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by calmbell 8mo ago
Whole foods are affordable and healthy. My wife and I eat mostly rice, tofu, lentils (especially red), and vegetables (mostly frozen). We buy in bulk, spend around $350 a month on groceries (while barely eating out), and have a lot of varie
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by calmbell 9mo ago
There was an attempt under Lina Khan.
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by calmbell 10mo ago
The public school experience in the U.S. depends so much on your ZIP Code. I attended the best public schools in my state while my wife attended the worst in the same state. I am genuinely pro-public school, but there is a point where the b
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by calmbell 10mo ago
There should be a world standard or standards for genuine carbon credits. Maybe the UN could create an agency that determines such a standard and verifies that carbon credits meet that standard.
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by calmbell 10mo ago
I agree there is nothing uncommon about that type of arrangement, but the amount of money involved is unprecedented.
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by calmbell 11mo ago
Enabling the state violence of authoritarian governments through surveillance software is unequivocally worse than the examples you listed.
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by calmbell 1y ago
The key takeaway from this imo should be to only use password managers with a secret key like 1Password.
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by calmbell 1y ago
And transferring money from a bank or brokerage account takes time. Enough time that anyone paying attention should be able to report the transfer as fraudulent before it completes and have the account frozen.
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by calmbell 1y ago
The Palma 2 doesn't have stylus support. I seriously considered the Supernote Nomad, the modular design is neat, but went with the Palma 2 for the backlight and the Boox software, which seems to be superior to Supernote for everything
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by calmbell 1y ago
Check out the Boox Palma 2. I love mine and it has an actual operating system (Android 13).
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by calmbell 1y ago
Check out the Boox Palma 2. It has been an excellent Kindle replacement for me and is in the same smartphone form factor as the Paper Pro Move.
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by calmbell 1y ago
The funny thing is that the performance of a 12MB WASM blob is probably superior to most Shiny apps with more than light traffic.
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by calmbell 1y ago
They have been doing this slowly over the past several years. I decided to move from macOS to Linux the day settings turned into a scrolling iOS-style list rather than an actual settings menu.
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by calmbell 1y ago
Depends on how you define real. I would argue that GPT-2 was a real LLM and it almost certainly cost a lot less than a billion. I'm sure there are much better examples.
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by calmbell 1y ago
Don't buy a dob to do untracked astrophotography. It will be hard, and you will be disappointed with the results. I would pick between visual observation and astrophotography. They are almost separate hobbies that require separate kits
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by calmbell 1y ago
Here is the arXiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15806
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by calmbell 1y ago
By "small number (about 10-20) objects in our solar system of this size" you are referring to the class of objects of a similar size rather than the largest objects in the solar system?
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by calmbell 1y ago
Eris is essentially the same size as Pluto and has a larger mass.
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by calmbell 1y ago
I highly recommend the book Chasing New Horizons to learn more about the New Horizons mission.
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by calmbell 1y ago
Here is an article from 2022 that does a great job of explaining the issue: https://www.columnblog.com/p/us-media-celebrates-letting-18-... "Cut to 2022. Wages are still down 30% to 50% in key markets, and the job
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by calmbell 1y ago
How is being prevented from going 10 mph above the posted speed limit in the car of someone convicted of speeding over 100 mph an onerous burden? The car is the property of the person convicted of speeding and sanctioned with an ISA. If som
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by calmbell 1y ago
Please find me someone with any background in technology who thinks AI is complete garbage (zero value or close to it). The author doesn't think so, they assert that "perhaps 10% of the AI hype is based upon useful facts" and
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by calmbell 1y ago
A fantasy writer telling fictional stories about the future is more credible than many so-called serious people (think Marc Andreessen) who promote any technology as the bee's knees if it can make them money.
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by calmbell 1y ago
Just to nitpick, there are North Korean defectors who are not South Korean citizens. For example, the U.S. has resettled North Korean defectors under the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by calmbell 1y ago
I was shocked to learn that 75-year-old white men supported Kamala Harris at a significantly higher rate than 20-year-old white men: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas... (searc
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by calmbell 1y ago
"idea of Indiana Jones and the feelings that character inspires in all of us forever just because a corporation owns the asset" is very different from the almost exact image of Indiana Jones.
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by calmbell 2y ago
That is how science seems to work as a whole. What worries me is that the market views the emergence of additional productive paradigm shifts in AI as only a matter of money. A normal scientific advancement plateau for another five years in
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by calmbell 2y ago
I am also not an immigration lawyer. In Maslenjak v. United States ( https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/16-309_h31i.pdf ), eight justices disagreed with the expansive interpretation of the statute you descr
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by calmbell 2y ago
The great thing about Framework is that you can bring your own RAM and SSD. If you need/want a lot of RAM (>= 32 GB) and or SSD (>= 2 TB), you can save a lot of money.
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by calmbell 2y ago
Do you support defunding the police in your jurisdiction? Paid National Park Service employees are the only law enforcement officers in the park.

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