zdragnar

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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Eh, I seriously doubt that we will be changing the distance a mile represents if, for some bizarre reason, a meter gets redefined. Likewise, pounds and gallons and so forth. These measurements "defined in metric" is really more of
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
The US uses the metric system in some places, but that is not to say it is "on the metric system"- after all, all road speed limit signs are still in miles per hour, as an example. Fuel is priced in dollars per gallon. Consumer go
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Depends on where you are- in most of the US, tick concerns are primarily Lyme's disease or Rocky mountain fever, which are a virus and bacterium. Ivermectin works by interfering with nerve and tissues of invertebrate parasites, and gen
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
I'm actually getting 11 cents in winter, 13 in summer, but my utility company is a co-op. Average for my state is I think 19 cents. I think you can get down to around 8 if you are signed up for an interruptible load, or a dedicated off
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Pretty sure most? people would agree the person needing to use the bathroom gets priority. I wouldn't want to be the one to clean up after him otherwise.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Lithium batteries in cars are usually at least that good already. Most of the efficiency lost is in converting back and forth between AC/DC between the grid and the motors, and the rest in the auxillary features such as heating and coo
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
The whole setup reminded me of the mess people would make with RxJS, and this comment chain seems to indicate it's got the same drawbacks.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
That requires a person to be making that change. If the change is vibe coded and the person is only checking that the tests pass, it's not hard for cruft to accumulate.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Depends on who you ask, I suppose. One study in the last year showed only around 1% of EV owners in the US planned to go back to gas for their next car. A different study showed that number was actually 46%. Yet another said it was actually
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Execs getting what they want doesn't mean they let everyone have the same thing. It's far more likely that everyone else is using lesser equipment. We have already seen tech workers at big name companies get whiplash from "le
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
IIRC, the files for Toy Story 2 were accidentally deleted during production, and the film was only saved because someone on maternity leave had a backup at home. Turns out you can fuck up self hosting too.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
How long will a SOTA model be necessary? If day to day work can be achieved on an open weight model, the most evaporates overnight. Look at any computer in a big company. It isn't the fastest on the market, nor will it have the most RA
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Presumably, without intent (based on sibling comments), the victims would need to sue for damages due to gross negligence.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Setting aside the merits of DEI, this anecdote isn't indicative of it. I recall a client getting HP to do a security audit of a site I was working on, and it absolutely read like a committee put together a checklist of every possible t
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
So long as the percentage of people who live in a home they own is high, there's not a great reason to care about owner occupancy. You're just using it as a proxy for people owning homes. It's not a given that the two numbers
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
"Slavery was about racism and power and control" is very much not universal. Slavery existed (at varying scales) around the entire world for much of human history for a variety of things. Sometimes, as in US history, there was typ
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Back in the day, a contract company I worked for had entire teams of people dedicated to building FB apps. When that collapsed, it came down fast and hard.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
If Qwen 3 Coder were available as a PCI card I could just slot into my desktop, and the software on the system could recognize the card and still work with other cards should I decide I later want to upgrade to Qwen 5 or whatever, and at a
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Kid gets two options: hand over the phone, or sent to the principle's office. Parent can pick them up and the kid can come back without the device the next day. Same effect, a difference with only a nominal distinction.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
It absolutely worked in my school a little over 20 years ago. Teachers and staff always took away disallowed devices and that set the tone quite well.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
I'm glad I read your comment, I missed that it intentionally gracefully degraded and assumed it was broken, as I'd forgotten I'd set that.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Did it really exist? I remember buying games on discs as a kid that had bugs in them that prevented you from actually finishing the game at all. I'm pretty sure "built to last" was only ever more true in specific contexts, an
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
You're moving the goal post here. The parent never mentioned anything about the Chinese models themselves being dangerous or harmful; that's a totally different topic. The point they were making was that the most successful open m
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
It could, but exposing that would doom the company entirely, and AI doesn't generate code with near the quality needed to get a model to mass adoption, insert malicious underhanded code, ensure that consistently looks innocuous enough
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
> web/internet in 90s and smartphones in late 2000s. Back in those times, the tech industry was far, far smaller > huge parts of people's lives are mediated by one of a half dozen companies The latter point is doing a lot of
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
What about the parent comment implied Tokyo or Osaka residence?
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
Neither podman nor docker will help you when the current directory is your home directory, though. It sounds like that's the root problem here- someone handed the keys to the kingdom to grok, and grok did what grok does, which is look
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
To fight pedantry with pedantry, I refer you again to my comment, which points out that exception no longer exists, and the original claim, which is in present tense.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
As you might note in that link, the states already had their own speed limit laws in place, and that the national limit was later repealed. Thus, the speed limit laws are not in place to reduce gas usage.
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by zdragnar 3mo ago
What truth? The whole article is absurd. Speed limits exist to reduce fatalities, not reduce inequality. Road speed limits in my area have been increasing, not decreasing, as road designs have improved. Distance didn't scale with speed

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