tim-tday

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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Isn’t Microsoft one of the AI giants trying to eat the economy?
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Florida is an unpleasant place to live?
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Aren’t those billionaires the founders and CEOs of all the tech companies in Silicon Valley? And the VC firms that get them off the ground. Maybe it would be fine for them to leave, but I’m pretty sure you want their companies to stay. Mayb
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Be honest. It has been taxed once at 1/3 the rate that wages are taxed. Capital gains gets taxed at 10% (which is how rich people get their money). Poor people pay about 30% of their income in tax. Our tax system disproportionately fav
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Do we though? I’ve never been consulted. I would like us to stop making Abram’s Tanks that the army doesn’t need and have repeatedly asked us to stop providing. I think the high speed rail was a mistake, an illustration of all the reasons w
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Congratulations you reinvented RAG. Also LLMs With RAG still hallucinate. Good start, but calling it “solved” is a stretch.
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
I think they’re already actively rifting. When someone calls you and swears at you a half dozen times you can tell they’re upset. Trump can’t end the Iran war without Israel ceasing hostilities in Lebanon. Netanyahu is not interested in do
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Why do we allow paywalled articles again?
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
I beg to differ. Retailers pay an obsessive amount of attention to shoppers’ habits. The best thing everyone can do when prices are too high people high is to simply stop buying. Retailers notice immediately.
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
I know this is supposed to be sarcastic, but This is actually a great framing for why we should love our libraries. They’re decidedly NOT productive to business. They’re yours as a person. They’re your time, your leisure, your enrichment. I
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Ha. Give a lady something she really wants and you’re in.
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
I’ve been having a lot of trouble with the state of the world these days. Returning to the teachings of the stoics has really helped me (Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius) “Some things in this world are up to us, while others are not. Up to us
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
vi forever
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Could you imagine being a family member of one of those 200 who died simply because nobody bothered to test the vaccine? Could you imagine unbearable agony ending in death and a viable vaccine candidate just sitting there. https:/&#x2
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Because plastic is not and has never been recyclable. Plastic “recycling” was invented by plastic manufacturers to shift blame away from the producer onto the consumer. When you do sort your plastic for recycling you’re causing more harm th
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
I don’t know what’s hard about this. 1) Lego set is entrusted to Bricks and Minifigs franchise for consignment sale. 2) Bricks and Minifigs franchise is seized by corrupt corporate owners (following a pattern of previous criminal activity)
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
I think the word you’re looking for is “rationalization”
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Paywalled
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
You can use actuarial math and get pretty damned close. Like within five years with 80% confidence. Not as much romance in that as there is in a Time Machine.
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Please
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
No, it’s surveillance masquerading as “think of the children”. You can’t verify age without verifying identity.
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
I love that under Linux your tcp stack is a file.
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Stop using Google Chrome.
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
I found this piece very hard to parse. I can’t put my finger on why. Almost like the author speaks English and a second language and is constructing the writing based on dictionary/thesaurus definition not common usage. Like what exact
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
The trump administration is anti science, anti anything that provides evidence for climate change. They’re obsessively pro fossil fuels and anti green anything. What I’m “shocked” about is that this is news to anyone.
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
This sounds exactly like how LLMS mess up.
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Why do you want to be a 10X engineer? Just do good work at a reasonable pace. 90% of the problems I’ve seen were just from people not making calm reasonable decisions. No genius required. I’ve encountered a couple geniuses in my career. I’d
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
Anyone recommend an alternatives? For no particular reason I’m canceling my cursor subscription today.
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by tim-tday 4mo ago
“Falsify”

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