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by timr 2mo ago
The design was never the hard part. You still have to make the thing. Designing a modifcation to an existing virus is perhaps more achievable, but the implementation is still the hard part.
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by timr 2mo ago
US in the 80s. I mean, I don't know if it was legal, but it happened.
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by timr 2mo ago
Given that almost nothing underground in NYC is ever proactively removed when deprecated, I wonder how much of this system is left, and if any of it is actually visible today.
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by timr 2mo ago
My mother was a pharmacist in a major city hospital, and I spent many days as a young child bumbling around the pharmacy while she worked. One of my memories of that time was being utterly fascinated by the tube system that they used to sen
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by timr 2mo ago
Just fly everyone out in a group and have a big rock-paper-scissors tournament. You can save on airfare.
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by timr 2mo ago
> I'm sorry, but if I'm doing the hiring, the person who isn't willing to come on site to do an interview will be one of the first people off the list to hire Nobody said anything about not coming on site. That's how
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by timr 2mo ago
Interesting. Far from a domain expert in materials science, but I've worked professionally in this area. What's your method for identifying valid "novel" compounds? Certainly, anything actually novel has been included in
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by timr 2mo ago
Sure, sure. So now we have the worst of all possible worlds: an expensive interview process where the candidate has to be onsite, and a stupid evaluation mechanism that doesn't at all reflect real-world job requirements. And in exchang
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by timr 2mo ago
> He did so. He aced the test. He got the job with a huge offer. He agreed that the ROI was out of the park! ...and everybody clapped? I have news for you: passing an online leetcode is now so easy that an AI can do it. If you think you&
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by timr 2mo ago
> To me, the difficult parts of software engineering are in the design. That's where you're defining the problem you're trying to solve, picking what technology to build upon, what kind of architecture you're planning
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by timr 2mo ago
All of these things are strong covariates, which is something the online hive-mind struggles with. It's not intelligence OR wealth OR hard work OR $thing, it's all of the above, with some weighting function that spits out high val
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by timr 2mo ago
The benchmark article we're replying to shows that Grok token usage is at least on par with the latest OpenAI models [1], and significantly cheaper per token: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/grok-4-6#token-use
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by timr 2mo ago
Not that I know of. AA's token use metrics (mentioned in this article) are indicative, however. They say explicitly here that the Grok models are notably token efficient. This is my experience.
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by timr 2mo ago
Yeah, I know, but "credit" translates differently because the models bill at different rates, which gets turned into "multipliers" (or at least, it did). Have they converted entirely to transparent API rates + base alloc
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by timr 2mo ago
If they didn’t constantly reset, they’d be about the same as Anthropic. Right now, I find that Grok offers better value, uses fewer tokens per turn, and makes better code. I haven’t tried Cursor because I don’t want to change editors again,
106.
by timr 2mo ago
What’s the multiplier? GH copilot nerfed their product so badly that I unsubscribed.
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by timr 2mo ago
> and i didn't mean to come off as too harsh. but i imagined someone reading your comment and being deeply discouraged (as i might have been, many years younger) when in reality tokyo has possibly one of the best and most accessible
108.
by timr 2mo ago
Not publicly. Send me an email.
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by timr 2mo ago
> if there's a way in, and a way out, i consider that a win. will i lose maybe 5 minutes because the accessible entrance is not in the most convenient location that day? perhaps. but it's just that - an inconvenience. I get tha
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by timr 2mo ago
> I don't think i've ever seen a station with only one elevator, it's always at least one platform-to-ticket-gate, and one ticket-gate-to-ground (maybe that's what you meant). Well, first, I'm talking not just ab
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by timr 2mo ago
> I'd be interested learning how you've come up with that - it's disinformation. i'm speaking from extensive, direct experience. I live here and have eyes. But tell me more about "disinformation." Tokyo metr
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by timr 2mo ago
Not even close. They're better than they used to be, and the major stations that tourists go to are mostly kinda-sorta OK, but the median station has 1 elevator if you're lucky , and probably around the same number of accessible
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by timr 2mo ago
I had to laugh when they put a quote from a wheelchair user at the top of the article. Japan is many good things, but friendly to wheelchair users is not one of them. As western tourists always seem to find out when they land with their gig
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by timr 2mo ago
It's amazing that they bothered to put together a slide summarizing their experience for a pitch deck.
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KIDS Act would put Washington in charge of how we can communicate online(expression.fire.org)
3 points by timr 2mo ago|0 comments
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by timr 2mo ago
Nothing. If the next person comes in to vote after you (which is easy enough to avoid if you use active voter lists), they might issue a provisional ballot. How do they know which voter is lying? They don’t check ID, and the other ballot
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by timr 2mo ago
You can literally walk into any voting location where you know the name of a voter, and vote in their name. There is no check. How do I know this? Because every time I have ever voted in NYC, I have walked into the location, given them my n
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The applause that disrupted nothing – yet still led to an arrest(expression.fire.org)
78 points by timr 2mo ago|18 comments
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by timr 2mo ago
Yeah, you need it to register, but you emphatically do not to submit a ballot, which is the part that actually matters.
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New York Will Require Digital ID Checks for Social Feeds(reclaimthenet.org)
26 points by timr 2mo ago|18 comments

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