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by alexjplant 2mo ago
From TFA: > Applied with a handheld tool, the patch stays on the skin for around 10 to 15 minutes You'd notice.
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
> I know a lot of people use postpaid, but I can't understand why. Two reasons: data caps and device cost. People want iPhones but they cost $1000 outright which isn't a small amount of cash these days so they roll the cost of
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
I didn't read a good chunk of what we were assigned in high school because I was stuck there for almost 8 hours every day and had jobs and extracurriculars afterwards. In college I only had to go to five classes a few times a week so e
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
This was a central plot point of the film adaptation of "Johnny Mnemonic". From Wikipedia: > In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerative effect called "nerve attenuation syndrome&quot
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
> Kubuntu treats you like an adult and will tell you what's going on This means so much to me in the modern era. Contrast with the SaaS approach that's also been leaking into Electron apps, etc: - "Something went wrong&quo
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
My grandparents sprung for a subscription to PC Magazine when I was a preteen for a year or two so that I could read his column in the very back of each issue. I'm sure my thoughts on his opinions would be radically different today but
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
> home ownership doesn't significantly (or at all) increase happiness N=1 but for me it didn't. I'm probably repeating myself on this site but 70 years ago a home was a box that kept you out of the weather. Now it's a
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
Claude does this too. I asked it recently to compare two versions of a song (the original and '97 remake of EPMD's "You Gots To Chill", if anybody wants to try and replicate this) and it flatly refused. No amount of reas
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
We do. People who, for example, memorize question banks to pass certification tests without knowing the underlying material are equally frowned upon for not having the problem solving skills that they purport to. I'll leave the contras
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
The Zapp & Roger shout-out in the title is gold too.
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
> I am in neither of these and nor is any of the many people I know with macbooks. I honestly do not understand why any average person would buy anything else than a macbook today. Because a used Thinkpad running Linux is the people&#x27
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
I must confess that I asked a leading question. At no point did I say that the usage wasn't real; by way of dramatic omission I was more pointing to the fact that a common ECMAScript/React-ism is overrepresented in Claude's t
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by alexjplant 2mo ago
> This is the same shape as many other life-cycle bugs [...] Claude-ism detected. IME with Claude Code an object does not have a type or definition, apparently, but rather a shape (or at least it reaches for that word before more technic
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
I was about to link to something I'd read in Foreign Policy a few days ago until Krugman beat me to the punch: > I don’t want to overstate the case here. The dollar’s role as the dominant currency for ordinary business is not under
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IBM System/4 Pi(en.wikipedia.org)
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
Makes complete sense to me. Fender has immense cultural cachet among multiple big-spending demographics: blues boomers, Cobain disciples, indie kids, even the hair metal guys via Charvel. The Gibson/Harley-Davidson move of leveraging a
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
Rock and Roll San Diego (the aforementioned rehearsal space) is slated to be part of the redevelopment :-( as is Soma. I only moved here 6 years ago and it already feels like the end of an era.
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
Les Girls is still there. I chuckle every time I pass it on the way to the rehearsal space my band uses. I always suspected that it had been a bigger deal in some bygone era; glad to see that confirmed via photographic evidence.
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
> “There is a subset of people, maybe the smallest subset, who are literally making a choice not to pay rent, and we don’t do well with acknowledging that but there is a subset for whom that is the case,” [...] Others bristle at the noti
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
> It seems to really be a nice step-up and is getting quite close to the frontier. IMHO it's already surpassed them. I vastly prefer my personal GLM and OpenCode setup to the Claude Code and Opus one that I have to use at work. The
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
> I drop photo of my water meter and tell it to read the value and serial number. It was far from instant but it was also easily under 3 minutes and result was correct. "Useful" as in "has a use that isn't just for sh
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
The Claude web UI popped a modal up a few days ago advertising their new model to me. It was full of HTML tags that were escaped or otherwise not rendered so that the text was literally <b>Included in your plan limits until Jun 22
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
I've spent the past week trying to scheme a way to get affordable local inference of something useful (Qwen3.6-36B-A3B) for ~$500 and have come to the conclusion that it simply isn't viable. A pair of power-restricted P100s in a w
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
> I've heard every lazy comment about hipsters and rich kids who are supposedly their target audience, and the cost of the products, as if the visible ingredients are all that accounting measure. Swiss watches cost orders of magnitu
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by alexjplant 3mo ago
I'd love an invite if you have one to spare (no expectation either way). Email is in my profile if you feel so inclined.
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
Sorry WHAT?! I was under the impression this whole time that this wasn't feasible due to asymmetric key encryption with the private keys baked deep into the hardware. Perhaps I'm misremembering but Cliff (the founder) is very big
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
I can only speak for myself but my brain was the Wild West when I was a kid. There was no canon for it to draw on in terms of how or why things were the way they were and this especially applied to creative pursuits like TV shows, movies, m
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
I've heard several LDS adherents talk about these people and I get the impression that they really don't appreciate the practices or the negative media attention that the polygamists bring to their faith. It's rather out of
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
Not incompatible with my satirical post (I wrote "performant," a notorious tech neologism, not performative). Whether subconsciously or not people 100000% use language to communicate and determine others' social tribe members
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by alexjplant 4mo ago
Let's double-click on that. It's important to keep top of mind that using disruptive words and patterns in conversation isn't always driven by LLMs — reasoning from first principles tells us that problematic usages like this

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