gertlex

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by gertlex 1mo ago
My main take in this area is that reading HN/Reddit actively makes it harder to get the business done. Certain phone games seem way better. My more general hypothesis is that generally reading interesting stuff is too engaging, and th
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by gertlex 2mo ago
Me too, but there were some replacements that made me happy because they fixed some irk with google's version. (I think I used Commafeed?) I eventually got away from subscribing to like 50 webcomics (all I used RSS for... most other st
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by gertlex 2mo ago
I've been doing some of this too. It's great just messaging claude in discord when I want to make a new device's IP static. I also put my mikrotik config sans passwords in (local only) version control, just in case. And perha
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by gertlex 2mo ago
Regarding the button control, if others are looking for similar, I found that a bluetooth audio control device intended for mounting to motorcycle handlebars (so, water resistant, big buttons) works well while I'm doing dishes to manag
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by gertlex 3mo ago
I'm probably a fair bit younger. I came to know the phrase, then (of) him, through the flash animation of the Happatai/Yatta song on Albino Black Sheep in the early 2000s (and these days on youtube if you search 'irrational e
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by gertlex 3mo ago
I kind of read this > Fossil fuels are roughly 40% of maritime tonnage, but in the model they represent about half of maritime freight energy because coal, oil, and gas are mostly long-haul bulk trades. Moving a ton of scrap metal a shor
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by gertlex 3mo ago
I read this and another half-dozen replies to the parent comment (but not the article, of course...) and was still confused. This comment was the clearest to getting me to understand it. Example contributors as I presently understand it: -
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by gertlex 3mo ago
Instead of the value of evaluating a single scan, what about determinations made from evaluating regular deltas between images? As a layperson, I'm mostly familiar with the concept of "get scanned, and a professional evaluates it&
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by gertlex 4mo ago
Looks like it was the Israelis who put him on trial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_trial > When he took the stand in his own defense, he portrayed himself as a mid-level functionary following orders.[32] He
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by gertlex 7mo ago
They may be looking at the societal level and saying: "I can attempt to teach my kids best practices, but I've learned I sure can't rely on my peers to do the same with their kids...", then feeling like the outcome of th
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by gertlex 7mo ago
Ahh, right, definite blind spot for me! (extra so since I'm hearing impaired)
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by gertlex 7mo ago
Do you think the category of people that "consume their news" via primarily reading headlines from aggregators (google/apple mobile built-in "news") is significant or no? (this is a big part of my consumption, and i
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by gertlex 7mo ago
> You’re making a choice to prioritize profit (or foreign countries) over the country that you benefit from. This is an immoral and short sighted business decision, as you will eventually see a backlash from the host countries you’re eff
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by gertlex 7mo ago
I assume the mention of benefits was mostly a polite way to decline giving a number... It might also be more applicable in other industries/roles where benefits are more varied.
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by gertlex 7mo ago
In limited experience, I've been unclear if this strategy changes when dealing with companies that actually list the salary range (generally when required per some recent state laws).
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by gertlex 7mo ago
I recently learned there's a massive gap in collection of fines relating to data handling violations, due to a (not covered) mix of non-collection and going through legal processes. (over the past 6 years: 4+ billion in fines; 20 mill
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by gertlex 7mo ago
> If we let property taxes just be whatever they "should" be without penalizing home-buying in the process you could at least know what you'd be paying rather than having to factor in a 3-5x increase. I wouldn't be su
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by gertlex 7mo ago
Ok, but there were also 36+ months prior to covid in Trump's first presidency...
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by gertlex 7mo ago
I agree with a bunch of this (I'm almost exclusively doing python and bash; bash is the one I can never remember more than the basics of). I will give the caveat that I historically haven't made use of fancy IDEs with easy lookup
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by gertlex 7mo ago
Can you provide more context to your statement? Are you talking about models in general? Or specific recent models? I'm assuming "one-shot approach" is how you classify the parent comment's question (and subsequent refi
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by gertlex 8mo ago
I think it was 5+ years after first having an ipod touch (i.e. connecting to wifi while out and about) before I encountered the term, and never heard it widely used outside of text on the internet. Doesn't feel like it was commonly us
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by gertlex 8mo ago
This was also on top of claims (Jan 2025) that Deepseek showed that "we don't actually need as much GPU, thus NVidia is less needed"; at least it was my impression this was one of the (now silly-seeming) reasons NVDA dropped
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by gertlex 8mo ago
That seems very lucky of the second city. Let's hope we get lucky with some generous billionaires soon! I don't claim that regulations are simple, and incentives couldn't be created to result in infrastructure investment by t
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by gertlex 9mo ago
I'd default to assuming it's the respective roadmaps for Waymo and Tesla differed on which things to implement when, not training data, that results in the two behaving different.
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by gertlex 9mo ago
I wonder if you've heard the expression "hitting your stride". (native english speaker who was a bookworm as a kid; I admittedly had to ask gemini to recall the general phrase that I had in mind)
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by gertlex 9mo ago
Am I wrong in feeling like the solution you outline is only applicable to an individual's kids? But at the societal level, it clearly seems we can't depend on enough parents to do what you talk about. Something else is needed. I d
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by gertlex 9mo ago
I haven't had a reason to use Google Translate in years, so will ask: Have they opted to not use/roll out modern LLM translation capabilities in the Google Translate product?
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by gertlex 9mo ago
Nah, they probably just have Copilot as a bullet point on a slide, count that as "using AI", and are psyched for their next board meeting.
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by gertlex 10mo ago
apparently wspm is Wafer Starts Per Month guess I'm interpretting "1million wspm; add 10%; was effectively a 20-30% capacity increase" in 2015. Not sure where 5% then comes from. Guessing "relative shrink" is referr
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by gertlex 10mo ago
Tell us more; what's driving this model as your choice? Or is it more of a "prefer getting similar to what I currently have, and this is the model that makes sense"?

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