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by quesera 5mo ago
> The situation is tragically optimal--we've achieved some kind of multiobjective local maximum on a rock in the sewer at the bottom of a picturesque alpine valley and declared victory. We should do better. But it's a very comf
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by quesera 5mo ago
Well, in the early days of infrastructure growth, when designing bespoke monitoring systems and protocols would be relatively low-cost, it's still nowhere near the highest-ROI way to spend your tech team's time and energy. And to
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by quesera 5mo ago
I struggle to see the difference between "bringing an extra battery" and "bringing a power bank". Except that the latter has more functionality than the former, and should be prefereable.
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by quesera 5mo ago
Grand solutions require broad coordination, and they often devolve back into a modified-but-equivalent version of the previous problem. :( Stream-of-bytes is classically difficult model to escape. Many have tried.
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by quesera 5mo ago
This reads like satire, but I've been feeling that a lot lately.
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by quesera 5mo ago
All China has to do here is stay in the game and wait patiently while the US and EU press pause on data centers. See also: solar panels. We're making this way too easy. The rationale and logic are reasonable, but ultimately irrelevant.
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by quesera 5mo ago
If benefitting the victims is a goal, then clearly sending them money now is more valuable than sending them interest-borne money later. If the victims don't benefit from the money now, they can bear their own interest. Time-value, e
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by quesera 5mo ago
I think you're wrong, but I'm not a lawyer and I don't operate on the fringes of fraudulent behaviour, so I might be miscalibrated. But my premise is that there is benefit derived from the lie, either financial or otherwise.
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by quesera 5mo ago
Similar situation here. My take on it is that frequent users perceive apps as desktop launchers/shortcuts. They don't care about the difference between app and web, per se, but the bookmarking situation in mobile browsers is awful
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by quesera 5mo ago
Android and iOS both require user permission for apps to access contacts or location. Are there other platforms that can't even manage this basic level of user protection?
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by quesera 5mo ago
In the time it took you to write this comment, you've thought more about the abstraction than most of the people who are confused by it -- and it will never succeed to coax them out of their confusion with such logic. :)
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by quesera 5mo ago
Credit agencies do not report income to the IRS, so there's no tax relevance. Credit agencies are not party to your obligations to the IRS at all. You can lie to credit agencies all day long if you like. However, if you do so for the p
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by quesera 5mo ago
In the US, I regularly see bathrooms and kitchens without GFCI. I looked up the history: 1961 GFCI invented by a professor at UC Berkeley 1971 Added to NEC code for outdoor outlets 1981 … bathrooms 1987 … kitchens 2005 … laundry
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by quesera 6mo ago
A great deal of pop music, performed by teens-20yos, is written and produced by seasoned professionals who are in their 30s-40s-50s. The exceptions to that pattern are remarkable.
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by quesera 6mo ago
If an app can make an HTTP request, the app can know the user's public IP address and the geolocation derived from that. This data has well-known limitations, but I think it is the fallback people are talking about here.
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by quesera 6mo ago
No one is trying to go that far down the path. https (specifically the CA chain of trust) is imperfect, and can be compromised by well-placed parties.
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by quesera 6mo ago
LEGO does it too, with "mystery minifigure" packages. I watch kids squeezing the polybags trying to find an identifying bump or edge, hoping to either get the one they want, or at least not get one they already have. And yeah, bas
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by quesera 6mo ago
3. A Memorial Wall for those who have mistaken ChatGPT for a therapist
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by quesera 6mo ago
In the US states that I know well, a residential tenant may perform necessary repairs to bring the space up to health and safety codes, and may deduct the cost from their rent. They have an obligation to notify the property manager, in adva
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by quesera 6mo ago
When we've had "too many" hens, we've had multiple large salad bowls full of eggs on the countertops. And that's after overwhelming our friends and neighbors. They will easily last 4-6 weeks with no major degradat
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by quesera 6mo ago
Fair point, and totally agreed. I literally LOLed at the idea that purchasing a consumer product, at retail, could include stipulations on my future employment. And at the hubris of any manufacturer for imagining they could get away with su
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by quesera 6mo ago
That's a bit anthropomorphic though. When LLMs become able to reflectively examine their own premises and weight paths, they will exceed the self-awareness of ordinary humans.
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by quesera 6mo ago
Apple Card has the same features, currently issued and operated by Goldman Sachs but to be transferred to Chase within the next two years. Hopefully the features and functionality will survive. I don't think Chase has them today, so I
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by quesera 6mo ago
This is laughably unenforceable, and all the more ridiculous for it.
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by quesera 6mo ago
It's true. The bloom on the eggs protects them from whatever nastiness is on the outside. This includes salmonella, which may be present if your flock is infected in the poop on the outside of the shell (remember hens only have one e
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by quesera 6mo ago
Curious. I always prefer 100% cotton, and nothing ever shrinks noticeably. I thought shrinking clothes were a historical oddity from my childhood, honestly. A couple things that might make the difference: - Conference swag shirts might
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by quesera 6mo ago
If today's LLMs could shake their annoying verbal tics, they might be indistinguishable from Malcolm Gladwell. Turing didn't go far enough. The next level is the Gladwell Test: Indistinguishable from a human who is persuasively co
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by quesera 6mo ago
> Commonwealth countries have extraterritorial jurisdiction No countries have extraterritorial jurisdiction. Some countries have a lot of influence over the local jurisdiction outside of their own territory. The UK doesn't have
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by quesera 6mo ago
That'd be great, if your goal was to hemorrhage customers.
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by quesera 6mo ago
> A launcher for a climbing rope or grappling hook. Have you ever tried getting a rope up over a branch on a very tall tree? You might look into arborist's throw line launchers and line guns. They come in slingshot and pneumatic v

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