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by saalweachter 5d ago
"It's totally intentional that progress is slowing," Altman reassured investors.
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by saalweachter 6d ago
Code sometimes makes allowances for situations which aren't ideal, as long as they aren't deceptive or creating a false sense of security. So if you have old two-prong outlets in your house from back when, those are allowed. If yo
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by saalweachter 7d ago
It looks like the median/mode is 1-2 car accidents (50% of drivers), and the average is 3-4. 25% of drivers have no accidents (as far as insurance companies are concerned, ie, no claims or police reports). I'm curious how this lo
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by saalweachter 8d ago
The thing about saying "everyone does it" to justify yourself is that eventually you start believing it.
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by saalweachter 8d ago
To play devil's prosecutor, charge resides on the surface of an object, and the electric field inside is zero.
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by saalweachter 11d ago
They did not say "Republicans". They said "conservatives".
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by saalweachter 12d ago
Basically it's just bundling the API documentation into a standard format to plug into LLMs, if you're comfortable running prompt injection on yourself and downloading random text from random websites and telling your favorite LLM
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by saalweachter 13d ago
The stat I keep in my back pocket is that you can roughly divide the total time lived by humans (the integral of population over time) into three tranches, with one third of human experience being before the dawn of agriculture, and one thi
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by saalweachter 1mo ago
While we're pedanting, I believe the location is where his death scene was filmed; he was buried somewhere else. Because beaches are terrible places for graves, one good storm, the beach shifts and you've got to bury them all over
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by saalweachter 1mo ago
Duodecades are superior to decades, and we can take overlapping pairs of duodecades as "generations" to solve the dividing line problem. Duodecades: * 1968-1980 * 1980-1992 * 1992-2004 * 2004-2016 * 2016-2028 Overla
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by saalweachter 1mo ago
The music also gets talked about quite a bit. My immediate reaction to a "what is with this loud music, I can barely hear the actual audio" comment on YouTube was to assume the channel was afraid of being copystruck by the iceberg
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by saalweachter 1mo ago
Eh, I'm not going to dispute the validity of Cleek's Law, but ~everything Trump, et al, are doing has been an extremely popular idea with different segments of the right for thirty, forty years. That goes for DOGE, both the idea o
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by saalweachter 1mo ago
I mean, even people who are guilty of many crimes shouldn't be summarily executed in the street. Stealing a television or driving a tractor trailer of illegal weed from coast to coast isn't a death sentence even after a jury tria
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by saalweachter 1mo ago
So a good fraction of famous old math puzzles with no practical use are famous because they are in some way similar to problems people actually care about. If you can solve the toy problem that is in some way simpler, maybe you can use t
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by saalweachter 1mo ago
My understanding is that an important consideration at the time was that it is very far from New Jersey. Edison had a lot of early patents for film, and wanted to monopolize the industry. Film makers in California were far enough away that
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
Facebook is also kind of an outlier IMO. There will be a scandal where Facebook is caught doing something, and then you get a bunch of people talking about "tech companies", or "Facebook and Google", and then you read th
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
I was recently told this by my vet when my cat needed some teeth removed -- there was no real impact on the cat's life because they don't really chew their food.
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
The smarter thing to do is to just wipe your phone of everything you don't want border patrol to see before going to an airport.
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
I mean, I object to cars with unreasonable acceleration on the roads. I'm looking at you, Tesla Plaid; a ten second car was a plot point in The Fast and the Furious, so this feels like yet another "we have created the Torment Nexu
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
They were a thing in the previous 20's and the exchanges banned them in like the 40's (you could still have a dual-class corporate structure, you just wouldn't be listed on eg the NYSE), because investors thought that was som
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
So in terms of flexibility, Cambridge. Tons of companies will preferentially snatch up candidates with prestigious advanced degrees, and many of them will even pay you more. Heck, no one will care if you drop out of your advanced educatio
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
I really appreciate the attempt by Chris & Jack to make Julysixth Park a thing. I enjoyed Star Wars, but I kind of feel like a lot of my feelings towards it are just reflected nostalgia from the writers and comedians who grew up a gen
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
N.b. that Cerf was mentioned in the Epstein Files in a list of scientists Epstein wanted to invite to an event. There is no evidence Cerf actually accepted any such invitation. Not everyone "in the files" is in the files .
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
Eh, not a lawyer, but my experience with internet PR problems is that the Internet is pretty lazy with a short attention span. Take something down and most of the Internet is too lazy to dig up an archive and they wander off to find somethi
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
And what could you get quality-wise if you poured an equivalent amount of money into improving ground based factories?
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
When the hubbub about phenylephrine first started, I decided I still felt less miserable taking DayQuil/NyQuil, and switched to the "High Blood Pressure" formulation, which drops the phenylephrine, alcohol and sugar. It takes
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by saalweachter 2mo ago
I would also like to take a moment to evangelize against the notion that all politicians are crooks. Some politicians are crooks. They should be voted out, investigated, prosecuted and publicly scorned. "Everyone cheats" is somet
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by saalweachter 3mo ago
Also, even if you can't resist looking, not replying to every single person arguing against your position is a powerful tool on the internet. If you're right, or at least, not making a complete ass of yourself, chances are someo
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by saalweachter 3mo ago
What I find mildly interesting is how the older money (eg, the Koch brothers) spent decades creating the current environment (between deregulation on business, cutting taxes on the wealthy, and political ventures like the Federalist Society
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by saalweachter 3mo ago
If NYC lifts all its density restrictions, why do you need people commuting inward over a hundred mile radius?

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