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by zhivota 2mo ago
A little sad that it's often posting screenshots of X posts there. At least the screenshot has alt text, but if you're doing alt text, why a screenshot in the first place?
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by zhivota 2mo ago
It simultaneously is and isn't. It's overfunded on things that don't matter for the problem at hand - traffic enforcement using full fledged officers in expensive vehicles, militarized SWAT teams, regulations requiring huge
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by zhivota 2mo ago
The thing there that the West has not been able to accept to achieve this is the surveillance state. Just look at Flock. I'm not sure anyone has really cracked how to get it done without that part, though certainly tweaking the spendi
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by zhivota 2mo ago
The interesting thing to me is, despite it being hard to imagine today, back then this was actually a strange thing, and did actually serve as a demonstration of American freedom of expression. Hard to imagine today because this kind of wei
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by zhivota 2mo ago
I'd argue it's still a product issue, one that will eventually be solved. The reason a payment is too much friction today is because it's surrounded by a raft of cruft: is there an extra "processing fee", am I signi
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by zhivota 2mo ago
They could but then their valuation is no longer justifiable, which breaks a lot of things downstream (loans being the biggie). They'd rather lose money than start making money in a non defensible way.
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by zhivota 2mo ago
Yeah that sucks, as far as I found NYC is unique in having this truly merit based top end to their system (would love to hear of others if they exist). We have a tentative plan to move there if my kids need it. Most other places water it do
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by zhivota 2mo ago
Check out NYC school district. Has high schools where entrance is 100% based on a single entrance exam score.
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by zhivota 2mo ago
I'm not sure how ECG relates, how would ECG predict heart disease risk? I don't see any evidence of that, it's not even mentioned in the article you linked, which is odd considering the whole approach of clustering is gather
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by zhivota 2mo ago
I have this same reaction sometimes, I don't have the desire to eat a full meal with protein and fat, but a little candy is palatable. It's probably not a good idea overall to be honest, it would be better to just "save up&q
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by zhivota 2mo ago
Mine were mainly around bloating and abdominal pain, but I solved it by spacing the doses out further to once every 10 days (I'm already about as low as you can get at 1mg without making it difficult to measure accurately in the normal
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by zhivota 2mo ago
I'm normal weight and am on a low dose (1mg every 10 days) of tirzepatide. I'm able to maintain my weight at this dose, and I've seen improvements in inflammation and other blood markers as well. It's not impossible, i
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by zhivota 2mo ago
Honestly the best thing to do might be to change your name at this point. I'm glad my name is not common, this kind of issue is going to only get worse in the future.
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by zhivota 2mo ago
Even different lines in the same security area can have different rules. If you travel a lot you start to recognize which machines require laptops out of bags and which don't, for instance. It is really anxiety inducing overall though.
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by zhivota 2mo ago
It's not the case in many other places in the world. The ratio of cost for cooking vs. eating out is uniquely high in the US. It's not an iron law, it's downstream of a hundred things, like property prices due to restrictive
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by zhivota 2mo ago
"But the hardest lesson wasn't about database design. It was discovering that the real bottleneck wasn’t what we were observing and measuring."
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by zhivota 2mo ago
Reminds me of Singapore. Neutral country, has conscription, every home has a bomb shelter.
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by zhivota 3mo ago
I worked at Milo and Wenig always seemed like an empty suit. Had much better experiences with Donahoe who helped us with the homepage revamp (I was on that team). One thing I learned through that project was that eBay was a den of vipers wh
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by zhivota 3mo ago
There's not much money to be made by doing quality news, but plenty to be made in click bait crap news. And if you're a billionaire there's a lot of intangible value in owning news outlets.
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by zhivota 3mo ago
The answer to every question like this in the US is "because the wrong people would benefit". In the past (and still today but less so), that literally meant black people. Now it mostly means poor people of all races. It's be
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by zhivota 4mo ago
Yep one thing I did as part of going off tirzepatide was go immediately on a high fiber and fermented foods diet. It has helped a lot actually. It's quite hard to maintain over time is all, I have a lot of social occasions where health
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by zhivota 4mo ago
Thanks for sharing, it makes sense. Even before taking Tirzepatide I have had issues my whole life with greasy / fatty stool, and now that I've had reason to research the gall bladder, it does make me wonder if perhaps I also have
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by zhivota 4mo ago
Tirzepatide at 1mg/week reduced my muscle soreness. I felt less depressed but this might just have been situational because I've been plagued by bad soreness after working out for years. Unfortunately after twelve weeks I had to s
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by zhivota 4mo ago
I still challenge it. After 3 years an H100 has not depreciated to zero, not even close. Even if you want to replace it, it has considerable residual value.
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by zhivota 4mo ago
Yeah not bad, though UV index of 3 is pretty comically low. Here in Manila it's basically full cloud conditions. I'd be interested to know a curve, i.e. at UV index 8, 3 minutes exposure, at index 6, 10 minutes exposure, etc. Mayb
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by zhivota 4mo ago
Are there any open models focused on LPR (license plate recognition)? I have found some old ones but curious if there are new ones being developed like this OCR model. I may even try it for the purpose and see if it does well.
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by zhivota 4mo ago
Thousands of words and no mention of the obvious thing - testing whether sun exposure is beneficial or harmful. The article opens with the observation that southern states had lower cancer rates due to solar irradiance. But then we interven
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by zhivota 4mo ago
I don't see why 3 years is the right number there. I'm using a 10 year old model GPU to generate tokens locally, and given the bottlenecks, a commercial model focused on RAM and transfer speeds should have a longer depreciation cu
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by zhivota 4mo ago
It's not even that hard to make AI output images that don't look like AI slop either, just have to use some "in the style of" or "as if it was taken with a film camera" types of modifiers. This is what confuse
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by zhivota 4mo ago
Yes, many cases of people calling the police with actual tracker data showing exactly where their stolen property is, and the response being to get laughed at and told it's not a priority.

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