arevno

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by arevno 1mo ago
No, this is backwards. "Local businesses" are net money extractors. Local residents spend their money, a portion of which goes up the supply chain and out of the community. Datacenters are net money injectors. Even if they provide
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by arevno 2mo ago
It's really not. HN turns into the most scolding, puritanical Mormon when it comes to the topic of alcohol.
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by arevno 3mo ago
> Did you read the E.O. The EO is nearly a month old, and has precisely zero to do with the de facto current situation, seeing messaging from OpenAI and Anthropic on their non-public agreements with the administration. > This is more
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by arevno 3mo ago
> but the regulations are not hard to comply with Except that they are. As a US citizen, I can purchase ITAR-regulated nightvision, IR lasers, etc. But that's not what's happening. Frontier models are NOT being put under ITAR.
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by arevno 4mo ago
NN-specific ASICs won't buy you much more FLOPs per watt than GPUs/TPUs will. These chips are already extremely good at NN computation. Sure, you could remove GP shader support and free up 5% of your die for a few more cores (whic
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by arevno 9mo ago
> trading an hour or two of my time pacman -S postgresql initdb -D /pathto/pgroot/data grok/claude/gpt: "Write a concise Bash script for setting up an automated daily PostgreSQL database backup using pg_dump
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by arevno 9mo ago
I know that by modern standards, 18% is better than average, but it's also still pretty fat for men. Men should strive for a 10-14% range. <10% is associated with hormone (specifically testosterone) deficiency, and >14% is both a
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by arevno 9mo ago
> but you need to amortize in all the infrastructure and training and energy costs The average American human consumes 232kWh of all-in energy (food, transport, hvac, construction, services, etc) daily. If humans want to get into a compe
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by arevno 9mo ago
> putting a lot of blind faith in an algorithm that's proven time and time again to make things up Don't be ridiculous. Our entire system of criminal justice relies HEAVILY on the eyewitness testimony of humans, which has been
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by arevno 9mo ago
100 years ago people like Rob Reiner's drug addict son's dealer would probably have been hanging from a tree. note: this is not commentary on drug legalization, just commentary that "community efforts" were more involved
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by arevno 9mo ago
That's because many of us older developers got into the profession when it didn't pay well, and had negative status associated with it, because we loved doing it. So yes, there is very little tolerance from us toward those who a
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by arevno 9mo ago
I also do third party software development, and my approach is always: bill (highly, $300+/hr) for the features and requirements, but do the manual refactoring and architecture/performance/detail work on your own time. It ben
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by arevno 10mo ago
> cheaper housing would help the kids more, but that has more entrenched interests opposed to it (almost every homeowner) I hear this often, but as a homeowner, I don't understand it. Assessed value tracks market value, and the last
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by arevno 10mo ago
The vast majority of courts award spousal support for this exact reason. Post-divorce, the vast majority of stay-at-home moms with limited recent work history are supported by court edict.
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by arevno 10mo ago
Elementary Education and Pedagogy are "sciences" with an even poorer replication rate than Sociology and Psychology. Nobody educated to teach is actually qualified to do so by virtue of said education. Teaching is largely a person
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by arevno 10mo ago
This is a strange claim. In my personal experience, the asshole kids overlapped greatly with the popular kids in a Venn diagram sense. People, in general, did want to be their friends.
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by arevno 10mo ago
Anecdata, but I am extremely addicted to nicotine lozenges.
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by arevno 10mo ago
You can do it on Kraken just fine. As long as you're ok paying taxes on it (since Kraken is KYC), you're still shielding the source of the funds, which is the primary utility of Monero. Or to put it another way, it's good f
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by arevno 10mo ago
From the article, cash is king in some of the most violent places in the world, so no. Also, this "cash is unsafe" meme is wild. Robbers do not routinely detect the presence of cash on your person using millimeter wave scanners.
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by arevno 10mo ago
> or have too large denominations that people refuse In the US, if you have actually incurred a debt (e.g. you've already eaten your meal, or you've already had the repair performed, etc), the business can "refuse" pa
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by arevno 10mo ago
Yes, using tools is a huge red flag. Imagine dating someone who uses a hammer to drive in nails rather than their bare fists.
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by arevno 10mo ago
> it's something they'd never ever know how to do There are hundreds of millions of people who have memorized megabytes of baseball statistics, pop song lyrics, celebrity relationship trivia, vehicle model data, sitcom characte
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by arevno 11mo ago
The autism thing is ridiculous, but you should still stay away from Acetaminophen, because it's extremely hepatotoxic - arguably worse than alcohol if used chronically. There is nothing so self-contradictory as espousing "zero alc
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by arevno 11mo ago
Coinbase had the "right" kind of people on their board, and reacted much more rapidly to KYC requirements. For good or for ill, that's the reality. The real question is about Kraken. How they've managed to remain untouch
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by arevno 1y ago
> it's a formalized "old boys club" dynamic There's a risk that this happens, sure, but it can be more charitably read as allowing/retaining people like Steve Jobs or Linus Torvalds, who, despite being assholes,
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by arevno 1y ago
Yes, it's unfortunate that a network service provider whose primary business model is checks notes preventing network abuse would try to detect and prevent abuse via various heuristics such as captchas. I also agree that Cloudflare
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by arevno 1y ago
Doesn't detract from my point. "These vaccines are correlated with an N% increased risk of myocarditis" is a different statement from "These vaccines will give you myocarditis". BOTH of them were targeted by the mis
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by arevno 1y ago
While this is true, It's also important to realize that during the great disinformation hysteria, perfectly reasonable statements like "This may have originated from a lab", "These vaccines are non-sterilizing", or
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by arevno 1y ago
> the most unergonomic keys mandating moving your hands off their resting place Touch typists always have to get their dig in. I've been using vim for 5 years now and still use up/dn/lf/rt - it's easier to find i
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by arevno 1y ago
The pardon was specifically a campaign promise to libertarians, and likely little more than that. Even if this Administration is friendly to Tor (which I doubt), the FBI is a very large organization and installing a new head doesn't ma

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