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by raldi 6mo ago
"This is just a common publicity stunt." "No, it is an exceptional publicity stunt."
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by raldi 6mo ago
Clickbait antidote: by inventing the pitch speed radar gun after seeing campus police use one in 1974
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by raldi 7mo ago
https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by raldi 7mo ago
Especially weird in this case since it’s such an over the top case of Submarine Marketing.
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by raldi 7mo ago
Supposedly they could fire it seven times a day, and had to soak it in warm oil in between to minimize thermal shock.
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by raldi 7mo ago
I don’t understand how you can say a smart watch isn’t, on top of all the smart features, also the best watch there is when it comes to keeping time. It keeps perfect time, always, even over DST changes, even when you change time zones. You
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by raldi 7mo ago
What evidence would convince you otherwise?
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by raldi 7mo ago
Anyone got a direct link to or time index of the recording? I skipped around the video on the linked page but it was all music.
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by raldi 7mo ago
This is very cool! And I say that as someone who was in iCE in the early 1990s ;) The baud scrolling and SAUCE support are nicely done, and "drag a zip here" is top-tier magic, though when I tried dragging in an old iCE pack'
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Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job(washingtonpost.com)
624 points by raldi 7mo ago|276 comments
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To the Polypropylene Makers(lesswrong.com)
88 points by raldi 7mo ago|27 comments
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by raldi 7mo ago
The clickbait title refers to a day in fall 1995 when a Random House editor was told by his boss that the business could no longer afford to publish modestly-selling books (~10,000-40,000 copies), marking the moment when corporate scale kil
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by raldi 7mo ago
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun
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by raldi 7mo ago
200
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"Amazon.com" commercials from the 1990s [video](youtube.com)
2 points by raldi 8mo ago|0 comments
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by raldi 8mo ago
> Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write? You don't; you feed it to an LLM and ask it to read it for you.
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by raldi 8mo ago
> To be honest I’m glad we are the ones getting out of that market first. Who is "we" in that sentence?
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by raldi 9mo ago
The “YC/Now” timer starts (and sometimes flips) before the image actually loads.
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by raldi 9mo ago
Despite the abuse of quotation marks in the screenshot at the top of this link, Dario Amodei did not in fact say those words or any other words with the same meaning.
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by raldi 9mo ago
Design is about how it works (my phone went 100% —> 84% while reading this, almost certainly thanks to the snow)
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by raldi 9mo ago
And now my phone is hot
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by raldi 10mo ago
What’s your non-sarcastic answer?
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by raldi 10mo ago
Would you protest someone who said “Ants want sugar”?
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by raldi 10mo ago
I’m guessing the missing part probably ended with an internal rhyme for “man”. Maybe “missed the can” (she was aiming at)?
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by raldi 10mo ago
But a citywide blackout isn’t that uncommon.
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by raldi 10mo ago
I'm surprised that either: 1. Nobody at Waymo thought of this, 2. Somebody did think of it but it wasn't considered important enough to prioritize, or 3. They tried to prep the cars for this and yet they nonetheless failed so badl
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by raldi 10mo ago
I couldn’t agree more with the article. What made you think I disagreed?
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by raldi 10mo ago
What alternative would you propose? Page the oncall whenever there's a single query timeout?
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by raldi 10mo ago
Exactly: When you're building software, it has lots of defects (and, thus, error logging). When it's mature, it should have few defects, and thus few error logs, and each one that remains is a bug that should be fixed.
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by raldi 10mo ago
I agree that you should detect this, just through a metric rather than putting DB timeouts in the ERROR loglevel.

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