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by mrandish 1y ago
I've been a huge fan of these videos. They explain electro-mechanical pinball machines incredibly well plus they're beautifully photographed. A remarkable amount of effort, thought and care went into creating them.
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by mrandish 1y ago
As a consumer who nursed an overclocked 1080ti along for 2.5 gens longer than I would've liked thanks to crypto and then AI, I was reading this fearing a positive conclusion - thinking "Oh great, just when it's time to upgrad
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by mrandish 1y ago
I'd also include Regex in the list of dark arts incantations.
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by mrandish 1y ago
Indeed, for big valley tech companies it's crucial to have a new business developing in the wings which has plausible potential to be the "next big thing." They're desperate to keep their stock price from being evaluated
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by mrandish 1y ago
Well, this most recent regression of functionality has caused me to finally uninstall and fully disable Microsoft Store. So at least the middle-managers of MS-Store will see that in their stats.
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by mrandish 1y ago
As a fellow ADHDer, can confirm. I must aggressively mono-task to ensure things get done. I have to consciously manage which mode I'm in, "Goal" or "Explore". A simple heuristic I sometimes share with others is: &qu
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by mrandish 1y ago
Microsoft continues to enshittify Windows and it's accelerating. It's forcing me to seriously evaluate moving off Windows after three decades.
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by mrandish 1y ago
I do the same with Firefox native bookmarks because they auto+sync across devices. But to find/organize I use the add-on Bookmark Search 2 Plus which is great.
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by mrandish 1y ago
I agree. Since I'm recently retired and no longer code much, I don't have much need for LLMs but refining a complex, niche web search is the one thing where they're uniquely useful to me. It's usually when targeting the
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by mrandish 1y ago
> There is no such thing as a tariff on exports. That's correct, or at least it was until this week. Did you happen to see the recent announcement where NVidia and AMD are now apparently required to pay 15% of the revenue from GPUs
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by mrandish 1y ago
Having just gone through it today, I'm imagining getting this from my shiny new neural interface: "Due to unusual account activity, you must change your password. Please enter 12 characters with at least three upper case and four
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yep. For a while there I was able to work with my doctor and pharmacist to get Adderall from my Kaiser health plan pharmacy in 90 day increments but that stopped with the med shortage. Now that the shortage is over they won't do it aga
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by mrandish 1y ago
Wow, that would be monumentally stupid. The usual "government business aid" of loans, tax breaks and incentives isn't nearly enough to solve Intel's real problems. Intel needs cold, hard cash injected over a sustained pe
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by mrandish 1y ago
Nah, everyone knows all the good stuff was before 1850 and after 2225. We're living in the 'fly-over country' of history.
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by mrandish 1y ago
For our household, it's not even the cost or inconvenience of streaming services. It's that their constant A/B testing optimization seems to be leading them to actively shovel content we're less interested in at us, thus
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by mrandish 1y ago
I've always suspected the reason is this century is just incredibly boring and literally nothing notable or even remotely interesting happens.
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by mrandish 1y ago
Back in the day, I definitely knew about and correctly used the term v.90. Believe it or not, this wasn't a case of being wrong when I was young but current day brain slip - because I'm no longer all that young!
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by mrandish 1y ago
> "these conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern" When the story got attention yesterday I recognized that phrase as the standard boilerplate language securities lawyers war
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by mrandish 1y ago
No, in most people a ketogenic state is only assured under 20g/day. Some people may have varying sensitivity and be ketogenic at under around 30g/day, especially those who have been keto-adapted for a long time, but even those ind
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by mrandish 1y ago
Keto is under 20g/day, low carb is under 100g/day. Keto enabled rapid weight loss. Low carb is sufficient for maintaining my weight and health. I no longer track my intake precisely because it's not necessary due to being abl
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by mrandish 1y ago
> I wouldn’t be so sure that any next government will necessarily reverse this. Agreed. I think the supposed justifications for mass population-wide online surveillance, restrictions and de-anonymization are so strong most political part
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Do you share this concern? I have no concern because there's nothing about a low carb diet that restricts any essential nutrients. On evolutionary time scales, consuming a significant amount of carbs is a recent and unprecedented
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by mrandish 1y ago
Keto is different in that there's not really a "keto" diet, just the principle of limiting carb intake to under 20 grams/day. "Low Carb" isn't a well-defined term but most people take it to mean under 100g
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by mrandish 1y ago
I'd love to know what AOL's dial-up MAU for July 2025 was. I still remember when the first consumer v.56 modems came out. They were expensive but it felt so fast. We were living in the future.
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by mrandish 1y ago
That's actually a pretty genius idea if one were promoting a tech product with retro vibes and mailing to journalists/media. The main messaging would just be the color printing on the disc and sleeve as few would have a CD-ROM dri
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by mrandish 1y ago
N=1 but in 2017 I lost over 100 pounds in 8 months by changing to a keto + IF diet and I've kept it off. I lost 10 pounds in 10 days and 20 pounds the first month. At around six weeks I became 'fat-adapted', a long-term metab
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by mrandish 1y ago
LLMs are like eternal "Yes, and..." improv partners.
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by mrandish 1y ago
> When it's wrong it usually errors in the direction of being more plausible than the truth. Excellent observation. LLMs are 'Truthiness' seeking. > I'm not surprised that other people feel more neutral about it, b
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by mrandish 1y ago
> But don’t all pilots have to lodge their flight plans? No, they don't. And many municipal airports aren't even manned and, outside of certain areas, aren't under direct air traffic control. I flew in a Cessna with a priv
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by mrandish 1y ago
Wow, frankly many of these are kind of shocking to me. Thanks for posting them. It's causing me to substantially update my priors about LLM impact on the population of "regular consumers" and potential for negative unintended

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