sjm

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by sjm 5mo ago
Fine, 99% of China "landmass" does not have 50G. 100% of the US does not have 10G. The fact that in NYC, the richest city in the history of cities, most buildings still only have access to cable from a single provider is absolutel
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by sjm 5mo ago
This is the same American-branded copium we see during discussions of socialized healthcare, which every other first-world country on the planet seems to manage. China has 10G and 50G home fiber. Zurich is larger geographically than Manhatt
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by sjm 7mo ago
And what has Mamdani lied about?
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by sjm 8mo ago
And how much have they spent compared to US companies? What of carbon footprint?
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by sjm 10mo ago
Depicting deceased people with AI is objectively distasteful, especially from a self-described "ad guy" who should know better.
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by sjm 10mo ago
Yes. Pretty hypocritical for an article about "crossing red lines" to use AI slop for an image of a real person. Very disrespectful.
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by sjm 1y ago
Exactly. It's like the difference between thinking about tech proficiency in terms of "being good at C++" vs. being good at software engineering and being language agnostic.
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by sjm 1y ago
I know not everyone has this distaste for it, but as soon as I hit the landing it was so obviously AI-generated that I had to close it.
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by sjm 1y ago
Classic Thing, Japan. There are plenty of western movies that don't follow the three-act structure (off the top of my head, Apocalypse Now, Mulholland Drive (and probably most Lynch), Boyhood (and other Linklaters), basically any Rober
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by sjm 2y ago
Out of curiosity, have you tried running extremely light roast/dense beans through your grinder? How does it perform with them?
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by sjm 2y ago
Anyone else find this stuff extremely distasteful? "Disrupting" creativity and art feels like it goes against our humanity.
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by sjm 2y ago
np, I'm taking deadbeef-beef-4000-beef-deadbeefdead
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by sjm 2y ago
When I lived in Bordeaux I remember seeing billboards basically advising young people to not use "txt speak" and instead write "real French" to preserve the language.
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by sjm 2y ago
Reaction time is completely different to the input latency Carmack is worrying about in his scenario. Imagine if you thought I'm going to move my arm, and 200ms later your arm actually moved. Apply the same to a first-person shooter --
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by sjm 2y ago
In Cambodia too, where the US dropped 540,000 tons of bombs during the Vietnam war.
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by sjm 2y ago
I once wrote to John Carmack as a Quake-obsessed kid, asking for any advice he has for an aspiring programmer and if he had any favourite books. To my surprise he wrote back a really thoughtful response, including the following: "Read
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by sjm 2y ago
That is ultimately a better outcome than we currently have, where the exact same thing happens, except it's only large corporations benefitting. Politicians _should_ be buying votes from the working class and tangibly improving their l
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by sjm 2y ago
Mushrooms have saved more people than they have harmed, I guarantee you. I believe you have a very warped or misguided understanding of what exactly psilocybin is and I'd encourage you to learn.
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by sjm 2y ago
It is so cool that eggdrop is still in development. Basically how I first learned programming (plus mIRC scripting!)
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by sjm 2y ago
It did but it was not enabled by default IIRC. Also fun fact the "crosshair" in original Quake was limited to only the character "+" from the character set. QuakeWorld later introduced a "crosshair 2" which was
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by sjm 2y ago
Yeah I like La Cabra but it's become a bit of a TikTok spot. The last time I walked past the SoHo location there was a line 50 ft out the door. Agreed it's a shame people here are so proud of the "hustle" culture. Brookl
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by sjm 2y ago
NYC doesn't have the time or space for the kind of coffee culture you're talking about, but the coffee itself is as good as anywhere else — not Devocion though, that's pretty bad IMHO. SEY is where you wanna go, or Black Fox
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by sjm 2y ago
London has good coffee, as well as NYC where I currently live. You just need to look for us Aussies behind the espresso machines :) Kiwis will do too.
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by sjm 2y ago
Good advice, but honestly given how complicated puck prep can be I'd suggest people struggling just go for turbo shots directly (coarse grinds, 1:2/1:2.5 ratio in 15 seconds or less, 6 bar if you can control it). It's much mo
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by sjm 2y ago
These e/acc types are insufferable and if anything "SF" has been ruined by them. I know I'll get downvoted or flagged given this is HN, but there's more to life than startups and private equity[0]. Let's leave
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by sjm 2y ago
CRTs are still unmatched for gaming. Aside from input lag, they don't degrade low resolutions the same way that LCDs do. For the longest time I stuck with a 19" flatscreen 4:3 CRT that did 170Hz at 800x600, an absolute beast. As a
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by sjm 2y ago
CRTs far exceed 60Hz though. This FW900 for example goes up to 160Hz.
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by sjm 2y ago
Can someone ELI5 why I should feel bad about Redis charging massive companies like AWS and Google to use/sell/profit from their software? Am I really supposed to feel like Amazon is the good guy in this situation? As far as I can
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by sjm 2y ago
Does this mean anything for actual latency, or only bandwidth? e.g. speed of light could mean a ~40ms ping between LA and Sydney, but best we get today is probably around 150ms?
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by sjm 2y ago
LSD was recently granted "breakthrough-therapy status" by the FDA after clinical trials show a single dose provides "immediate and lasting relief" from generalized anxiety [0]. I know you're asking about a slightly

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