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by tejohnso 11mo ago
I gave helix a serious shot for a week, converting shortcuts and adapting to helix's way. In the end I couldn't find any advantage to it over my vim setup. It was not plug and play it was not configuration free, it was not noticea
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by tejohnso 11mo ago
Why aren't new developments including rooftop solar as a standard selling feature? If it makes sense it should be a no brainer right? Your new $800,000 home comes with a solar installation so you never pay for heating, cooling, power s
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by tejohnso 1y ago
Yeah, of course you'd rather pay a fine when your net worth is thousands of times more than most people's, and the fines aren't scaled according to net worth. You see this from time to time with headlines like "$CORP fin
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by tejohnso 1y ago
I just heard of Helix and decided to take it for a spin. I'm not sure why I'd use it instead of Vim. For all the Vim similarity, inverting the do-this-to-that seems like an arbitrary annoyance that I don't understand. Why go
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by tejohnso 1y ago
> ChatGPT-3 cost $50 million, ChatGPT-4 cost $500 million and ChatGPT-5, costing $5 billion Is that actually true? And is most of it because of the compute requirements of the models or scaling cost due to exponential growth in usage? I
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by tejohnso 1y ago
> shame reading it from a pdf though, What makes it such a shame? It's full color, properly formatted, and nothing is missing. Looks beautiful on my color e-ink device.
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by tejohnso 1y ago
> If the regime is able to do this because of speech Okay but that's a big "IF". I suspect a regime attempting to do that might be promulgating a significant amount of propaganda, but I doubt that they're able to be o
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Peter Thiel Wants Everyone to Think More About the Antichrist(wsj.com)
6 points by tejohnso 1y ago|1 comments
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by tejohnso 1y ago
I couldn't remember ever seeing anything this bad. So I tried this in my browser and the real midjourney was the first result. Then I remembered I'm using Brave as my default browser, and most people aren't. In all the years
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Russia's Cancer Vaccine Shows 100% Efficacy in Trials, Is It a Breakthrough Yet?(in.mashable.com)
5 points by tejohnso 1y ago|0 comments
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by tejohnso 1y ago
> Unless this is literally so disposable you think of the money like pocket change, it’s not worth it. Well yeah, spending tens of thousands of dollars on one party is insane unless you're royalty or just crazy rich. Everything abou
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by tejohnso 1y ago
> all squares "containing a motorcycle", How about feeling trapped because no square contains a motorcycle. For example, a motorcycle wheel is not a motorcycle. It definitely feels more like a game about guessing common interpr
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by tejohnso 1y ago
> My friends in psychiatry are at their wits end with all of the people coming in and demanding Autism diagnoses Why would you want, much less demand, to be diagnosed with any particular disorder? Is there such a thing as being fashionab
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by tejohnso 1y ago
"The big picture is that the benefits of sunlight outweigh the risks—provided you don’t get sunburnt,” argues Richard Weller, a dermatologist at the University of Edinburg Also, Dr. Roger Seheult has some strong opinions on this as wel
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by tejohnso 1y ago
Wouldn't any capable aircraft lob an AMRAAM? At least as an initial BVR engagement? I would think a bunch of long range missiles coming your way would qualify as a serious response even if they came from F-35s.
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VPN usage at risk in Michigan under new proposed adult content law(techradar.com)
5 points by tejohnso 1y ago|0 comments
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by tejohnso 1y ago
I don't even pick up calls from unknown numbers. I use call screen. Most people hang up as soon as they hear it, or they don't say anything at all. Once somebody did start speaking sensibly and a personal matter and I picked up an
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by tejohnso 1y ago
I'm not sure it's fraud because there was always the fine print. But a company selling a car with a feature called Full Self Driving that does not in fact fully self drive, well, that's a company I don't buy from. Unfort
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by tejohnso 1y ago
Definitely! So I guess we need a go-to "good things on the internet" list :) I submit libgen / annas-archive
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by tejohnso 1y ago
It's describing the setting for a conspiracy theory. Multiple (in this case 2) people (in this case powerful ones) getting together and deciding that a certain outcome would be mutually beneficial. And the second paragraph details the
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First AI Psychosis Case Ends in Murder-Suicide(futurism.com)
3 points by tejohnso 1y ago|0 comments
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by tejohnso 1y ago
Maybe it's the quality of the popularized music that isn't on par? A billboard top ten from the 90s or 70s is going to have legendary music on it. A recent top ten is going to be ...well Rick will tell you it's pretty bad, ma
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by tejohnso 1y ago
I'm sure that kind of crap helped nudge JC out of there. He mentions (accurate and relevant) reasons why something is probably a bad idea, and the person in charge of doing it complains that JC brought up the critiques, rather than add
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by tejohnso 1y ago
The best performing founder / ceo in the 21st century is someone who is unlikable and promotes / develops unlikable products. That seems impossible. What does that say about us? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that mo
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by tejohnso 1y ago
> 'zomg burn the witch' And that often comes from groups who loudly claim to promote, and obnoxiously demand diversity and tolerance.
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by tejohnso 1y ago
Are you talking about buying remote, difficult to access land? For most people who want to live within reasonable distance to grocery or hospital, putting an RV or tiny house on a lot is not going to be permitted.
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UWinnipeg team breaks Canadian record for ultracold neutron production(news.uwinnipeg.ca)
3 points by tejohnso 1y ago|0 comments
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by tejohnso 1y ago
I'm also on foundations 3 at this point and love the system. I combine it with Anki to reinforce the retention of older material, and I find the price very reasonable for something that helps me learn math consistently. As for the pric
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by tejohnso 1y ago
They don't "have" logic just like they don't "have" charisma? I'm not sure what you mean. LLMs can simulate having both. ChatGPT can tell me that my assertion is a non sequitur - my conclusion doesn't
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by tejohnso 1y ago
I think the expectation is that it will be very close until one team reaches beyond the threshold. Then even if that team is only one month ahead, they will always be one month ahead in terms of time to catch up, but in terms of performance

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