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by dleink 12d ago
I don't know. Austin isn't the city I fell in love with in the 90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Texans.
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by dleink 2mo ago
You still want to write/review/refine the types yourself.
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by dleink 2mo ago
The trends in NYC are kinda pro-meat but if you're a day-to-day vegetarian or looking for it, there's plenty. I can definitely see showing up at a NY restaurant and everything on the menu having beef tallow in it somehow.
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by dleink 1y ago
You hit on something there, I could type faster than my 2400 baud connection but barring a bad connection those connections were pretty reliable.
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by dleink 1y ago
> in a sense we all are, and just don’t realize it yet. one of the luckiest breaks you can catch in life is to live through something that forces you to realize this.
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by dleink 1y ago
nah, eff all that. Roll back the snapshot.
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by dleink 2y ago
If anyone needs a test case, I consider myself a reasonably intelligent human who is absolutely too stupid to use modern technology and would be glad to proclaim that to a court. (executive function, working memory issues. latency is a kill
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by dleink 2y ago
Baseball lent itself to advanced analytics even before player tracking became a thing, since the sport consists of a series of discrete one-on-one matchups with limited possible outcomes.
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by dleink 2y ago
I'd love to read something on how Perplexity+R1 integrates sources into the reasoning part.
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by dleink 2y ago
If you were on the early internet talking to someone about music or woodworking or whatever, you could reasonably assume they were a tech person because it was not simple to get online. It took a minute for it to spread.
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by dleink 2y ago
Google is a special case because they specifically removed the "Don't Be Evil" clause, therefore, I can only assume they are in fact fundamentally "evil"
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by dleink 2y ago
Disinclined, but I would like to publicly thank my parents for a CD Budget that was far too high for a teenager. I was probably averaging 1-3 CDs/month in the 90s, that's a ton of money!
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by dleink 2y ago
We're talking about a likely inconsequential amount of money for a thing that might be of high importance to a member of the household. What are you talking about?
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by dleink 2y ago
Unfortunately, whatever ideal you hold of conservative doesn't exist. Trumpism is conservatism's current expression in America and Trump is its thought leader. If conservatives were ok tying their cart to a populist demagogue, the
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by dleink 2y ago
stay safe, much love.
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by dleink 2y ago
I'm not sure we can use such definitive language about the definitions of new words.
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by dleink 2y ago
Not sure what it proves to say, "People who own expensive homes have high incomes". higher prices filter out potential buyers with lower incomes.
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by dleink 2y ago
UK Trident missiles are leased from the US. Also, Much of the technology in the UK program is from the US, and the french tech was developed independently.
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by dleink 2y ago
No, but see, it's called the _Democratic_ People's Republic of Korea. It's right there in the name.
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by dleink 2y ago
Happy! You work in a field where you can both make your own tools and use tools others have created. Maybe you can steal some of his ideas and use them, or use his stuff and contribute to the project. either way, rad.
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by dleink 2y ago
I've been yearning for updated winamp/eggdrop style music visualizations... this is very far outside my domain knowledge but feels like it could be used somehow..
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by dleink 2y ago
One of the gaps is accessibility, rideshares are useful for people who have trouble getting around.
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by dleink 2y ago
I would have done worse, but I am a bad businessman. Being good at business doesn't also make you a revolutionary thinker in technology, let alone the broader themes that are discussed here. I would be interested in hearing his thought
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by dleink 2y ago
how do you reconcile this theory with the existence of the Mets?
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by dleink 2y ago
Any examples of cities that have done a good job on this?
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by dleink 2y ago
I have a flexible commute that sometimes involves driving a car into the zone and if I see snow in the forecast I'll be less likely to be in the city with a car that day. I love congestion pricing, I will gladly pay $9 if it lowers tra
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by dleink 2y ago
"discernment beats advertising" is a dangerous idea.
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by dleink 2y ago
Wouldn't you want to be loyal to the productions themselves rather than whatever streaming service is exhibiting them? Do you have that much faith in the creative talent at the streaming services?
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by dleink 2y ago
In both finance and sportsbetting I assume anyone giving out information is part of a long con.
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by dleink 2y ago
Snapcast is nice because if you have an existing setup it can just use stdin as the audio source.

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