disillusioned

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by disillusioned 13d ago
Well, technically, it's always electric. Sometimes the source of that electricity is from the battery system, and sometimes it's from an onboard generator.
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by disillusioned 13d ago
That's like saying murdering someone doesn't have any effect on their life cycle because the full cycle: birth, life, death, plays out. The timing, evidently, isn't a factor!
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by disillusioned 17d ago
So... you already owned Google Home minis... why not buy Google's Nest doorbell, which rings every Google Home device out of the box with none of the absurdity? If you have a Google 4k TV Streamer, it even pops up on your TV when someo
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by disillusioned 22d ago
>People with diabetes alone account for 60% of hospital expenditure That number seemed too large to be true, and I think you might be conflating some numbers... The NIH study about Economic Costs of Diabetes in the US in 2022 [1] states:
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by disillusioned 27d ago
Thanks for the compliment! I just posted the other 3 in another reply!
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by disillusioned 27d ago
Here are the rest. I wrote these to specifically be principles that can be easily internalized and pointed to for accountability: 2. Own the Output. Everyone is encouraged to use these tools to accelerate the pace of their work and to take
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by disillusioned 28d ago
Heh. Just got done writing (by hand!) a Principles of AI Use document for my (ironically) AI enablement firm, the first of which is: Write as yourself. You’re being paid for your expertise and insights. Communicate them directly to us. Copy
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by disillusioned 28d ago
Ha! I love this! This is absolutely an "iykyk" situation. I brought this thread up with my brother and he remembered every bit of it as well. Here's a friendly reminder you can play Police Quest in your browser, right now: h
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by disillusioned 28d ago
Not the poker room... the... park? In the bushes? You're asking a lot of eight-year-old me's memory here, man.
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by disillusioned 29d ago
Aha, but there's an added dimension to this Sierra-branded cruelty: A young 8-year-old me, playing Police Quest for the first time. Sits through the briefing. Gets the gun, the ammo, the briefcase, from the locker room. Grabs the car k
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by disillusioned 1mo ago
It's a bit like trying to finish a sentence when you're really stoned... you vaguely remember the preceding couple of words you've said but don't really know how you got there and now you're wandering in the forest
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by disillusioned 1mo ago
The difference is the asymmetry of the potential warfare we're talking about here. Committing physical, in-person crimes anonymously has obviously always been possible: there are unsolved murders, thefts, and other crimes every day. Bu
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by disillusioned 1mo ago
Accountability theatre, quite literally.
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by disillusioned 1mo ago
Beyond these obviously deplorable ads, my wife got sniped by an ecommerce lookalike ad on Google the other day: a near-identical match of the vendor she was looking for, with a paid for sponsored ad (that was clearly linked to some chinese
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by disillusioned 2mo ago
Were a lot of people rawdogging their Thinkpads while driving back in the day? Plugged into an inverter into the cigarette lighter to trickle charge? :-)
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by disillusioned 2mo ago
Time for me to re-post my perennial "fun banana facts" post: Bananas are the #1 most-sold item at most grocery stores including, notably, Wal-Mart. Bananas also have the highest standard deviation in terms of predicting if a given
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by disillusioned 2mo ago
Surprised Grok hasn't already incorporated an "ensure Swastikas are buried in any QR codes we generate" skill into the model...
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by disillusioned 2mo ago
For the very obvious reason that the percentage of population aware of what the term Hakenkreuz means is literal orders of magnitude smaller than those familiar with the term Swastika? I mean, feel free to run a "taking Swastika back&q
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by disillusioned 2mo ago
That's the power of venture capital!
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by disillusioned 2mo ago
Windows 95 was originally delivered on 14 1.44MB floppy disks...
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by disillusioned 2mo ago
My wife had a miscarriage while we were staying at my Uncle's house in New Jersey. I was going to call 911, but instead, he decided he'd call from his landline. Difference between ambulance being free (because it was to a city res
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by disillusioned 3mo ago
This sounds lovely, and ideal, but my read on this situation for, say, Google Drive, is a bit more nuanced: Anthropic's docs say that its permissions are scoped to the folders you grant access to the _user_ you create for Claude. This
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by disillusioned 3mo ago
I have left comments on HN and Reddit and then found them rolled into Google's AI search summarizer OR the knowledge box with _extreme rapidity_ such that when I went, mere moments later, to go re-check some fact I had cited, I found m
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by disillusioned 3mo ago
I'm staying in a hotel right now and the TV is locked in hospitality mode and was blocking me from just installing Plex. It (Opus 4.8) gave me this whole jeremiad about how I need to be careful and it probably won't work and I sho
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by disillusioned 3mo ago
Come by!
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by disillusioned 3mo ago
Hard to put an economic damage value on the psychological scarring of everyone in the country sending their kid to school with this in the back of their minds, to say nothing of security theater put in place in an attempt to assuage those c
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by disillusioned 3mo ago
The specific breadth of that oopsie, to recall, was that multiple human reviewers recommended escalation to law enforcement, and were rebuffed. So the system _almost_ worked except for an unforced error and people died as a direct result. O
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by disillusioned 4mo ago
Because nothing about the IPO price has any resemblance to a fair market valuation, and if it's being propped up by this forced inclusion, even less so? The rules existed to fundamentally protect against a Potemkin village situation wh
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by disillusioned 4mo ago
Contrast hooks everywhere.
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by disillusioned 4mo ago
We're building something along these lines, but since our roots are a consulting business, we're still building around the idea that there needs to be an expert integrator doing the front-loading work of discovery/decompositi

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