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by rurp 11mo ago
It's pretty ridiculous that the response style doesn't persist for Claude. You need to click into a menu to set it to 'concise' for every single conversation. If I forget to it's immediately apparent when it spits o
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by rurp 11mo ago
So supply and demand only matter for the axis you personally care about? AI companies use a lot of electricity. Increased demand leads to increased prices. This isn't normally controversial.
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by rurp 11mo ago
The Indiana pi bill mandated certain mathematical values be changed to the wrong value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill
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by rurp 11mo ago
You think this mandated budget airline app is only going to track a gate check-in and nothing else? My guess is that it will collect an absurd amount of extra data and waste endless amounts of time with up-sells and other dark patterns.
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by rurp 1y ago
It's wild how disrespectful this is to viewers and content creators. Google literally couldn't care less what people want, it's just a machine that optimizes for whatever KPIs a given manager has that quarter, users be damned
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by rurp 1y ago
The whole system is a mess. As wasteful as it can be, all residential use is only a small fraction of water consumption in this region. An order of magnitude more is used to grow water intensive crops in the SW deserts, and those farmers ar
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by rurp 1y ago
It's a shame how sleazy the leading markets are currently since prediction markets are awesome in principle. I wonder if this is a result of the institutional resistance to them, especially on the left; only companies run by less than
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Predictions Markets and the Suckerfication Crisis(maxread.substack.com)
10 points by rurp 1y ago|1 comments
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by rurp 1y ago
I don't know how anyone can use the official reddit mobile app for more than 5 minutes. Between the ads and terrible interface it's an awful experience. But I also hate facebook so I'm clearly not the target audience for this
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by rurp 1y ago
This simply isn't true. Getting the populace on board is a standard and important part of democracies initiating military action. Bush and his team spent endless amounts of time briefing Congress and the public on their justifications
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by rurp 1y ago
Yes, this exactly. Firefox became the one good avenue for preventing a Google monopoly over the web and Mozilla just completely fumbled the opportunity again and again. This isn't about one or two screwups, it's been a decade or m
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by rurp 1y ago
How do you know they are drug traffickers? This administration doesn't exactly have a track record of honesty, competence, and acting in good faith.
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by rurp 1y ago
I'm sure the Fed chart is accurately measuring what it's measuring but when I was a kid in Southern California it was normal to buy a house and raise kids on a single teacher or construction worker salary. That has become nearly i
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by rurp 1y ago
I wish the IRA infrastructure bill from a few years ago had included something like this. Not the total mandate, but these should be subsidized and encouraged. These installations actually improve an area and have multiple benefits. Instead
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by rurp 1y ago
I don't know, in the 90s a bunch of friends and I were into MtG and everyone bought packs. The idea of buying from a card dealer instead wasn't even on our radar. We weren't the most hardcore players but I think we were prett
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Senator Cotton blocks effort to make daylight saving time permanent(politico.com)
5 points by rurp 1y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 1y ago
The best research one can do is only going to be so useful. Zoning laws might stop an average person or corporation from building something undesirable, but entities with enough wealth and connections can get those changed. Lately the conve
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by rurp 1y ago
Are those benefits the norm in most cases though? I'm genuinely asking and don't know either way, but the companies building these data centers have quite a reputation for aggressively pursuing subsidies and tax avoidance strategi
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by rurp 1y ago
It's wild that they needed this even explained to them, but I figured as much given how terrible Maps and some other Google products are at working in offline mode. One of the most basic features in Maps, simply adding a pin to the map
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by rurp 1y ago
The incentive to talk about going to Mars is that it's great propaganda for nerds. It gets people interested in the company and willing to work hard for below market pay. Actually going to Mars doesn't make any sense in the fore
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by rurp 1y ago
Basic personal finance should be one of the top things people learn in high school. It's wild how many people have no concept of how loans and interest rates work. I didn't learn anything about that stuff before high school and it
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by rurp 1y ago
I had a car salesman tell me he'd never met anyone else who cared more about the total purchase price than the monthly payment. That might not have been true, but it's probably rare. It was pretty maddening how he kept trying to c
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by rurp 1y ago
I don't think #2 really applies for many/most orgs, since so many causes don't really have a hard and fast solution, but instead exist on a spectrum. Think of a group trying to end poverty or protect nature. Those problems wi
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by rurp 1y ago
Some Great Basin tribes in the Western US would use a mobile version of this on open plains to catch antelope. A large group would gather and erect a large corral with tall posts. Then they would fan out over the land and drive the animals
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by rurp 1y ago
100k isn't all that many for a modern used car and that's a pretty sizable hit on the range given that it's by far the biggest limitation of an EV. Given those numbers it's reasonable that a used Tesla with say 125k mile
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by rurp 1y ago
Why would we compare a car purchase to a gold bar purchase when they are completely different things? The article is comparing two products that substitute for each other, so it's notable that the market treats them differently. Someon
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by rurp 1y ago
In general I think it's perfectly fine to have uncensored NSFW chats. The fact that all of the mainstream LLMs are way more restrictive than basic web searches we've had for decades is kind of ridiculous. In this particular case t
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Ron Conway Resigns Salesforce Foundation over Benioff's National Guard Comments(politico.com)
68 points by rurp 1y ago|9 comments
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by rurp 1y ago
It's absolutely true, but most of the destruction is abstracted away so modern humans don't have to experience it directly or even really think about it. A staggering number of creatures are killed by normal people driving to norm
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by rurp 1y ago
> And to be quite honest, the prospect of a massive biotech revolution is downright scary rather than exciting to me because AI might be able to convince a teenager to shoot up a school now and then, but, say, generally-available protein

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