qurren

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by qurren 6d ago
I've worked in Singapore before. It's not a chill work culture there either. In fact it's about the same.
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by qurren 6d ago
Not Singapore specifically but in today's AI/tech world if you're not constantly working you're on the firing line. I'm in the Bay Area. It's Sunday morning and I'm working becasue I still need to pay for
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by qurren 6d ago
They're going to have to try a lot harder than $1 for 50 days worth of reading, in a world where any time taken off from work is a risk.
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by qurren 6d ago
There's about 900 BTC remaining for anyone who breaks these keys: https://privatekeys.pw/puzzles/bitcoin-puzzle-tx If you break one though be careful when redeeming it, there are bots set up to pounce and steal th
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by qurren 6d ago
> it would make more financial sense to mine crypto GPUs are power-inefficient for mining most crypto so not necessarily. You may end up paying more in electricity than you are able to mine. Most crypto mining is on ASICs now.
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by qurren 7d ago
Sounds great until you're required to install an app to pay for parking.
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by qurren 9d ago
Exactly this. I've worked hard year after year, paid too much taxes, and still haven't gotten job security in return. Living costs are still rising. No thanks to sharing anything for free. Maybe once I have retirement levels of mo
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by qurren 10d ago
Given what we can do today with LLMs it would be even cooler if it thought of some actually good business ideas and created the website with mockups of them.
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by qurren 10d ago
I think the biggest downside here is we're moving toward a world in which only Apple and Google and a few other privileged manufacturers can make cameras.
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by qurren 12d ago
I wouldn't believe that claim either if there is no archeological evidence, but I'm wondering why there isn't actually some civilization that walked by, said "this shit is cool", and built a city there. If I was a
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by qurren 12d ago
Kinda wonder why ancient people didn't look at that and turn it into a massive amphitheatre or a mythical city.
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by qurren 13d ago
In food contexts when I see "artisinal" I usually just think of rich white people buying the same stuff in nicer packaging and typography for twice the price. The actual artisans don't need to advertise themselves as artisans
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by qurren 13d ago
> the Java OSM editor app Java? No thanks. I don't want that monstrosity of system-hogging, clunk, slow, 1990's UIs on my system again.
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by qurren 14d ago
Just delete the prompt in the DOM inspector and you don't actually have to agree to it.
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by qurren 15d ago
You will never get explicit permission unless you have connections. So until that kind of beaurocracy changes, this is the kind of thing you just go ahead and do. Life is short, assuming it is fully non-destructive and leave-no-trace, just
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by qurren 15d ago
I don't keep assets in USD. I also don't think civilization collapse is the same as an economic collapse. In fact I don't think we'll have a long term economic collapse, but the new economy will be run by AI and will be
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by qurren 15d ago
I have a few of those too. My laser cutter needs one. I've seen lots of "expensive equipment" use USB A-to-A cables, for some odd reason.
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by qurren 16d ago
Was that supposed to be an insult? Maybe I am a coward. What do you want to do about it?
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by qurren 16d ago
> measured relative to the rest frame of the CMB > preferred While these are meaningful conventions, they are being measured with respect to that rest frame. The local group moves at some few hundred km/s velocity relative to the
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by qurren 16d ago
> well better they be the ones in poverty and not me I'm not this extreme, and don't wish for others to be in poverty. But I do wish for myself and my family to not be in poverty or suffering. If the system is designed for thes
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by qurren 16d ago
I tried to look for hidden rock art at Ankgor Wat by imaging with multiple bandpass filters and amplifying cross-spectral differences. I didn't succeed, but maybe I was in the wrong place. The shit guards there also didn't like me
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by qurren 16d ago
> at least minimally perform it I already chose a job that I believe is minimally harmful within the AI space. I work in an autonomous vehicle company which I believe puts safety first and is on track to reducing injuries and deaths to h
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by qurren 16d ago
Money is useful to weather the storm and relocate myself and my family to somewhere less affected by AI, or possibly have some minimal influence over redirection of resources in an AI-controlled future world. It's just insurance and op
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by qurren 16d ago
1. By "crashing down" I was referring to civilization as we know it, not an economic crash. My views about building wealth aren't about avoiding an economic crash, it's about just being able to have optionality earlier t
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by qurren 16d ago
> destroy civilization My personal take is almost all capitalist enterprises are on a path to cause destruction to civilization. AI is not unique here, and every industry is "AI or die" right now. As for short term survival, I
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by qurren 16d ago
I'm an AI engineer, I feel similarly. I also feel a need to amass retirement levels of wealth right ASAP before this all comes crashing down, and then move to somewhere else away from this mess. The only good way for me to do that is t
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by qurren 16d ago
Note: Turning off that checkbox is not enough. You also need to fill out the "Do not train on my content" request here: https://privacy.openai.com/policies?modal=take-control
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by qurren 16d ago
As understood by general relativity, it actually is. There is no absolute time. You can say the age of the universe is 14 billion years, but that's in our reference frame. In another reference frame it may be a different number.
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by qurren 17d ago
China, central Asia, etc
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by qurren 17d ago
I used to think "I should be nice to merchants" and pay everything in cash. That was 15 years ago. Now, living costs have gone up, I'm getting taxed to death by not just governments but increasingly more by businesses themsel

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