psd1

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by psd1 3d ago
Everything is a trade-off. Would you never ever under any circumstances accept even trivial breakage, even if it fixes a horrible wart that costs thousands of lost hours?
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by psd1 3d ago
How do the economics pan out? Do you pay more for gluten at higher purity than the ~10% you get when you buy it in sacks of flour? The retail case is interesting, although maybe not indicative of wholesale I suppose this is a function of wh
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by psd1 4d ago
Naively: gluten comes from flour, so you're not moving the needle I suppose you save shipping costs, and I'm aware that flour processed to remove the gluten is prized for cakes.
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by psd1 6d ago
I agree with "roads are neutral", but to be really precise, no they aren't; they are built by a polity at the expense of some other not-built roads, in a way that supports some types of traffic more than others. Compare Los A
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by psd1 7d ago
You've never heard of hermaphrodism? Biology is _complicated_
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by psd1 7d ago
Your observation of the contradiction is correct, but reductionist to a fault. If Gore would have been better than Dubya, and if campaigning requires travel, etc. I take it you don't decry hydro for the use of concrete?
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by psd1 7d ago
Yep, that sounds over-engineered for questionable benefit. Ty for the exposition. Sounds like something i would junk, too. I'm angry on your behalf.
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by psd1 8d ago
I'll take that as a recommendation, thank you! Fwiw, i have found spares for many brands by searching model numbers and wading through spate parts aggregators. The market exists. It's often uneconomic :-(
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by psd1 8d ago
The numerical majority of developed counties have some kind of privacy law. Murrica is an outlier, because of course it is.
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by psd1 8d ago
Your broken waking machine drawer is an orthogonal problem, and perhaps not specific to one corp. Plastic parts break but, OTOH, overbuilding consumes resources with diminishing utility. A deep spare parts market is a cost. May i suggest ba
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by psd1 12d ago
Ty for the insight - indeed, i had been thinking about full nuclear bunker, which you point out is overblown. That said, complacency (~entropy) tends to win over time. Ukrainian yong adult in 2051: ouch! Old Ukrainian: first time in a bunke
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by psd1 13d ago
...which is common today. I like globalisation on its face. The second-order effects are a bitch. I don't want to go full protectionist, bit we should swing the needle back a bit.
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by psd1 13d ago
I question the assumption that taxes you don't like will not fund the government "Should" needs some unpacking; there's a subjective value lurking inside. Personally, i prefer economic incentives over coercion. My starti
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by psd1 13d ago
> In the future we will see more underground/protected infrastructure immune to drones Perhaps. But people forget the strategic reason, and ask why the quote is so high.
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by psd1 13d ago
WebHD (WebHID?) - you can flash your devices from a browser. I've installed chromium for the approximately two times I've done it.
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by psd1 14d ago
Strong opinions are loud, but we might suppose that most people are floating. People perceive both benefits and harms on the horizon. Right or wrong, it's a defensible view that the way labs conduct their research might lead towards be
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by psd1 14d ago
Two words: Fire. FoxReaderMode.
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by psd1 14d ago
It jumped out to me, in the metr report on the hf incident, that CoT was assumed unmodified. I do not know whether we can have that confidence.
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by psd1 14d ago
Somewhat true, but consumers are buying vast quantities of lithium batteries and carrying them in their pockets. Those things are eager to catch fire and emit hydrofluoric acid. You can have safe battery chemistry or useful battery chemistr
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by psd1 14d ago
If actions are extreme, perhaps. But that doesn't have to be the case. We have made efficient frictionless markets a holy cow. The appropriate response is not to eliminate them. The better part of "rapid value creation" is no
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by psd1 14d ago
I'd refine your opener to: - economists have a good idea of how economies have worked _to date_ - they posit new policy to achieve goals - these policies introduce second-order effects that they failed to predict I mean, Friedman'
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by psd1 14d ago
For android users: NewPipe (others exist too) It's web scraping, and occasionally falls behind yt changes (2 years ago it was unusable for about a month). It could be described as an arms race, but Google appears to suffer it to live.
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by psd1 14d ago
HN is amazing. Someone posts an article, and the subject of the article turns up in the comments.
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by psd1 15d ago
Skepticism is fine, but you come across as incredibly sheltered. Also, the very embodiment of the belief system that the article is pointing at. > This dude's car breaks down and he gives up on university? That is life-changing when
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by psd1 15d ago
If adhd is heritable, then the stressful upbringing could be symptomatic of the parent's condition instead of causal.
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by psd1 15d ago
Icymi, "carving bots out of trees" is a wonderful and apposite autocorrect. There's layers to this thing, man!
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by psd1 16d ago
"Old reddit redirect" extension for firefox.
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by psd1 16d ago
"Old reddit redirect" extension for firefox. If you use chrome, don't.
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by psd1 16d ago
Humanity is a Type I civilisation. It has energy constraints. AI coding runs at hundreds of watts, and more capable agents consume more. That is paid, today, from capex, provided by the biggest bubble in human history. I can deliver your fa
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by psd1 16d ago
You mean: datacentres are an obvious kill switch. Politically, how do you see that decision being made? You are president. You spent millions on your social media campaign. Can you say "Faustian bargain"? Agreed, Terminator will n

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