling the letter of the law while escaping every bit of the purpose.
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
A healthy diet has always had a range of components. Insofar as you are eating a normal healthy amount fruit is healthy not neutral even with a higher sugar content you won't get an overdose of sugar just from any reasonable amount of
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
" but I no longer think it is really scientifically tenable to call most fruit "healthy"." This doesn't appear to be even slightly tenable. The amount of sugar one consumes in a normal serving of fruit if not added
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In 1994 the only way to have multiple monitors was to run X with multiple X screens which did not allow moving windows freely between screens. In 1998 X11R6.4 brought xinerama and proper multi-head with many physical screens but only 1 X sc
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
This is basically a built in limit of X. The only exception is that monitors that support variable refresh rates may be able to offer this feature in multiple monitor configuration subject to software and hardware options. I'm personal
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This is literally what anyone means when they can't or can't easily find anyone for anything which isn't evil or suicidal.
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This is just a failure of understanding. This particular advancement is part of a decades long slog which taken together allows a substantial number of people to live meaningful additional durations every single year. 6 months average by it
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by michaelmrose 4mo ago
Everyone dies. Dying 5 years later is a victory. I would go so far as saying if it was you or someone who you care about you would understand. https://usafacts.org/articles/how-have-cancer-rates-changed-... >However
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It is possible to defraud a lender and cause your own child grief from bad credit reports and creditors but ultimately the debt isn't collectible or lawful as should be obvious.
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I do not specifically believe you can run up a $6000 bill on AWS with a kids card. It beggars belief as does the idea that this is a literal rather than mental child
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And again kids don't have credit cards
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Generally no they don't because they have very limited ability to enter into agreements in the US. It was almost certainly an adult.
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If you let your car drive you backwards on the sidewalk while you scrolled reddit even people adroit enough not to be in any danger might reasonably suppose that helping you crash would be best for everyone.
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Yes our government purportedly used technology to work up a list of targets in the Iran debacle as well just not with a LLM a distinction that to me just isn't that meaningful https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026&
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NixOS seems ideal for this.
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Also we crashed 2000-2002 2008-2009 2020. Although specific causes vary we haven't had 14 good years in a row so even the size of economy may be optimistic. SpaceX will never be 10% based on rockets. Rockets will get shit canned in the

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