leothecool

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by leothecool 2mo ago
Human experience is a part of conservation. Without a house, these trees would get clear cut once they are big enough to be worth anything. With a house, the homeowner will want to keep them.
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by leothecool 2mo ago
When I did this for a home remodel, the big difference was that it was AR and not just VR. Being able to experience where the virtual changes line up with the real world makes a huge difference.
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by leothecool 2mo ago
If apple puts an inference SOC in their phone, the datacenters are all dead.
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by leothecool 4mo ago
You can't even get coins counted for free at retail banks anymore. Cash handling is too expensive even for the place that ostensibly provides cash handling services to the general public.
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by leothecool 5mo ago
What is the problem this solves? Why would I use this instead of telling claude to vomit out the underlying boilerplate.
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by leothecool 7mo ago
Leadership is not the same thing as management. Maybe some day the OP will get training data to add that concept to its latent vector space.
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by leothecool 11mo ago
When they say users need to be protected they don't mean the people. They mean the database record.
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by leothecool 2y ago
Their virtual pet game is creepily connected to their social media platform and has poor performance on low end phones, like the kind kids typically have. Their company has a huge problem at the leadership level if they are making those kin
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by leothecool 2y ago
I was under the impression that this is the exact kind of thing that violates the GDPR. That is.. processing an identifier (IP address) to do something more (track user actions across multiple requests) than what is required (route traffic
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by leothecool 2y ago
My recent experience with wanting analytics for an enterprise application was that for my limited needs, it was easier to roll my own than to deal with evaluating all the options and integrating with another service. There are already a ton
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by leothecool 2y ago
I'd go even further. Most people don't want to even be exposed to the news.
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by leothecool 3y ago
I train my LLM to barf up my domain specific boilerplate code. I don't ask it to solve business problems.
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by leothecool 3y ago
We should make a wealth shot clock. Nobody is allowed to hold an asset for more than a few seconds.
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by leothecool 3y ago
Theft has a clearance rate of only 15%. Sounds like we already stopped trying to regulate most theft, in practice.
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by leothecool 3y ago
Its controversial because if the market could bear a price increase, it would already bear it. The left hand side of your inequality is already at a local maximum, and can not be raised to pass on costs to the consumer.
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by leothecool 3y ago
It would only mean that if wages were based on economic value. Which, I guess could be true if hourly wage and economic value mean the same thing.
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by leothecool 3y ago
Would you count a water battery? Or is it non-renewable because the pipes will rust.
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by leothecool 3y ago
A personal example for me is that on the iphone, the default view shows me 24 icons, which is way too many to be useful. Its so useless, in fact, that most tech savvy users simply swipe up and use the search feature. But there's no w
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by leothecool 3y ago
I think a society where people mean what they say and say what they do is preferable to a society with more implied expectations. So go ahead and take care of me, but put it in writing. In my experience its pretty common for small business
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by leothecool 3y ago
We're all out here chilling in the midwest working at lifestyle businesses.
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by leothecool 3y ago
> the US is prosecuting and incarcerating broad swathes of innocent people. There's about half a million people in jail right now who haven't been convicted of a crime. Some of them are innocent, for sure.
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by leothecool 3y ago
Is it still trespassing if you ask to be let in, and the butler lets you in when he's not supposed to?
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by leothecool 3y ago
IMO a big reason why is that web apps don't have the idioms and affordances of desktop applications, so in the end, the ux feels wrong to users unless do you a boatload of extra work implementing and maintaining the multiple versions o
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by leothecool 3y ago
Silverlight had this. It was a bad idea, then. Its still a bad idea.
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by leothecool 4y ago
Sorry to just jump in here, but growth isn't for everyone. If some people don't want to work, I'd rather pay them to get out of the way than risk the chance of them adding negative net value.
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by leothecool 4y ago
Because at the end of the day, compensation isn't tied to performance, its tied to what the market will bear.
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by leothecool 4y ago
> GOP's stated preferences for defunding Ukraine's defense The voting record shows their preference is to continue funding it. I don't know why your information sources are saying the opposite. Maybe they do it to polariz
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by leothecool 4y ago
Botnets create traffic from trusted devices. Would the icloud token provider un-trust compromised devices? Sounds like a nightmare.
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by leothecool 4y ago
I mean.. I could have just said nazi soldiers but I thought it was too cliche.
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by leothecool 4y ago
"What is the use of a newborn child?" - Ben Franklin

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