aschla

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by aschla 5d ago
Kayak fished the St. Croix river last year, on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin, for smallmouth bass. Crystal clear water. Floated over several huge sturgeon, 4-6 feet long. The way they look, it feels like coming across a dinosaur. Th
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by aschla 8d ago
The "Ideas" section looks primed to eventually list Sponsored "ideas".
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by aschla 2mo ago
The datacenter outrage is mislabeled. It's actually zoning outrage, caused by local governments that aren't taking their citizen's concerns seriously. It just so happens that datacenters are the hottest (no pun intended) indu
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by aschla 3mo ago
That's just exceptionally unfortunate timing. Anthropic has been getting better at uptime, but they still have the occasional issue.
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by aschla 4mo ago
The average person's inattention to nuance could be labeled as "populist brainrot" in this case, and the cases of poor zoning could be used as examples of the issues with datacenters that the average person does not evaluate
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by aschla 4mo ago
That's a zoning issue the local residents should take up with their town/city.
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by aschla 4mo ago
So are we now at the point in the hype lifecycle for AI, where the crypto bros have learned they can vibecode fake projects to scam people out of money?
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by aschla 4mo ago
We've already had consolidation of education for a while now. Even before all the edutech courses, there were Youtubers educating better than many university professors. 10-15 years ago students were already skipping lectures and just
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by aschla 4mo ago
The upcoming Prusa support for INDX (by Bondtech) is going to be interesting, especially for business use cases where waste is a primary concern. https://www.prusa3d.com/product/indx-conversion-kit-8-toolhe... The main
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by aschla 4mo ago
Worth noting those are essentially different "generations" of printers, as well as different kinematic systems, CoreXY vs Cartesian.
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by aschla 4mo ago
Prusa is generally like Apple in that regard, in that they wait for the new technology to be tried and true before committing their design(s) to it. CoreXY is the most prominent example. Prusa was actually the "non-technical" prin
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by aschla 5mo ago
My conspiracy theory is the whole AI datacenter water consumption outrage is a psyop by state actors to worsen public sentiment around AI, so China and others can catch up. Obviously we should lessen the environmental impact of our technolo
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by aschla 5mo ago
You're assuming the current president operates on rationale. He simply would love to be the guy who uses a tactical nuke.
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by aschla 6mo ago
I'll never understand the people who stand in line for an hour for "Free donut day" or something similar. You really value a $1.50 donut equal to an hour of your time?
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by aschla 7mo ago
When the average person stops spending money in ways that enrich them.
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by aschla 7mo ago
Cancelled my Prime subscription last month after the past year of worsening experiences with Amazon: Received several orders that were returned items, with broken open packaging and sometimes the item was something else entirely, purely put
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by aschla 7mo ago
This is an example of the difficulty in expressing tone through text. Meant it as a passing lighthearted observational joke. No inconvenience at all.
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by aschla 7mo ago
The irony in the number of extra commas you've used in this comment...
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by aschla 7mo ago
I choose to use frameworks in the same sense I choose to use crypto libraries. Smarter people have thought long and hard about the problems involved, and came up with the best ways to solve them. Why have the agents redo all of that if it&#
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by aschla 7mo ago
Experiencing the same. It seems Anthropic’s human-focused design choices are becoming a differentiator.
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by aschla 7mo ago
This whole thing reads like ragebait. Even down to the lack of capitalization.
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by aschla 8mo ago
Don't tempt me with a good time.
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by aschla 8mo ago
It seems to be an ever-present trait of modern business. There is no rigor, probably partly because most business professionals have never learned how to properly approach and analyze data. Can't tell you how many times I've seen
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by aschla 8mo ago
This is a silly bill. I'm struggling to imagine how this would be practically implemented and enforced. The details in the bill mention inserting a "firearms blueprint detection algorithm" in either the firmware of the printe
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by aschla 8mo ago
"Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>" Incredible.
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by aschla 8mo ago
It likely is acceptable for business-focused code. Compared to a lot of code written by humans, even if the AI code is less than optimal, it's probably better quality than what many humans will write. I think we can all share some horr
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by aschla 9mo ago
Don't know about the others, but Illinois permanently shut down (and demolished or repurposed the land) the majority of its coal power plants over the past couple decades. Illinois gets about half its power from nuclear (we have 6 plan
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by aschla 9mo ago
Agreed. It's more practical to tell seniors that all gift card requests are scams rather than teaching them to identify warning signs, since legitimate gift card payments are so rare.
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by aschla 9mo ago
Wow, back in the 70s the bugs were only detectable by x-ray scan. Makes you wonder what kinds of things can be hidden in the ICs of today.
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by aschla 10mo ago
I'm not particularly old yet, in my mid-thirties, but I reacted like someone much older when I learned kids are allowed to carry around their phones all day at school. Back in my day (when we walked to school uphill both ways), we were

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