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by codemac 9d ago
They go up much more than 2% in literally every other state, California is the cheapest place to own property for >10 years. You can argue against property taxes entirely, but Prop 13 definitely means that families, businesses, and all p
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by codemac 1mo ago
To be clear, this is slightly smaller than the pixel 10 by ~1mm in each direction, but they are still too big.
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by codemac 2mo ago
McGovern is not someone to hold up, but that's not the quote. It was: "I would only argue that senators don't have the luxury that a research scientist does awaiting until every last shred of evidence is in"
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by codemac 3mo ago
It adds npm as a dependency, to a go build? It changes the contributor email? to install random npm packages?! in /tmp?! in post_install()??! With a new random contributor email???? Archlinux is focused on enabling a specific type of u
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by codemac 3mo ago
Exactly, these hacks really stand out to me, and used odd patterns (like .install files that just had 2-3 line post_install functions) etc.
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by codemac 3mo ago
Right, the PKGBUILD only helps you review if you're installing what you intend to - not verifying if what you're installing contains any hacks. This hack in particular added random npm packages that would have been unneeded/u
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by codemac 3mo ago
> isn’t that also the case for every browser extension, VSCode extension, nuget package, Cargo crate, python package, npm package Yes, and all of those have supply chain hacks in them, and have happened within the last year? In this sp
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by codemac 6mo ago
emacsclient + codex has been a game changer. I probably add or change a feature in emacs once a day, or every other day. I've been using emacs for some insane amount of time, maybe 20 years? And still I had more customization to go. Em
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by codemac 7mo ago
> Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both, saying that once they go public as anticipated later this year, the opportunity to invest closes ok, sounds obviou
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by codemac 9mo ago
Please reread (or.. read) the paper. They do not make that mistake, specifically section 7.1. A reward function (R) may be hackable by a model's response, but when asked to confess it is easier to get an honest confession reward functi
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by codemac 10mo ago
You are thinking in terms of utility, instead of organizational power. Which is fine - but misses why the meeting behavior continues imo.
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by codemac 10mo ago
While I have several disagreements with this deck, there are two large ones: 1. In my experience, a lot of teams don't have long enough meetings to avoid the litany of small meetings. For example, a lot of staff meetings could easily b
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by codemac 10mo ago
I've bought a few of these, and love them: https://www.cleanairkits.com/
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by codemac 10mo ago
Math notation is high context, so it's great to just ask llm's to print out the low context version in something like lisp where I can read and decompose it quickly.
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by codemac 10mo ago
As of this morning, they should be. My app sent me a notification today.
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by codemac 11mo ago
attention required: 10 minute video > 10 second short When the written word took over with the printing press, the same concern was levied. The amount of attention required to listen and memorize a story/poem is a lot more than just
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by codemac 1y ago
... a lot isn't even close though. The US is at 120.5 guns per 100 civilians, and Canada is at 34.5 I think being ~4x the ratio of guns per capita, (and 30x the total!) has to do something, right?
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by codemac 1y ago
There is a big matrix of risk/reward for any DC location. You bet Meta asked for incentives, but sometimes a guarantee of future power capacity, fast permitting, or ideal locations are worth more than the incentives the state could aff
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by codemac 1y ago
I have little to no evidence that there is sensible behavior and knowledge around software on personal computers. The biggest difference these days is most folks don't even use a personal computer.
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by codemac 1y ago
While Yann has built many things with git-annex, we should be clear that the creator of git-annex is relatively singular, Joey Hess.
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by codemac 1y ago
Everyone has similar agreements with local power grids, and pretty much all DC operators respond to demand reduction calls from the grid. It's extremely rare for a DC to put an entire community's grid at risk, and they are usually
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by codemac 1y ago
I should write a lot more, but the two paths I see are: B.O.O. and Good Strategy/Bad Strategy. B.O.O.: Background, Objective, Overview. Basically, a history lesson for how you got here, an objective for what you want to fix/change
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by codemac 1y ago
You have to be more specific about the "bad situation" imo. A lot of crime gets blamed on all kinds of causes, but with a cause so vague all kinds of counterfactuals can be listed out: poverty doesn't explain why countries wi
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by codemac 1y ago
SF uses flock cameras as well[0][1]. I am curious if merely by having a published policy, larger cities have less scrutiny in the actual use by federal law enforcement - though likely just as frequently accessed as any Atherton camera. [0]:
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by codemac 1y ago
Nowadays a problem is the subscriptions are all multiplexed through apple, google, and amazon. I used to religiously use things like ynab, but now I need to find ways to export my amazon transactions, google play, etc. It's nearly impo
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by codemac 1y ago
receiving audio = slow sending audio = fast
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by codemac 1y ago
watch the live stream, it shows you the diff as the completed task, you decide whether or not to generate a github pr when you see the diff.
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by codemac 1y ago
they certainly don't appreciate it on their hot dogs.
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by codemac 1y ago
Sure, but Ohio has ~4200 bars[0]. Which is roughly 1/4 the ratio of bars to people. [0]: https://rentechdigital.com/smartscraper/business-report-deta...
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by codemac 1y ago
It's not about forcing your kids to "do math", but to excel at important skills far before the benefits of being good at that skill matter. The amount of homework/study per day that maximizes math scores on tests is sign

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