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by testfoobar 7d ago
I walk my dog twice a day every day rain or shine. I've picked up his poop 100% of the time - as do most other members of my suburban community. Our parks and sidewalks are mostly dog poop free. Having said that, I've observed f
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by testfoobar 14d ago
Yes - USPS should behave like a layer 3 network: moving mail pieces to destination addresses independent of source & destination. Where elections probably matter to postal services is that they represent a particular shape of mail volum
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by testfoobar 16d ago
Our culture has definitely changed from when Google Glass wearers were referred to as Glassholes. It appears that more people have just accepted that they will be filmed anywhere and everywhere. I miss the old days.
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by testfoobar 20d ago
I really do worry for our younger students - and I don't envy your job at all. It seems as if all of teaching and student evaluation needs to be rebuilt from the ground up with AI as a default assumption. Local high schools have added
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by testfoobar 20d ago
This is a bunch of fluff. I hope at least the snacks and lunches during the discussions were good. "Guiding principles: Be bold. Be humble. Put humanity front and center. Lean into learning. Teach with intentionality. No one size
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by testfoobar 27d ago
Alternatively, creating incentives for plastics to never be deposited in rivers to begin with... "The results, published last November in Environmental Science & Technology, show that rivers collectively dump anywhere from 0.47 mil
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by testfoobar 1mo ago
Why does it work for weather at all? Is there something that the mathematical models are over-simulating? Is weather easier to predict than we thought? Just curious what the intuition is to regarding the success of ML weather modelling..
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WSJ: The AI Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives(wsj.com)
22 points by testfoobar 2mo ago|10 comments
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by testfoobar 2mo ago
> "The happy suburbanite cares about convenience and quantity above all else, from what I can tell anyway. They don't really have a varied sense of taste, they just want stuff, and they want easy access to that stuff. They like
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by testfoobar 2mo ago
From families I know: food is the reason. Athletic teenagers consume a lot of calories. Proteins, fruits, and vegetables along with milk, eggs, cheeses and snacks are easy to buy in bulk at Costco. These items are replenished weekly.
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by testfoobar 4mo ago
Your comments have two standout points for me: 1. Boring Orwell: Continuous surveillance is already present in the form of cameras in streets, shops, schools, cars, buses, homes, etc. AI can and absolutely will be used to continuously mon
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by testfoobar 4mo ago
Any individual layoff is truly awful. But at the macro level, it is not really a big number so far. From ~2.48 million in 2023 to ~2.37million now. Or a 5% drop in employment in 3 years. Fred: All Employees, Computer Systems Design and Re
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by testfoobar 4mo ago
Ha ha. I can't imagine any Ferrari dealer would want this on their lot.
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by testfoobar 4mo ago
Tax dollars really don't pay for things in the US Federal Government. Deficit spending leading to an ever rising debt is the source of continued spending. When Debt/GDP grows, we're spending ever more money that we don'
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by testfoobar 4mo ago
I would be concerned about transcription error perhaps (e.g. non native speaker) where precision matters: engineering, compliance, regulation, legal, etc.
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MIT Canvas goes down after cybercrime group breaches Instructure(thetech.com)
2 points by testfoobar 4mo ago|1 comments
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by testfoobar 4mo ago
No doubt they were delicious - fruit picked while walking is always special. But here in California, we have tremendous strawberries in our markets: Camarosa, Albion, Gaviota. Each is different in size, texture, flavor-profile. I usually b
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by testfoobar 4mo ago
Perhaps you haven't had the pleasure of eating fresh-picked strawberries from Watsonville on your drive down PCH 1. Strawberries that are shipped across the US (Watsonville produces something like 40%) are picked under-ripe and will n
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by testfoobar 4mo ago
I feel truly sorry for older folks navigating apps/logins/passwords/etc. Their experience is often utter shit. Two examples: 1. Often older folks have their screen zoom maxed out for readability. Extreme zoom will often plac
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by testfoobar 4mo ago
Definitely need this - I have a grocery store app with an embedded QR code linked to my account for discounts at point of sale. Opening the app is slow - so I've screen shotted the QR code. I have to pull my pinned photos at checkout
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by testfoobar 5mo ago
Populism is effective because the proverbial rising tide is not lifting all boats. AI is currently driving yet another extreme wealth inequality inflection point. Founded just five years ago, Anthropic is going to be a trillion dollar pri
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by testfoobar 5mo ago
People just liked it better that way.
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by testfoobar 5mo ago
"How did we get here?" - No one really wants to ask this question. We've had decades of tax policy, trade policy, health policy that created tremendous wealth inequality. In Q4 2016 (upon Trump's first election), the bo
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"renting a house and the application requires connecting your bank acct.(login)"(twitter.com)
3 points by testfoobar 5mo ago|2 comments
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by testfoobar 5mo ago
Full tweet: "A friend is renting a house and the application requires connecting your bank account (via login) to pull 90 days of purchases and balances. Seems really invasive for a rental or any purchase for that matter. Is this reall
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California's Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot, Backers Say(wsj.com)
20 points by testfoobar 5mo ago|6 comments
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by testfoobar 5mo ago
Or high speed switching between a dozen workspaces across multiple monitors and 100s of chrome tabs.
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by testfoobar 5mo ago
Give it back?
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by testfoobar 5mo ago
>If I have evidence that a crime has been committed based on my layperson understanding of the law, I will surely inform others before the case is even brought to courts. Journalists can and should do the same. In the US, careful journal
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by testfoobar 5mo ago
By researching, writing and publishing this article both the reporter and the news org believe there is significant public value in publishing this information. But it is a higher and more restricted standard to say a crime has been committ

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