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by smolder 3y ago
> Why are people stagnating instead of moving up? That's a really good question. It's a difficult question to answer thoroughly, but there should be a few obvious factors. Most of the labor market is effectively priced out of a
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by smolder 3y ago
It very much depends on what stuff you're talking about. Consumption and QoL are only loosely correlated. If we have a culture that values status signalling, everyone may might work harder to afford status signalling without any real b
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by smolder 3y ago
I have both things going on, you might say. When I first settle down with a book or long form reading after not having done it a while, it's a considerable effort to focus. Typically at some point after forcing myself back to the text
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by smolder 3y ago
Apologies, just found your post confusing and was trying to make sense.
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by smolder 3y ago
Or the green line, or the orange line...
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by smolder 3y ago
I think they read the first line of your reply and took it as you arguing that it's nearly impossible for an LLM to give output that would get someone killed.
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by smolder 3y ago
Thanks for making this informative reply.
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by smolder 3y ago
Taking your comment too seriously... Webgl is the more ubiquitous target, so I'd still prefer that when it's sufficient.
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by smolder 3y ago
> Why do larger e-ink screens cost more to produce? Last I knew the bulk of cost for e-ink displays was just due to the patent holders decision to charge a lot, which is disappointing, but can't go on that much longer...
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by smolder 3y ago
Depends who buys the better steroids/drug cocktails. I hope that by some miracle of money and medical malpractice they both come out looking like the hulk and bane from batman.
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by smolder 3y ago
It also doesn't help that the basic functionality of Twitter can be duplicated in a weekend by a junior dev, and has been many times. What novel idea can be stolen from Twitter? Everyone already lifted the hashtag idea ~15 years ago.
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by smolder 3y ago
I think it's a good term in that it describes what's happening from the users perspective instead of from the businesses perspective, so more people can identify with it. It's the outsiders view of what happens to a business
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by smolder 3y ago
Interestingly, there is one house that I know of with both hot and cold freshwater plumbing as well as hot and cold salt water plumbing: the Breakers mansion, built by the Vanderbilts. I'm sure they spent fortunes maintaining that plum
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by smolder 3y ago
I believe that's called a grey water system.
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by smolder 3y ago
And you're attributing this all to sea water exposure? My intuition is that sun exposure would be a bigger factor.
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by smolder 3y ago
There are mountains of people doing what you do and complaining about alarmism and fear mongering and chiding people for apocalyptic predictions any time this subject comes up. I think that's worse than unhelpful, and is a disservice t
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by smolder 3y ago
It's venturing into cryptocurrency-space-heater levels of pointless number crunching to render at that level of detail for anyone who has human eyes.
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by smolder 3y ago
What is your actual use case apart from technology fetishism?
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by smolder 3y ago
I'm actually not sure what your complaint is at this point. I've long been using 3 mixed dpi displays on windows 10 for gaming as well as normal desktop stuff. Any relatively modern software scales fine to high dpi. Some old softw
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by smolder 3y ago
> No one wants to click links. I actually prefer that my chat client doesn't auto follow links, so I have a choice of whether to look at them, and so they don't interrupt conversations by taking up huge space in the chat.
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by smolder 3y ago
ChatGPT: Ruined TV by causing a writers strike...
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by smolder 3y ago
Owning it would be a unique way of signalling ones status but also ones uniqueness , and uniqueness is great for ones status.
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by smolder 3y ago
I'd been told they use excessive tape because the quality of the cardboard packaging available is so poor that it's somewhat necessary. I don't know why getting better cardboard boxes isn't the answer in that case but pe
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by smolder 3y ago
And many are smart enough to not load the full page content hidden behind css these days, too.
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by smolder 3y ago
> A lot of the problems stem from the fact that banks aren't earning enough from their payment processing business I don't buy this reasoning. If banks are making investments that are too risky, it's because they're m
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by smolder 3y ago
> my papers and effects Nice nod to the "forgotten amendment".
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by smolder 3y ago
> They did it to Tucker Carlson. "They" did what? Are you referring to the texts with other hosts that were exposed in the dominion lawsuit?
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by smolder 3y ago
On my sort of large phone all the links and buttons are just big enough that I can press on the right things consistently without zoom. My issue is that I accidentally hit them when scrolling sometimes.
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by smolder 3y ago
> You can tie it to sensors, like a door ajar sensor to automatically turn on when you open a closet and back off after. This is very simple to do without wifi. Refrigerators have been doing it a long time.
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by smolder 3y ago
We have some app generated internal IDs which have a 1 character prefix by type and then base64 sequential stuff after that. I'll admit it's nice knowing the type of an identifier by looking at it. I don't really like that th

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