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by phil21 5mo ago
Since the source code leak of Claud Code, is there an actual believable moat whatsoever any longer? I’m not nearly an expert at any level, but it seems to me the models themselves are converging on “good enough” for coding, with the real di
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by phil21 5mo ago
Then it’s just hacked account whack-a-mole and deciding who legitimately got their account hacked and who is lying. It raises the bar at least somewhat though!
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by phil21 5mo ago
To avoid double-posting, replying here. > Carjacking relies on burner cars; they drive up near victims, 2 people get out and rush the car, and then both cars speed off Ah yeah, I forgot about this part. Makes sense. I also happen to have
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by phil21 5mo ago
How is carjacking Kia’s fault? Kia had a problem with immobilizer anti-theft devices not being installed plus a well documented trivial way to “Hotwire” certain models. This would simply be car theft. It was a well documented (via social me
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by phil21 5mo ago
It's both a shadow of it's former self, as well as being optimized for force projection vs. freedom of navigation/securing free trade. It's probably even more powerful than peak cold war/WWII US Navy at force projec
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by phil21 5mo ago
I'm not OP, but I assumed from their post that they meant the loan provider wanted Plaid access in order to perform underwriting - as in give us access to your account(s) so we can pull your banking history via an automated manner inst
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by phil21 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by phil21 5mo ago
> Straining the water resources of towns is a problem! Citation needed. I'm sure you can find a few outlier cases, but in general speaking terms datacenters - AI or not - are not even a rounding error on any local water source so fa
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by phil21 5mo ago
I might have been your co-worker. I went from giving them away to anyone in the office who asked (very very few), to selling them for under market when they were in the $10-50 range. Only three people took me up on the offer then, and they
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by phil21 6mo ago
Not anywhere being discussed here. Chicago it may or may not get added to a dispatch call. Chances of it ever being followed up on are slim. At best you might get a patrol car rolling through a couple hours later to mark the ticket solved.
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by phil21 6mo ago
For standard soda (Coke or Pepsi depending on location) Costco is rarely the cheapest deal at any given time but they are consistently fair. Supermarkets will have regular prices cases at nearly double Costco unit costs, but on sale they ar
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by phil21 6mo ago
Flour lasts basically indefinitely in a deep freezer. I just emptied out the last bits of a bag bought during covid and it was fine. This is in food grade air tight sealed buckets so ymmv.
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by phil21 6mo ago
> . It is aggravating, even as an occassional guest in his house – the whole damn line has to heat back up, again!. For point sources located far away from the heater, you are supposed to install a return loop. Modern tankless have a tin
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by phil21 6mo ago
> This reduces electric infrastructure demand, which is why it's subsidized. Presumably, this saves money Short term gain, long term pain. The story of our entire electrical infrastructure the past couple generations. Why invest in
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by phil21 6mo ago
Not all of us. I'm totally fine with water pipelines in exchange for long distance transmission lines for solar power and other such infrastructure like gas pipelines from areas that produce stuff we do not. Export an abundant resource
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by phil21 6mo ago
I think a lot of it is the type of things you do while spending time with kids. I watch my friends raise young children, and to be blunt it largely looks miserable to me. You effectively are babysitting children activities 24x7. Basically r
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by phil21 6mo ago
Good news: nuclear costs the same to run at max output as it does idle! No change in fuel costs. Other good news: solar and wind is trivial to curtail at the press of a button. And very cheap to deploy far more than needed on a day with per
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by phil21 6mo ago
Local refining is setup for refining heavier crudes. They can process sweet domestic crudes just fine at a technical level. It would be an economic loss due to underutilized stuff like Cokers, and likely at somewhat reduced overall throughp
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by phil21 6mo ago
Tariffs have little to do with install costs in the US. They were horrible before Trump, and aren't much worse today. The equipment is nearly free compared to the labor to install it. At least the last time I checked. I could do my own
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by phil21 6mo ago
Yep. I'm old enough to remember when credit agencies were considering dubiously legal. It was illegal (in my state at least) for a group of merchants to run a shared 'blacklist' of customers back in the day. The credit agenci
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by phil21 6mo ago
Eh I dunno. In my experience the “working class” sports gamblers who very likely should not be engaging in regular betting are not participating in bets that would be remotely life changing. And they know that. They are putting down $5-20 b
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by phil21 6mo ago
One price rule for commodities isn't super relevant for consumers though? Commodified markets are well understood so long as there is decent competition. What we are increasingly seeing on the consumer side of the market - even on groc
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by phil21 6mo ago
> While they have no legal obligation to refund those surcharges they imposed, it would be straightforward to do so and it would be the right thing to do. I'm actually interested to see how this goes legally. I haven't seen an
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by phil21 6mo ago
Which would make someone less sad by default, no? I certainly sort of wish I thought I had it all figured out - I'd be way happier! That's also an extreme oversimplification of religion which describes only a very small number of
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by phil21 6mo ago
Move to Chicago and get a job in CPS - you'll be at ~$100k in 5-6 years! The idea of it actually sounds initially fun to me, until I talk to friends who actually work those jobs. For my temperament I know better. At best I'd rage
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by phil21 6mo ago
> This one area is unfair to the public schools. One could say it's the entire point of them existing to begin with. Self-selection of the student body is the only thing that actually matters. The rest is a bunch of minor details. E
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by phil21 6mo ago
Here average teacher salary is over $100k. Projected to be $120k by 2027 due to their new union contract. Newbie teachers start around $70k last I checked, and hit six figures in 5-6 years. This is roughly double median salaries. That said,
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by phil21 6mo ago
It doesn't even have to be outright corruption or fraud. It can just be "fraud lite" as I have come to call it. Won't actually qualified as fraud in any "academic study by the experts" but anyone who stuck thei
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by phil21 6mo ago
The single variable that actually matters when it comes to school - and nothing else matters until this one is fulfilled: The quality of the peers who make up the student body. Or put another way: The quality and involvement of the average
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by phil21 6mo ago
I suppose visible is subjective. But they are also key component and raw material suppliers for essentially everything high value as well. The west simply does not have the heavy industrial or resource extraction base to account for anythin

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