TaylorAlexander

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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Do you mean to suggest women have a lower sex drive? When I started taking estrogen and suppressing my T, my sex drive changed a lot but it didn’t reduce. It’s just more impacted by emotional factors like life stress and anxiety.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Certainly the ire of Andrew Tate fans should be thoroughly ignored. You can have whatever sex drive you want, and their contempt is childish and misguided. If you did want to try experiencing a higher sex drive, try edging daily for a week
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I’m vegan too. Someone will say “what about the microorganisms in your gut” or something. People often have a negative reaction to vegans and that’s not going to change.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Yep even in Oakland California where they don’t sell BYD cars, they recently replaced all the school busses with BYD electric. https://thedriven.io/2024/09/04/the-biggest-electric-school-...
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Sure, their choice to give it away may not have gone as they hoped, I’m just pushing back against the idea that making copies of a thing the creator explicitly gave permission to copy is “stealing”. The core of open source is that making an
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Prusa gave everyone permission to make copies of their i3 series machines, make modifications, and distribute modified versions. It’s not theft if you have been given explicit permission to make copies. “You may copy and distribute verbatim
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Hah. I mean it did blow up (the booster), but not due to impact from a failed soft landing. The soft landing succeeded, then it blew up.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
One time I had to run a very old version of Eagle CAD on Linux and it turned out that even tho I had a native Linux version, it was easier to run the windows version in wine! I guess stable interfaces have their advantages.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
> In terms of quantity At the very least China is generally gonna have everyone else beat on quantity of people involved in quite a lot of things.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Not with that attitude.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Moving?
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
> Should we charge taxes on sugar due to health care costs? Doesn’t New York City do this with a soda tax?
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I don’t think Altman’s predictions about AI progress can be relied upon. With tens of billions of dollars or more in company value tied up in that claim, I don’t think any person could be capable of true objective assessment. See for exampl
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Ah that’s a fair point. I asked him: https://bsky.app/profile/tlalexander.bsky.social/post/3laiw4... I think I have heard that in the country he was living in, violating patents for personal use was okay. My
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
A few notes: The patents were a huge impediment. They did not expire till 2008 - before then printers cost $25k. They were expensive and stratasys had no incentive to make them $300 like they are today so volumes were limited. From their re
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
And the use case!
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Yeah I have seen a farm do this! They bought from other local farms at least, not Target. But the claim "vendors at farmers markets can only sell what they grew themselves" is only true to the extent that there is enforcement and
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Yeah it’s very strange that all three links are bad! Here’s a source selling them for $99 with the POE module, heat sink, and case: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtcURKu
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Does Wikipedia allow content of this type? Aka “here’s some cool stuff I found”? Or put another way, if you’re more familiar with Wikipedia, can you describe how to think about this type of thing being done on Wikipedia? Thanks.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Certainly I can see the appeal of implementing control in the silicon I own rather than buying a vendor's chip and having to deal with their supply chain, their sales team, their space claim on my board, etc.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Ah, that’s a good point thanks for the correction.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
At this point I really only take rigorous research papers in to account when considering this stuff. Apple published research just this month that the parent post is referring to. A systematic study is far more compelling than an anecdote.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Absolutely should not exist. California’s Central Valley cattle farms are notorious for giving people a glimpse of how inhumane factory farming is. You drive down I-5 and the smell of these places is overpowering for miles. You can’t ignore
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Right. We don’t have a word for that. Like “using a bicycle” has the word “bicycling”. Tho someone here suggested “computering” which is pretty good.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
And today I realized that despite it being an extremely common activity, we don’t really have a word for “using the computer” which is distinct from “computing”. It’s funny because AI models are always “using a computer” but now they can
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Another way of saying this is that we do this with a system comprised of human eyes and a human brain. We’re very good at making machine eyes, but the brain part is proving extremely difficult for us to reproduce with machines.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Yeah I also hadn’t but it makes sense. Just like all output from an LLM is a “hallucination” but we have a tendency to only call it a hallucination when something looks wrong about the result, we forget that our conscious lived experience i
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Well Gemini completely hallucinated command line switches on a recent question I asked it about the program “john the ripper”. We absolutely need public sources of truth at the very least until we can build systems that actually reason base
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I love this deep lore on BART! The fact that the trans bay tube is literally a big welded metal tube continues to fascinate me. When I first learned about that I had never realized that was even possible. There’s some great history on YouTu
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Oh wow thank you for sharing the farm droid links! And “aim it at the moon” hah yeah. The Dish looks cool! I hadn’t heard of it I will give it a watch.

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