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by kg 5d ago
Posing a well considered, concise and precise question only to get a wall of Claudeisms in response from a colleague is always demoralizing. Then you have to play the guessing game of 'is this detail in the response true, or did Claude
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by kg 5d ago
Plenty of people live successfully without a car in 2026.
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by kg 5d ago
The frequency with which AI boosters leap to "clearly once you've read a book the author owns everything that comes out of your brain" still shocks me a little bit. It's obviously not the same as somebody torrenting book
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by kg 6d ago
Historically, for loops in shaders were limited in the number of iterations they could run for. Among other things this ensures that rasterizing a particular pixel completes in a known amount of time (and ideally that amount of time is fast
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by kg 6d ago
The Anthropic employee quoted in the article is doing a great job of saying things that no PR/communications department would ever, ever want an employee to say: > Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill a
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by kg 7d ago
> What if in the future it will be easier (and maybe even more natural) to ask an LLM to "imagine" tons of possible inputs and correct outputs for a tool that you are making and then train a tiny model, without writing or gener
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by kg 7d ago
Behavior like Google's monopolistic behavior here in turn enables other monopolies - if distributing your own software puts you at risk of being arbitrarily banned by advertisers, deranked in search, blocked by virus scanners, etc with
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by kg 7d ago
When I put the two sides on the scale - the things being protested and the damage done by protesters - typically it's very easy for me to write off a couple burned cars or broken windows, even if I'm not a fan of broken windows or
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by kg 8d ago
If you want to provide appropriate care to people with wombs you don't want to filter based on what their drivers' license or birth certificate say, because those can not only defy your expectations, but they can also be wrong d
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by kg 8d ago
> I would just not conduct my hiring using this paper's methodology. Unfortunately IRL there are lots of signals about a person's heritage encoded into things like their name or what school they went to. You would need to filte
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by kg 8d ago
I watched the first 13 seasons of South Park as they aired and the post you're replying to feels like at least a sincere and reasonable interpretation of SP's politics. What season is the Mr. Garrison storyline from? Why is it ins
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by kg 8d ago
His examples don't hold up. Latinx is attempting to provide an umbrella term for latino and latina, it's not renaming one of the two. "Birthing person" is attempting to provide an umbrella term for people who can give bi
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by kg 16d ago
Doesn't California already have some of the highest electricity costs in the country? Is there really not enough money coming in for SCE, PG&E etc to do necessary maintenance? That's shocking. EDIT: Looking further, PG&E&#
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by kg 16d ago
One problem with Kaiser (probably not only Kaiser) when it comes to specialists like mental health workers is that at least in California there was a policy of not allowing specialists to refuse new patients. So over time, specialists'
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by kg 16d ago
If you weren't aware, YouTube kind of has a version of this signal, which is to go into your history and remove the video you just watched. Supposedly this removes its influence on further recommendations. And then if that video or one
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by kg 19d ago
Apple and Microsoft have speed-dial access to the relevant legal departments to get their apps put back online
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by kg 19d ago
It's not immediate restoration, there's a delay.
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by kg 19d ago
If someone is opposed to Communism they should oppose Communism, not anti-fascism. Seems pretty straightforward Oddly the US is very cozy with some modern Communists!
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by kg 20d ago
> Further, what about all the trades jobs around data center development? Those only last as long as data centers are being built. Do you think we're going to keep building more data centers forever?
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by kg 21d ago
You still use TP, you can just use a lot less and you end up cleaner than with TP alone as a bonus.
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by kg 22d ago
Maybe they're referring to defederation? It's quite common on Mastodon as I understand it, due to disagreements on things like moderation between server operators.
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by kg 26d ago
Even if it's not inevitable, if your employer tells you "use AI or get fired", well, take your pick. A lot of the resentment I see is a result of those sorts of mandates.
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by kg 28d ago
Among other manufacturers Spigen has cases that protect the hinge. I've owned a foldable for 3 years and never had anything get into the hinge thanks to that, though some amount of dust did gather inside the hinge cover over time. But
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by kg 1mo ago
You would need some sort of hardware serial number system for PCs and a whole security infrastructure to verify that the serial number being used for the unlock wasn't faked. Then you could do per-PC unlocks. I'm not aware of anyt
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by kg 1mo ago
I wonder if this is necessary for Firefox users to get past Cloudflare's various bot/scraping protections?
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by kg 1mo ago
I experienced this periodically on my gmail and always assumed that it was just a typo on the part of the sender, adding a period where there shouldn't be one. But there were cases that kind of defied plausibility, like when a recruite
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by kg 1mo ago
This ignores the time cost of having to find the right private company to file your taxes (everyone loves price shopping!) and manually funnel all your data into it, data the government probably already has. Tax prep costs me at least an en
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by kg 1mo ago
The funding climate for indie games is the worst it's been in a long time and it's been bad for over a year. Lots of publishers have stopped signing deals or are only funding small amounts with really bad terms.
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by kg 1mo ago
Lots of people did complain or actively take steps to punish them for lawbreaking, yeah?
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by kg 1mo ago
The imbalance is profound. I once tried to find a lawyer who could handle getting accommodations for a visually impaired person I knew. In practice, we probably just needed them to draft a sufficiently stern letter notifying the operator of

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