Workaccount2

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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpism 3rd sentence. I guess take it up with the "fascists" who wrote the article? lol
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
Don't come to me if you weren't aware that populism is a left/right spectrum.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
Trump is a populist. He supports tariffs for the exact same reason Bernie Sanders does. There is a reason so many bernie bros jumped to camp Trump in 2016 when (globalist) Hillary won the nomination. There is no secret or conspiracy going o
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
> Gamblers are seeking a different thrill from what financial markets are designed to provide. I'd almost agree if the volume on $SPY zero day options wasn't so immense.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
Most people seem totally unaware that Bernie Sanders was (and probably secretly still is) a big proponent of tariffs. Horseshoe theory and all that, populists gonna populist.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
Unless one of the open model labs has a breakthrough, they will always lag. Their main trick is distilling the SOTA models. People talk about these models like they are "catching up", they don't see that they are just trailer
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
This is great on paper until some jackass wants to access their home NAS over the public frequency range so they can watch anime all day at their desk, which only works when they use multiple channels at once. There are tons of cool things
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
40-50% of people are ad-blocking some rather beloved content creators. That means, not paying for premium, and not viewing ads. Ok, so maybe they are suscribing to patreon? Maybe Nebula? Well those two have conversion rates around (on a goo
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
This is great, but it misses one thing: The software paradigm is changing. People don't need a calculator website anymore. They can just prompt their own AI account to generate whatever calculator they need in the moment. I already hav
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
Using an ad blocker just shifts the cost of creating/providing content onto people not using ad blockers. The enshitification of the internet is largely driven by people ad blocking, as is incentivizes more click bait, more ads, and sl
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
I'd imagine more than a few basement dwellers could as well.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
Perennial doesn't make sense in the context of something that has been around for a few months. Observations from the spring 2025 crop of LLMs are already irrelevant.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
>One wonders if some professional mathematicians are instead choosing to publish LLM proofs without attribution for career purposes. This will just become the norm as these models improve, if it isn't largely already the case. It&#x
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
LLM's are not archives of information. People seem to have this belief, or perhaps just general intuition, that LLMs are a google search on a training set with a fancy language engine on the front end. That's not what they are.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
Ideologues usually aren't great at primary source understanding/reasoning, hence why they end up with such strong opinions.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
YT premium comes with their own version of sponsor block, but you manually have to hit the skip button. But I don't hold youtube accountable for what creators decide to put in their videos. I would grind my axe with the creator instead
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
Reminds me of vid.me, who picked up on the intense hatred towards youtube and launched a competing video host that actually got some serious traction. No ads, no subscriptions, just pure good content. They went bankrupt in a year. Turns out
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
It is. I don't why people say this. They even include their own version of sponsor block, which is generous, because technically sponsor segments aren't even part of youtube, they are purely the creator deciding to make the ad par
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
Cable TV is a bad analogy because it was a natural monopoly. Even the disruption route (satellite TV) was another natural monopoly. Netflix doesn't have the moat of "built a physical wire connection to every persons home" tha
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
>Google realized this a long time ago; there is no ad-free paid version of Google Search. Google actually experimented with this about a decade ago (I know, I was one of the suckers who paid), but it got canned because why the fuck would
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
The proposal is the spray purpose made reflective aerosols high in the atmosphere. We almost certainly will end up doing this, negatives be damned. Even worse it's just a bandaid not a fix.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
It's just another layer. Assembly programmers from years gone by would likley be equally dismissive of the self-aggrandizing code block stitchers of today. (on topic, RCT was coded entirely in assembly, quite the achievement)
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
It sort of is. When a property owner has loan against a commercial property, the lender uses the monthly rent to calculate how much they will loan you. The rent number they use is the last paid rent. So you, the property owner, end up in a
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
The outcome of this is just people lying about using AI. It's incredibly naive to think you can stop AI use by banning it. Banning AI just means banning admitting you used AI.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
I showed my father how to use the live camera mode with Gemini and it's been a boon for him
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
And consume 50% of global coal production. But coal is the worst fossil fuel from a practical stance. It's really only good for energy generation. You can't really power tanks or warships with it.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
People worship China for being "green focused". The reality is that they don't have a good source of fossil fuels, and energy independence is a core necessity.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
Around me, conservatives started a grassroots "save the whales" campaign to block wind. Conservatives, protesting on the street to save the whales. Talk about a sight to see.
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
You can use DC fast chargers to fill gaps as needed. Also if you are always driving 40mi/day, you likely float with a battery percentage around 80%, leaving plenty of capacity for those consecutive 100 mile days with your standard over
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by Workaccount2 8mo ago
You could do 400 miles with a model 3 LR with one ~20 minute charge. For 6 hours of straight driving, 20 minutes to stand and use the bathroom isn't too bad.

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