snowwrestler

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by snowwrestler 5d ago
I don’t know how old you are but the GOP has 180’d on trade, international relations, unions, Social Security, and Medicare among many other issues over the past 30 years.
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by snowwrestler 5d ago
A lot of unusual things are happening in government lately.
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by snowwrestler 5d ago
These changes will last exactly as long as this administration, so it would be a pretty foolish business that makes long term investment decisions based on this announcement.
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by snowwrestler 7d ago
Yes. Specially, touch enabled screens with dynamically rendered graphics. The Google Maps app on my iPhone at one point years ago switched to having a globe as its base, like Google Earth. It was great. Then Google switched it back to Merca
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by snowwrestler 7d ago
I think the way to do this is in iOS itself. I would be shocked if Coros has better notifications tech than Garmin; it’s a way smaller company. I don’t even remember touching notifications when I set up my Coros watch. I think it is just go
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by snowwrestler 7d ago
> Relative to Steve's emotionally-rich casual-coded excited-to-share delivery. Example 1,494,298 of “most people aren’t Steve Jobs.” Can’t believe we are still doing this comparison. In a few weeks it will be 15 years old.
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by snowwrestler 12d ago
How often does the entire west coast of the U.S. lose Internet connectivity to the entire continent of Asia? That gives you a constraint on how often that type of failure actually occurs.
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by snowwrestler 12d ago
Worth mentioning that this room takes a split from the main feed and is not in the path of traffic. Whatever is in this room could go down and it would not cause an outage.
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by snowwrestler 13d ago
I think you are talking about two different things. Physically coupled pendulums will sync up (adjust their period to match). But, physically uncoupled (fully independent) pendulums with differing periods will occasionally appear to take a
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by snowwrestler 15d ago
Neither company is remotely close to making a profit yet. To the extent people at those companies make money, it is unrealized capital appreciation driven by successively higher valuations during successive funding rounds. In short, financi
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by snowwrestler 16d ago
Sounds amazing, where can I apply for one of these jobs?
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by snowwrestler 19d ago
He would need to have a contractual relationship as a vendor or service provider to a covered entity to even maybe qualify as a business associate. Does he have that? I doubt it, this just seems like one person’s side project.
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by snowwrestler 19d ago
What he actually believes about the future of cars is not the really the point of this statement. The point is to position himself now, today, in the minds of his target audience. EVs are not cool today and nostalgia-driven grievance agains
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by snowwrestler 20d ago
> They don't get to say "don't label him a socialist" after the fact. This is not an accurate quote, what was said was “even if Mamdani calls himself a socialist it's important to ask what he means by that,” and
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by snowwrestler 20d ago
Forgive me for bluntness, but this is naive. What you think you are doing is holding firm to objective reality. What you are actually doing is willingly putting blinders on yourself about how humans use language. You’ve adopted a certain de
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by snowwrestler 20d ago
HIPAA regulates covered entities and their business associates. It does not automatically regulate anyone who asks for or receives health care information. I could ask you to post your symptoms here on HN and if you chose to do so, neither
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by snowwrestler 21d ago
> There’s no evidence than just pouring more money into cancer research is going to give us a miracle cure. The HPV vaccine will almost entirely wipe out cervical cancer: not by curing it, but preventing it entirely. Not sure if that mee
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by snowwrestler 21d ago
Black swans are actually fairly well-populated birds that are easy to spot. So as a metaphor it works well for a common thing that smug people of limited knowledge try to claim is rare and surprising.
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by snowwrestler 22d ago
We tested MS CoPilot at work and by far the most disappointing application was PowerPoint. Despite repeated attempts, no one could get it to make a decent deck, or even a good starting point. By far the best AI-built presentations I’ve seen
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by snowwrestler 22d ago
This article is great but the references to gravitational waves as if they were an observed fact (in 1972) was mystifying to me. It led me down a rabbit hole to Joe Weber, who is name-checked at the end of the Penrose article. A Fleeting De
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by snowwrestler 23d ago
There are now some U.S. state laws that impose requirements for notice and consent.
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by snowwrestler 23d ago
This is just recycling the same old arguments people used against cloud infrastructure. “If you host your email at Microsoft, they _will_ scan it all to get competitive advantage or sell it to your competitors.” Did they? No, it worked out
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by snowwrestler 24d ago
Maybe this is what Jevon's Paradox looks like for LLMs. Oh, I can have this thing read and write software for me? Great, I'm going to have it read and customize the software in every single computing device I own.
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by snowwrestler 26d ago
I mostly feel sorry for the soldiers since they are under orders to wear full camo and plates walking around DC in the summer when 90 degrees and 70% humidity are common conditions. The local news has detailed how some of them have themselv
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by snowwrestler 27d ago
Citizen's United was decided in 2010. Hillary Clinton out-spent Trump by about $500 million in 2016 and lost. The reality is that spending can keep a candidate from losing an election for dumb reasons (e.g. lack of name recognition), b
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by snowwrestler 1mo ago
Reminds me of a book I recently read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Stay_in_Hell The numbers produced by permutations are astounding! Especially compared to the (much smaller) numbers in our actual physical uni
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by snowwrestler 1mo ago
I don’t. It happens in-person or in private group chats these days.
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by snowwrestler 1mo ago
> On the other hand, one should not discount the value of HN as tastemaker and trendsetter. I would encourage dedicated readers here to aggressively and persistently discount the value of HN as a tastemaker and trendsetter. HN is actuall
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by snowwrestler 1mo ago
Lots of things break at hobby scale, mainly because hobbyists can have a huge range of experience, expertise, and willingness to do things themselves. Anyone serving hobbyists, commercially or on a volunteer basis, needs to accept that ther
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by snowwrestler 1mo ago
> Natural splendor includes forest fires and suffering animals. Correct

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