BeefDinnerPurge

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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
Um, don't fill up at Brand X on the road? My millennial personal trainer said her dating prospects couldn't even change a tire let alone do an oil change, now I understand just how bad the situation was for her until she married a
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
The Supercharger network is cool. But I can go 300ish miles in my class B RV before refueling as opposed to 120ish miles in my Mach E. It's 10 minutes to refuel my RV vs 45 minutes to 2 hours depending on the state of the charger (Elec
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
I'll believe it when I see it. I lost a great deal of faith in EVs when the local dealer refused to service mine because I didn't buy it from them. On the bright side, Ford gave me a 5-year extended warranty to make up for their b
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
Lived that when I blew my Class B RV's transmission in Crescent City, CA on the 101 (Van life! Van life! #PortlandiaReference). I was going to be stuck there for a month waiting for parts until I galaxy brained my way out of it by gett
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
Or you exploit the many many free level 2 chargers around the region. But anywhere else, a PHEV rocks.
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
I have a 200 mile range EV, which is to say a practical range of 120-160. It's great for running around the bay area. It's not so great for the monthly travel I do going 500-2000 miles in a stretch because stopping every 120-160 m
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
If they're close to the exit, it's clearly someone else's problem for those that aren't in our culture. If only they'd invested in their personal safety they wouldn't be burning to death and how else will they
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
s/18-45 year olds// s/(and I'd prefer men)// Otherwise I agree. I have no problem with Stallone or Schwarzenegger in the exit rows. But realistically, they fly private jets or in first class. Edit: Ageism
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
In my 3 decades in tech, something happens around 10K employees and it's irreversible. Amazon was amazing in evading that for so long in exchange for a brutal cheapskate internal culture they slapped the label "FRUGALITY!" up
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
AI models have an amazing ability to approximately memorize any training data. It's just that that memorization is useless unless it memorizes something real as opposed to random (randomized ImageNet labels as a simple example). So as
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
Downvoted because daring to say consumer power storage technology already exists conflicts with some sort of comforting folksy narrative that it doesn't? How is that in any way "Hacker" like? I thought we were supposed to be
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
And what makes you think one L8 against an entire hivemind of L8s and L10s whose high-end compensation depends on negating everything you're doing can move the needle? 80+% of my meetings, so very many meetings, were endless discussion
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
Nah, I hired specialists and caught no end of trouble for doing so. All of them that are still in tech make $1M+ annually these days because they stand out among the lovable but mostly ineffective fungibles that are the cannon fodder for ro
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
So many trust fund babies know how to just sit back and enjoy life instead, that's true.
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
My electric bill in CA was ~$300/month. $3600+/year. Great investment, and no more power failures. But also, OP said this technology doesn't exist. You're pivoting to it exists but you can't afford it. Different que
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
It is true. Amazon was always brutal, but two-pizza team six-pager culture was a great place to rule in hell as opposed to serving in Heaven as a generalist at Google. Two-pizza team six-pager culture died sometime during the last decade. A
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
Former L8 there. Terrible culture, full of fungible engineers and leaders that suffocate everyone else with endless meetings and pointless process, with occasional patches of brilliance that keep it from collapsing into a quantum singularit
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
I have ~40 kWH of Franklin battery backup behind my solar panels today. https://www.ecodirect.com/FranklinWH-FHP-13-6-kWh-AC-Battery... Tell me again how this technology hasn't happened yet?
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
Decentralized power generation is something we all need. Too bad so many politicians, especially Gavin Newsom FFS, are deep in the bockets of the utility companies who refuse to invest in it.
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
Yes to the first bit, but no to the second bit once you have batteries or other long-term storage, but that's not good for your narrative, now is it? Hate hate hate on all the either/or politics here. We need both (though increasi
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
What makes me sad, but also 100% unsurprised, is that this is exactly the opposite of the killer use case for LLMs. They should be used to summarize bloated ad-infested clickbait articles down to one paragraph or a series of bullet points.
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
It seems like git itself ought to be able to combine multiple commits into a single ubercommit for the sake of PRs, but allow pulling each of those sub-commits that constituted it in the first place afterwards for debugging and QA purposes.
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
Why be sorry, large sample sizes more or less guarantee the generation of outliers. But once someone attaches mythology to the event, you get another Sam Altman. Worldcoin alone should raise a lot of questions about his supposed one of a ki
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
Mid-show ads is more than enough to cancel Prime. Mid-video ads on youtube made me all but stop watching it on mobile. But I'll probably wade my way through S4 of The Boys and S2 of Invincible before doing so since they're both co
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
>Anyway, that wasn't my point at all, I'm just unsure how politically feasible it would be to accomplish this on the federal level. Sure, every so often, someone publishes an article about how to balance the federal budget and
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
>Would passing an extended ACA II with way fewer compromises and more effective regulation than the Obamacare version be really harder than instituting Medicare for All (so either a significant increase in federal income tax or a new tax
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
I've literally never been about only healthcare for the cities or 100% medicare for all, I literally said it ought to be a baseline on which to build something better. It's much like how we can't even agree as a nation that c
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
So that's totally on brand for sama, no? He runs with the herd because he has a great nose for where the herd is heading. But it's the crazy outliers who dig into stuff like this and find the best options. I suspect he doesn'
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
So how do places like Hong Kong make this work? Because they do. My out of pocket expenses there uninsured are less than my copayments fully insured here. https://journals.lww.com/jcma/Fulltext/2015/10000&#x2F
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by BeefDinnerPurge 3y ago
The chief problem is here is asserting healthcare must be either entirely Medicare For All or the current inadequate privately funded system when the two can coexist. Just like legalizing drugs won't cure crime and unhappiness on its o

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