sparrc

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by sparrc 1mo ago
I've been a subscriber basically ever since it launched in the US and haven't noticed any discernible difference in the service in that entire time. What has turned people off? I haven't noticed any AI features at all to be h
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by sparrc 2mo ago
I don't think you can argue that California is significantly worse off in terms of housing than London, which is where a large number of productions go due to tax incentives.
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by sparrc 3mo ago
I work at AWS, we got access to Claude Code very recently, most people are using Kiro and that seems to be the defacto standard. I have not heard of any nor run into any token budgets. There is generally a lot of team-wide usage of CLAUDE.m
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by sparrc 4mo ago
My favorite solution to this is to use the Cline coding agent, which is open and allows you to easily switch between different providers and models.
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by sparrc 4mo ago
The author mentions interest but not that there is the mortgage interest deduction, which is a massive tax deduction especially during the first years.
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by sparrc 4mo ago
I'm primarily a Go developer and love the language and will defend it for most use-cases, but to be honest BPF seems like Rust's place to shine.
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by sparrc 5mo ago
A screen for the backup camera doesn't necessarily mean everything has to be through the screen at all. Most Toyotas I've seen have a screen for the backup camera and the carplay/music/gps console, but everything else is
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by sparrc 6mo ago
As a parent, two reasons: 1. The admin work of parental controls in Apple is non-trivial and obscure. I would guess there are something like 300 different knobs and settings you can control for each kid individually. The UX is terrible and
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by sparrc 7mo ago
As someone who grew up in America but lived abroad a few years, you just start using different markers but it's the same idea. Something like 0, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 gives you the full range from freezing to pleasant to very hot.
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by sparrc 7mo ago
> Advocacy group Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) ... Cynically I have to wonder if Meta recently made any major donations to this organization.
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by sparrc 7mo ago
While they do show it live, it's in the middle of the workday, so almost everyone in the USA will have watched it delayed by many hours at "prime time", aka around 8pm local time in each zone. That being said, I'm in the
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by sparrc 7mo ago
This would be much easier said than done, most video segments are served up by CDNs, so it would have to be done via processing on CDN edge nodes. Cloudflare might support something like this but most CDNs don't as far as I'm awar
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by sparrc 10mo ago
I'm in Seattle at AWS and haven't encountered this attitude towards AI at all. All of my coworkers pretty much love using Cline and Kiro.
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by sparrc 10mo ago
The US is not perfect by any measure, but your argument that the US doesn't have innovative nor "high-value" jobs is absurd beyond belief.
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by sparrc 1y ago
Playback is 100% handled by the device. The primary (and essentially only) benefit of H.264 is that almost every device in the entire world has an H.264 hardware decoder builtin to the chip, even extremely cheap devices. AV1 hardware decode
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by sparrc 2y ago
He's a director not a "in the trenches" researcher anymore. He's being paid for being a highly technical leader who enables and recruits researchers he employs to do great work, similar to Oppenheimer in a way.
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by sparrc 2y ago
Nina Teicholz is a bit of a controversial figure in the nutrition world so I'd advise people to take this with a grain of salt...
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by sparrc 2y ago
That's a bit of an exaggeration, social security (state pension) and medicare (state healthcare for retirees) are not perfect but they're not terrible either.
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by sparrc 2y ago
On the other hand, I know someone from the UK who moved away and lived in places like Qatar and Oman for 20-30 years, keeping their UK citizenship and paying zero taxes to the UK (and extremely low taxes in the gulf countries). Then they re
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by sparrc 2y ago
You are correct, but this only applies because: > Unlike the UK, the US levies capital gains tax on proceeds from the sale of a main residence. I understand why it can feel unfair but by definition this is not "double taxing".
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by sparrc 2y ago
Phoenix has extremely wide and straight roads, with very few pedestrians, and very little rain or snow. Compared to the entire world this is VERY anomalous, so I think we're still pretty far from "most people" using self-driv
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by sparrc 2y ago
To be fair to Nintendo, they're very much still in the former category of making good products every few years. The switch was originally released 7 years ago, which is ancient in the world of consumer electronics.
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by sparrc 3y ago
Modern airplanes should be compared to what is possible in modern times with modern safety standards. If you want an objective measure then compare the Boeing Max planes to their Airbus equivalent: the A320neo. The A320 neo has had zero fat
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by sparrc 3y ago
Not really. No airplane was ever grounded by the FAA since the 1970s, when they grounded the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. Since the merger, the FAA has grounded both of Boeing's new planes (The 787 Dreamliner and the 737 Max). Boeing'
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by sparrc 3y ago
You may not like his movies, but saying Tyler Perry is a "shit businessman" is a bit of a stretch...
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by sparrc 3y ago
They're free to patrol the waters in the South Red Sea though. Doesn't Egypt have a navy? To me this situation seems like it would warrant sending nearly their entire fleet to the South Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
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by sparrc 3y ago
I lived in London for 4 years and this walk was my wife and I's favorite. We always took visitors to do it. Really beautiful and from an outsider's perspective feels very "British" :)
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by sparrc 3y ago
Am I the only person who never takes oral decongestants anyways? Afrin or other nasal sprays work much better for me and have no side effects if used for just a couple days.
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by sparrc 3y ago
Maybe this is semantic but how do you have 4 kids all in daycare? Shouldn't some of them be in school? (unless you had 4 kids in under 5 years?) At least in the US and UK school starts at 5.
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by sparrc 3y ago
FWIW, technically Disney bought "21st Century Fox". Fox is still an independent media company which owns the Fox TV channel, Fox News, and Fox Sports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Corporation

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