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by g_sch 9mo ago
These cameras may have been originally sold to municipalities as a way to find stolen cars, but from one year to the next, federal agencies have (1) decided that their main goal is finding arbitrary noncitizens to deport, and (2) that they&
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by g_sch 1y ago
I think this is equally true of writing. Once you see something written one way, it's very hard to imagine other ways of writing the same thing. The influence of anchoring bias is quite strong. A strong editor is able to overcome this
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by g_sch 1y ago
I sympathize with people who find writing difficult. But, putting myself in GP's shoes, I can't imagine trying to read my father's LLM-generated memoir. How could I possibly understand it as _his_ work? I would be sure that h
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by g_sch 1y ago
What I'd really like to know is: - how many people that currently work at your company had to go through an AI interviewer to get the job? - do referrals have to go through an AI interviewer too? To me, this just smacks of a tool tha
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by g_sch 1y ago
Fan/AC remotes have some of the worst, most unexpected UX I've ever seen. I still remember an AC remote at an Airbnb I stayed at a few years ago that, instead of having temperature control buttons that said "up"/&qu
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by g_sch 1y ago
The author is pretty upfront that the conclusion was meant as a reference to a character in the movie "Hoosiers", not that any of the personalities named were literally drunks or bad fathers.
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by g_sch 1y ago
I also recently had this experience! I remembered a recurring bit from an older comedy film (a customer in a shop keeps saying "Kumquats!") and tried to prompt ChatGPT 4o into getting it. It made a few incorrect guesses, such as &
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by g_sch 1y ago
Notably the jury pool was from North Dakota, a state where many people have direct or indirect ties to oil and gas industries. In fact, > During jury selection, potential jurors appeared to largely dislike the protests, and many had ties
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by g_sch 2y ago
The same type of people who name their companies Palantir and Anduril
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by g_sch 2y ago
Matt Levine had a funny similar take recently: "You could have a model of Harvard Business School that is like: 1. Harvard Business School teaches you skills that would make you good at running a company. 2. There are lots of
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by g_sch 2y ago
Yes, but what I'd really like to see is a visual graph of the dew point over the course of a day. The graph currently only shows RH%, and the only way to see how the dew point will change over the course of a day is to drag your fing
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by g_sch 2y ago
The feature I miss most about Dark Sky was that it allowed you to visualize changes in dew point throughout the day. Where I live (US East Coast), the weather can feel dramatically different depending on the humidity. Relative Humidity has
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by g_sch 2y ago
> in the last 10 years. From the article: > In 2014, amid flagging sales and pressure from investors, Darden sold Red Lobster for $2.1 billion to Golden Gate Capital, a San Francisco private-equity firm.
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by g_sch 3y ago
Back when I was in consulting, I used to think of it as a perk (as did many of my peers). Once the travel started to wear on my personal life, I ran the numbers and discovered the miles and points I was earning equated to only around $200-3
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by g_sch 3y ago
I also stopped being able to read articles on archive.is about a week ago because of this captcha loop. It seems to be related to my device and browser - my Firefox gets hit with the captcha loop, but Chrome on the same machine loads the ar
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by g_sch 3y ago
As noted in the linked article, people in urban areas are paying many times the price for water that farmers are. If farmers had to pay municipal water prices, it's much less clear whether their farming would be profitable.
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by g_sch 3y ago
The key here is distributed coordination. In the last few decades, the most effective social movements are those that did not rely on a single organization (hierarchical or not) but instead allowed multiple organizations and actors to work
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by g_sch 3y ago
I don't believe this is true on iOS, unless there was a recent change I'm not aware of. Right now, tapping power five times on my phone running iOS 16.1.1 opens an "emergency" mode, which allows anyone to call 911 or see
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by g_sch 3y ago
The linked article and this entire discussion is addressing the ethical issues that surround grading, originality, and plagiarism. How is AI going to be able to apply the "correct" ethical code when all of us can't seem to ag
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by g_sch 3y ago
I think it's not fair to fault DB or EVG for failing to run 100% service after a nationwide strike was called off just a few hours before it was supposed to start. An orderly temporary shutdown of a major rail network is going to requi
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by g_sch 3y ago
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230516100811/https://blog.plov...
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by g_sch 4y ago
Maybe I'm just a newbie when it comes to building search algorithms, but how on earth would you maintain or test something like this? From experience, I know that search algorithms using far fewer ranking factors than this are deployed
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An Extremely Intelligent Lava Lamp: Refik Anadol’s A.I. Art Extravaganza at MoMA(news.artnet.com)
1 points by g_sch 4y ago|0 comments
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by g_sch 4y ago
At most non-fancy corner stores they're still under $4. Usually under $3 if you just want egg & cheese. And they're always made to order - ketchup, mayo, salt/pepper, hot sauce, on a roll or bagel, 50 cents extra for a to
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by g_sch 4y ago
As other commenters have mentioned, people living on the street don't comprise the majority of unhoused people. It does seem like California has a higher overall percentage of "unsheltered unhoused" people among the unhoused.
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by g_sch 4y ago
Also anecdata, but my upcoming payment is somehow 30% lower. Before that, it had gone up ~15% in two years though.
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by g_sch 4y ago
I think your story carries an unspoken assumption that the police understood and/or cared about the law. I wouldn't be too sure that's the case.
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by g_sch 4y ago
I suppose, although perhaps this analogy would be more apt if there were few to no single family homes in SF (as is the case with Manhattan).
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by g_sch 4y ago
I mean, SHFs barely exist in Manhattan so it's kind of a moot comparison. But the thrust of GP is correct - you can buy a townhome in much of Brooklyn and Queens for less than $1m.
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by g_sch 4y ago
Both What and Waffles were launched in the aftermath of the OPP shutdown. Oink was the only game in town when I first got into torrenting, save for a few small "scene" sites whose main claim to fame was releasing major albums a fe

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