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by sowbug 4mo ago
The article mentions the "registration" process. Those multicolored gunsight-like symbols you sometimes see on the edges of printed things are called registration marks. They help the operator quickly judge whether the plates are
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by sowbug 4mo ago
I would so download a car.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Related: episode 653 of 99% Invisible mentions Peace Arch Park, which is along the US-Canada border in Blaine, Washington, and Surrey, British Columbia. Anyone from either country can enter the park and mingle with people from the other c
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by sowbug 4mo ago
The person you're replying to erroneously interpreted "stay even" as "avoid going into debt," instead of your income's purchasing power remaining constant.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
That's the usual car stereo theft economics: cause $1,000 of damage to sell a $100 radio for $10.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
I'm certain I've read this comment before.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Whatever you're doing, try doing 500 or 1,000 of it in a batch. You'll exhaust any subscription quota you have, or if you're paying per token, you will probably find it too expensive. That's when you'll start to ask
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by sowbug 4mo ago
One concrete and one abstract. Concrete: Last year I was DIYing a solar-power system for my home. I spent about an hour spitting out a Python tool that took (as inputs) drone photos and JSON and generated several proposed roof layouts for t
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by sowbug 4mo ago
There are at least eight top-level comments here saying that Claude reads documentation, but humans don't.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Careful there! You almost sound like you're suggesting a prayer.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Everyone but me might be a philosophical zombie. But I still treat them with respect. I do this because I like living in a world that gives us the benefit of that doubt. It can't hurt to say "please" and "thank you"
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Doesn't 91.3(a) already give the PIC absolute authority to act regardless of whether there's a threat? Why invoke the FBI? > Turning the plane around and landing is certainly in the realm of "reasonable". Agreed. Bu
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by sowbug 4mo ago
After today's update, I'm able to build roads. Thank you.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
I agree that technical lock-in wouldn't cause the consolidation. Instead, if it happened, it would be because of the network effects of the two-sided platform. People could email cat photos and resumes. But Facebook and LinkedIn are wh
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Retired manager, been in my share of tense meetings. I appreciate it when someone recognizes that they're struggling with conflict and emotion, and lets me know that they know this . It's better to acknowledge the emotion and put
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by sowbug 4mo ago
If you believe there will be lots of LLM providers in the future, then OpenRouter could be a DoorDash play. Established restaurants didn't need DoorDash because they were already on everyone's speed dial. But new or small restaura
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by sowbug 4mo ago
It might have been an emailed list of questions, rather than a real-time conversation.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
That sounds like a corollary of the Diamond Paradox. If there's any cost at all to price-shopping, then once you're at one store that sells the thing you want, it's usually not worth continuing to shop around. Tangent: people
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by sowbug 4mo ago
thefacebook.com was developed in a few days, too. The value was never in the code.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
All my childhood Apple II 5 1/4" floppies have been mirrored, so I can visit those files in an emulator any time I want. But I'll miss the crazy amount of control the system had over the physical disk drive. Nibble counting,
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Not exactly the same thing, but a few years ago the law changed to require a sesame-allergen notice on foods that had sesame. Some manufacturers starting adding sesame to foods that didn't need it, because they concluded that including
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Some conformal coatings, which protect PCBs from dust and moisture, can emit ethyl acetate or butyl acetate if they weren't fully cured. The smell is sweet but absolutely revolting.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Some of that is because they want a single factory assembly line to produce one device that works in many locales. They build the rice cooker with the universal socket, then ship the right kind of cord when they package the product for a sp
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Recent discussion on topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777209
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by sowbug 4mo ago
Might depend on how old you are. If you're in your 20s or 30s, you probably still remember the silliest details like a childhood friend's middle name. But after that, bright memories start to fade, and trust me, it only gets worse
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by sowbug 4mo ago
On Steam Deck, I am having a rough time with the road that the paperclip wants me to place. Holding down the physical A button (of the ABXY group) and wiggling around the left joystick (as well as every other control I can think of), both p
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by sowbug 4mo ago
I'll wager a hypersled of my Twix against your next three rations of gruel. But I think I'm done betting after this one.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
The high-risk side of that bet would need to win more like a lifetime supply of Twix. But in a post-scarcity nirvana, everyone already has that. So sure, you're on at even money. See you in two years.
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by sowbug 4mo ago
There is also the EV (expected value) of developing AGI. Even if you personally believe the probability is low within the lifetime of either of these companies, the value would still be extraordinarily high, enough to forgive a $5T or so mi
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by sowbug 4mo ago
One of the least enjoyable parts of the Singularity, for sure.

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