d_sem

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by d_sem 1mo ago
American tiping culture is a form legal discrimination, were customer tip less for workers of different races, religions, genders, sexual orientation.
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by d_sem 1mo ago
I guess I'd like to understand the technical reasoning on how you think an how an Opus 5 could over time fit on an RTX 5070.
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by d_sem 4mo ago
This resonates. Tips on how to build this skill?
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by d_sem 5mo ago
OP is an LLM.
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by d_sem 5mo ago
It's not new information that people can learn/practice in their sleep. This is already known and well documented. The interesting question is: what conditions increase the chance practicing in ones sleep? What are the mechanisms?
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by d_sem 5mo ago
I suspect the commenter above is reflecting on 2026 USA and not 1850 USA. The past tense nature of your comment if part of the concern highlights a common recognition that there is limited evidence the country is currently capable of build
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by d_sem 5mo ago
The geographic and demographic orders of magnitude when comparing these two places makes it difficult to extrapolate applicability of best practices. Who's to say the Swiss model scales? Article doesn't convincingly address this.
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by d_sem 6mo ago
More likely the cultural practice was not passed down after the massive change in food preservation about 125 years ago. In the United States, fermentation was a universally practiced method for the pickling of vegetables. This practice has
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by d_sem 8mo ago
Bold take. This hasn't been my experience.
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by d_sem 8mo ago
very nice. Keep up the good work.
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by d_sem 8mo ago
And yet an accessible ecosystem of 3rd party non-emacs tooling has not been developed. I would pay big bucks for an obsidian-styled org-mode clone that had a no-frills GUI interface. I find org-modes task tracking, calendar, and agenda view
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by d_sem 9mo ago
electric bicycles have significantly less tire waste.
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by d_sem 9mo ago
I worked for a few years in an large org which utilized perl for build scripts, testing automation, and a few other things. I would summarize the half decade Perl learning curve as initial bewilderment, intermediate cult like praise, to adv
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by d_sem 10mo ago
I think the primary issue is that there is massive demand for adolescent social interaction in a world that is increasingly physically isolating for kids. Demographic shifts make suburban families too sparse to support children friend group
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by d_sem 10mo ago
any particular platforms that one could host the blog?
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by d_sem 10mo ago
Any 101 tips for starting a blog that will stand the test of time?
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by d_sem 11mo ago
This was before my time but I appreciate the write up and the nostalgia from folks in this thread. My take away was that VisiCalc was a fairly straight forward technological problem, but a 10,000x+ impact idea. I feel like there are still i
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by d_sem 11mo ago
So can we project from the authors data that, under normal operation, both bridges roughly consume the same amount of power?
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by d_sem 11mo ago
You sure? Thats the case for areas the size of entire states. You can look at any weather temperature map to prove this.
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by d_sem 11mo ago
Thanks for the clarity. Wow this is a big deal.
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by d_sem 11mo ago
How did you verify that a software update can 1. Occur during driving operation of the vehicle and 2. results in vehicle power loss? I worked in an auto supplier years ago and there where several protections in place to prevent the risk of
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by d_sem 11mo ago
This article left me wishing it was "How I'm using coding agents to do <x> task better" I've been exploring AI for two years now. It's certainly upgraded itself from the toy classification to a basic utility.
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by d_sem 1y ago
You're over indexing on the genetics impacts of these things over the cultural impacts.
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by d_sem 1y ago
My equally anecdotal professional experience has been the exact opposite and certainly influences my view on this topic.
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by d_sem 1y ago
One of America's greatest assets is its brand as a place worth immigrating too. Much of the social capital is gained by high performing international hires who leverage the H-1B visa. We want methods for highly educated people to make
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by d_sem 1y ago
Is there a book one can read to learn how to create one?
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by d_sem 1y ago
Detroit's decline started as soon as assembly plants went one-story in the 40's-50's. There was further decline with the advent of robotics/computers in the 70's-80's, and 2000's with globalization.
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by d_sem 1y ago
I think the author did a sufficient job caveating his post without being verbose. While reading through past posts I stumbled on a multi part "Writing an LLM from scratch" series that was an enjoyable read. I hope they keep up wri
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by d_sem 1y ago
My experience working in an automotive supplier suggest that Tesla engineers must have always knowns this and the real strategy was to provide the best ADAS experience with the cheapest sensor architecture. They certainly did achieved that
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by d_sem 1y ago
I'm being facetious, but life in the rust belt post industrial automation is kinda close. Google Maps a random Detroit east side neighborhood to see what I mean.

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