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by robocat 7mo ago
Most startups fail - it's almost definitional. Trying to connect the dots like you are attempting to, is a foolish game.
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by robocat 7mo ago
AI is usually better than traditional search for working out acronyms and jargon. My prompt "What does PFP mean on this page: https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/vibecoding-cryptosaurus " gave a good answer and it descr
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by robocat 8mo ago
CSI parody style? I'm most familiar with software and home electronics debugging, but it would be wonderful to hear some stories from other disciplines where a culprit is found, and also about the forensic tools specific to other domai
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by robocat 8mo ago
Also fab companies have had to learn to be incredibly conservative about perceptively meaningless changes. Most famously illustrated by Intel's "Copy Exactly!" methodology. https://duckduckgo.com/?q="cop
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by robocat 8mo ago
Strawman. Forklifts usually do work we physically can't do (or sometimes could do if ignoring personnel risks and costs).
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by robocat 8mo ago
A pattern I've seen from the smart people in my life is how they find tricks to train themselves. Like teaching oneself to avoid a disparaging inner voice. Or a jiujitsu move from the rational mind to retrain poor emotional responses.
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by robocat 8mo ago
> "I asked <LLM> and he said..." An alternative I tried was sharing links my LLM prompts/responses. That failed badly. I like the parallel with linking to a Google/DuckDuckGo search term which is useful when don
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Cybercrime isn't just a cover for Iran's government goons(theregister.com)
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by robocat 8mo ago
The article incorrectly conflates Hybrid with Plug-in-Hybrid. I think the article ignores that Hybrids often use high economy engines e.g. Atkinson Cycle in the 2006 Toyota Hybrid I had. A Prius really does use less petrol even if never plu
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by robocat 8mo ago
And for breaking failures, two is way better than one! Having zero working chronometers would be bad.
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by robocat 8mo ago
Works it (edit sp: Would it) help if the coders' prompts were available (checked in)? If code is your documentation I assume it is hard to divine intent?
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by robocat 8mo ago
Good point. I reckon I'm trying to think about the dependency graph of necessity. I suspect you are too. A monetary economy has productive sectors and non-productive sectors. Most healthcare is non-productive from the point of view of
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by robocat 8mo ago
> Exactly - go give someone you love a hug, that's worth infinitely more than flexing an expensive watch. Hugs are massive signals of status (who, where, initiator, awkwardness, yada yada). My fascination with the politics of hugs m
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by robocat 8mo ago
Healthcare is a cost not a profit in the economy: the Healthcare sector consumes what is produced by other parts of the economy. Similarly government can't exist without businesses. And a large part of healthcare is dependent on taxati
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by robocat 8mo ago
https://archive.ph/5Fg2p
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by robocat 8mo ago
> which has never given me any cravings I've seen multiple friends that could give up an addiction: until after a while and then they couldn't. For many people, addictions are not that addictive until they are. Be careful gener
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by robocat 8mo ago
However voting is different. We don't vote for a policy (although that is a common misconception.) The collective power of voting is often voting against a person/party : voting them out. We spent money on goods/services we c
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by robocat 8mo ago
For full list of words see: https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/.github/scripts/bad... Not swear words or DEI. Mostly sane substitutions e.g. fixing hyphenations and expanding apostrophes.
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by robocat 8mo ago
> data limits The data required is small. Each embedding might be 1/2 kB per face. > power budget To process a video for biometric feature extraction, it might take 0.5% to 2% of the total power used to record a video. Video uses
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by robocat 8mo ago
> delusion and narcissism "internet psychology diagnosis" is unwelcome on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38589525 edit: the ban has nothing to do with how accurate your words might be. Personally I tr
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by robocat 8mo ago
Different article I think. Link to his reply to HN comments on that article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43977897
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by robocat 8mo ago
> someone with a seemingly normal job and three houses feeling like they dont have secure housing That is a well known symptom of being hard up and then achieving some success. Your fears don't magically disappear when your circumst
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by robocat 8mo ago
Reaching middle age, as a guy I thought women were more open to friendliness. I have always assumed it was the shadow of a safe "friendly grandpa" effect. Older men have the opportunity to be seen as less intimidating (assuming yo
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by robocat 8mo ago
I give friends a codeword before I go overseas (verbally but next time I'll write it on a note). I learnt my lesson after online access to my bank was blocked for two weeks and I also lost a card two trips ago. Plus Chile blocked my
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by robocat 8mo ago
> parasite must stop sucking blood for the host to survive Biology doesn't work like that. Biological units are too selfish. It is an iterated game so evolution could affect how a parasite's children act. However defection is u
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by robocat 8mo ago
> somewhere esoteric technical distinction When those technical distinctions are important we use specific technical terms for them (of which there are a few different ones for the phase transition - depending on discipline). The cooking
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by robocat 8mo ago
I tried to find a good article summarising Michel's language teaching method. This references his tapes: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/learning-european-languages-m... ChatGPT gave a reasonable looking answer to
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by robocat 8mo ago
Did you do any typing speed tests against friends using other mobile solutions? I've found Swype to be reasonably quick (and the learning curve isn't too steep). However I never had a chance to race a really competent Blackberry u
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by robocat 8mo ago
> the USA Only technically do you not need a VISA. In practice you need to apply for ETSA - requiring a biometric photo and your phone number and social media details and a destination contact address. So you don't need a VISA, but
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by robocat 8mo ago
So ultraprocessed food is addictive food. It is hard for individuals to fight back against toxic obesogenic[1] advertisers. Even when we communally create a helpful concept or word, it eventually gets undermined and debased by sociopathic

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