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by smolder 3y ago
I'm a technically minded person (and a guy) and I take no joy in being hyper-precise with my coffee making, yet enjoy coffee a lot. Good beans that I grind myself in a sub $30 grinder, measured by eye and brewed in the drip-over is bet
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by smolder 3y ago
They wanted to prevent third party repair services from being able to repair their trains, so that they could keep those maintenance contracts for themselves.
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by smolder 3y ago
I've been enjoying using the headphone jack on my new android phone with the very nice headphones I have. There's nothing to "get over" if you don't want to. Headphone jacks won't be obsolete in my lifetime, ev
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by smolder 3y ago
There's no P in Chomsky, FYI.
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by smolder 3y ago
I'll look into those cases, thanks!
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by smolder 3y ago
> The Fourth Amendment protects the physical, That's a narrow reading of it. "Papers and effects" ought to extend to our data as well, something the authors could not have called out more explicitly at the time of its writ
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by smolder 3y ago
They don't need to be patched OTA. It's ridiculous. The terrible product design practices from other parts of life have unfortunately seeped into automaking.
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by smolder 3y ago
No, the meme is new. There is no new phenomenon deserving of such a term. Yes, I can point to ridiculous things people said about Trump and call it TDS. It's still just a cynical, myopic, partisan take on a subset of behavior from a s
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by smolder 3y ago
While we're making suggestions: don't bring up "derangement syndrome" if you want to be taken seriously. You ironically used it in a sentence appealing for less polarization. The comment was fine without.
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by smolder 3y ago
I did something similar with my cat growing up, tossing him onto the bed or the couch, and he seemed to enjoy it and would keep coming back. Eventually we had a sort of routine where I'd toss him into a backflip and he'd land grac
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by smolder 3y ago
Essentially, yes, I'd transfer the account or restore from backup, but depending on the hardware change there may be other yak shaving to do. I don't believe putting a used laptop on the market is necessarily cutting down e-waste
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by smolder 3y ago
All plugins are certainly not made equal. Some I've used are surprisingly bad performance-wise for what they do, while others are just genuinely computation-heavy.
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by smolder 3y ago
An alternative to leaning on your laptop that way is to use a 2nd headless system to do builds, run tests, host containers, etc. It can be more economical over time and better DX to use this [semi-] dumb terminal approach, depending on spec
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by smolder 3y ago
It's not about about having "nice things" or affordability for me. I try to minimize upgrades mainly out of concern for e-waste and other externalities of manufacture, and because setting up the environment on new hardware is
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by smolder 3y ago
I don't think that's true. I've seen at least one other person bring up the CIA in all the "theorycrafting" about this incident. If there's a mystery on HN, likelihood is high of someone bringing up intelligenc
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by smolder 3y ago
I don't think this is necessarily about different categories of intelligence... Politicking and socializing are skills that require time and mental energy to build, and can even atrophy. If you spend all your time worrying about techn
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by smolder 3y ago
Specialized learning and focus often comes at the cost of generalized learning and focus. It's not zero sum, but there is competition between interests in any person's mind.
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by smolder 3y ago
No, it was just widely speculated that he was the ringleader. This seems to indicate he wasn't. We don't know. Maybe to Quora guy, Maybe the RAND Corp lady? All speculation.
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by smolder 3y ago
It's interesting how people here seem to think that concerns about shareholder value and the like should override every other concern. Many serious things are going wrong in the world, but when the cornucopia of cash is threatened it s
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by smolder 3y ago
"The wife of an actor" is an unfair minimization of her value and career, but that seems to have been your goal.
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by smolder 3y ago
Yeah. OpenAI is valuable not just commercially, but to the worlds governments, some of which can probably find ways to force out leadership they don't get along with.
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by smolder 3y ago
I wanted to add that there are a bunch of factors at play in this optimization problem that might not be obvious. For example, there are diminishing returns in reduced wear from distributing load over more tires at some point. More tires &a
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by smolder 3y ago
Fewer vessels for fewer total trips is the more efficient option as a rule. See: cargo trains and gigantic container ships. Australia has some super long cargo trucks they allow called road-trains, I think, which are justifiable if you can
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by smolder 3y ago
I expect them mostly to know, and for those that didn't know trucks are categorized by payload to learn it from the comments, like this.
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by smolder 3y ago
What exactly is made better by paying more to insurance cos? Beyond a point insurance is just a drain on productivity.
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by smolder 3y ago
> Not "is incorrect," but might be incorrect. That's why the part you quoted is preceded by "the possibility that".
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by smolder 3y ago
It would be great to have this kind of agent and trust it is truly working for you, yes. Given economic (and political) reality, I don't think anyone needs to wonder where things are most likely to land. There will be practically no ma
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by smolder 3y ago
I disagree that they suck as an idea, they're just a misapplied one. Cars and combustion engines have done a lot for humanity. The bad ideas were: making excuses to sell as many cars as possible, investing in car infrastructure over ma
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by smolder 3y ago
It's fine for those functions to be a casualty of the owners choice to turn off the network, just like with a phone. If automakers want to use a cellular connection in your car for non-critical functions, it should come with a legitima
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by smolder 3y ago
Yes, though it's better that people mine Bitcoin this way than off coal powered grids.

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