floundy

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by floundy 9mo ago
They're phoning it in, coasting on old IP and goodwill earned decades ago. Animal Crossing had less dialogue options than the Gamecube version that preceded it by two decades. Smash at mid-high levels is still plagued by lag switching
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by floundy 9mo ago
Nintendo really has no incentive to improve. They make money hand over fist selling half-baked titles to their combined market of actual undiscerning children, and rabid fanboy manchildren who will praise any first party Nintendo title as a
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by floundy 9mo ago
I’m assuming the author was thinking Minecraft with the kid’s friends would be Peer2Peer or something. I doubt Switch has the power to host a Minecraft server, but I might be wrong. See Smash, which is entirely Peer2Peer for the main gamepl
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by floundy 9mo ago
Rhode Island is trying this. The gantries have been up for years, but it was challenged in court by the trucking lobby. The state prevailed with some concessions, and is planning to reinstate the truck tolls soon. Probably, due to the small
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by floundy 9mo ago
Stuff like this is common in states with no income tax. If public services in two states are equivalent and one has income tax but one doesn’t, the latter state residents pay the same total tax burden through property tax, tolls, and sales
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by floundy 9mo ago
In the northeast I regularly see idiots slowing down for the high speed toll lanes that have explicit signage not to slow down. People going 65-70MPH, then as the toll approaches one car brakes down to 45MPH because they’re afraid their tra
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by floundy 9mo ago
Walkable cities are a luxury good. Care to share what multiple of the median annual household income a home costs wherever you live? 10x? 20x?
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by floundy 9mo ago
>a bunch of internet pages containing things that are blatantly wrong So Reddit? I’d imagine the AI companies have all the “pre AI internet” data they scraped very carefully catalogued.
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by floundy 9mo ago
Apple’s most interesting value proposition was ignoring all this AI junk and letting users click “not interested” on Apple Intelligence and never see it again. From a business perspective it’s a smart move (inasmuch as “integrating AI” is t
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by floundy 9mo ago
Because topics like these always attract some Very Smart People to comment and engage in order to share their Very Correct Opinions on macroeconomics and politics.
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by floundy 9mo ago
Laughing aloud at the thought of the average paycheck to paycheck consumerist blowing a gasket when they see a $24k tax bill for their $80k pickup truck.
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by floundy 9mo ago
The quality of discourse on HN has been nearing the bottom of the barrel (read: mostly indistinguishable from Reddit) since the pandemic. It’s very rare these days to see citations or even arguments that explain personal reasoning. Just lik
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by floundy 9mo ago
Just turn it upside down then. At best some “Good Samaritan” turns it right side up at some point but the food arrives late, cold, and spilled all over the inside of the robot.
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by floundy 10mo ago
If these "greedy utility companies" were such good monopolists or duopolists wouldn't it reflect in some pretty insane stock performance? Eversource (NYSE: ES) is my local electric/natural gas provider in Massachusetts t
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by floundy 10mo ago
Either cargo pants, or their waist size is much larger than average.
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by floundy 10mo ago
Average German lifespan is about 80 years. What if it was 70 years for an 80th percentile drinker and 90 years for a 20th percentile drinker, I assume that changes your conclusion? These are of course entirely made up numbers, and the data
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by floundy 10mo ago
Of course there is no "hard evidence" unless someone leaves evidence of the prompt or AI response in their blog post. There are certain clues and syntax. Your comment seems like it would fit in much better on Reddit than on HN.
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by floundy 10mo ago
Genuinely, why? More people than ever are using LLMs to flood the internet with textual slop far faster than humans who have respect for the craft of writing can generate their own text. I checked Jared Hecht (the author of this piece’s blo
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by floundy 10mo ago
I didn’t know who this author was previously (Jared Hecht) but I looked up pictures of him and he definitely does not look like he exercises regularly. He’s skinny (e.g. not overweight) but if I passed by him on the street I would not peg h
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by floundy 10mo ago
“Alcoholism” is outdated and has been widely replaced by AUD (Alcohol Use Disorder). I looked at Germany, according to Wikipedia the average consumption of pure ethanol per person per year in Germany as of 2019 was 12.2 liters. This was the
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by floundy 10mo ago
It absolutely does, do you even use Google Search Console? For just one of my websites, I have 223 pages of queries I can look through from the past 28 days to see what users typed in that were provided impressions of my site or clicked on
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by floundy 11mo ago
No. Pro rata is Latin for “in proportion.” It’s one dollar for one dollar. If you add $7k to your tIRA to do the backdoor Roth, you also must convert $7k of existing funds which becomes taxable income. So you pay your marginal tax rate, on
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by floundy 11mo ago
Sheesh, are you a Redditor?
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by floundy 11mo ago
I'm still setting up my own home server, adding one functionality at a time. I wanted to like Nextcloud but it's just too bloated. Radicale is a good calendar replacement. I'd rather have single-function apps at this point.
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by floundy 11mo ago
Because I'm an engineer, who both does and sits for technical interviews.
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by floundy 11mo ago
I don’t work in tech.
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by floundy 11mo ago
Most departments at companies run on zero to two good engineers anyway. The rest are personality and nepotism hires limping along some half-baked project or sustainment effort. Most people in my engineering program didn’t deserve their engi
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by floundy 11mo ago
So the process is now: 1. Embellish your resume with AI (or have it outright lie and create fictional work history) to get past the AI screening bots. 2. Have a voice-to-text AI running to cheat your way past the HR screen and first round i
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by floundy 11mo ago
You write like AI
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by floundy 11mo ago
It’s been my experience that when people are talking about some future sum of money without specifying real or nominal they are referring to a real sum, based on their current day concept of monetary value.

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