samtho

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by samtho 3y ago
I’m confused as to the author’s reasoning. They claim that stoping distance and non-normal driving conditions are an issue but these are precisely the same problems that AVs meant for ride share face but with a difference performance profil
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by samtho 3y ago
> EVs also have much higher costs in repairs, maintenance and car insurance. Not sure about the maintenance cost being higher here. The only things that need regular service are brake and tires as all of the moving parts of an EV are con
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by samtho 3y ago
Driving an EV in the EU is way more enjoyable than the US because you’ll know that you’ll find a CCS2 connector, at least.
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by samtho 3y ago
I don’t see what’s so difficult here. If it’s risky to hire (because terminating is difficult, takes a long time, is riddled with red tape), then employers will be slow to do so. Less competition for employers to find workers, lower pay ove
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by samtho 3y ago
The problem is that the dogshit machine was constrained in its output by the organization creating it. Sure you may have paid small amounts per article but your resources were still limited as cost scaled linearly with content creation. Now
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by samtho 3y ago
This is the principle behind GAN aka Generative Adversarial Networks. By pitting a generating model against a detection model, you can iterate your content until it is indistinguishable from human generated content. It’s my prediction that
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by samtho 3y ago
AI has created a new standard from which “average” is defined. Rather than a real life analog to a mathematic mean, it’s simply understood to be the level at which AI performs.
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by samtho 3y ago
These do not make sense if you are looming for similar build quality to match your home. If you have been inside of a pre manufactured home (a “mobile home”) then you’ll know how everything has to be made of oddly hollowed plastic in order
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by samtho 3y ago
The problem with the phrase “No evidence” outside of a scientific context is that it sounds like it’s dodging the question, when, as you pointed out, it just means we don’t have data to support that relationship. The other way this is used
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by samtho 3y ago
This has been a thing for years for non-Spotify podcasts. Podcast CDNs inject ads at the behest of the publisher (or the ad network provides the CDN) and will mint a new audio file for each region as it’s downloaded. Automatically injected
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by samtho 3y ago
When we reduce complicated problems down to inaccurate trivial ones by stripping out important details and nuance, we end up with a caricature of the original - one that easily devolves into a to strawman argument to serve someone’s point.
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by samtho 3y ago
The statement pointing out that it’s a manufacturing error (I’m guessing) was not intended to be solution to the problem. It pointed out that those problems have less to do the certification of the design and more to do with a manufacturing
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by samtho 3y ago
When you have 168 resumes to skim through, you can “afford” to just pass on this application and choose some others to interview that would be less offensive to office sensibilities. The impact of accepting so many false negatives is diffic
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by samtho 3y ago
I was hoping more for a tear-down of how rent-seeking SaaS has ruined software in general. Instead, we got a strange flavor of whataboutism
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by samtho 3y ago
I buy and sell stuff on Facebook marketplace. I browse some niche groups but I don’t regularly engage otherwise. Half the time I go to check/update/add to my listings, I get lured into the doom scrolling trap. It’s amazing and fru
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by samtho 3y ago
Absent of building code, it’s pretty disparaging to dismiss kitchen facilities in a permanent dwelling because someone might be able to afford eating out everyday in perpetuity.
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by samtho 3y ago
I kind of thought there would be more insight into the data, but the article just repeats the raw numbers after drawing very sweeping US-centric generalizations over five “regions” that were just made up.
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by samtho 3y ago
You really have to shift thinking away from the centralized-database model in order to fully understand why this question seems ill-informed. If you recall from the SQLite story, it was created, in-part, to provide a local cache to an offli
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by samtho 3y ago
I’m going to answer this genuinely and ignore the straw man because this needs to get tied up. There are two facets here that are important to note: values and autonomy. Your values are not your children’s. They may be related and overlap b
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by samtho 3y ago
> What makes you say this will alienate the family? Should I give up whenever my values for raising my children are not 100% endorsed by others? For some background, I volunteer to help people find genetic family who may have been separa
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by samtho 3y ago
Everyone parents differently and I’m not trying to prescribe what you should do, but here is something that I’ve found works well. Set your entertainment budget for the household at whatever you are paying now for streaming services and whe
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by samtho 3y ago
This is a loosing battle and a dying mentality. By enforcing values they may not agree with, you run the risk of alienating yourself from your family. Why not find other activities you can enjoy with your family instead of trying to limit s
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by samtho 3y ago
If you’re trying to save a bunch of money by ditching 3 $10-20 monthly services, you’re probably targeting the wrong thing. If $60/mo for the household prevents even just two unplanned outings per month, (which the cost per each would
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by samtho 3y ago
They’re built out of plastic because it’s $0.02 cheaper than a metal part and 99.9% of them last through the warranty period. It’s not deliberate that they make stuff that fails, they build stuff that lasts only as long as it needs.
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by samtho 3y ago
This is correct. I see a future where there is an optional 48VDC line that is run in our homes to power stuff like LED lights and dedicated USB ports. This can become especially important for homes that use solar and stored electricity wher
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by samtho 3y ago
Replace “AI” with “printing presses”, “electricity”, “general computing”, “off-shoring”, “online marketplaces”, etc. Variants of this sentiment have been expressed throughout history, but have always been looked upon as foolish in hindsight
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by samtho 3y ago
> I've found with most medications looking for an active ingredient and an amount is helpful. You can search for effectiveness or side-effects. Is this not common practice? I would be uncomfortable taking an ambiguously labeled “col
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by samtho 3y ago
I don’t personally agree with a lot of what Musk says or does, but I do commend him for his propensity towards (literal and figurative) moonshots in the name of innovation. This is a refreshing take when most startups have a goal to exit in
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by samtho 3y ago
I actually thought the name was cute/clever considering the ambitions they have. It also conveys an awareness that this is a moonshot product which is also suggests they are grounded in some rationality.
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by samtho 3y ago
Also, there is typically a small hole on the end of the installer bit, just below the tip, that lets you use it as “fish stick” and poke your pull line through after you drill the hole.

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