jacobgkau

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by jacobgkau 7d ago
You can blame the people making poorly performing LLM chatbots, not me. (For that matter, the paying users actually funding their insanity have more on their conscience than I do trying to keep up by using tools available to me and reacting
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by jacobgkau 7d ago
> ...Irrelevant? That's the whole point. Then why did you throw "(or at all, really)" into your question? For the zinger, even though you now think it's irrelevant?
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by jacobgkau 7d ago
> Meanwhile, not only are you being charged by the word, I've never explicitly paid for AI and never will. I only use the free Claude, etc. So I'm happy to waste THEIR electricity telling their machine how much of a piece of ga
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by jacobgkau 13d ago
I caught this one: > 2.1. What effect, if any, will the proposed service have on the life cycle of domain names? > None. There will not be any effect on the life cycle of domain names. If they're dropping existing domain names, t
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by jacobgkau 13d ago
> Expiring domains is bad for the web Short-term, it might seem like it would make sense for domain registrations to be permanent, but long-term, it introduces at least two insurmountable problems: 1. Unless some other cleanup mechanism
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by jacobgkau 15d ago
> So... why is one soliciting donations on behalf of the other?! My Fraud Meter is rising, not falling here. It's not... AnkiDroid was soliciting donations to AnkiDroid, via OpenCollective, which essentially "owns" them fi
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by jacobgkau 15d ago
> Do LF and Rust solicit individual donations via phone apps (or at all, really)? "Phone apps" is irrelevant, because again, Anki was not taking donations via their app but rather via a link to OpenCollective, a separate websi
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by jacobgkau 20d ago
> Plus, the prepaid limit of 20k yen(local equivalent of $200) limits abuse potential of the system; it's not worth trying to commit blatant frauds on the train-and-sandwiches card. I don't think a limit on the value stored on
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by jacobgkau 20d ago
It's a bit of a shame that the long-term "wow" factor has been somewhat negated by the new tourist cards that expire after four weeks ("Welcome Suica" and "Passmo Passport"). It looks like you can get the
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by jacobgkau 20d ago
> When you tap your card on a terminal, it reads and rewrites the card locally in an instant, with the entire transaction processed in under 200 milliseconds. For each tap, the card and terminal mutually authenticate each other and gener
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by jacobgkau 1mo ago
The only situations you can't stop seeing someone you don't like IRL are: 1) School 2) Work 3) Very small town If you live in a major metro area, it's pretty easy to not see people, especially if you're actively wanting
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by jacobgkau 1mo ago
For me, it was a Twitch chat community. It started with everyone showing up the same time every week to watch a couple of people who streamed together. They eventually started a Discord server when Discord became available (which decreased
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by jacobgkau 1mo ago
> Option 2 represents only a single moment in time and seems to have little bearing on everything past that initial contact. It has bearing indefinitely because it means you likely need to travel in order to interact offline. Friends who
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by jacobgkau 1mo ago
I think having to travel (and doing it) in order to see people you initially met online is different from knowing people in your physical area and choosing to sometimes interact online instead.
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by jacobgkau 2mo ago
My dad worked for the United States Postal Service for decades. He never joined the union, but he was still legally required to pay union dues, and the union was still legally required to represent him. So at least in some cases, yes, start
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by jacobgkau 2mo ago
> They followed the process for forming a union in the US. They followed a process. Secret ballots are also an established process. From your own link: > Since the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) became law in 1935, card check h
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by jacobgkau 2mo ago
Eh, closer to "they pointed a gun at someone and dropped it so it fired at them to promote their cool new self-aiming gun," from the perspective of the skeptics here.
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by jacobgkau 2mo ago
For what it's worth, I have had brief one-on-one contact with Porkbun support once. Their checkout was failing when using PayPal one day, and a seemingly real person emailed in response to my ticket about an hour and a half later to le
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by jacobgkau 2mo ago
I stopped trusting Namecheap when they shunted all Russian users due to the Ukraine war. While it wasn't against ICANN regulations (since they did facilitate transfers out), it seemed against the spirit to me for them to do that to ind
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by jacobgkau 2mo ago
Be careful, I assume there are laws on the books that normal people wouldn't know about but a large enough target could use if you tried to pull this on them (or you could find yourself on the receiving end of a civil lawsuit).
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by jacobgkau 2mo ago
There's a demand for data centers, but maybe not a demand for actual usages of the data centers. That's the distinction I think they were trying to make by pointing to existing data centers not even being used to full capacity in-
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by jacobgkau 2mo ago
From reading the article, it sounds like one of the three items passed was an extension of a moratorium on data center building specifically for the area around the zoo. Another item involves eminent domain for the city to buy the land next
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by jacobgkau 2mo ago
What do you mean? With so many average users hopping onboard the LLM train to do what they could basically already do but with less effort (and less control), it seems like the slope's been slippery as predicted. (And even setting AI a
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by jacobgkau 3mo ago
...which is exactly what the featured article is about. But 2032 > 2027, so I have to assume the person you replied to already knew that and was providing additional advice.
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by jacobgkau 3mo ago
Mainly because the colon from the original was omitted, imo.
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by jacobgkau 3mo ago
The GamersNexus documentary ( https://youtu.be/1H3xQaf7BFI ) on the semi-underground GPU trade in China, while a little amateurish in terms of depth and general atmosphere, is an interesting watch and may answer some of your
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by jacobgkau 3mo ago
> Your apps are now available via focused waffle menu for centralized access to all your apps. It reduces distraction and uses the interface space efficiently as your your library grows. "your your" typo aside, I remember when
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by jacobgkau 3mo ago
I think jobs that can't be done remotely is where the universal childcare services they mentioned would come into play.
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by jacobgkau 3mo ago
Of course, "If you want to have children, you can find a way to afford them." is a very nuanced statement for you to have made. 4 kids on a lower-middle-class income in the US makes me picture poverty, as someone on a lower-middle
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by jacobgkau 3mo ago
Sounds more like it's a matter of attitudes about personal economics than attitudes about having children. If you want to wallow in poverty (and don't mind if your children do as well), then of course you can "find a way.&quo

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