murderberry

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by murderberry 3y ago
It's pretty complex, though. If a farmer pumps water out of the aquifer directly underneath, irrigates crops, and most of the water (minus evaporation and crop biomass) is returned to the aquifer in a matter of days... is it fair to sa
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by murderberry 3y ago
LCDs have PWM-dimmed backlights, so if your laptop isn't set to maximum brightness, you're probably staring at a flickering surface too. Perhaps a simpler explanation is just contrast? Both OLEDs and CRTs can produce much higher c
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by murderberry 3y ago
Yes and no. It's a common trope at many tech companies that these are two completely separate tracks, with no special upside to either. But then, here's the reality: any large company will have a new for an army of directors and V
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by murderberry 3y ago
"Technology bad." It's really that. He falls for the same trap many modern critics of progress do: the nostalgia for a world that never existed, when men lived meaningful lives in peaceful harmony with nature... juxtaposed wi
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by murderberry 3y ago
Real estate is just a slog. It takes years to build new office space. Lease opportunities come up on weird schedules and tend to be long-term too. They're likely offloading the space they started acquiring pre-COVID, or in the first ye
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by murderberry 3y ago
"Persuaded" is a loaded word here, and I think you're anthropomorphizing it a bit too much. Early LLMs were very malleable, so to speak: they would go with the flow of what you're saying. But this also meant you could ge
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by murderberry 3y ago
Another fairly reasonable hypothesis is the difference in account age. If you've been on Twitter for a decade, a lot of the accounts following you are just dead : people who no longer use the platform, who forgot their passwords, etc.
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by murderberry 3y ago
A power company is unlikely to do this, in part because they are not an industry that fetishizes growth at any cost with the value of individual users approaching zero. And in part because in many markets, they're regulated and need