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by quesera 1y ago
Selecting a profile at launch has never been a problem in Firefox. Switching to a different profile in a running browser is prettier in Chrome though, sure. The bigger problem for me is that (at least when I last tested Chrome profiles -- i
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by quesera 1y ago
So use profiles for what profiles are good at, and containers for what containers are good at. This works well for me. I have a work profile with several containers inside, so that I can be logged into, e.g. GitHub and AWS, with multiple ac
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by quesera 1y ago
I suspect that GP meant "service upgrades" are expensive (e.g. 100A to 200A from the street). Panel upgrades are just the most visible, but not individually expensive, part.
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by quesera 1y ago
Absolutely agreed, but I suspect that a whole lot of what humans do every day can be reduced to pattern-following. If/when LLMs or other AIs can create novel work / discover new knowledge, they will be "genius" in the
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by quesera 1y ago
Depending on your definition of "amazingly", it was probably just a transient quirk. I load text.npr.org (and lite.cnn.com) several times a day. They both load in times well below the realm of remarkable. Just timed them: - te
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by quesera 1y ago
In the absence of collusion, if a business can produce a product or service less expensively, giving them the ability to outcompete competitors, they will do so.
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by quesera 1y ago
I think there's some truth to this. There's lots of room in the middle of the pack. But that would be a serious, violent, downgrade from the American self-image. We are bred on American Exceptionalism. If this myth is destroyed, w
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by quesera 1y ago
Obviously not infinite, but humans have very real limitations too. We've all seen them.
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by quesera 1y ago
How about "activities we consider crimes today"? A society always exists, even in a total dissolution of the previously-existing social order (which we are not truly contemplating here).
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by quesera 1y ago
I think this is probably correct. But I'm not sure that 40hrs is the sweet spot. Other countries have chosen differently (with comparisons difficult to draw). There are several competing influences here: inflation, AI productivity gain
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by quesera 1y ago
The layoff chart, created by AI, would be more impactful (and simultaneously less confusing, which is rare!) if it expressed the 2025 value as an extrapolated run-rate, or as a predicted range.
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by quesera 1y ago
Apparently it varies, but German-W pronounced as English-V (or at least nearly so) is the most common variation? Many sources on the net, but this one has the most nuanced discussion that I could find: https://old.reddit.com&#x2F
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by quesera 1y ago
It's actually a song title, so properly capitalized, but I mussed the V v. W because I do not speak German and forgot that when she sings "VASSuh", it's spelled with a W. :)
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by quesera 1y ago
Reproducing specific chunks of long form text from distilled (inherently lossy) model data is not something that I would expect LLMs to be good at. And of course, there's no actual reasoning or logic going on, so they cannot compete
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by quesera 1y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44877656
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by quesera 1y ago
Interesting. I might live in a lower-trust society than you do. I'd greatly prefer to lose keys forever, anonymously, than to trust that a random human who is presented with a key and instructions for finding the lock it fits, will n
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by quesera 1y ago
Hah, quite. I only cosplay Deutscher Sprecher. Most of my German linguistic skills come from listening to Chicks on Speed.
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by quesera 1y ago
I totally agree with your first point. Money cheapens social interactions. It reduces them to competitive advantage, exploiter or exploited. I do not want to interact with anyone that way, ever. Certainly not friends. But I acknowledge that
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by quesera 1y ago
Ruby and Rails work perfectly well for many many people, and you have chosen not to be one of them. That's a valid choice, but it's your choice and nothing more. It really isn't much about Ruby or Rails. I grep through Rails
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by quesera 1y ago
> My key has "Apartment Name, Apartment Number" engraved into the head Hotels learned not to do such silly things several decades ago. I'm surprised that your building management lacks such obvious wisdom.
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by quesera 1y ago
Humans taught LLMs how to write, and now LLMs are teaching humans how to write. It's terrible. > The truth: your current date system isn’t just awkward — it’s wrong. We fixed it. And if that feels unsettling… maybe it’s time your c
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by quesera 1y ago
Perhaps he has a renal function issue. Perhaps he has a familial history of same and is acclimated to drinking more water than you are comfortable with. Perhaps he just enjoys drinking water. I do. As cold as possible. Kaltes Klares Vasser.
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by quesera 1y ago
I wasn't either, believe it or not! :) But I was responding specifically to " in Ruby, so the chance of being able to actually modify it ... is near zero ", which does not address the real issue. It's perfectly possible
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by quesera 1y ago
This does not match my experience at all, and I think your "near zero" claim is silly. > difficult to deploy from source I won't argue with you here. There are a lot of moving pieces in a Rails deployment. This isn'
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by quesera 1y ago
> written in Ruby so the chance of being able to actually modify it for some feature you want is near zero That's a silly thing to say.
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by quesera 1y ago
I think in the 90's it was just people repeating a pattern they learned from Windows/DOS. It used to grate on my nerves to hear people say, e.g. "H T T P colon backslash backslash yahoo dot com". But I think they always
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by quesera 1y ago
In some ways, I miss those days. Spending hours wrangling sendmail.cf, and finally succeeding, felt like a genuine accomplishment. Nowadays, things just work, mostly. How boring.
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by quesera 1y ago
Wait, are we still talking about North Korea?
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by quesera 1y ago
The emergent property theory seems logical, but I'm also partial to the quantum-tunneling-miasma theory which basically posits that there could be something fairly complex going on, and we just lack the ability to observe/measure
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by quesera 1y ago
Also true of the present. :)

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