trthomps

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by trthomps 11mo ago
I'm curious if the people who are using AI to summarize articles are the same people who would have actually read more than the headline to begin with. It feels to me like the sort of person who would have read the article and applied
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by trthomps 4y ago
Really going to have to disagree with you on that one, 3 hours SF to LA is well within HSR times (4 hour is considered the max), and will still be time competitive with flying because of how long it takes to check in and what a nightmare LA
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by trthomps 4y ago
The next major investment is the capital corridor route needs to be purchased by the state and then electrified between San Jose and Sacramento via Oakland. That would give CAHSR a route to run on between SF and SAC once there's a sec
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by trthomps 4y ago
It was the right choice in the end though IMO, it avoids an even harder to pass set of mountains and serves yet another high population town (175k people) and provides a potential transfer station for getting to Las Vegas bypassing LA for p
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by trthomps 5y ago
You mean Snapchat?
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by trthomps 5y ago
Reading this statement all I can think of is this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4
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by trthomps 6y ago
> Ultimately, printing money doesn't make anyone more productive or produce anything. All it does is redistribute wealth from those that were first to get the new free money away from those that were last to contact it. I look it as
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by trthomps 6y ago
Having worked for several tech companies in the valley, this is absolutely the case, calls are made all the time that screw a small number of users to unblock progress.
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by trthomps 6y ago
I mainly use an Amex charge card that functions like this, don't spend money I don't have, and only don't use a debit card for things because our financial system is very insecure and don't want to give the number out be
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by trthomps 6y ago
We've been doing this for 20 years, it's only gotten worse. Good speech is losing and information reality has forked. We can't fix this by letting it ride.
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by trthomps 6y ago
Personally I think this is for the best, keeps extremism at the fringes instead of easily accessible.
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by trthomps 6y ago
I last logged into FB in 2017... never going back.
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by trthomps 6y ago
Maybe building on proprietary platforms was a bad idea from the start and a poor investment of public resources.
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by trthomps 6y ago
You want your mind to really be blown, your brain manages to do everything it does on around 20W, even less than that mac mini.
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by trthomps 6y ago
Yeah, I live a block from my grocery store in SF, and I still only go 1-2 times a week unless I need something fresh for today / missing ingredient, which is rare since I plan ahead and only buy things that will last at least a few day
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by trthomps 6y ago
I was very careful to word my previous comment to say the US Government represents the voting population. In 2016 there were only 157M registered voters, and only 138M voted in the presidential election that year. The population of the US
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by trthomps 6y ago
The banking system deals with it by just reversing the transaction so the end user of the system, the consumer, doesn't care. This ends up screwing the merchant most of the time, causing the price to be paid by higher prices, but peop
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by trthomps 6y ago
The US Government is representative of all voting American citizens, you cannot compare it to a private company that is run by people who are not elected.
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by trthomps 6y ago
Duo integrates into the latest Android like FaceTime integrates into iOS, it would be nice if Apple made FaceTime / iMessage available on Android (lol, never gonna happen) or allowed Duo to integrate into iOS like 3rd party apps can in
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by trthomps 6y ago
I just finished the book "The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy" by Stephanie Kelton. Highly recommend to anyone who hasn't heard of MMT and wants a good intro with examples of h
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by trthomps 6y ago
I've been asking myself the same question as of late, I haven't come up with a good answer yet.
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by trthomps 6y ago
I moved to an X1 2 years ago when I refused to get the new keyboard and my 2013 MBP was on the way out, very happy to have Linux as the native OS for dev work, but I don't love the added time I do have to spend maintaining my own OS no
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by trthomps 6y ago
Honestly as a dev, this would make life a lot easier for a lot of engineers. People who care about openness will still have Linux and it's variants. The general population does not need that level of flexibility and just adds to the
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by trthomps 6y ago
Works for me, firefox-nightly (76) on Linux.
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by trthomps 7y ago
Signal (or Keybase), with expiring messages. I've become quite paranoid about my digital communication, I've worked in the field long enough to know all of them are being scanned. I'm not even doing anything illegal, I'
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by trthomps 7y ago
I completely agree. If I ever find myself in the situation of one of these stories, aka the victim, I will be going straight to an employment lawyer before HR to discuss my options. Hopefully meeting with HR with my lawyer present.
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by trthomps 9y ago
Where's the catch?
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by trthomps 9y ago
I also have 3.18 on my Pixel XL. I assume the unreleased Pixel 2 devices will be running kernel 4.4 if that's what they targeted. They probably wanted to back port it to 3.18 but it was too much work. I'm pretty disappointed they