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by throwup238 18d ago
> Heck Zuckerberg took a helicopter there one year. The vast majority of the people I knew who flew in weren’t rich like Zuck, they just liked flying. It’s the only way to get a wristband that allows you to come and go at will (i.e. to
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by throwup238 18d ago
“[dead]” usually means algorithmic (could be as simple as an account registered via Tor that hasn’t been vouched for enough times). “[flagged][dead]” usually means it was flag-killed by users, except I’ve been noticing some AI written comme
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by throwup238 18d ago
Pharo [1] is a modern take. [1] https://pharo.org/
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by throwup238 18d ago
> My problem is the context of today’s models (that I’ve been using - Claude Opus 5 and GPT-Sol) are a black box to a user like me. Would it even help if it weren’t a blackbox? Maybe to the frontier labs with resources, but even trying
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by throwup238 20d ago
The better phrase is probably “reference design” marketplace. When I worked as an EE pretty much all but the hardest boards (which needed to be simulated) were glorified stripped down reference designs.
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by throwup238 20d ago
> developer productivity is so profitable in an outsized way that you'd always just hire more if you could, even if they were all 10x as productive (maybe this changes at some scale). Definitely. Software is a digital arms race be
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by throwup238 21d ago
I’m sorry but I can’t take you seriously if you’re bringing up mad cow disease in this discussion. Prions don’t spread because of butchers, they spread because of bone-and-meal feed. You know, stuff fed to a cow while it’s still alive, bef
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by throwup238 21d ago
And you continue to ignore what I said (and what the book said). The whole point of a black swan event is exactly what you just described . It’s the inflection point when our priors change .
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by throwup238 21d ago
I think that’s a misreading of the entire book. A black swan event is a rare, high-impact outlier that is nearly impossible to predict under normal circumstances, but is rationalized as having been inevitable in hindsight.
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by throwup238 21d ago
Spoiler alert: that’s the whole point of a black swan event.
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by throwup238 21d ago
There have been maybe three such events in the 21st century (glacier or landslides producing more than a magnitude 5 quake), and none of them have happened in an area like the Himalayas. The other two were in Alaska on Mt Steller in 2005 an
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by throwup238 21d ago
The way the butcher explained to me, it’s not so much the volume that’s the problem, it’s the time between cleanings which gives microbes time to multiply in ideal conditions with lots of nutrients from blood and optimal temperature. Any cr
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by throwup238 21d ago
It’s not “some trim”, it’s basically half the animal. I buy several whole cows a year and out of a carcass that yields 400 lbs of meat, I’ve never managed to get more than 60% with a very good butcher. Cabeza/lingua/tripa/off
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by throwup238 21d ago
I’ve seen where a local butcher slaughters the cows for local farmers, and it’s definitely nowhere near as sanitary as the meat packing plant I wrote some software for. It’s not dirty or unsanitary by any means but he just doesn’t have the
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by throwup238 22d ago
“Imagine if we capture even just 0.5% of the market!” That feels very 2010s Silicon Valley. Simpler times.
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by throwup238 23d ago
Called it! [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41056765
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by throwup238 24d ago
For one you can ask Pi to create a TUI extension, so along with the agent interface you can add whatever custom TUI you need, such as portfolio stock tickers, alerts, whatever you want. Many of my harnesses eventually turn into customized U
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by throwup238 25d ago
I think the inspiration was the Arabic numerals.
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by throwup238 29d ago
The five hour budget is about 15% of the weekly on Max 20x. I had about 15% left.
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by throwup238 29d ago
Just before I canceled my 20x Max sub I had a day where I had ~15% of my weekly I was trying to burn. I set it on ultracode and because I had set the max agents 32 for another project and forgot, the five research agents ended up spinning u
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by throwup238 29d ago
I’m assuming many people also haven’t experienced their warranties and service networks. I remember decades ago when I was a teenager and anytime my Dell XPS stopped working (or I dropped it…) a tech would come in a van within two days and
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by throwup238 1mo ago
You really think OpenAI is selling $1500/mo of electricity (at $0.05/kwh) for $200/mo? I’m guessing that Wh/token estimate is several orders of magnitude too high.
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by throwup238 1mo ago
Generating datasets to train more efficient models is a common use case for VLMs, especially frontier ones. It makes it much cheaper to create that initial dataset and you can abuse the nondeterminism of LLMs to identify data for human revi
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by throwup238 1mo ago
For those of us in Southern California there’s a similar attraction in the San Gabriel Mountains called the Bridge to Nowhere [1] along the East Fork. It was originally built in 1936 (for the gold miners IIRC) and then a massive flood in 19
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by throwup238 1mo ago
> The word Mississippi itself comes from Messipi, the French rendering of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquian) name for the river, Misi-ziibi (Great River). [1] I guess technically it’s the Anglicized French transliteration of the Al
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by throwup238 1mo ago
It is an Algonquian name for the river, which the French transliterated when they explored the upper reaches. The whole thing is called the Mississippi river because it was the first to be discovered and named, and the French name stuck (I
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by throwup238 1mo ago
I don’t know, I get dopamine hits from sharpening my handplanes and using my Veritas routers on some scrap, but I just can’t empathize with getting a dopamine hit from using a bot. Especially with how bad Opus 5 has been. I am however going
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by throwup238 1mo ago
Yeah it feels like a very different model. I don’t try to fill up Apple/Google cloud drives to 1TB because then I’d have to clean up when I need space. I don’t bother trying to maximize my Audible subscription because there’s only so m
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by throwup238 1mo ago
Is anyone even getting it from toads anymore? 20 years ago it was cheap to synthesize and get from the research chemical market along with the 2Cs and friends. I haven’t done any drugs in a decade so I don’t know how hard it is to get now b
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by throwup238 1mo ago
I’m in LA in a very high CoL area and my nearest Walmart has a 13oz Lays family sized bag for $4.77. I see $5.99 at the local high-ish end grocery store. Both on Instacart. My favorite Mexican grocery store afew miles way has 8oz bags on th

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