schaefer

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by schaefer 5d ago
Frag, I am engaging in this from a "Logic 101" perspective. I saw a false premise used in an argument and I only wanted to point that out. I have no actual position on cars brands or apple computers or any of that.
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by schaefer 5d ago
In most countries without 100% tariffs and outright bans Toyota's sales are in decline because of competition from BYD. For example, sales for the first half of 2026 vs first half of 2025 in Australia show: Toyota is down 20% BYD is up
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by schaefer 11d ago
Let me be more clear. The activity you're advocating is illegal: "possessing, discharging, or igniting explosives or explosive material, including binary explosive targets is banned on BLM land in nevada under Federal Land Policy
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by schaefer 12d ago
what a funny Freudian slip for skew.
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by schaefer 13d ago
> Some rich person could just setup a contest with awards and see who shows up, it could be held out on one of those dry lakebeds in Nevada. As a resident of Nevada - HELL NO. That's BLM land. Not an amateure weapons test site. If
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by schaefer 19d ago
I already own one - I've been reading with crosspoint.
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by schaefer 19d ago
I hadn't heard about microslate. Thank you.
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by schaefer 21d ago
Yes, I meant slow down. With effort, the effect can persist. But you have to be willing to make changes.
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by schaefer 21d ago
Go on a ten day meditation retreat. Time will hit the breaks, hard.
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by schaefer 23d ago
Right? Between $18k-40k to run a benchmark.
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by schaefer 23d ago
Somewhere around 2004 I had an experience at the black hole that still amuses me. I was digging through the store when I found a full pallet of computer punch cards. As a computer science undergrad, I thought, “ how cool, I want a bunch to
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by schaefer 24d ago
That’s awesome. I’ve seen the book around, but didn’t know the connection to the works of Borges.
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by schaefer 24d ago
can you point to a write up that discusses what you're talking about? because I would read it.
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by schaefer 24d ago
> attempt at ... irony For the record, I did laugh, I just didn't type it out. > how do you feel about paying 5% on every token's cost to stripe? Life is compromise. In a perfect world, I'd love to buy a linux native s
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by schaefer 24d ago
what I have is a DGX Spark to play and learn on, and an OpenRouter account for actual work. I mostly rent my tokens.
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by schaefer 24d ago
> We currently have 14x nodes of CG480-S6053 ready to ship. Oh, okay, so this is an ad. I do still think it's well written and interesting... But if anything, it's just making me more curious about the newest generation of M5
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by schaefer 26d ago
I love this book so much (Labyrinths, by Borges). I once calculated the number of books in The Library of Bable, and had to try a number of numerical libraries to do so. one after another they kept puking on the large integers. I also thin
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by schaefer 27d ago
As someone that went to community college... I'm pretty sure that the kids getting admitted to Berkeley actually are the best and the brightest. we should absolutely be welcoming them. what are we even doing here?
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by schaefer 29d ago
I don’t think he was asking you to twist the knife.
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by schaefer 1mo ago
> honest question, how is [reading a book] better than posting toc on chatgpt and asking it to explain it to you Since you're currently asking humans to explain this to you and not LLMs, you've already got your answer.
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by schaefer 1mo ago
Interesting! I ordered a copy of your book about Datalevin. I'll give it a try - even though I don't know Clojure. Congratulations on release 1.0.0, and thank you for your contributions to open source.
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by schaefer 1mo ago
Plus those shorts are out of order. So it’s gotta take more effort to piece the plot back together, right? :)
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by schaefer 1mo ago
I'm curious if you've personally used datalog in any projects. I've written some prolog, but haven't ever worked with datalog. Minigraph looks promising for some introductory goofing around.
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by schaefer 1mo ago
> …can't help but notice how sql is coming from the c-Era of programming. Having … more modern ways to express my queries would be great to improve correctness … SQL is based in pure mathematics: set theory, relational algebra. The
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by schaefer 1mo ago
I feel the same, which is why I only use these tools in a docker container. Because life is compromise.
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by schaefer 1mo ago
> reminds me of... As long as we are already on a tangent about rods, cones, and visual perception: one of my favorite fact is that the occasional genetic mutation that creates color blindness in men sometimes leaves a woman with "t
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by schaefer 2mo ago
> If it's context dependent is it really introspection? When people get lost in a great movie or a great video game, we call it immersion. We say it’s the mark of a great work of art. When people get lost in the perfect challenge,
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by schaefer 2mo ago
I'm going to pretend you're talking about The Doors of Perception. Even though you are obviously talking about Brave New World.
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by schaefer 2mo ago
Kagi search today is better than Google search ever was. And it’s clear that Google’s Ad model ultimately created a priority inversion. The advertisers became the customer. I am so glad Kagi came along with a business model that is actuall
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by schaefer 2mo ago
That’s amazing, nice work Dad. Do you also play the approach music when her power output reaches 1.21 Gigawatts?

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