runako

8 ms·

151.
by runako 4mo ago
> I will remember from now on that you can compare war to Lebron playing in a championship game but not to him playing in a pickup game. The stakes of a given situation matter to the disposition of the participants. Is this not obvious?
152.
by runako 4mo ago
> if you were playing basketball and Lebron James walked by and you threw the ball to him Yes, this is a terrible analogy for the war in Iran. Hugely unpopular, costing Americans vast sums of money daily, headed for possible catastrophe.
153.
by runako 4mo ago
Curious -- from where do you think the basic research originated that allowed the F-35 program to exist at all? We are certainly not naive enough to think that Lockheed Martin does basic research.
154.
by runako 4mo ago
Generously, what difference does it make to any person if you technically achieve some result but in practice are not able to realize that end state?
155.
by runako 4mo ago
> most (younger?) users don't know what the difference between an app and a website is Yeah, I doubt this because younger users overlap most heavily with "had to ask a parent for permission to install an app." > It&#x27
156.
by runako 4mo ago
I think that when I install an app, typically it will tell me up front how much disk space is required. For example, in the Mac App Store, the size of the app is at the top of the page. > Should those also be limited to a few MB? I also
157.
by runako 4mo ago
This doesn't really address the issue here. The condition here is that a site might decide that it needs to store (say) a copy of the Red Hat server installation package on each user's local machine (20GB) to facilitate repeat vis
158.
by runako 4mo ago
What your'e describing I would expect to be measured in kilobytes, not tens of gigabytes. There is no reason for any person to think that a website needs to store data sized in the "full Ubuntu install" range to facilitate re
159.
by runako 4mo ago
Yes? From the paper: "On Chrome and Safari, OPFS supports very large files, up to 60 % of disk space, which is more than sufficient to avoid the page cache on most typical systems, as even a small disk size of 64 GB would allow us to c
160.
by runako 4mo ago
> I think enough would refuse (clearly illegal) orders The military executes clearly illegal orders to attack civilians on speedboats in the Pacific a couple of times a week. Not infrequently, they also kill the occupants when they are s
161.
by runako 4mo ago
Worth noting that the period you indicate is a an example of an America largely deploying inventions from the UK (e.g. the steam engine, steam locomotive, etc.). The latter part of the 20th century and first part of this century is a story
162.
by runako 4mo ago
This obviously correct take will get pushback, so let me add some other examples: - which tool required more detailed goal-setting in the prompt? - did one tool ask follow-up questions up front vs spread out over implementation? - did eithe
163.
by runako 5mo ago
lmao Corporate had a hissy fit from people working full weeks at home. The 4-day work week will never* come to the US. * - not while any of us reading this are under 65.
164.
by runako 5mo ago
This is a bizarre comment for a couple of reasons. First, obviously everyone involved understands that someone has to pay to provide a free service. Everyone involved also knows that this sometimes makes sense as a business strategy (I have
165.
by runako 5mo ago
> OpenRouter processed 3.4T DeepSeek v3 Flash > Gemini is processing 746T per week I read this totally differently. A startup nobody really knows is doing half a percent of Google on a commodity task?!? Google, which puts Gemini on
166.
by runako 5mo ago
Correct. That's part of the tax efficiency, the whole point for some investors. Even if you set your dividends to automatically reinvest via a DRIP program, you still pay taxes on dividends in the year in which they are issued. This re
167.
by runako 5mo ago
DropBox has been retiring shares fairly consistently. This is generally used as an alternative to dividends, and is done primarily for tax efficiency.
168.
by runako 5mo ago
I think the analog is the actions around the storage. DropBox & Box have both moved in this direction, but perhaps not aggressively enough? I'm thinking in particular about e-signing, where DocuSign has a market cap roughly equal t
169.
by runako 5mo ago
1. Much of US policy toward science is backlash to Covid vaccinations. Being anti-Science is a way of preventing Science from inflicting itself on the populace again in the future. 2. Science trends toward meritocracy, which is bad if your
170.
by runako 5mo ago
> a frontier ai lab Wait, do people consider xAI a frontier AI lab?
171.
by runako 5mo ago
The numbers overall are worse than I expected. I can't believe Serious People are talking about putting this in the market at a trilly. > Starlink seems to be a real cash machine It has been said more than once that Starlink financi
172.
by runako 5mo ago
> Websites may go back to being simply labors of love. The situation may be even worse. Back in the labor of love era, at least webmasters could get feedback from readers. In the LLM era, readers may not even know that the site exists. W
173.
by runako 5mo ago
> I wonder if the Reddit people are bothered by their owner Quick note -- Reddit went public in 2024, so Condé Nast is no longer their owner.
174.
by runako 5mo ago
You're not making a cogent argument. From most perspectives (civilian, political, financial), the "better" military is the one that wins. Your'e arguing that a navy can be a shadow of its former glory and still also be w
175.
by runako 5mo ago
> Shutterstock failed to get consent to charge consumers’ credit cards before charging them for subscriptions This sounds like it should carry criminal penalties?
176.
by runako 5mo ago
Separate discussion. I'm addressing the comment that the US Navy of today is a shadow of its former self.
177.
by runako 5mo ago
This leads to an interesting thought experiment. Using conventional weapons only, what prior year's US Navy could beat the 2026 US Navy in combat?
178.
by runako 5mo ago
Look at the device in TFA. That's a pay phone, which is also a way of describing a specific range of hardware types.
179.
by runako 5mo ago
I can't find the reference right now, but I remember reading literature about studies done at large programming organizations (like IBM, government) who used LOCs as a performance metric. Programmers could earn more money by including
180.
by runako 5mo ago
Better link: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

More ›