vehemenz

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by vehemenz 5d ago
Sure. Which one? If it’s CPI just say CPI.
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by vehemenz 6d ago
Which metric of inflation are you adjusting it to? And which assumptions are built into the goods and services measured, as well as their respective weights, of that index?
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by vehemenz 6d ago
Hear, hear.
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by vehemenz 6d ago
Showing the CPI next to these price increases wouldn’t hurt. If anything, it shows the problem with a single measure of inflation.
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by vehemenz 7d ago
I’m not sure what to tell you. With only a few exceptions, the shorthand follows a very predictable pattern if you already know the property names. IDE completions help too.
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by vehemenz 7d ago
I don't really get this argument. 90% of Tailwind is shorthand for existing CSS properties. There's really not much to learn if you already know CSS.
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by vehemenz 7d ago
What do you mean by vanilla CSS? I can't be the only one who has no idea what this means. Do you mean high-abstraction classes that are bound to the DOM arbitrarily, and are difficult to change later? We've had 25+ years to see ho
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by vehemenz 7d ago
Do you have an argument, or are you coasting on the "trust me bro" vibes of the parent?
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by vehemenz 7d ago
These are the same anti-Tailwind arguments that have been circulating forever. If you want to build a case against Tailwind that's actually compelling, you should start by understanding what it is first. Only then can you compare it to
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by vehemenz 7d ago
AI and Tailwind-based template systems sort of stole Tailwind's lunch, so I'm glad there was light at the end of the tunnel for Adam and co.
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by vehemenz 10d ago
> Writing is thinking. This way of phrasing it is needlessly confusing. Writing is a kind of thinking--one of many--but it's not equivalent to thinking. Dialectical thinking, for example, produces similar results.
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by vehemenz 10d ago
Hey, let’s not forget Cloudflare
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by vehemenz 11d ago
It's a neat approach for the current problem of untracked dotfile accumulation. The real problem is that the entire reason to use git at this point is because of the conventions established around it. There are better VCSes and methods
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by vehemenz 13d ago
Nice try, Mark.
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by vehemenz 14d ago
Supposedly Fable 5.1 is better, but I haven't tried it yet. I've run into the same thing with mundane work that is barely bio/cyber adjacent. Re: Chinese models, even if the model itself isn't censored, some of the big m
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by vehemenz 14d ago
Though it's associated with Africa, head portage was commonly practiced nearly everywhere. https://youtu.be/BRnwg3dpboc?t=731
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by vehemenz 15d ago
If we sample from Zitron’s claims, a lot of them are wrong. Probably most of them. I think his contribution to the discourse is the bigger picture. These companies are going into potentially economy-wrecking debt over a speculative future t
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by vehemenz 15d ago
I can’t speak for mobile, but the desktop/web product has been a disaster for years. When Spotify went full Electron a few years back, a bunch of standard macOS keyboard shortcuts stopped working. These issues were on their “support” f
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by vehemenz 20d ago
No one denies that the congenital blind have aphantasia. The problem is that many people default to thinking that their experience is exceptional, when in reality it's completely typical. Once you get past that, there's no "t
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by vehemenz 20d ago
I wonder what it's like to be born blind and have zero visualization ability. Then I wonder what it must feel like for that person to read sighted people on the Internet debate their supposed lack of visualization abilities.
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by vehemenz 20d ago
I have doubts about aphantasia as a legitimate phenomenon, but whether it is or it isn't, it seems likely that many of the positive reports are a result of a misunderstanding, semantic or otherwise.
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by vehemenz 20d ago
It is a red flag to me too. If you have working vision, the brain is doing a ton of post-processing that you're unaware of. The eyes are part of the brain, after all. Closing them with your eyelids doesn't magically turn off those
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by vehemenz 20d ago
"Exist" is probably the wrong framing. It doesn't seem unreasonable that such a phenomenon could occur after a traumatic brain injury, for instance. I'm sure there's some evidence of it, neurologically (like split-b
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by vehemenz 21d ago
You're right. My prices were a few years off. Still, nowhere near the $50k mark.
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by vehemenz 21d ago
It cuts both ways. A GPU in your basement is a depreciating asset with fixed computing power and consumes electricity. Switching model providers is trivial.
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by vehemenz 21d ago
That's only half the reason it's expensive. The other reason is that it would likely take years to spend $4000 (plus the real cost of electricity) worth of tokens on a 3rd-party provider that's running a similar limited, DS F
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by vehemenz 21d ago
The median price is high because Americans tend to buy more car than they can afford and/or need. If we look at what you can realistically buy OTD (out the door) prices, the picture changes. New Odyssey/Sienna are coming in the lo
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by vehemenz 23d ago
That’s compatible with the thesis though. Read past the headline. He says good founders learn actual stuff at college and get good at something, without any ambition to make it profitable initially.
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by vehemenz 23d ago
The hukou reforms in May were a good first step, but for now, you're right.
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by vehemenz 23d ago
Small nitpicky correction, but in China, city tiers are designated by policy and generally correlate to the quality of life for the middle class there. The US doesn't have a tier system. If it did, it wouldn't make much sense beca

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