tpmoney

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by tpmoney 2mo ago
Eh, that's pretty specious reasoning. If I start a business selling space water cannons that anyone can use to spray water at the ISS as it flies by. If these cannons are consuming whole farms worth of water in use and just blasting it
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by tpmoney 2mo ago
If the EFF gives you a template email to send to your congress-critter to opposed some terrible spyware bill, isn’t that your “speech” for the purposes of the 1st amendment? It doesn’t matter that you personally didn’t pen the words, only t
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by tpmoney 3mo ago
I agree with your first part, that software is built to solve a problem. But I think you sort of sidestep what makes AI exciting to non-software people with your second part. The people who are excited about this aren't excited because
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by tpmoney 3mo ago
> we just weren’t used to seeing them at the same scale we do today. I think there's also a lot of recency bias in it. The same thing that makes you suddenly notice how many people are driving the same model car you just looked at,
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by tpmoney 3mo ago
> They're supposed to be able to understand and intuitively fill the assumptions present in vague requirements, then produce working applications. They're supposed to shrink the timelines from years and months to weeks and days
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by tpmoney 3mo ago
> Given the way LLMs are marketed, we should expect a vastly more favorable project success rate, not simply a close parity, and definitely not a decreased rate. > Even if we consider that the number of attempts will rise if developme
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by tpmoney 3mo ago
Automatics had shift positions for lower gears for engine braking when going down steep hills long before the manual gates were common. It might be a convenient design that allows them to accomplish the goal in a slightly smaller package, b
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by tpmoney 3mo ago
After the big corrections entry level jobs had to do during and after COVID, I think it's probably more than you think. As an example, the BLS says in 2000 the mean hourly wage for "Food preparation and serving related" jobs
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by tpmoney 3mo ago
As someone who enjoys driving a manual transmission car, I'd rather something like this over the "up or down" manual mode gate in most automatic car shifters these days. Not because I think it's going to feel perfect, or
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by tpmoney 3mo ago
Look I’m a big fan of having CLI interfaces, and they can definitely let you do things that you just can’t do (or are extremely difficult to do) with a standard desktop gui. But at the same time, the GUI means they never have to learn that
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by tpmoney 3mo ago
It’s possible that Medicaid has certain rules for a minimum stay before they will pay for rehab after the fact. I think there was a story recently floating around HN specifically talking about some similar requirement in Medicare leading to
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
I can buy that some of the spacial and tactile aspects of a real book can help with recall, I also wonder to what extent it has to do with the type of screen. I’ve found I dislike reading any long form material on emissive screens, whether
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
I had a realization recently that the problem with "AI isn't consistently good enough" is that experience is probably not sufficiently distinguishable from the experience most non-experts have with computer systems all the ti
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
“Life changing” money is relative. We take some family friends and their kids on a vacation every two years. Sometimes the bill is split, sometimes we cover most or all of the cost. We’re not rich, we just have extra money they don’t becaus
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
The problem isn’t so much the difficulty in finding a pre-made config, it’s a combination of: A) which premade config to choose B) what half of those settings even do (and do you need them) C) a lack of “sane” defaults that use the built in
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
On my MacBook I map the right hand command key to “ctrl” and the right hand option key to “meta”. Since the command keys are right next to the space bar that puts the ctrl key on a thumb position most of the time, and for the times when tha
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
> Say I lay a log on a road which you can clearly see and avoid but choose to drive over and crash your car, that’s prompt injection. Start laying hazards in the middle of the road and see how quickly the police introduce you to things l
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
> The result will be an internet full content written from the perspective of an ignoramus; not addressing any complex issues, Not to be overly negative, but have you really looked at the vast majority of the content on the internet? The
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
For comparison, the transition from PPC to Intel started in 2006 and the first MacOS version to require an Intel processor was just 3 years later in 2009[1]. By comparison, the M series transition started in late 2020/early 2021. That
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
But then what is a friend? If a "friendship" ever ends, does that mean it was never a friendship at all? I've had very good friends, people I've shared houses with, helped move, been to their weddings and they've be
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
> That may well be true for some extroverted people, yes It's true for some of us introverted people as well, especially given that without some "reason" to get together, some of us might never interact with another person
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
> The people paid to be there aren’t your friends. They’re nominally “coworkers,” which is not a social relationship but a transactional one. You're getting paid to be friends with your co-workers? Or are you being paid to work, and
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by tpmoney 4mo ago
> Work friends are not friends. This is reductive to the point of absurdity. Situational friends are still friends. How many of your elementary school friends are still your friends these days? High school? Summer camp? Heck college frie
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by tpmoney 5mo ago
Systemd lets you create templates that take an argument in from the scheduled service. It gets that from the value after the @. So you can write a unit file that schedules a task to run say every 3 days and in that unit file reference `jobs
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by tpmoney 5mo ago
How is it a dog whistle? What words would you like to put into my mouth? Are you suggesting that “urban hubs” and “immigration tension” are code words for “black people” and “slavery”? Because I regret to inform you that when New York City
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by tpmoney 5mo ago
This is a just so story that is trivially and obviously false and I don’t understand why it continues to persist. Paid public police forces in the US appear as early as the 1600s in Boston. The first what we might consider modern police dep
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by tpmoney 5mo ago
> That's an unbelievably bad _and_ disrespectful take. They accept these low wages because it's their only way in the industry, and because the industry has made sure to keep a steady supply of fresh meat to burn out Is it real
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by tpmoney 5mo ago
> In order for that to change, the market has to increase in size by appealing to a more casual audience, or existing gamers have to pay more. Not something I think most gamers would like. To really drive this point home, the gaming comm
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by tpmoney 5mo ago
I’m not sure I understand why this is a problem. RSS is a spec for publishing a list of available content, or publishing the content directly. Formatting that content was always going to be something people wanted to do, so whether it was r
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by tpmoney 5mo ago
I don't think I've ever worked on a project where there wasn't more work to be done than there was time to do it in.

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