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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Not in Germany.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Yes, and for most of those retailers I mentioned the financing is handled by e.g. Synchrony Bank.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
The longest single ray I've found is 1089 miles around El Paso, headed northwest. There ain't much out there as long as you dodge Flagstaff and southwestern Utah.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
I must be slightly confused about what claims this visualization is making. Are these 5 degree rays supposed to be indicating non-overlapping triangles where each triangle contains 100k population? If so, a full circle (with no triangles mi
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Isn't the 0% APR financing essentially just a sales expense? Even if people generally don't immediately roll into another 2-year agreement, the main reason zero-interest financing works for the sellers is simply that it makes it e
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
> you cannot make a fully scientific theory of harmony since cultural expectations factor in just as much (and maybe even more) than the expectations around harmonics. That's only true if you're expecting a "fully scientif
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
I'm well aware of the memes and discourse on Twitter (although I don't seek it out). My point is that that original comment had none of that. No calling people "europoor." Just important advice delivered unsensationally.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
And AC won’t work if the grid can’t handle it (at least, not unless you do a lot of additional preparation).
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
I didn’t see anything meme-like in the comment you responded to. Or even anything related to environmentalism. To me, it just looked like good health advice.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
> Isn't it clear that some people are better at working with/prompting LLMs than other people? Sure, but I think it's essentially just that people who are better at traditional non-agentic software engineering are better a
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
The blog posts figure cites Frontier-Bench for its agentic coding score, and shows Opus 5 beating Fable 5 43.3% to 33.7%.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
To me it doesn't affect readability either way, but to my American English eye the surrounding spaces stands out as extremely non-standard.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
I’m surprised to see that you put spaces around the em dash in your example.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
But that sounds like precisely what standardized passkey integration in the browser and website solves! This is honestly how I think about passkeys: they're a standard API for browsers and websites to integrate with password managers w
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
The author addressed it and dismissed it. I think their dismissal is mistaken, so there’s no bonus points for addressing it.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
That’s a fair point. My thinking was that, once you’re using a password manager, you’ll A) use it to generate random passwords that would be unwieldy to memorize and B) have passwords synced to all your devices such that you will never deal
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
You're agreeing precisely with the parent commenter that passkeys are, from a user's perspective, just passwords that require the use of a password manager. The difficulties many people have understanding or using passkeys are val
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Yeah, the article is mostly legitimately interesting facts about historical empires. Framing it around alleged shortcomings of the Age of Empires video games is unnecessary and obtuse.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Not really. The author mentions "the game is to be understood as an abstraction" as a potential caveat, and then immediately dismisses it with "but I don’t think it goes for Age of Empires."
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Well, sure, and there's also a 200 population limit per player (in Age of Empires 2, at least). And no day-night cycle or seasons. These are clearly intentional choices to capture the vibes of economic and military conflict while massi
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
> I never truly understood what the intended business model around LLMs was. A closely related question is “what do the American labs need to do in order to justify their enormous market valuations?” It seems like the answer cannot possi
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
The analogy being made from piracy to copyright infringement is more about living entirely outside the rule of law and less about the obvious fact that stealing is one of the main things that pirates do. The analogy was first made in refere
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
This is always a cute proposal, but what are people expecting to happen? If such a law actually rolled out with strong enforcement, all the buttons would just change from "Buy" to "Rent", which wouldn't meaningfully
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Piracy has never been stealing. If you get into trouble with the legal system for piracy, it's for copyright infringement, not larceny.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
If you’re not a realist, just say so. Then we’ll know that there’s no point in engaging with your epistemology, because your epistemology also admits claims like “the Universe sprang into existence last Thursday,” or “I am the only entity t
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
> We have artifacts and historical texts talking about them, so we at least know that Romulus and Remus are figures that ancient humans talked about. Well, yeah, but you seem to be confusing the authenticity of the writings as ancient ar
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
Indeed, although it is important to note that science is a proper subset of "using reason to solve problems."
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If you conceptualize this as “there is an appropriate amount of brevity for each situation” then it would be expected for a better model to use different amounts of brevity if it gets better at determining the appropriate amount. My view is
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
The original poster was referring to the golang port of TypeScript which was done almost exclusively for performance reasons. They weren’t just making an unprompted comparison of two type systems.
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by tshaddox 3mo ago
> most advanced type system known to mankind (yeahhh yeahh Hindley-Milner eat your heart out) This TypeScript release is largely about performance. Isn't OCaml still at least twice as fast (and maybe even faster for incremental comp

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