crowbahr

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by crowbahr 1mo ago
Fun tidbit: Climate change is real, caused by humans, and the fires were seeing are absolutely exacerbated by the effects of the climate. However this is the _least_ on fire the world has been for a while because it's usually Asian and
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by crowbahr 3mo ago
New account made just for this comment is always suspicious. Look - the correct amount of hate crime is always 0 but using a percentage masks the amount of crime that comes from noise. Hate crime is not evenly distributed - no crime is - an
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by crowbahr 3mo ago
Cynically: this is an attempt to quash open source or discount model competition through regulatory capture.
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by crowbahr 3mo ago
Not when a datacenter is the size of manhattan
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by crowbahr 3mo ago
How many biometrics per minute can every glass in Chicago collect, each one costing 5k? It's not per biometric, it's per violation. Collecting the same face 20x is 20 infractions.
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by crowbahr 4mo ago
Google is making money on selling cloud compute. Their margins have gone from 9% to 32%. They're soaking up the investor bonanza into AI - Gemini ain't making them money. For context Cloud Compute made 20bn in Q1, Other services m
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by crowbahr 4mo ago
Your example is cultural.
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by crowbahr 5mo ago
And human civilization entirely sprung up during it, all of our nations, our cities, our pastures, our lives are built on the ice age. We need to start cooling the world down and we're doing the opposite
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by crowbahr 6mo ago
Brussels have chemically changed significantly over the past 20 years of genetic engineering - they're more nutritious than ever and are nowhere near as bitter!
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by crowbahr 7mo ago
If you give your assistant a task and they fall for obvious lies they won't be your assistant long. The point of an assistant is that you can trust them to do things for you.
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by crowbahr 7mo ago
Where on earth are you getting these numbers? Why would a SaaS company that is fighting for market dominance withhold 10x performance if they had it? Where are you getting 2.5x? This is such bizarre magical thinking, borderline conspirator
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by crowbahr 8mo ago
I do think xcode is the worst IDE I've ever worked in, bar none. Even Eclipse from 2010 was better than xcode from 2025
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by crowbahr 9mo ago
Flutter has been abandoned by all the large companies - Google is throwing their weight in on KMP and has laid off the flutter teams.
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by crowbahr 9mo ago
Touching xcode to avoid touching Android is like touching concentrated hydrochloric acid to avoid breathing a fart
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by crowbahr 9mo ago
You can get brick sets that are just a bunch of bricks - look up Creative Brick Box or Creative Vehicle Box Feels just like Grandma's ole box o bricks
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by crowbahr 9mo ago
Minecraft: weak magnets
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by crowbahr 9mo ago
He didn't say AI helps you ship with fewer bugs, just faster. It's faster. It's not better, it's not more stable - the only promise is velocity on initial ship. Oh you want to follow up? Extend it? Reconfigure? Sry can o
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by crowbahr 9mo ago
You do know that HN in in the category of social media right?
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by crowbahr 9mo ago
You can't really compare those 2. Agents a re non-deterministic. I can tell Clod to go update my unit test coverage and it will choke itself, burn 200k tokens and then loudly proclaim "Great! I've updated unit test coverage&q
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by crowbahr 10mo ago
What data source are you using? AeroAPI?
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by crowbahr 10mo ago
The linked study r values are all minor to no effect. -0.37 as an r value is barely correlated. Talk to me when they're up above -.5 How much of it is just constantly being told that SFVs are bad for you? The linked article is a meta a
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by crowbahr 10mo ago
That's your opinion, that is not the general opinion of the professionals in the field. I trust a cohort of scientists significantly more than anonymous strangers online, and you should too.
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by crowbahr 10mo ago
> Because the problem's not a "neurochemistry issue" (that theory's been debunked and the "chemicals" in play have never been known), and the solution is "no better than placebo." It most certainly
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by crowbahr 10mo ago
Couldn't be further from my experience. I enjoy it, watch for a bit, or even for an hour+, and then put it down. No noticable impact to my ability to focus at all: 5 hours flies by while coding still. Idk if I'm built different, b
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by crowbahr 10mo ago
Ascribing my entire comment to network effect makes me wonder if you even read it.
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by crowbahr 10mo ago
There's a reason everyone else who comes to take on this "market inefficiency" fails. Amazon threw billions at it. So did Google. So has Epic. And Microsoft. None of them dethroned steam, so 30% is still the cost to access th
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by crowbahr 10mo ago
Same. Switched off PIA when they were bought by Malware vendors Kape
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by crowbahr 10mo ago
> There was a post from trailofbits blog recently about how passport crypto works. Kind of related here. > > I wonder if this is some zero knowledge proofs here or what? Reading the passport and its chip implies some terminal authe
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by crowbahr 10mo ago
In a similar boat (overweight, borderline obese - slightly elevated cholesterol - high stress) and my doc has recommended I look into GLP-1s and maybe ask my insurance which types they do and don't cover. Worst comes to worst I could g
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by crowbahr 10mo ago
So why am I learning a language that hasn't been spoken in 50 years?

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