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by recursivecaveat 1mo ago
I remember watching the splines video for entertainment, thinking "Surely it can't be this hard for the common case: where we're not too picky, our points are far apart, and we don't need to minimize the segment count. T
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by recursivecaveat 1mo ago
If you have extra cash and cannot spend it on your own business, you can just pay dividends to the shareholders. The shareholders are free to invest in competing businesses (or not, if they want a pure play without hedging). Turning the bus
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by recursivecaveat 1mo ago
On The Beach was right I guess huh
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by recursivecaveat 1mo ago
On a macro level, that's true. On an individual level, your avacados cost 3% more whether you use credit or debit, it's just your choice to recover 2.5% from that back in rewards or not.
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by recursivecaveat 1mo ago
It makes coordination easier. For eg if you want to fetch and pull master, you only have to do that once. If you want to rebase checkout A's branch on top of B's, you can just do that, you don't have to push between the two.
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by recursivecaveat 1mo ago
99.9% of the time, it is just complete spam and a gross feeling data-mine. Twice it has gotten me job offers that have added a significant amount to my net worth. So my feelings are pretty mixed. I wouldn't blame anybody for disposing
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
Lmao I had to axe one of those status pills from an LLM build of an internal tool. Connected to literally nothing too btw, no attempt to check the actual status of the backend made, it would stay "connected" regardless.
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
> Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels o
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
Reminds me of that article about Nevada's pension fund manager, his job is just come into the office and not do anything stupid like dump half the fund on a single speculative investment. https://web.archive.org/web&#
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
My understanding is that they split the accounts to keep up with the limit. Otherwise though yeah, FDIC will only step in for the extreme minority scenario of failure by the underlying bank. You absolutely should not be allowed to advertise
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
What what I can tell they use "dropped" to refer to just falling to the bottom of their shaft, though it definitely does evoke the idea of them just rattling around down there in my head. I think that since water is such a good bu
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
"If I catch you adding another backwards-compatibility shim you're getting deleted and replaced with claude"
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
My first act as a TSA agent would be to beg, borrow, or steal a whiteboard for this purpose. They seem very content to explain it to every passenger almost individually though. Which of course slows everything down as someone has to ask eve
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
If you want to push ads or "recommendations" I can see personalized data being useful. Almost every actionable idea I can imagine is only reasonable when applied to aggregate statistics though. Interesting how because there is no
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
Yes, absolutely. The kids who can assemble a resume of primo extra-ciriculars and volunteer experience are the ones from wealthy and well-connected families. Even the kids who can write the best essays about their troubled upbringings are t
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
I don't know if it's possible to achieve a watermark that is undetectable, has a low false positive rate, and survives a wholesale rephrasing. Can you make a statistical measure that reliably survives 95+% of the words being diffe
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
It's done with a lot more subtlety and embedded directly into the content, no Unicode shenanigans. The basic idea is just to break token generations where the probability is nearly tied in favor of the side that matches the secret key.
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
I once spoke with a family member who was experiencing hallucinations of little people at the moment. So I guess if you want to experience this at home you can try giving yourself a head wound. Not as active or vivid as described I think th
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
My problems reading code are understanding what the new vocabulary actually means, what it does in context, why it exists, etc. Doubly so when someone is pinging me to review a new 13000 line AI MR every 24h. Understanding an individual lin
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
I wonder if that is enough to help actually. Better that you be holding your phone than a knife or a pot of water when the shaking starts. On the other hand you are startling those people.
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
Yeah, red giant sun will be 200 times the radius. So big it completely fills earth's orbit. Crazy to think that as hot and energetic as the sun already is, it has that much potential.
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
The year is 2100, AI has mastered all human skills except identifying when a piece of meat has absorbed enough heat. Society's brightest agents work diligently to prove which problems are steak-hard and require the continued existence
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
Objects will experience weird-looking 'forces' from the perspective of people in a rotating reference frame. For example a thrown object will curve strangely through the air. On earth the effect is so subtle that only artillery an
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
The tone really is genius marketing though. Like who wants to be a "dirty" coder? Reminds me of that quote about the etymology of dynamic programming: > it's impossible to use the word dynamic in a pejorative sense. Try th
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
If you check page 16 of the filing here it certainly seems like they have specific messages with quotations: https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secre... This is one of those times where I
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
You gotta fight for time to use the restroom even: https://idlewords.com/shepard_pee.htm I mean it makes sense in a way. It's probably more cost effective to have 100 people on the ground spreadsheeting out your entire
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
It probably tests well when they're doing reinforcement learning. Humans trying to use in-group terminology or uncommon vocabulary to impress other humans with their knowledge and sophistication is a tale as old as time.
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
Apparently they are thought to be more common closer to the equator, due to the plane of the solar system (and hence the asteroid belt) lining up with it: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/meteorites-might-be-more...
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
Definitely one of the most malevolent possible objects. Infinitely black, so powerful it will kill you without noticing your presence, unknowable, impossible to get rid of, you will be well aware you can't escape as you fall in before
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by recursivecaveat 2mo ago
If you behave yourself and reuse the same cookie/IP instead of trying to hide your identity, other tools can be used to block you if your request volume is crazy. It also means regular people only have to solve once.

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