ihumanable

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by ihumanable 5d ago
Brutal conquest is a pretty well traveled path to legitimacy. Power is taken, and regardless of the ideals of the takers, enough power grants legitimacy.
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by ihumanable 5d ago
I still remember when we learned logo in elementary school. I had to get my mom to go out and buy a 3.5" disk so I could save my programs. When I realized that all of logo was actually saved on that disk and I could continue playing wi
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by ihumanable 8d ago
I liked how in the example here it tells the user "Your flight is delayed 2hrs due to storms in Denver..." Then says "checking alternate routes" then shows them a card with their original flight details (it does have &qu
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by ihumanable 14d ago
I appreciate that whoever is approving naming at Dyson doesn't care about making boring names. - Pencil Fluffycones - Ball Animal 3 Extra - V16 Piston Animal Submarine These are real product names that they were happy to ship. I like
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by ihumanable 21d ago
We've seen in the K-shaped economy of late a new kind of consumerism. The top 10% of consumers accounted for half of all spending in the second quarter of 2025. Capitalism will happily chug along while leaving a massive number of peopl
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by ihumanable 26d ago
Those people throwing tea into the harbor are destroying property for political reason and are wrong and should be considered terrorists. If they don't like the King's governors they should petition the court to appoint one that m
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by ihumanable 27d ago
I think the biggest issue with LLM generated code is that it's happy to just keep plugging away making a bigger and bigger rat's nest. I spend a lot of time reviewing code and the LLM code works for what the implementer wanted and
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by ihumanable 1mo ago
And there are many examples of them being happy to join in. I think the best one right now is Alex Karp, Palantir CEO, who is actively rooting for and building the tools of fascism because it's so profitable. > Palantir is here to
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by ihumanable 1mo ago
Based on the discourse around Musk it seems like some people believe he's having some huge amount of input on - Rocket Design - Battery Chemistry - Frontier level AI research There's no way he's just a guy with a bunch of mon
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by ihumanable 1mo ago
I think that's been the most baffling thing about the rise of MAGA. It was a global order built by the US to place the US in positions of power and privilege in every way imaginable. And the MAGA group looked at it and said "we ar
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by ihumanable 2mo ago
I don't know, it feels like the GCC steering committee's AI policy is sorta the definition of moderate speech. They aren't coming out swinging on LLMs shouting it down as slop and calling anyone using it lazy. They just crea
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by ihumanable 2mo ago
The first sentence of the first section entitled "The Rate" reads as follows > The rate tracks SOFR (the Secured Overnight Financing Rate), the benchmark overnight interest rate published every business day by the Federal Reser
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by ihumanable 2mo ago
The choice of `medium-light blue`, `yellow`, `medium-dark blue` (!?), `red` for the pain guage is definitely something. I almost missed that there were 4 colors until the second chart
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by ihumanable 2mo ago
Told my spouse about this feature when I learned about this a while back too. They have terrible motion sickness to the point that just shooting a quick text was a gamble. Since they put this setting on, they can happily use their phone wi
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by ihumanable 2mo ago
It is an amazing fumble from Netflix. I thought Reed Hastings actually understood the space pretty well back when he somewhat famously said (paraphrasing) "We have to become HBO faster than HBO can become Netflix" and pivoted to
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by ihumanable 2mo ago
In case anyone is out-of-the-loop https://youtu.be/FVRHTWWEIz4?si=btZnQp0IEnmgrtWV&t=2388 "But I kind of think of ads as like a last resort for us for a business model. I would do it if it meant that was the only
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by ihumanable 2mo ago
Why couldn't the police, who you pay taxes to, do their jobs? Apparently a sophisticated robbery ring was operating with a well understood MO in a predictable location and the police couldn't figure out how to use those facts to
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by ihumanable 3mo ago
“State’s rights” the conservative small government supporters shouted for. States attempt to hold a company accountable for giving its citizens cancer. Not like that the conservative Supreme Court says. Either the conservative movement lack
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by ihumanable 3mo ago
I hear they have real loose permitting regulations on Mars, and I think Elon was supposed to have a colony up and running about a decade ago, so that should all work out for him.
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by ihumanable 3mo ago
Yea, but if I can get a ChatGPT-like experience from Siri AI for free, why would I pay OpenAI. Now it remains to be seen if Siri AI will deliver anything close to a ChatGPT-like experience. But if they did, for the consumer segment that is
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by ihumanable 3mo ago
There will be a generation of children who will grow up and look back at their childhood photos and wonder if they ever really happened. I also laughed out loud when they are showing the "cleanup" tool and they guy is talking abou
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by ihumanable 3mo ago
I like OCaml, I spend most of my day to day though in Elixir and I think one of the things that's so nice about elixir is mix. There's a handful of mix commands you learn when you get started and it's such a great experience.
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by ihumanable 3mo ago
Yea, all the new advice around using dependency cooldowns only works if _someone_ is installing these things before you and finding the vulnerabilities. It seems like the advice right now is to become a freerider while there are still peopl
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by ihumanable 4mo ago
I've spent the last decade in erlang / elixir / OTP. I think a lot of the naming comes from the early use of erlang as effectively an "OS" for telecom switches. I always joke that BEAM wants to be the operating sys
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by ihumanable 4mo ago
For the last 15 years you could take a picture of a lightbulb and pop it in google search and it would tell you what kind it was. I know because I bought a house in 2013 where the builder delighted in using a dozen weird fixtures and the ch
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by ihumanable 4mo ago
I don't use much AI, but we have an AI agent that reviews all of our PRs at work. It's pretty good, I actually like it because it's very thorough and catches real things. On a recent PR though it very confidently pointed out
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by ihumanable 4mo ago
Magical editing of pictures is so wild to me. Most photos people take have a longterm have an audience of basically 1. That's why there's jokes about how awful it is when a coworker corners you to show you their vacation photos,
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by ihumanable 4mo ago
CGP Grey has an older video now about what happened to horses over time. For a while every economic advance seemed to mean more and better jobs for horses. But then the automobile comes along and there's no more need for horses and we
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by ihumanable 4mo ago
I know that articles like this, and the broader dialog, doesn't go too in-depth on how these things work. The phrase, "one agent understand marketing econometrics" from the article makes me wonder what exactly they mean. Thi
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by ihumanable 5mo ago
I find this graphic a good one https://www.visualcapitalist.com/inflation-chart-tracks-pric... Obviously it's partial (or else there would be a billion lines) but it gives a good broad view of what things have gotten m

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