coryfklein

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by coryfklein 7mo ago
Yes, but it's the overgeneralization to "women have hybristophilia" that is the problem.
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by coryfklein 8mo ago
What the heck is a spatial file manager
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by coryfklein 8mo ago
> I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". > I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Ci
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by coryfklein 8mo ago
This has been called out by the Moody's Analytics economists in their podcast [0] for a while. The generally accepted explanation is that online job postings no longer map 1:1 to actual open positions at companies, ie many companies ar
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by coryfklein 8mo ago
Hah! Wow I thought this was https://slackmojis.com/ I didn't realize there was a different app with nearly the same name.
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by coryfklein 8mo ago
EDIT: Ignore this comment, I thought this was https://slackmojis.com/ I'm super bummed about this. I absolutely loved slackmojis, it made it possible to find and add new emojis to Slack in sub 10 seconds. Slack re-doin
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We Got Cease'd and Desist'd (2018)(slackmoji.com)
3 points by coryfklein 8mo ago|3 comments
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by coryfklein 11mo ago
Is there anywhere you can watch these old flash creations like Xiao Xiao and Homestar Runner with the original vector graphics? The reproductions I’ve seen on YouTube are terrible, in part because of the obvious video artifacts that don’t p
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by coryfklein 11mo ago
I'd heard that Amazon is getting around price trackers like this using the coupons. 1. List item for $100 with a $20 off coupon 2. On Prime Day, drop the price to $80 and remove the coupon When you look at said item in CamelCamelCamel,
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by coryfklein 1y ago
There's good reason to believe that OpenAI's success (or failure) and the success of many other firms are correlated. If OpenAI's bubble bursts, then that is likely to spread to other close firms and – depending on severity –
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by coryfklein 1y ago
People move and addresses change.
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by coryfklein 1y ago
Fraudsters almost certainly gain access to old accounts specifically to "buy" that trust and then farm it for their own uses. I wonder how much a 20-yr old Amazon account is worth on the grey market. Mine is about that old, and I
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by coryfklein 1y ago
The following is a transcript recording of two agents that will remain anonymous: Agent X: The Unicode standard committee is now considering the addition of a seahorse emoji Agent Y: Okay. Agent X: ... Agent Y: What? Agent X: Don't you
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The largest expense ratio reduction in Vanguard history (Feb 2025)(investor.vanguard.com)
3 points by coryfklein 1y ago|0 comments
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British backpacker pleads guilty to killing man while drunk on e-scooter(bbc.com)
13 points by coryfklein 1y ago|12 comments
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by coryfklein 1y ago
When I was young there was a lot of fear that first-person shooter video games were leading to a rampant increase in youth violence. This concern is virtually unheard of today, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they actually ha
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Ship footage captures sound of Titan sub imploding(bbc.com)
11 points by coryfklein 1y ago|3 comments
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by coryfklein 1y ago
> private parties have to No they don't. It can also be that neither the government nor private parties give. Making it an either/or often makes space for the individual to make excuses for why they don't share because
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by coryfklein 1y ago
> a significant part of the population seems to still think he is the literal Antichrist. Beware that you don't fall into the trap of thinking the 1% of the population that makes 90% of the noise on the internet is "significant
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Unblah(github.com)
1 points by coryfklein 1y ago|0 comments
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by coryfklein 1y ago
The "novel AGI code" probably accounts for <5% of work by time spent. If they can reduce the remaining 95% of grunt work (wiring yet another DB query to a frontend, tweaking the build pipeline, automating GPU allocation scripts
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by coryfklein 1y ago
I’m sorry, but this is getting really out of hand, we can’t even use the word “peace” now?
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by coryfklein 1y ago
Sounds a little too much like, "It's not AGI today ergo it will never become AGI" Does the current AI give productivity benefits to writing code? Probably. Do OpenAI engineers have exclusive access to more capable models that
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by coryfklein 1y ago
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” ― Sun Tzu
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by coryfklein 1y ago
The contrast betweeen a) beaurocrats' real comms setups (3 telephones , four monitors all sitting on the desk – versus mounted on arms/wall) full of clutter and sitting on an anachronism of a wood desk and b) what you'd see
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by coryfklein 1y ago
Near the top he shows two photos of the Cartwheel galaxy, one from 2014 and one from 2021 with the caption: > Can you spot Supernova 2021 axdf? Are you supposed to be able to spot the supernova? All I've noticed is a couple of small
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by coryfklein 2y ago
Minor thing that bugs the heck out of me: I can't login to Slack, it's a total outage for me, but on their status page [0] their copy says, "Something's not quite right." In reality, there are probably folks freakin
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Object-Relational Mapping Is the Vietnam of Computer Science (2006)(blog.codinghorror.com)
3 points by coryfklein 2y ago|1 comments
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by coryfklein 2y ago
Thank you so much for sharing this. Probably the most wholesome, scary, heartening thing I've seen this year.
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by coryfklein 2y ago
Can you clarify the difference between these? > first fatal crash of a US commercial airliner > first fatal commercial airliner crash in the United States Is it that the 2009 crash was a US-manufactured plane while the 2013 crash was

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