tmountain

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by tmountain 10mo ago
I guess it depends on your objectives when engaging with others on these topics. If you're just trying to foment unhappiness in an echo chamber, then you can use whatever vocabulary feels accurate, but people tend to shutdown when they
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by tmountain 10mo ago
Yes, but if you do need to, it's much simpler if you were using UUID since the beginning. I'm personally not convinced that any of the tradeoffs that comes with a more traditional key are worth the headache that could come in a sc
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by tmountain 10mo ago
^ This
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by tmountain 10mo ago
Fascism is historically loaded and collapses debate. It's a binary label. Speaking in absolutes makes it harder to have productive conversations.
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by tmountain 10mo ago
Propaganda is a hell of a drug. Many people's views are shaped by algorithms and established without any grounding in actual facts. The last election was largely decided based on affordability with a healthy dose of nostalgia for an ec
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by tmountain 10mo ago
I have concerns about the authoritarian tendencies of the current admin, but I think the word "fascism" should be avoided in these types of discussions, as it's such a loaded term that it's hard to know exactly what&#x27
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by tmountain 10mo ago
So, America is great at consuming, but if ratio of debt to GDP continues to grow, it's unsustainable for the U.S. Sure, China needs the U.S. to be a major customer, but it doesn't seem like things can continue as they're goin
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by tmountain 10mo ago
The America First agenda is predicated by isolationism. You have a demagogue with whom nobody is willing to say "no" and an army of self serving sycophants lined up to try and win favors. The political messaging is all built aroun
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by tmountain 10mo ago
Sticking with sequences and other integer types will cause problems if you need to shard later.
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by tmountain 10mo ago
I built a language app when it first became viable with GPT and also went the avatar as UI route. It presents a unique set of challenges nd constraints, but I spent the most time just trying to get the mouth to sync with the audio. Fun expe
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by tmountain 10mo ago
Long term archival of just about anything is a challenge. My original point was that they ca serve this use case.
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by tmountain 10mo ago
Tapes are exceptionally durable when cared for properly. Here's a video of a guy that tests for loss of quality after 1,000 plays. https://youtu.be/_dgJ4hRHBiw?si=IpjzdgAHJ4Q9yvb5 Quality is indistinguishable from the
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by tmountain 10mo ago
Isn’t regenerative braking reclaiming otherwise wasted energy from necessary deceleration? Running the propeller in reverse would result in having to apply equal or greater energy to regain the current speed, so it’s a net loss of energy if
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by tmountain 11mo ago
I'm an amateur photographer. Lately, I've taken to making curated collections from my "slush feeds". Meaning, going through a particular trip, time period, moment and grabbing the best photos, and parceling them out to a
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by tmountain 11mo ago
This is why I collect vinyl records, make my own cassette tapes and have a fairly huge DAS drive with all my media (movies, music, photos, etc). Ironically, I use Plex (non free), but I can pivot very easily if needed.
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by tmountain 11mo ago
I understand the issues related to LLM leaking and re-distributing "private" information, but I'm curious which category of concerns you're referring to. Would you mind giving some context (genuinely curious) ?
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by tmountain 1y ago
My understanding has always been that you habituate to melatonin after a few days. Is this not true?
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by tmountain 1y ago
Probably synthetic benchmarks that don't represent actual bottlenecks in application usage. How much of what you are doing is actually CPU bound? Your machine still has to do I/O, and even though that's "very fast"
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by tmountain 1y ago
Yeah, it felt like the U.S. was stumbling towards a more just and equitable future, and media and popular culture perpetuated a narrative that we were MUCH further along as a country and culture than we actually were. To the point of just r
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by tmountain 1y ago
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Kinda like the adult equivalent of learning that Santa isn’t real or finding out your parents are getting a divorce. I believe that we put too much faith in our “bedrock institutions” because we w
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by tmountain 1y ago
Of course you have to do whatever makes sense for you, but nothing is stopping you (or anyone) from spinning up a Fidelity account and hedging against whatever is driving your 401k, etc. Portfolios don't have to exist as monoliths.
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by tmountain 1y ago
The dollar has really taken a beating though. It has fallen ~11% this year and is predicted to fall another 10% next year. If you're in cash, you're basically betting the market is going to fall over 20% between the beginning of 2
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by tmountain 1y ago
You can hedge with PUTS, move into precious metals, put your money in CHF, etc. There are all kinds of ways of maneuvering financial turmoil (albeit, sometimes with non-productive assets), but it really depends on your risk outlook, and as
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by tmountain 1y ago
Some are so vastly better that it's worth whatever small inconvenience comes with getting them installed. I know the classic tools very well, but I'll prefer fd and ripgrep every time.
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by tmountain 1y ago
Same here, we have a lot of noise in our area. I have a LectroFan, and it's invaluable. It's simplicity is what makes it so great. We don't need apps for everything. In fact, I prefer to avoid them when possible.
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by tmountain 1y ago
Batching in general is slept upon. So many queue systems support batch injection, and I have seen countless cases where a poorly performing system is “fixed” simply by moving away from incremental injection. This stuff is usually on page tw
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by tmountain 1y ago
PBS and other stations represented the center for a long while. The Overton window just keeps moving. Nowadays basic stuff like getting vaccinated has been politicized along with a zillion other things that used to be considered “normal”. M
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by tmountain 1y ago
Ah, yes, you must be comparing NPR to all of the fair and balanced “clear eyed” right wing media we’ve come to know and love. No extremism or bias there whatsoever… /s
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by tmountain 1y ago
Most pasta labels specify what seems like a ridiculous water to pasta ratio. Something like 4-6 quarts of water for a pound of pasta. Does anyone know if there's a good reason for this? I never use that much.
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by tmountain 1y ago
I shoot RAW but I wouldn't want to eat up all my iCloud space with my RAW files. They're 80MB each off of my Fujifilm camera. I store them on a local DAS instead. Curious what the real use case is for storing RAW on iPhoto.

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