obelos

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by obelos 7d ago
I saved about $65k this way, having Claude guide me through the process of assuming the (very low interest) mortgage on my house instead of having to refinance it under current rates. When I first contacted the mortgage servicer they said m
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by obelos 17d ago
The funding for this is to pay for a culture war, not a distro.
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by obelos 22d ago
Apparently a lot of “temporarily embarrassed billionaires” on here defending their future legacies with downvoting.
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by obelos 23d ago
“You have nothing, sure, but you still better participate in this social contract that has actually offered you no security or even basic shelter, else we give you even less nothing.” Like... why? Why would that person care? It's calle
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by obelos 23d ago
Far and away the strongest predictor of homelessness is not mental illness or drug addiction, it's housing costs. Housing cost and the subsequent increase in homelessness is the precipitator that promotes addiction and exacerbates mana
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by obelos 23d ago
When the social contract fails you, why pay any regard to it at all? It's not a matter of pure, exogenous choice to do those things. It's not some abstract preference that surviving in the margins has afforded the freedom to exerc
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by obelos 23d ago
Sure, and thankfully there aren't nearly as many of them out and about abusing more things if they have a private place always available to spend their time. Conscientiousness is one of the handful of measurable personality traits, and
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by obelos 23d ago
People don't want to “abuse” commons like public restrooms, parks, buses, and so on. They do so because they have no choice, having been displaced out of having a private place to do the things they're now forced to do in public p
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by obelos 2mo ago
That is... unintuitive. Wouldn't the escaped salmon have to be able to get back upstream enough to where the wild salmon are laying/milting?
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by obelos 2mo ago
This was my approach to a large rewrite I'm working on. First create the multiple layers of test suite to map out existing behavior at the unit, API, and integration level (something that should have been done incrementally over the 20
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by obelos 3mo ago
They're pro-“fertility talking points” at least, but rarely in favor of economic and social policies that encourage child rearing.
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by obelos 4mo ago
I'm not sure it's really from the lack of change, though. I've used Claude, Kimi, and other LLMs to write a ton of Perl that's jacked up with weird sugaring packages like Moose and Function::Parameters with reified types
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by obelos 5mo ago
For us nerds in the Portland/PNW area, the Rice Museum out in Hillsboro—despite a name suggesting it has an exhaustive display of rice varieties—has a terrific collection of large and unique mineral specimens. https://www.ri
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by obelos 10mo ago
I've most frequently heard this referred to as “Gell-Mann Amnesia,” and yes, LLMs are fertile ground to find it.
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by obelos 1y ago
“Sure, it will probably happen again, but what if we made some money along the way?!”
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by obelos 1y ago
I think there's also a dominating bias that people who walk/bike/bus are poor and thus make bad customers. “If they had money, they'd be in a car!”
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by obelos 1y ago
Also nationalized control of healthcare costs.
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by obelos 1y ago
I'm pretty sure this is a joke reference to Ted Lasso.
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by obelos 2y ago
It makes more sense when you interpret it as an attempt at humiliation, not diplomacy.
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by obelos 2y ago
I think you're forgetting to put “all the times ignorance didn't produce a breakthrough” in the denominator.
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by obelos 2y ago
To a large degree their wealth is transnational and will move on to the next trough after emptying this one.
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by obelos 2y ago
“Can you believe it? That colored boy wants me to call him ‘mister!’”
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by obelos 2y ago
I wonder if there would be as much pushback here on this article if the conclusion to these 10k words of cited historical analysis had been to discourage the phrase's continued use because “we're besmirching our reputation as engi
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by obelos 2y ago
In addition to the great lighting, the new design also has much improved acoustics. The sound dampening is impressive. I can have conversations without straining to pick up words through the din of echoes, and the ambience has a nice warm s
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by obelos 2y ago
You might find Rag to Riches' (R2R) built-in use of Unstructured for doc parsing, hybrid search, knowledge graphs, and HyDE queries improves the quality of your retrievals. https://github.com/SciPhi-AI/R2R
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by obelos 2y ago
Do you really need to comment to yourself or anyone else that you did a thing the less efficient way because it was simpler? I guess I"m not seeing the use. When later you've perturbed the criteria that caused that function's
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by obelos 2y ago
If you have ever not gone somewhere because “there's too much traffic” or chosen to go to a store because it has easier parking than an equivalent alternative store, you've experienced the rudiments of induced demand.
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by obelos 2y ago
Counterpoint: most innovation sucks. Sure, innovation is necessary for improvement and adaptation to changing circumstances. Sure, sometimes innovative change is stifled to the point that organizations crumble under the stasis. But the larg
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by obelos 2y ago
It's so bad I often wonder if I've done something to inadvertently screw up whatever vector database is used to weight the guesses on my particular phone. It's just hard to imagine having this bad of a user experience of a fu
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by obelos 2y ago
Many of these look like solid feature updates, but I'm waiting to hear about a native keyboard that doesn't pick the dumbest, most context-free possible word from the smear of letters I've fat-fingered into it.

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