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by throwup238 2mo ago
We don’t eat wild cows anymore because aurochs went extinct in the last few hundred years. People still eat junglefowl (ancestor of chickens) and wild boar (pig), but in the developed world domesticated animals are usually both cheaper and
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by throwup238 2mo ago
That’s $508 for two cartons for 400 cigarettes total, so $1.27 per cigarette. They’re not characterized like the peanut butter, they’re just manufactured to a specific QC standard. California/New York prices are easily $0.75/cigg
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by throwup238 2mo ago
We have safeguards like honesty/integrity and the threat of legal punishment, and people still lie and cheat. The LLMs not only lack those incentives, but they’re full of contradictory moralities from all the text it has ingested from
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by throwup238 2mo ago
Fully interactive games where you can talk to every NPC by text or voice and have an LLM drive the story (with your own meta prompts to guide it, if you so wish). Maybe even have them generate assets on the fly too. I’m still trying to figu
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by throwup238 2mo ago
One thing I’d recommend is somehow separating a la carte versus full meal type items if theres a way to separate them on the data side. You should see this in Texas where you might have a taco place with a $4 taco or Vietnamese with a $9 ba
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by throwup238 2mo ago
Especially since most of our automotive electrification is still ahead of us in most developed countries so there will be plenty of work that requires work across residential, commercial, and infrastructure. That doesn’t mean your specific
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by throwup238 2mo ago
> i especially like "you should do a breakthrough". each prompt is less than ~20 words. makes me really question the whole "prompt engineering" stuff. This is well past prompt engineering and into process engineerin
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by throwup238 2mo ago
> The way they do it, unfortunately, is by maintaining every previous version of the processing pipeline. A LOT of professional software does this. It’s one of the biggest moats they have to customers switching. I’d pay to see what sof
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by throwup238 2mo ago
It’s mantissa out.
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by throwup238 3mo ago
In my town we banded together with the town library to cycle through books that are otherwise going to be thrown out into the little libraries we have. Someone (me) just had to build a backyard shed big enough to store the “stock” to free u
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by throwup238 3mo ago
The financial incentives draw incompetent people. It’s happened with finance, law, management consulting, and now software.
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by throwup238 3mo ago
Unfortunately most of the recipes call for “tears of a noble bloodline.”
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by throwup238 3mo ago
No, creatine has been studied for decades and it’s been part of fads before (I remember Mac making a joke about creatine shits in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia a decade ago). It’s just resurfacing as a general health fad/marketin
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by throwup238 3mo ago
It’s always been popular among athletes and weight lifters but now nootropic influencers have gotten ahold of it. It’s one of the few supplements with robust scientific evidence of a strong effect but that’s in athletic performance not noot
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by throwup238 3mo ago
EUV was developed in a joint venture with the Department of Energy and ASML, Intel, etc called EUV Corp. It’s why the US can export control it.
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by throwup238 3mo ago
Paying someone a week late (or not at all) on net 30 terms does not trigger insolvency proceedings. The type of obligation matters.
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by throwup238 3mo ago
The merchant is even called “VibesPlante”
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by throwup238 3mo ago
> Technically, from an economic perspective, it's debt. Isn’t the important difference that it doesn’t trigger bankruptcy on default? Economically it might not be that different but it has some significance legally because the cou
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by throwup238 3mo ago
Plex subscription also includes a “Skip Intro” for TV shows. That’s the only value I’ve gotten out of it other than being able to stream to my phone. Not sure if Jellyfin has an equivalent
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by throwup238 3mo ago
Wiping out the natives isn’t the same thing as waging a war. Even from the beginning the European empires had very tenuous control over their New World colonies* and once they had to actually fight wars against well equipped European coloni
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by throwup238 3mo ago
Calling it prompt engineer is doing it a disservice. With agents we’re well into process engineering, which is a ton more interesting. The obvious baby’s first process is “plan -> execute” but as we learn about the strengths and weakness
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by throwup238 3mo ago
Hopefully this is a bug and it makes them do another reset.
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by throwup238 3mo ago
I also don’t think people realize how often they zone out while listening to audiobooks and miss important details. You can zone out while reading books too but with audiobooks there usually another stimulus by design.
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by throwup238 3mo ago
With their doors covered in Ring cameras.
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by throwup238 3mo ago
I think Fable gave you a load of nonsense. Like I said, this stuff isn’t really in the training data and academic research is disconnected from commercial CG (and I’m pretty sure its wrong about ACIS - iiuc ACIS used global tolerances and i
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by throwup238 3mo ago
That sounds like Caltech. The ochem major is notorious for how hard it is.
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by throwup238 3mo ago
Heh, me too. I'm on my third rewrite after a bunch of promising false starts. Unfortunately geometric kernels are one of those things where unknown unknowns will bite you in the ass really hard because none of the content is really i
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by throwup238 3mo ago
> It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools. Because it's built on Parasolid, the same geometric kernel as everyone else. With ACIS pretty much out the door, almost all the
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by throwup238 3mo ago
The water damage would ruin the motorcycles. They can always get more jumpers. The hard part is motivating them!
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by throwup238 3mo ago
People can pretend to care about more than one thing. Whether they actually actively oppose those things to the point of impacting building permits, that's a completely different matter. It really doesn't take much legislation t

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