prescriptivist

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by prescriptivist 17d ago
Yeah, I wanted a Matrox so bad at that time because you could also do dual monitor on some of those cards. I had a sick NEC with a degauss button and trinitron style horizontal lines and a shit packard bell monitor. I wanted to do dual moni
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by prescriptivist 24d ago
I have one of their dry food ones and no longer need it. Sad story, but it happens. My cat scarfed and barfed periodically, and I always wanted the Petlibro (the simple one) to slow feed by incrementally turning the auger, just to see if it
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by prescriptivist 27d ago
I put it in a hook, and Claude basically re-evaluates every changed comment that it makes against a prompt in the hook. This burns tokens, but my company pays for it, so I don't care.
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by prescriptivist 1mo ago
Sure, but there is nothing in the world of the last 30-40 years that can compare to GLP-1s in terms of helping people consume fewer calories. This is a very coarse statement, but I'm confident in making it: there is nothing healthier t
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by prescriptivist 2mo ago
People are so worked up online in places like Reddit and YouTube comments about how there aren't small trucks anymore. It feels almost like a strange mania. So it makes sense that someone like this would come along and capitalize on th
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by prescriptivist 2mo ago
These are called EREVs in China and are fairly popular. Ford has a patent for one in trucks but never built it. It makes a ton of sense. Use the generator to get extended range, but avoid all the moving parts of a driveline.
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by prescriptivist 2mo ago
I live in the land of trees (Maine) and cell service sucks, line of sight between microwave towers is a non-starter AFAICT, but line of sight to the sky is do-able everywhere.
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by prescriptivist 2mo ago
A more accurate description would be that starlink will become the trunk, and possibly the service. Local cell services will own the poles but will essentially provide access for starlink customers. It's not a bad business idea, actual
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by prescriptivist 2mo ago
If you wish to stop it, then stop it.
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by prescriptivist 2mo ago
Yeah, I meant to point out there that there is a tension between the technology that I don't mind, but the infrastructure for it that I do mind. I don't really know what the answer is. I do know that we're probably not going
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by prescriptivist 2mo ago
I spent last weekend under some of the darkest sky you'll find in the eastern US. Miles from cell service. I had a starlink portable with me and it was nice to get some service and stay in touch, but to watch the sky is to see satellit
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by prescriptivist 3mo ago
Sorry but this reeks of marketing. To what extent was Ford actually attempting to replace these engineers with AI tools in the last three years or were they just letting them go by attrition? Was this the result of an actual AI influenced l
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by prescriptivist 5mo ago
> good writing, good art, thoughtful code architecture If you are talking about a consumer product, one of these is not like the others.
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by prescriptivist 5mo ago
Just an update to this. I realize I misspoke and misnamed where that last accent comes from. It's too late for me to edit the original comment, so I'm just going to drop it in here. There's no such thing as the Allagash Valle
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by prescriptivist 5mo ago
Maine has multiple distinct accents, though like the parent said, it's not worth making the distinction unless it's for a project like this. In southern Maine, the accent is moderate and is more of a general northern New England a
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by prescriptivist 5mo ago
There's no shortage of third places in the American suburbs, you just have to drive to them. I'm sympathetic to the argument that walkable third places are better third places because I lived car-free in New York City for a decade
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by prescriptivist 5mo ago
I didn't really say what my perspective is on whether the suburbs are good or bad or cars are good or bad. I think there are plenty of reasonable arguments as to whether they are or not. What I am dubious about is that they are somehow
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by prescriptivist 5mo ago
> You could say many of the broad and widespread mental issues we have in the US is the result of automobiles leading to suburbanization and thus isolation of people. Yes, you could say that, though I'm not sure who would actually s
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by prescriptivist 5mo ago
> And yet the companies doing that in those previous generations managed to produce huge profits significantly faster than Generative AI has. Have you considered a simple answer to this inconsistency? The market and investors does not d
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by prescriptivist 5mo ago
Correct, seems like my memory failed me on that one.
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by prescriptivist 5mo ago
On top of that, the APIs/Tools/Function Calls into the real world don't exist yet. But consumer products are going to start eventually exposing functionality to these LLMs. By that time, I wonder if we'll all have an edg
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by prescriptivist 5mo ago
Comparing the IPO market today to the IPO market in the late 90s is not very instructive. You could have IPO'd a lemonade stand in 1998 and raised $10 million.
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by prescriptivist 5mo ago
> The lead singer caught my eye and gave me a wide grin Daft Punk doesn't have a singer and unless it was a very early show they wouldn't have seen them smile. Most big beat shows wouldn't have a dedicated vocalist. I&#x27
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by prescriptivist 6mo ago
I used Emacs for about a decade and then switched to VS Code about eight years ago. I was curious about the state of Claude Code integration with Emacs, so I installed it to try out a couple of the Claude packages. My old .emacs.d that I to
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by prescriptivist 6mo ago
Another comment said it, but that's basically land protected from most use, with some exceptions that are more akin to our national park system, right? I'm talking more about BLM lands in the west, or national forests in the east.
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by prescriptivist 6mo ago
I want to say this with the caveat that I am generally a person who always contends with the contradictions of living in a capitalist-imperialist country and my own distaste for it. So this doesn't come from a place of American excepti
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by prescriptivist 6mo ago
I'm a principal engineer, been working on the same set of codebases for almost 10 years. I handle the 20% or so of my time that constitutes inbound faster than ever and I know because that inbound volume has clearly increased and yet I
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by prescriptivist 6mo ago
Congrats on that.
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by prescriptivist 6mo ago
> We can in fact just NOT do things! I agree with you on that. Not just on AI but a lot of things that suck about this world, and in particular the United States. But capital is too powerful. And these tools are legitimately transformati
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by prescriptivist 6mo ago
> Is there no longer any need to think about new software paradigms, build new frameworks, study computer science, because the regurgitated statistical version of programming is entirely good enough? All I'm saying is you're go

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