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by twodave 7mo ago
I don’t think the first gen leaf is what parent had in mind when referring to “modern EVs”…
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by twodave 7mo ago
They are both cartoonishly expensive. This kind of watch culture to me is even more unpalatable than country club culture. At least those people are getting quite a lot of service for what they’re paying.
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by twodave 7mo ago
Glad to know I haven’t picked up any seriously bad habits, but how the heck do you keep the chopsticks aligned without tapping them somewhere? Most of these seem related to health/sanitary practices/being considerate more than any
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by twodave 7mo ago
Interesting. I'd personally rather them be great at what their job actually is and not waste time on a website. I think the best tradesmen don't need a website because their work (and their happy customers!) speaks for itself.
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by twodave 7mo ago
For some things I get this. Restaurants? Yes. But other things? Landscaping? Electricians? Plumbers? I’d much rather speak on the phone with someone who is going to come on my property and do work. I could care less if they have a website b
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by twodave 7mo ago
I agree. If we knew the mechanism for how life started we'd probably be doing the experiments to prove it. There are theories and experiments that suggest some life-like processes can happen with inorganic compounds, but they require a
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by twodave 7mo ago
I realize you're just replying in kind to the GP, who wasn't very nice himself. I also think it's not necessary to feed such trolls in a way that insults all the religious folks who do enjoy this site and don't try to pu
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by twodave 7mo ago
Oh, and how do you propose politics is even able to have an impact? Force people to have sex with each other? It may be an ideology but I don’t think this is a red/blue topic and certainly not a legislative one imo. It is more of a geo
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by twodave 7mo ago
It isn’t exactly a red/blue issue is what I should have said. I thought given the parent I was replying to that was the implication anyway. You can make anything political, of course.
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by twodave 7mo ago
It isn’t political.
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by twodave 7mo ago
It’s more that the US is more like a collection of 50 little countries, and it’s supposed to be hard to accomplish much at a federal level. That separation has eroded a bit in the last 50 years but it’s still very much a part of our politic
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by twodave 7mo ago
While it may seem directly related, it's just not. These things are worked on regardless of how cheap or expensive RAM is, because optimizing memory footprint pretty much always leads to fewer machines leased, which is a worthwhile goa
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by twodave 7mo ago
No, distance running is how early humans survived. We are uniquely composed to be able to run down just about any animal we'd want to eat.
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by twodave 7mo ago
This reads like it was written by a person who has never seriously trained at distance running. The vast majority of such training happens in Z1/2 and is some of the healthiest motion you can put your body through. People die doing lot
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by twodave 7mo ago
In what instance is a CEO not liable for their own crimes? At least in the US, they are still criminally liable for anything they do. If anything is at issue here, I think it's whether it can be proven a crime was committed and who can
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by twodave 7mo ago
AFAIK limited liability is more about financial liability, not criminal. People are still responsible for actual crimes they commit, we just may need to classify more things as crimes. I think discouraging investment is the opposite of what
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by twodave 7mo ago
"Meaningful consequences" in this case means "throwing a CEO in jail until they de-anonymize their platform," which sounds ripe for abuse to me.
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by twodave 7mo ago
This already happens with professional athletes, so we have a model to look at. Look, I don't disagree that all people should be held accountable for their actions, but sometimes the solutions people fire off half-cocked (throw a CEO i
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by twodave 7mo ago
Putting aside this is sort of a knee-jerk reaction, if this was actually implemented you’d just see the role of the CEO change to basically be a highly-paid fall-guy. People in those positions today would vacate them for quieter roles behin
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by twodave 7mo ago
I really don’t like people bashing my state, especially when they’re repeating made-up bullshit. Do you just believe anything negative you read as long as it fits your views?
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by twodave 7mo ago
Is this a serious question? In my view a live assistant differs from an agentic model in that it is a conversational interface, interconnected with live data feeds and able to exert some control over the physical environment. Can agents do
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by twodave 7mo ago
And yet others who are able to disagree with some (or even many) of his decisions while also continuing to believe he was the better of the 2 options. Most people I know hate politics or anything to do with it for this very reason. We can a
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by twodave 7mo ago
It’s more like the size of the desk the AI has to put sheets of paper on as a reference while it builds a Lego set. More desk area/context size = able to see more reference material = can do more steps in one go. I’ve lately been build
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by twodave 7mo ago
I mean, try using copilot on any substantial back-end codebase and watch it eat 90+% just building a plan/checklist. Of course copilot is constrained to 120k I believe? So having 10x that will blow open up some doors that have been clo
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by twodave 7mo ago
Used Grok for the first time, in a Tesla, and for that purpose it actually made a lot of sense. It’s very well-integrated into the car’s systems and communication style while driving tends to be very tweet-esque. I think this is the niche t
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by twodave 7mo ago
Both of my boys (9 and 11) still enjoy both the sets and the classic Legos. They're constantly building trucks, trailers, etc. One even designed his own working dump-truck. They're still great toys for imaginative play, and the fa
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by twodave 7mo ago
The mid-2000s Yahoo chat writing style is too grating for me in this article.
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by twodave 7mo ago
As a heavy user of both operating systems, I really don’t feel that either has changed much in the last decade. Visually, sure, things go through cycles, but from a “how do I use it?” perspective my work flows on neither OS have changed.
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by twodave 7mo ago
The census bureau (very) periodically publishes zip code data (which is where some places get their geolocation info). If you work with enough addresses you’ll find some zip+4s that are wildly far away from where they used to be. There are
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by twodave 7mo ago
It’s not very accurate. Maybe because of the camera fidelity. It was about 10bpm lower than actual for me. Seems to operate off of subtle motions caused by pulse. It was even worse at detecting breathing.

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