abirch

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by abirch 5d ago
I would say misuse AI for mental health advice. It's already difficult to find good mental health professionals.
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by abirch 6d ago
I would love to have AI that can help support my fragmented memory. As my mom said, I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached. However, this requires a lot of TRUST with the company this access. Apple is the only big tech I could t
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by abirch 7d ago
I’m a die hard engineer, yet when I see Apple, Microsoft, and Google marketing: it makes me realize the importance of marketing.
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by abirch 8d ago
Don't forget about civil forfeiture where the government sues the alleged drug money.
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by abirch 8d ago
Probably. I know Google has partnerships with Pharma: https://www.merck.com/news/merck-and-google-cloud-partner-to...
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by abirch 10d ago
Unfortunately in the USA, most of the house of representative districts are not competitive and an incumbent is more likely to lose in a primary than in the general. Working to do something with the other side seems to be unpopular these da
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by abirch 10d ago
I refuse to use windows at home. I'll use it at work, but it's either Xubuntu or MacOS at home. I couldn't be happier.
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by abirch 11d ago
The damage done will take decades to fix if it can be fixed. No idea why any other NATO nation would buy any weapons from the USA.
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by abirch 11d ago
That makes more sense than Rocket Propelled Automation that was my hallucination.
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by abirch 11d ago
Yes, very rural place or the woods. No idea about taxes, etc. I remember him explaining that you only need a SSN if you want to receive it and a diatribe about the mark of the beast. When the guy was trying to get a passport, he asked if an
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by abirch 12d ago
I think this is the horse shoe theory where the far left and right are against it. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-conservative-and-li... I know people who don't have a social security number because the
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by abirch 12d ago
The difficulty for the US is people seem to be against a Federal Government ID. India doesn't seem to have this stigma and hence rural India can solve this problem.
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by abirch 13d ago
I'll leave this here, Donald Trump Jr got a free stake in Kalshi. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/donald-tr...
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by abirch 13d ago
My Claude and Gemini (Antigravity CLI) are working
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by abirch 13d ago
Elective surgeries have fallen in price because many no longer occur in hospitals. In the USA, ERs have to treat everyone regardless of their ability to pay. That's why you see a lot of urgent care.
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by abirch 14d ago
Gemini hasn't failed me for personal usage yet. I haven't had the opportunity to use it at work.
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by abirch 14d ago
Not to mention the microplastics. Plus the Solo cups are transported over a great distance as well, between the fuel and packaging it could easily triple their carbon costs.
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by abirch 14d ago
Is it worth a human reading it or not? There are many, insipid human-writers (me included). Historically I got a lot of value of reading info posted on HN.
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by abirch 15d ago
Or a future president renaming Mar-a-lago as Epstein's Resort... this opens the door to all kinds of petty behavior.
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by abirch 15d ago
This is Idiocracy the movie IRL. I can't wait for plants to need electrolytes.
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by abirch 16d ago
Unfortunately for me, when I hear music it's from the horrible audio of a cell phone speaker.
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by abirch 23d ago
Vanguard does get some support right as they tier their support based on how much you're worth. Businesses need to focus on Lifetime Value of their customers and realize that some of their marketing budget would be better spent in supp
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by abirch 25d ago
Buy a copy of Careless People to read between the tears.
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by abirch 26d ago
This is why it's important for us to show up and do jury duty even if it's not sexy. You can make a difference.
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by abirch 1mo ago
DuckDB out of the box may not be great. But you have DuckLake, Quack, and even DeepSeek made their own distributed DB based on DuckDB: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond
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by abirch 1mo ago
It's not in the current providers' interest to help people avoid the current providers' advertisement or avoid paying the providers to host the customers' email.
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by abirch 1mo ago
I completely agree with you. Data quality is the most important. One thing that's sad is how much academic data that's not reproducible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
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by abirch 1mo ago
Thank you so much. I love DuckDB!
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by abirch 1mo ago
Jason Fung has preached against modern processed foods that destroy insulin sensitivity. Even artificial sweeteners can raise Insulin levels. His book "The Obesity Code" is a must read and discusses some of the pathways that link
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by abirch 1mo ago
A pet peeve of mine is that Google doesn't let you search all the options like Apple or Microsoft E.g., I have flashbacks to trying to turn off or on bells in Google Home. A simple search bar would help people trying find API keys, etc

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