superultra

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by superultra 9mo ago
I think a better or at least adjacent question might be: do consumers want to pay full price for an object that isn’t subsidized by services? Do we actually want physical objects? Even the things that aren’t technically subscription feel li
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by superultra 9mo ago
I oversee pressing for over 150k+ records a year. We eliminated download cards a while ago because the redemption rate was so low. I wouldn’t doubt if the number of buyers who don’t own a record player is even higher tha 50%, and that the p
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by superultra 10mo ago
I live in an Atlanta neighborhood where one of the founders lived. A prototype for Flock Camera was designed by three Georgia Tech grads because someone kept breaking into their car (not uncommon in our neighborhood tbh). The trick is that
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by superultra 10mo ago
I don’t need everyone seeing the dirty laundry of my first draft and edits. I too work in a working doc and then when completed I drop it at once into the final google doc.
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by superultra 10mo ago
But can it really clean clothes if it doesn’t have 802.11ac with AI spot cleaning and a 750mv iOS app??? /s
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by superultra 10mo ago
I’d say that an increasingly more common strand is that the way LLMs work is so wildly different than how we humans operate that it is effectively an alien intelligence pretending to be human. We have never and still don’t fully understand
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by superultra 10mo ago
Thanks for deep diving on doubling down lol
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by superultra 10mo ago
The day I trashed my huge collection of WIRED print mags, including that one Y2K dark glossy cover, was a sad day
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by superultra 10mo ago
More and more these are feeling like they’re written for investors not users: > Adobe is doubling down on its strategy of using AI to bring more users into its product ecosystem. > Adobe has shipped many AI-powered features and produc
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by superultra 11mo ago
To each their own. What you call old I call classic. I have bought a few of these pieces and they look great.
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by superultra 11mo ago
You’re wrong on several things. There’s a big difference in the kind of domestication of dogs - which we generally think of when we think of domestication - and animals who serve extracurricular domestication, ie ferrets. I also have 2 cats
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by superultra 11mo ago
> It's been done in churches for centuries I mean, how is "healthcare" from 500 years ago the bar here? And isn't single-payer state-funded healthcare the scaled version of a small town passing the plate around anyway
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by superultra 11mo ago
I’ve lived in both Canada and the US. My grandma in Canada had to wait 9 months for a hip replacement. Even though the government provided help with paid aids, it was not a great situation. My mom here in the states needs a hip replacement
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by superultra 11mo ago
Can confirm, I live in Georgia. The real stickler is that just from pure lucky timing, data centers will likely be the direct beneficiaries of the third reactor coming online at the Vogle plant here in Georgia. So taxpayers foot and will fo
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by superultra 11mo ago
I think you’re mistaking slight natural adaption for domestication, and taking domestication for granted. Go into nature and try and train a wild wolf. Good luck! You can’t. Domestication, in the way that we see having happened with dogs (a
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by superultra 11mo ago
The United States is the wealthiest nation on the planet according to Forbes, richer than the subsequent three nations combined. It’s a tragedy that our own citizens are not the direct be beneficiaries of that wealth. I think a lot about th
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by superultra 11mo ago
Man, seeing the visualizations here reminded me of how great it was to load up some music in Winamp (downloaded via soulseek), turn on the geiss visualizer, and get stoned.
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by superultra 1y ago
This feels like someone in a marathon deciding to quit because they just ran really well for the last 10 minutes, with the assumption that since they were running really fast there’s no reason to think they won’t keep running fast. It’s dee
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by superultra 1y ago
Thank you. Had to turn off my blocker for that site, I was drowning in pop-ups
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by superultra 1y ago
> Gamification is great. Is it? I think the gamification is at the core of why Duolingo has persisted even though it doesn’t work. At any point in real learning, or in acquiring any kind of skill in anything, one hits a plateau and the t
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by superultra 1y ago
I think the problem no one on either side wants to admit is that these shooters rarely fall into either side. They’re mentally unstable people who are attracted to fringe crazy ideas, regardless of the political stripes. Their behavior indi
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by superultra 1y ago
The current president and vice president of the United States said on multiple media channels that an entire racial demographic of people in a city were eating cats and dogs, and those same people are concerned about the minutia of a late n
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by superultra 1y ago
He did not say that the kid was MAGA, or at least not exactly. Here’s all he said about it: > We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything oth
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by superultra 1y ago
To each their own I guess but I think this is a beautiful home. My home was built at the same time (1965) and seems to share a lot of characteristics to David’s home, although my house is much smaller. You’d be surprised how hard it is find
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by superultra 1y ago
You may be right but it’s worth noting that many mid century kitchens - including my own - were less focused on hospitality in the kitchen and more on efficiency. In some cases this was because homes had hired help. My MCM kitchen is large
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by superultra 1y ago
I live in the neighborhood where Flock started. The three Georgia Tech grads moved into a house in the West End in Atlanta. It’s a great neighborhood but like any urban neighborhood, you often deal with car break-in’s, so the roommates buil
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by superultra 1y ago
Define current. My dad turned the lights off on one factory as recently as 2018, a factory that Trump visited and bragged about saving (it wasn’t saved). It’s not the same as factories in the 1989s true, but people are still missing fingers
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by superultra 1y ago
I looked up the EPA report for the brownsite. It listed arsenic, barium, multiple chromium compounds, 2,4-dimethylphenol ethylbenzen lead, 4-methyl-2-pentanone, methlyene chloride, naphthalene, toluene, and xylene at hazardous levels. It al
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by superultra 1y ago
Totally agree but is more environmentally friendly and more humane part of the current political rhetoric? And absolutely outsourcing to somewhere else hurts somewhere else. But let’s be realistic: the kind of drastic change that would requ
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by superultra 1y ago
You’re not wrong on most of your points - and I’m not denying the value of hard work. And I’m also well aware of the drudgery of office work. That said, have you worked in the kind of factory that will come back? I did a summer stint at my

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