ZoomerCretin

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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> it's a power-play to make people create accounts and stay logged in so they can track you better Github doesn't even serve ads. What exactly are you worried about? Your throwaway email being primary key #78,000,000 and having
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> First there was the beta amyloid theory First? Isn't the beta-amyloid cabal still blocking all Alzheimer's research unless the researchers find a way to even tangentially support that long disproven theory?
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
There's a nasal flu vaccine as well. Theoretically, it's supposed to induce immunity in mucous membranes and prevent infections in the first place, rather than merely reducing symptom severity. As for how effective it actually is
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
I so badly wish they'd open-source Windows. It wasn't bad enough that they refuse to fix obviously bad code, but they also don't allow the very many talented performance engineers submit PRs that would do in a month what they
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Found it: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~moretti/growth.pdf If New York and the Bay Area alone relaxed their zoning, their GDP would be 33% higher, and US GDP would be 3.7% higher (as of 2009), and national average income w
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
>I support price regulation when called for. Your hyperbole is...not congruent with reality, considering the incredible agriculture subsidies provided and automobile tariffs. The outrageous profiteering in food and groceries is not with
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Zoning restrictions in just three cities (San Francisco, San Jose, and New York) are responsible for all of the United States' GDP being lower by double-digit percentage. It is in the interest of the entire country that these regions b
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
That's a feature, not a bug. The government reaction to the 2021 economic circumstances was to counter the hot job market, not inflation. It is explicitly and legally the mandate of the federal reserve to target maximum employment firs
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
I sincerely hope the antitrust suit ends this practice soon. This is so obviously anticompetitive.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
We're talking past each other. You're talking about retaining people already hired or simply rehiring people. I'm talking about the ability to get a job in the first place. Employers are spoiled for choice since 2008, and the
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
What city is this in? What's the pay rate? What does a bedroom go for on Craigslist in the area?
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Is there any good reason for Microsoft to not open-source Windows? They are dangerously close to creating the Year of the Linux Desktop if they continue proving Wirth right.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
His experiences are completely alien now and not reproducible today. How is it possible to get any blue collar job at all without extensive training and certifications on your own time and with your own money in that very specific field? Ho
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> 8. All of local politics in the muni I live in takes place in a forum like this, on Facebook[.] The electeds in our muni post on it; I've gotten two different local laws done by posting there (and I'm working on a bigger thir
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Watch Squidgame's English dubs and tell me that couldn't be improved. If for no other reason, this tool is a net-positive because it may raise the bar on the quality of dubs expected from dubbing actors.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Calling something a fallacy does not mean it truly is one. I have not seen strong evidence that there is not a "lump of labor" in extremely high-rent countries like the US. For a sufficiently small period of time, there absolutely
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
American-manufactured automobiles bring in the majority of money to drive-thru restaurants too. Should they get a cut of drive-thru restaurants' revenue?
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Finding and fixing the one and only source of poor performance is a minority of optimizations. The more common case is a lot of suboptimal code creating poor performance.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Who drives more than 200 miles in a day?
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
And suburban. At least in Texas, the road noise is inescapable, even in the early hours of the morning. It's never really silent.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Incredible! Any plans to support SASS instructions for Nvidia GPUs, or only PTX?
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
This sounds like a good use case for Zig: great interoperability with C, and support for generics.
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Efficient for what metric? Carbon emissions? Time? Money?
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
On mobile, it appears to open regardless of where you tap. This appears to be the culprit: ```const n = document.getElementById('nav-header'); document.addEventListener( 'click', s => { u.hidden |
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Yes, overly focused on smartphones, and underfocused on car-centric city planning: https://images.fastcompany.com/image/upload/w_768,f_auto,q_a... https://www.fastcompany.com/90653986/traffic-
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> No one would mock people for geeking out. No one would mock people for not being good at sports. No one would mock those who struggled at academics. At least not openly. I always hoped there was a way to avoid US-style bullying. I hadn
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Good thing Match is a monopoly that owns all of the giant dating apps except for Bumble!
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Thank you for the explanation!
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
Anyone know why text-to-image models have so many fewer parameters than text models? Are there any large image models (>70b, 400b, etc)?
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by ZoomerCretin 2y ago
> You need to get the support of at least 1 million EU citizens, with thresholds (minimum numbers) in at least 7 EU countries. Well, good luck, but this is a pretty high bar.

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