bitmasher9

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by bitmasher9 5d ago
I think the key here is “a trusted third party” more than “bank”. Also, I’d rather a company know “he has an account at Bank of America” than “His full government name is Bit Masher and his driving license number is 9”
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by bitmasher9 6d ago
It looks like the old saying is true. The smartest minds in all of tech are working overtime to get you to click on advertisements.
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by bitmasher9 7d ago
I once saw a receipt for a cross-country train ride in the late 1950s and was shocked at the price. It was significantly slower and more expensive than a similar plane ticket today.
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by bitmasher9 11d ago
Yeah, I know most of the gold that goes to Europe from the US usually gets refined in Switzerland. I have no idea what portion of the total cost that is to move gold from US to Switzerland. I imagine it’s less than the insured carrier serv
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by bitmasher9 11d ago
I’m not sure 100% sure, but I imagine the cost of transporting to Europe is probably higher than the cost of refining to the European standard.
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by bitmasher9 11d ago
One important detail here. When you buy gold, you purchase based on the amount of gold, not the total amount of alloy. This is true in both markets. This difference in standard is practically not a big deal because you very rarely physica
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by bitmasher9 13d ago
Exactly. Either assign an equal portion of your insurance to all procedures, or use the amortization techniques insurance uses to assign a malpractice risk to the procedure.
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by bitmasher9 19d ago
I’m happy for your extreme good response to the drug. I’ve witnessed this type of response in my close circle once, and it is life saving medication in these situations. I think it’s important to highlight that not every person has the same
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by bitmasher9 21d ago
Over the last 10 years I’ve moved 5 times. Each time having a fiber connection with at least symmetrical gigabit has been a hard requirement. Looking forward I’m considering moving again for very fast networking where I can begin to strea
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by bitmasher9 22d ago
Most true not qualifying are either 1. People with proven bad credit. 2. People asking for a lot of money without proven good credit. 3. People asking for more specialized credit, such as lines for businesses or lines for high earners.
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by bitmasher9 23d ago
Anthropic -> OpenAI switcher here. I fully expect I’ll switch back to Anthropic, or another model in the next 90 days. The fact that we are switching indicates that the models aren’t ready to be baked into silicon. I wonder if they will
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by bitmasher9 26d ago
Gibson stands for style over substance.
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by bitmasher9 29d ago
Why are tech wages lower in Scandinavian countries than in the United States?
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by bitmasher9 29d ago
Are all of the messages public and crawlable?
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
You don’t think plenty of books are either written by LLMs, or with LLM based research?
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
I would feel much better about this process if they were uploaded and if it were framed as a knowledge preservation project. This would only slightly increase the cost of the project, but have a huge impact on its perception and its net po
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
“Only 5%” We still have 2billion+ people offline. Looking at global population is the wrong reference frame for selling a $100/mo service.
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
The default framing often over personifies ai, but this framing over alienates the model. It’s good to think with both framings, but both feel like imperfect metaphors.
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
The healthy range of frequency is roughly 3/day-0.3/day.
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
Probably 5+ years. Institutions learn slowly, especially top down institutions like militaries and governments. The Ukraine war is 4+ years old, and they are still making significant improvements on their tactics. This is with support and
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
The worse Q2 looks the bigger improvement a bogus Q3 will look.
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
> presumably with them all writing code? Not always. In fact, I use multiple agents when writing my technical design docs and giving feedback to design reviews. The amount of time I spend writing a design doc and the amount of details I
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
Status updates aren’t a big deal when running cheap&fast models, but are a big deal once you start making asks that take 5min+.
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
Furthermore, using the phrase “common sense” to describe an idea inherently dismisses any individual that will argue against it. They either are too dumb to have common sense, or too much of an elite to have common sense.
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
I’m genuinely confused about exactly what Microsoft was doing for the first time. Not the first gui. Not the first web browser. Not the first spreadsheet/word processor/slideshow. Edit: I’ll give credit, NT is good kernel, and had
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
It’s simple. Oil is traded in USD. A large share of the oil is produced in the Middle East. If oil stopped trading in USD the value of our currency would plummet. So we have a strong interest in all oil exporters.
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
All of this talk about entering a hot war with China is crazy because of this fact. You don’t go directly from literally zero battles to starting a war with one of the strongest armies.
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
Is it 2019 again?
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
I think “The Operating System is fundamentally Unstable” is a much bigger problem than “First party applications are redesigned too frequently.”
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by bitmasher9 1mo ago
When did the offshoring happen, because Microsoft has been bad for a long time. Even in the 90s there were so many BSODs.

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