LaffertyDev

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by LaffertyDev 6d ago
I don't know where you pulled that from, its not in the article.
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by LaffertyDev 8d ago
For #1, I would seek a laboratory capable of _actually_ creating a _live virus_. That link to lesswrong, while interesting, does not actually indicate how and broadly reads as incredibly speculative. While this is far out of my wheelhouse,
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by LaffertyDev 8d ago
> There was also a paper years ago that showed a tweaked model coming up with 20k novel pathogens each deadly to humans in some number of hours > If you disagree with it, where do you disagree with it? How would a malicious actor: 1.
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by LaffertyDev 1mo ago
This is not how it works. Even a cursory glance at the law makes it clear that this is not how it works. Here is New York: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/140.20
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by LaffertyDev 2mo ago
This is now an argument I can start to get behind. There isn't a need for profit seeking or "dollar optimization" and I fully subscribe to the argument that the government can just "do things". I likewise fully subs
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by LaffertyDev 2mo ago
So your argument is that NASA, by virtue of being a government entity unburdened from profit seeking, could launch 18 rockets for less than $1.6B total or $88 million per launch?
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by LaffertyDev 2mo ago
Your argument is that NASA could launch 18 rockets for ~$160 million total or ~8.8 million per launch? Or is your argument that the "real" cost of this $1.6B SpaceX / Space Force contract is in fact closer to ~$16B or ~$160B
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by LaffertyDev 5mo ago
> Customs can and do block non-compliant imports. Software people (generally) have a limited idea of just how complex and rigid customs enforcement can be. Moving physical product between countries is actually a very hard problem.
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by LaffertyDev 5mo ago
You cannot sell homebrew (and presumably won't be able to sell distilled beverages) without a very expensive license. Homebrewers (of all forms) are generally very aware of this when they get into the hobby. Even "cute" forms
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by LaffertyDev 6mo ago
You can view the actual data and control for your own recency bias one way or the other. I see data from 2005 - 2024 trivially accessible. https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/Pages/research.aspx
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by LaffertyDev 9mo ago
Stardew likely qualifies for the reduced store cuts. Steam _lowers_ the percentage for a game when it sells high. Still somewhere between 10 and 25%, though. Generally, the Steam cut is considered “fair” for Indy devs. The benefits of steam
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by LaffertyDev 1y ago
I don’t think you’ll find many race tracks that permit horses and cars to compete together. (I did enjoy the sarcasm, though!)
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by LaffertyDev 1y ago
That was a very fun sub thread to read, both for the on-topic and off-topic discussion. Thanks for sharing.
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by LaffertyDev 1y ago
I would read that book.
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by LaffertyDev 1y ago
Left handed person here. Writing is already a chore, tying up both hands just to use a fountain pen without smearing seems to cross an effort/reward boundary. Maybe useful if you were really committed to the tool. I've been casual
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by LaffertyDev 1y ago
Presumably, the original quote that would _not_ stump an LLM is "A father and a son are involved in a car accident. The father dies, and the son is taken to the emergency room. At the emergency room, the surgeon remarks "I cannot
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by LaffertyDev 1y ago
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder... What you seek is available and has been available for a very long time. Mathing out how your individual tax dollars map to these buckets is a fairly strai
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by LaffertyDev 1y ago
You can view greenpeace financial statements here: https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/annual-reports-and-financial-... Damages won't be awarded based on the defendant's ability to pay. They are awarded based on t
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
I did try. Still “sign in to read.” Your second link gives me an option to close the full screen modal (or the NYT gives second-try people a pass.)
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
This isn't meant to persuade you, just sharing my own experience. I've found myself almost relying on Kagi's `Quick Answer`. Its fantastic having it off by default and being able to opt-in when I just want a quick summary of
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
I clearly cannot speak to others. I can say that in my friend circles (very left) the _two_ trump assassination attempts were taken quite seriously and we were pulling up live feeds of it within 5 minutes of it being announced. I generally
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
This is a bad take. You're essentially making the claim that you shouldn't care about something unless it happens within your immediate vicinity or you are directly affected. Replace "viewed it through a screen" with &qu
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
> Professional Engineers do not make mistakes. They are real engineers. My _literal_ engineering 101 case studies on "engineering failure": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940) https
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
This is me. My wife's old intel air was finally getting slow enough she was willing to replace it. Ordered a 2023 M3 Pro for her on Monday (that was even on sale!) knowing the refund window was ~2 weeks. Today, ordered a 2024 M4 Pro fo
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
When Einstein literally discovered General Relativity. Gravity is the curvature of Space Time. From that perspective, objects under gravity are traveling in a straight line. Fun Veritasium video on the topic: https://www.youtube.
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
All that follows is from someone who mainlines linux (just mild ubuntu) and macos but wouldn't complain too much about a windows workstation. > Hot (and perhaps tangental) take here, Indeed. > but I can't understand why comp
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
I worked on my first (and my company's first) hardware product and the HTS regulations were absolutely eye opening. I lived my entire life without knowing about it until I had to actually deal with import/export of a product. It i
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
"A union of Software Engineers lets us collectively bargain for better working conditions, such as flexible working locations, reducing PTO request denials, and work-life balance conditions."
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
Thank you for pointing me towards the design document. Its well written and I missed it on my first pass through the repository. I genuinely found it answered a lot of my questions.
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by LaffertyDev 2y ago
> As I mentioned in another reply, "remind me every day at 7PM" isn't a timestamp. It's a formula for how to determine when the next timestamp is going to occur. Even those examples are too narrow, because it's

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