flowerthoughts

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by flowerthoughts 13d ago
Proposed new rule: If there's no technical reason to fuck with the product I have already purchased access to, don't fuck with the product I have already received.
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by flowerthoughts 24d ago
Thinking of installing cameras and need power, so at least PoE seems like a proper reason to run Cat 6 in 2026. Otherwise, I'd just invent a 12/24/48V power protocol and still having to do per-device WiFi setup.
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by flowerthoughts 26d ago
The nice thing about others taking photos, is that I can focus on the odd ones. I have photos of really well made knots on a guiding rope, and street gutter stones. You wanna see what Venice looks like in general? Just go on Tiktok; they ha
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by flowerthoughts 28d ago
> the doctor will be glad too. So even the doctor forgot what they had talked about, and assumed the transcription was right? Crikey.
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by flowerthoughts 1mo ago
I wouldn't expect the light I emit or reflect to be private, except where I build walls. Why would I expect any other wavelengths to be so, if I haven't taken precautions to shield my house for WiFi wavelengths?
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by flowerthoughts 1mo ago
Foods that claim to lower weight or fix your heart disease risk.
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by flowerthoughts 1mo ago
You always end up with the people pushing these foods being those who sell them. And then others start selling fake foods with similar claims. For the "eat to get slimmer" claim, I think we're at the point where "extraor
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by flowerthoughts 1mo ago
So the metric GP is after is credit used per credit user? Normalizing the effect of an increase in credit users, and not assuming it's uniformly distributed. Seems simpler to just publish the delinquent debt separately.
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by flowerthoughts 1mo ago
If there's no explanation of why the 70+ bucket has so much larger CI band, having that dominate the totals seems like very fair critique. At the very least, they should have presented another totals with the outlier removed to show th
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by flowerthoughts 1mo ago
It builds corporate value. If you end up with a portfolio of patents that someone might want to acquire, you've just created a new market for your company. Individual software patents of common quality probably don't matter.
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by flowerthoughts 1mo ago
Barely. There are import duties on everything. Seems the old agreements that expired were hard to replace. At least they got the academic research funding sorted last year. Part of EEA and Schengen, but those are not the EU.
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by flowerthoughts 1mo ago
The same goes for all reporting on YouTube. Many publishers jumpers the gun without looking at context. It's also interesting that Citadel is mentioned everywhere as the buyer, as if it's strange that a huge market maker firm woul
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by flowerthoughts 1mo ago
Although, you don't know how many species before us caused their own suffering and destruction. Perhaps it's normal and expected. There's a slight chance we'll leave documentation to whatever species comes after us, but
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by flowerthoughts 2mo ago
The Epstein affair was eventually successfully forgotten. I still pretend to be surprised, to keep my decency.
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by flowerthoughts 2mo ago
I'm the same. Though I still think they could have made USB much neater as a protocol, USB-C now does everything I need for goto-connectivity. I recently looked at the connector and reflected on how insanely small it is. It's no w
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by flowerthoughts 2mo ago
Getting rid of ARC would be so nice, but of course this just means I need to add DKIM2 and need ARC for backwards compatibility.
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
I find his way of talking funny and entertaining. I can't say why, but it's a nice way to waste a few minutes. It's very boring if you're only there for the information.
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
Fire first, ask questions later.
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
Is anyone using LLM on the other side, to vet incoming PRs for quality and whether it's worth reviewing?
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
Elon is missing the bigger TAM here. Once they've created a time machine, they can not only sell all these things backwards and forwards in time, they can also start making industrialization come way earlier, which will lead to exponen
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
North of Sweden too, from the same mountains. Switzerland could probably extend their hydro if they wanted to, but it's NIMBY rich. Wind and solar has stalled, though there's plenty of both in the Alps.
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
And the more uselessly amusing thing is that the manager who requests higher tokens usage probably also doesn't care whether it's producing slop or not. Metric goes up; managers happy until CFO is reported income hasn't gone
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
The unsung heros we need. Thank you.
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
If Anthropic tanks in the public markets, that will cause a revaluation of OpenAI in the private markets. If they delay IPO to try another private round, they also want to sign that round early. Perhaps that's Anthropic's plan, is
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
I wonder which of the management consulting companies caused this fire/rehire experiment.
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
Yes. That's not an argument against my point: they could achieve the same biased result using recordings of real bets. Be happy they (maybe) haven't yet, because that conartistry is much harder to show. Don't trust anything a
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
The alternative would be to ask both sides of the bets to record a video, and tell them to only post winning bids, but to pay out to both sides. Is that really better? Classic tactic by the bet picking gambler gurus and is impossible to con
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
I think this has been Musk's play for more than a decade. Except the Twitter purchase, which was just weird. It's possible the AI play is for data center subsidies/tax breaks. TBC didn't go too well in terms of Californi
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
I've been wanting to visit courts for a while, but never had the time. I had a look at the local courts' agendas, and I was appalled by how many SA/CSAM cases there were. Probably half of them or so. Not just to children, but
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by flowerthoughts 3mo ago
In this case, the missing piece in Go is the NonNullable hint. That would make it clear that null checks aren't needed, enforceable by the type system, and lintable. Option types just forces you to do the check, but doesn't remove

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