mylifeandtimes

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by mylifeandtimes 8mo ago
why do you think taking them off turns them off?
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by mylifeandtimes 8mo ago
In other words, 15% of people are ALWAYS speeding, by definition. So with perfect enforcement (punish everyone over the threshold), how do you enable an 85th percentile rule?
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by mylifeandtimes 8mo ago
so, a pentagon, you say. hmmm. Yes, or more properly a pentacle, a protective glyph around the sacred meal. yes, a much better vector space. Thank you, Noduerme, you are one of the faithful.
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by mylifeandtimes 8mo ago
it was before your time. In WWII, we saved the world from what is now seen as some really evil stuff. Not alone of course, Europe and Russia made huge sacrifices and that's where much of the war was fought. But US arms and blood were t
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by mylifeandtimes 8mo ago
It is not clear to me that the power here lies with the US Govt. Imagine Anthropic is declared a "supply chain risk" thus cannot be used by all sorts of big industry players. How will the CEOs of those companies feel about the gov
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by mylifeandtimes 8mo ago
$17.60 for the internet connected microphone and camera (see parts list below), list of coffee machines for under ($60-$18): https://www.google.com/search?q=coffee+machine+under+%2442 m5stack camera: $7.10 https:/&#x
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by mylifeandtimes 8mo ago
> the new underpaid employee that you're training to replace you. and who is also compiling a detailed log of your every action (and inaction) into a searchable data store -- which will certainly never, NEVER be used against you
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by mylifeandtimes 8mo ago
> only to have it completely obsoleted a few years later? That sure beats having it completely obsoleted a few weeks later, which sometimes feels like the situation with AI
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by mylifeandtimes 8mo ago
Once had a Porsche 914. Air cooled engine. Drove it across Montana and the Dakotas one winter. One very cold winter. Not sure the engine ever reached "operating temperature" on that drive.
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
Why do we need people to consume when we have the government? Serious question. As in, we built the last 100 years on "the american consumer", the idea that it would be the people buying everything. There is no reason that needs t
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
Here's hoping you are chinese, then.
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
> A subset of the population doesn't have self control? please fix this to A subset of the population who has not yet reached the age of consent I think society broadly accepts that there are different expectations for children and
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
Don't know enough about your neighborhood, and I might have misread your comment (the "under the eaves" makes me think these are outdoor) but as someone who appreciates darkness I'd be really upset to live near someone w
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
why does it matter if it is difficult? You are right, these systems should be well understood by now. And public domain.
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
hey, I appreciate your love of language and sharing with us. I'm wondering if we couldn't re-think "bit" to the computer science usage instead of the thing that goes in the horse's mouth, and what it would mean for
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
How about the ink homepage (same link as before), which lists Claude as the first entry under Who's Using Ink? Claude Code - An agentic coding tool made by Anthropic.
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
Claude code is written in react and uses Ink for rendering. "Ink provides the same component-based UI building experience that React offers in the browser, but for command-line apps. It uses Yoga to build Flexbox layouts in the termina
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
which group are you in?
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
One thing that is interesting to me: In Europe, prices show the price INCLUDING sales tax (VAT, typically 20%). What you see is what you pay at the register. In the US, prices show the price BEFORE sales tax (national average circa 7%). You
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
I appreciate the moral stance behind your tariff support. I read it as a way to discourage slave labor (even abroad) and encourage decent wages/allowing people to live with dignitiy. I can see how this stance can be justified for impor
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by mylifeandtimes 9mo ago
depends what decade you are talking about.
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by mylifeandtimes 10mo ago
Mmm. You are assuming people have a choice about crewing on what you call a pos ship which you say is owned/controlled by russia. Many international ships are crewed by what is essentially slave labor. Too many google links to share th
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by mylifeandtimes 10mo ago
skyrocketing corruption is a cancer. You might "seem mostly healthy" at first glance while you are rushing to the grave.
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by mylifeandtimes 10mo ago
> the dependency to sell to the USA What interests me about this comment is the statistic that 50% of US consumer spending comes from people in the top 10% of earnings (first google link, probably not the best source: https://
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by mylifeandtimes 10mo ago
They don't have to set up Flock cameras and share the data with people who plan the ICE raids. Home Depot's hands aren't totally clean here.
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by mylifeandtimes 10mo ago
> But as we interact with other people using mostly language, Didn't they used to say that 90% of communication is non-verbal? Look, that was a while ago, when people met IRL. So maybe not as true today.
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by mylifeandtimes 11mo ago
almost, but rent-seeking is an odd form of capitalism, because in its pure form it isn't providing value. nothing in the real world is in its pure form, and some business are able to provide value which they cannot charge for because t
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by mylifeandtimes 11mo ago
some people like to play with Rubiks Cubes, which among other things is a nice tactile way to learn some interesting advanced math
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How the Brain Parses Language(quantamagazine.org)
152 points by mylifeandtimes 11mo ago|86 comments
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by mylifeandtimes 11mo ago
>> for some, it's just a paycheck. > What is wrong with just wanting to work for money? Imagine a society where your work was an opportunity for you to provide products/services for your community, where you could earn a

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