qurren

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by qurren 4d ago
In food contexts when I see "artisinal" I usually just think of rich white people buying the same stuff in nicer packaging and typography for twice the price. The actual artisans don't need to advertise themselves as artisans
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by qurren 4d ago
> the Java OSM editor app Java? No thanks. I don't want that monstrosity of system-hogging, clunk, slow, 1990's UIs on my system again.
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by qurren 4d ago
Just delete the prompt in the DOM inspector and you don't actually have to agree to it.
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by qurren 5d ago
You will never get explicit permission unless you have connections. So until that kind of beaurocracy changes, this is the kind of thing you just go ahead and do. Life is short, assuming it is fully non-destructive and leave-no-trace, just
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by qurren 6d ago
I don't keep assets in USD. I also don't think civilization collapse is the same as an economic collapse. In fact I don't think we'll have a long term economic collapse, but the new economy will be run by AI and will be
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by qurren 6d ago
I have a few of those too. My laser cutter needs one. I've seen lots of "expensive equipment" use USB A-to-A cables, for some odd reason.
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by qurren 6d ago
Was that supposed to be an insult? Maybe I am a coward. What do you want to do about it?
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by qurren 6d ago
> measured relative to the rest frame of the CMB > preferred While these are meaningful conventions, they are being measured with respect to that rest frame. The local group moves at some few hundred km/s velocity relative to the
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by qurren 6d ago
> well better they be the ones in poverty and not me I'm not this extreme, and don't wish for others to be in poverty. But I do wish for myself and my family to not be in poverty or suffering. If the system is designed for thes
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by qurren 6d ago
I tried to look for hidden rock art at Ankgor Wat by imaging with multiple bandpass filters and amplifying cross-spectral differences. I didn't succeed, but maybe I was in the wrong place. The shit guards there also didn't like me
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by qurren 6d ago
> at least minimally perform it I already chose a job that I believe is minimally harmful within the AI space. I work in an autonomous vehicle company which I believe puts safety first and is on track to reducing injuries and deaths to h
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by qurren 6d ago
Money is useful to weather the storm and relocate myself and my family to somewhere less affected by AI, or possibly have some minimal influence over redirection of resources in an AI-controlled future world. It's just insurance and op
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by qurren 6d ago
1. By "crashing down" I was referring to civilization as we know it, not an economic crash. My views about building wealth aren't about avoiding an economic crash, it's about just being able to have optionality earlier t
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by qurren 6d ago
> destroy civilization My personal take is almost all capitalist enterprises are on a path to cause destruction to civilization. AI is not unique here, and every industry is "AI or die" right now. As for short term survival, I
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by qurren 6d ago
I'm an AI engineer, I feel similarly. I also feel a need to amass retirement levels of wealth right ASAP before this all comes crashing down, and then move to somewhere else away from this mess. The only good way for me to do that is t
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by qurren 6d ago
Note: Turning off that checkbox is not enough. You also need to fill out the "Do not train on my content" request here: https://privacy.openai.com/policies?modal=take-control
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by qurren 7d ago
As understood by general relativity, it actually is. There is no absolute time. You can say the age of the universe is 14 billion years, but that's in our reference frame. In another reference frame it may be a different number.
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by qurren 7d ago
China, central Asia, etc
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by qurren 7d ago
I used to think "I should be nice to merchants" and pay everything in cash. That was 15 years ago. Now, living costs have gone up, I'm getting taxed to death by not just governments but increasingly more by businesses themsel
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by qurren 7d ago
I don't understand this eSIM only trend. eSIM sucks for switching your service between devices or for travelling to countries where eSIM isn't a thing yet.
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by qurren 7d ago
And it deserves an honest answer.
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by qurren 7d ago
> I cannot understand why silicone rubber is not more commonly available for cable insulation Silicone is more flexible and high-temperature resistant, but it does have a major downside of being very easy to cut and strip. That's no
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by qurren 7d ago
One thing it's missing: "smoking guns" and "smoke tests" If you search my company's Slack for "smoke" the results are almost all within the past 2 years ...
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by qurren 8d ago
Most software engineers don't need to be superintelligent, they just need to get shit done. You arguably need a lot more intelligence to assemble furniture.
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by qurren 8d ago
Yeah, I agree with this. There is no point in open sourcing anything that works, in the finance world. I actually have a profitable trading agent, and hell no I will not open source it. It also looks nothing like this. For one this bot is i
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by qurren 9d ago
> Publish your codec Put the code on the blockchain somewhere and it will be un-deleteable.
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by qurren 10d ago
I mean we privacy nerds all love webapps but the reality is the people actually in charge of S&P500 companies hate them. They really, REALLY want to fingerprint your device and use it as a verification and tracking mechanism. Until that
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by qurren 10d ago
If they hard fork, a lot of apps that are generally "necessary for the average person" (e.g. Uber, banking apps, Gmail, Whatsapp/Wechat/Line) might stop working.
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by qurren 12d ago
I think it's a good thing if this forces manufacturers to list honest prices instead of inflated ones.
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by qurren 13d ago
> cascading overload I'd bet more on this. For one none of the coding tools have exponential backoff on retries

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