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by jefb 3mo ago
Can't believe it's come down to this in 2026, but if this does not beep incessantly and slam on the brakes when maneuvering around some foliage I'm all in.
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by jefb 4mo ago
What if AI did not exist and the labor market expanded 50% overnight?
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by jefb 8mo ago
Hover on the green button??? I've used a personal and work Mac daily for over a decade. I had no idea. Thanks!
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by jefb 1y ago
I meant it when I said these smaller models are great. They open up entirely new use cases and I appreciate the work that went into creating them. If you don’t consider testing the limits of new tech appropriate, maybe instead of a downvote
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by jefb 1y ago
My lovely interaction with the 270M-F16 model: > what's second tallest mountain on earth? The second tallest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest. > what's the tallest mountain on earth? The tallest mountain on Earth is Mount
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by jefb 1y ago
Pressure treated wood is a very common outdoor building material.
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by jefb 2y ago
Did you end up discovering the original password to the zip file? (was it, as I'd hope, `TIMBOBIMBO` ?)
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by jefb 2y ago
Nice bit of sleuthing here, well done. Anyone know where those search traffic graphics are made from?
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by jefb 2y ago
My point was to illustrate that our physics models don't agree on the nature of this expansion (Hubble tension) so using it to dismiss the fact that the observable universe is dense enough to form an event horizon seems like a stretch.
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by jefb 2y ago
> Equating the Schwarzschild radius for a given blob of matter with the event horizon of a black hole requires that the matter be static or collapsing. If the space containing the matter is stretching does that still count as expansion?
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by jefb 2y ago
Let's not forget that the radius of the observable universe is ~= the Schwarzschild radius i.e. we're all almost certainly inside a black hole ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology
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by jefb 2y ago
> Because this storage system’s query language is more powerful than the underlying one’s, its read operations in general may overfetch and then filter results. Seems like this is the crux of the problem. Migrating and/or replicatin
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by jefb 2y ago
The feature where it tells me the weather. I'd say there's about a 80% chance that it loads the forecast in under 5 seconds. Loading the radar has far worse performance - it only works ~50% of the time and failures just show an em
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by jefb 2y ago
This would be an awesome feature. It would be a good resource for plant identification and I won't inadvertently introduce an invasive species into my local environment.
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by jefb 2y ago
I can't bring myself to believe that bollards are the answer. Placing them everywhere would be exceptionally expensive. Emergency vehicles would get stuck in traffic more often. Car accidents involving bollards would be more dangerous
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by jefb 2y ago
Very cool graphic. However emphasizing the juxtaposition between pictures of wood joints on the internet and actual real-life wood joints with the phrase "digital" is a bit perplexing.
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by jefb 2y ago
This must be what "doing your own research" looks like. Maybe try here instead of squinting at single time series of Durban: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
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by jefb 4y ago
There's no right answer. I suspect a few things are going on here. 1. The teacher forgot to include that the University wants 100 responses to the survey. 2. Missing answer C likely contains something like "Randomly select 14 more
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by jefb 4y ago
Sure looks like a bank run. I'll set the line on an official entry here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_runs at 4.5 days.
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by jefb 4y ago
Cryptocurrency has many advantages to centralized fiat money. Narrator: It doesn't.
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by jefb 4y ago
Hooks are obviously not stateless - I'm saying they were an inevitable consequence of the push towards functional components and that they represent an inferior development experience. No one needed to write 2000 words on how to use se
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by jefb 4y ago
React's push towards a functional model with all the use* hooks is so sad to watch. A stateless programming model in a domain where state is so fiercely coupled to program utility is inevitably going to spawn this garbage. Class based
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by jefb 4y ago
The perquisite to successful DAO's is actually a strong centralized universal identity system (which is ironically counter to cryto-bro anarcho-capitalists philosophies). From there it's pretty easy to associate real political cap
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by jefb 5y ago
Mandates? "Since last June, Google has approved nearly 14,000 employees globally to transfer to a new location or go fully remote, Casey said. About 15% of applications have been denied, he added." "Employees not prepared
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by jefb 5y ago
I think we're largely in agreement here e.g. I agree 100% that premature abstractions hold a lot of inertia. I'm just advocating for making decisions that optimize for "the right thing" over speed alone. In my experience
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by jefb 5y ago
It is not an either/or situation - it's a maturation process. Make flexible slow software first, then optimize the parts that need to be fast. Optimize iteration frequency of features not for loops.
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by jefb 5y ago
From my experience most of your assertions have a hidden assumption that the software requirements are complete and they are good. Computing something 10000 times faster is useless if it turns out to be the wrong computation. Furthermore, t
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by jefb 5y ago
What if we implemented a system where explanations of things were consistently judged against each other so as to develop a set of the best explanations representing the most complete real time description of reality? Maybe we can call it s
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by jefb 5y ago
Subsidies are keeping cow COGS artificially low. Removing them would increase the cost to raise a cow; selling it for more money does not necessarily lead to more profit. This is the difference between gross profit and net profit... and we&

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