tim-tday

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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Short answer: yes Long answer: yeeeesssss
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Age cannot be verified without identity. Somebody needs to know it. All age verification laws herald the death of privacy.
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Exercise is the key to a long healthspan.
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
I’m not one to advocate for casual murder, but the US should declare war on scammers, hunt down and take them out. These fuckers attack our most vulnerable people everyday, stealing their life savings and subjecting them to a whole slew of
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Yeah the way Ukraine wins is by destroying Russian logistics. An army with no bullets cannot fight.
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
People want to believe in blue zones so their confirmation bias is hiding the evidence to the contrary.
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Blue zones are bullshit. Pension fraud in Italy, records destroyed in Okinawa, basically every place with abnormal longevity has some other explanation. https://allthatsinteresting.com/blue-zones-supercentenarians
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Actually a security researcher found a back door in some Chinese inverters recently. Normally I’d believe this administration is just knee-jerk banning because China and solar, but in this case there was an actual reason.
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Why not properly staff and support your air traffic controllers?
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Wait, experience helps people do their jobs well, and wisdom is something AI lacks? Who knew? (Your seasoned and experienced people knew, you just didn’t listen to them)
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
I can think of nothing more obvious.
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
wat
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Agreed. As a previous systemd hater I went there looking for an abstract, high-level argument. I got drivel instead. One compelling argument I’ve seen is that it tries to be too much which violates the Unix philosophy of small tools doing a
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
So thankful the author posted this. We often learn more from failure than success. Learning from the failures of others is how we can move forward. The lessons learned at the bottom of the article are gold.
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
I’ve heard banking apps with built in NFC payments should work but I can’t get it to go.
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
There are real problems with banking apps on graphene. Chase app won’t launch at all the us bank app nags every 15seconds that it needs some play services privilege that’s not even in the list. Maybe they’ll work once I tear play services b
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
AI has made me enjoy reading more. I enjoy the opportunity to sit on the couch and embrace the slower cadence of the writing. Ive been reading Sci Fi lately but I really enjoy the story in “Napoleon A Life” (history has been something my ed
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Farming is why humanity has civilization
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Count Think clearly Respect facts Disagree Troubleshoot / diagnose Move on from incorrect assumptions Stop destroying our carbon emissions improvements Stop destroying jobs Stop destroying education Stop making income inequality wo
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Zuck thrashing: spending billions on the metaverse. Admitting it failed, spending billions more. Firing a bunch of people. Spending insane amounts to hire sexy name ai people. Instituting total surveillance to train ai to replace people. Th
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Capital gains (rich people) is taxed at 10%. Wages (everyone but rich people) are taxed more like 30%. It is objectively true that rich people don’t pay their fair share. Seeing them fight tooth and nail to maintain the unfair status quo is
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Law schools are entirely essay driven. They’ve had armored word processors for testing for at least twenty years. I’m sure those companies would license a version for the rest of campus (most universities have a law school already so they h
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Switch to books.
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
They can absolutely be worse. Hallucination Prompt injection Can’t count Obsequious to a fault Trivially swayed https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/an-ai-ran-a-vending-machine-f... This news (and things like it) have been
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Obviously
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Get a job at Anthropic, ask for 100% of salary in stock. Provide real value (target “strongly exceeds expectations”) and get a good bonus. At my current comp level, With a four year vest and one year vesting cliff that’d probably do the tr
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Maybe later
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
I seriously considered buying a Jetson One after watching a demo. I think it was the ceo flying to work. It would unlock a few interesting areas to live in the Bay Area. But there’s a distance between consideration and action. In this case
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
So many topics important to people here are becoming politicized. I wonder how we can avoid it? Do we regulate powerful ai models? Is science under threat? (Through defunding, politicization of specific areas of study etc) Do we build more
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by tim-tday 3mo ago
Isn’t facial recognition surveillance illegal in San Francisco?

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