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by zhivota 8d ago
Singapore will do what they always do, which is take a measured approach and control every aspect of the roll out. If they're allowing this, it's because they've already modeled a shortfall in taxi drivers in the future, and
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by zhivota 8d ago
While this is true, it's not as bad as somewhere like the US. Public transit gets a lot of funding there, I think they open something like 10 new MRT stations a year on average in recent years, and buses typically come every 2-8 minute
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by zhivota 8d ago
One note, taxis are exempt from car seat laws and you can book them on demand via grab or the taxi company apps. That's what we did, it's a slight risk but so is life.
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by zhivota 8d ago
I do think non legal background folks can use LLMs today to sense check legal ideas, like for instance, "what are my legal rights in this situation?" These situations usually are not ones that an individual can justify the time or
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by zhivota 11d ago
I was reading a post about the life of a congressman and it's actually horrifying, on the level of the stores of salarymen in Japan who sacrifice everything for the company. For me personally being famous is a curse already, pile on to
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by zhivota 12d ago
The JF190 trail runners feel just like Pegasus to me, I haven't tried the road version of the same but it's basically the cheapest shoe in the store. The first time I tried it, I almost couldn't bring myself to buy it, I fel
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by zhivota 12d ago
I used to get all my running shoes from Nike, the Pegasus line which was always their basic running shoe that was very good overall. These days, I can get what is basically the same shoe from Decathlon for 1/5th the price of last year
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by zhivota 14d ago
Haha I can do it, it was a fun trick in school days to freak people out.
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by zhivota 14d ago
For me I describe it more as trying to open your jaw with the muscles near your ear, while holding the jaw in place with the main jaw muscles. Like an isometric hold. I actually didn't know I could do it until now, I could always get t
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by zhivota 15d ago
Ah, so it's not faster than c, it's faster than light's speed inside the medium. This makes a lot more sense.
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by zhivota 15d ago
My apologies, I thought it was obvious that if you saved 90% of your salary, you would, in fact, then invest it.
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by zhivota 15d ago
I'd say this should push Americans towards smaller, more fuel efficient cars and EVs, but I know better. The American consumer seems immune to price pressure.
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by zhivota 15d ago
Nope. Before the kids we had an incredible savings rate. Sometimes around 80-90%. Now our spending is much higher but the growth of our investments over the last 10 years has been incredible and outpaced that by a large margin. For a while
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by zhivota 15d ago
2 kids.
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by zhivota 15d ago
There is a good amount of variability in weather, there is a rainy season, but solar irradiance is mostly the same and strong here overall. So a big array and a big battery can see you through everything but the worst string of rainy days,
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by zhivota 15d ago
Philippines is seeing an incredible explosion in solar power, but none of this kind of thing. Instead it's driven by a gray market - equipment is imported, mostly without paying proper duties and taxes, installers are unlicensed, insta
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by zhivota 16d ago
Hah this is very true, though I'd argue the real Raptor with a snorkel is the gaming PC. I'm typing this on one right now and I mostly play Factorio which could run on any old potato, so yeah I'm that guy. The MBP is probab
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by zhivota 16d ago
Spend less money, save more money, then retire. I'm retired at 42 and I hardly had a top shelf career, middle of the pack at best. Even if you're starting at zero you can do it in 10 years very easily, 5 if you haven't spen
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by zhivota 16d ago
There's an optimistic future where Medicare becomes so much more efficient it becomes politically obvious to expand it because it's outperforming the mess that is private sector healthcare. With AI I could actually see this being
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by zhivota 16d ago
> even just like 3-5 actual cities per planet would be a start This often takes me out of immersion in reading sci fi books. Every planet has one culture, one ruler, one major city. I know it's usually just a convenience but has the
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by zhivota 17d ago
I think for most people there is a big gulf between information posted to social and their entire email inbox, their credit card details, passwords, etc. For this kind of tool to be useful it basically has to be able to impersonate you digi
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by zhivota 18d ago
Jellyfin works great for me. My only gripe is logging around library scanning being pretty difficult to interpret. I'd love to add a dedicated scanner log that focuses only on logs relating to scanning, which for me tends to be the tro
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by zhivota 19d ago
I think it's a good idea but in this space, that's probably a smell. I met my wife there, been married 15 years now. 97% match, we've basically never had a big argument.
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by zhivota 22d ago
These articles make me wonder, are we driving ourselves into a local maximum of progress? If people move to React because agents know React, will the next better framework ever get traction? Extrapolate this thought to more than just front
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by zhivota 25d ago
I hope that with LLMs we'll see a lot faster identification of these anomalies. Imagine that this guy taught at MIT and has his own lab at Duke, basically more than 20 years of taking up some of the most prestigious positions in his f
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by zhivota 25d ago
I love it as a browser. The startup screen shocks me every now and then, pimping some crypto shit or another, but other than that, it's good.
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by zhivota 25d ago
You can try Brave, it's Chromium under the hood so it's usually accepted and has built in ad blocking, and a one click way to turn it off for a specific site if you have an issue.
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by zhivota 27d ago
He would have written a shorter post, but he didn't have the time.
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by zhivota 27d ago
I agree, my experience working in large organizations is that there is a ton of bloat everywhere you look. I also think it would be good for the industry, too many really talented people are tied up in these super high paying jobs at the to
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by zhivota 29d ago
I'd certainly use Gemini API a lot more if I could figure out how to give them money and they give me tokens. The whole tier nonsense is just insane hoop jumping compared to their competition.

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