telchior

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by telchior 18d ago
There are multiple hyper-warming scenarios that have been postulated over the years. Look up the clathrate gun, ocean circulation collapse, arctic albedo flip.. some are now considered unlikely. I don't know if any would be a Venus sce
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by telchior 2mo ago
According to census bureau data, 1 in 3 people aged 18-34 now live with parents, a huge change from past generations. So you're hardly an outlier in that respect.
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by telchior 2mo ago
There's good reason for a lot of the inaction around asbestos. If it's not moving, not being touched and not accessible to kids / pets etc then it's fine to leave alone. The alternative being extremely costly remediation
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by telchior 3mo ago
You're at the least a good writer. It's a lot like music (or any other artform). No matter how good the result, even if it's utterly sublime, there will be a group who doesn't enjoy it.
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by telchior 3mo ago
Yes, but it must be the university approved version that costs 20x the consumer / business version. Sounds like sarcasm, but the wheels appear to already be in motion on this.
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by telchior 3mo ago
One of the other key issues (besides FOV which was mentioned) is the size of the virtual space relative to the speed your character moves at. So for example, Half Life 2 has you moving around in a lab building pretty quickly > instant na
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by telchior 3mo ago
Yeah I utterly despise using Google Maps now because of this. In my neighborhood, there are restaurants that will only appear at a very specific zoom level. Zoom in OR out and they'll disappear. I see things when I'm out and about
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by telchior 4mo ago
I left over a decade ago, but I actually considered coming back around 2024, so I put some research into it. The result was grim. - I'm now married to a non-American who is not white. We're not confident in the immigration process
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by telchior 4mo ago
I think you've misunderstood the idea. Tim Bray and the OP of this thread aren't afraid to visit the US; the key phrase used in the post is "as a matter of principle".
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by telchior 4mo ago
No government has accepted Iranian tolls so far, but some shippers sure have; ships have been passing through the strait. Those shipments go on to countries with governments. I don't think you can actually know that there wasn't g
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by telchior 5mo ago
That someone saw Google's claim that 75% of their code is written with AI and said "hold my beer". Juiced stats? No such thing, at least as long as stock number go up.
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by telchior 7mo ago
This makes an interesting assumption: that being told by any member of government that you're legally required to do something, means you're required to do that thing, and that they're definitely not making those things up as
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by telchior 7mo ago
Minor correction, expat income is deductible up to (currently) $130k under the FEIE. After that it's taxes as usual. There's also an array of other mandatory forms like FBAR for foreign accounts, and the nightmare that is form 547
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by telchior 8mo ago
Those AOL prices were insane. It has admittedly been so long that I'm not sure I trust my memory, but I seem to recall per-minute pricing that could rack up over $20 per hour just from playing any of their text based games. I begged an
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by telchior 9mo ago
I assume TikTok and similar apps are always doing this stuff. The thing I'm curious about is whether the GDPR / DSB complaints are likely to have any result. Is that likely to just result in some cost of business fines and TikTok
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by telchior 11mo ago
The population as a whole has a rapidly dwindling appetite for tech billionaires trying to impose "tough decisions and sacrifices" on everyone else, so Bill's probably in the right lane. He has already been the target of a va
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by telchior 11mo ago
I don't know if that's accurate to software developers, but it makes me cringe a bit as a game developer. I upgraded from a 1060 to 4060 and suddenly did waaaay less optimization; it just wasn't top of mind anymore. Of course
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by telchior 11mo ago
I've read that there are tribes who spent a month or more at the peak of biting insect season hiding in their tents and filling them with smoke. The bugs swarm so thickly that they can kill cows. Not by biting them to death, but by clo
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by telchior 11mo ago
You're being downvoted but I get where you're coming from. The dismay is from not needing to speculate, wonder or theorize about why he did this pardon. It's a quid pro quo pardon for helping the Trump family make billions of
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by telchior 11mo ago
Yeah the whole "successful businessman" schtick is pretty much a trope in US elections. Before Trump it was Ross Perot, before Perot it was others like Wendell Wilkie. Trump had that going for him AND the celebrity status like Rea
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by telchior 11mo ago
Yeah I'm similarly confused by the idea that it was great a decade ago. SoMa, which more or less includes Moscone, has been gritty for at least 20 years and probably much longer than that. Similar for a lot of other parts. Market anywh
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by telchior 1y ago
Every change this admin implements needs this examination first. Everyone is in here having earnest discussions about policy pros and cons, but it ain't that country anymore. The companies the admin favors are being given backdoors for
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by telchior 1y ago
In my view it's a pretty straightforward calculation. Nothing is free, no knowledge is instant. Start off knowing your time investment to learn anything is greater than zero and go from there.. If you do a Google (or other engine) sear
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by telchior 1y ago
You're being generous to even grant an "even if it does" proposition. Considering the people musing about "reform" of copyright at the moment -- Jack Dorsey's little flip "delete all IP law" comes to
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by telchior 1y ago
When I returned to Duolingo recently -- I used to use it heavily but set it aside for 2 years -- I counted 14 gamification popups in a row after my first lesson in a new language. 14! The damned popups lasted longer than the lesson had! I s
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by telchior 1y ago
Here's a better alternative to YouTube noise loops: https://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php
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by telchior 1y ago
I wonder if lack of consequences might be related to lack of proof. Cheating in the past looked like reusing an essay you found online or paying off someone to write it for you -- methods that offer a definitive way to prove it happened. AI
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by telchior 1y ago
A lot of human empathy isn't real either. Defaulting to the most extreme example, narcissists use love bombing to build attachment. Sales people use "relationship building" to make money. AI actually seems better than these -
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by telchior 1y ago
You've just made me realize that I actually do need that as a macro. Probably type that ten times per day lately. Others might include "in one sentence" or "only answer yes or no, and link sources proving your assertion&
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by telchior 1y ago
You missed one: theft. When you click a button in Unity or Roblox or whatever to generate a new texture, the thing that gets generated comes from a model that could not have been built without using IP. But because it all got chucked into a

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