whatevertrevor

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by whatevertrevor 9mo ago
"Smart" accounting by not counting design, planning, procurement timelines would explain it, that makes sense. If that's the case, it's saddening to see details like this hyped up to borderline fraudulent levels.
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by whatevertrevor 9mo ago
> Groq built the region's largest inference cluster in eight days in December 2024. From that Dammam facility, GroqCloud serves "nearly four billion people regionally adjacent to the KSA." This isn't API access. This
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
I totally get that, I am ESL too, and I have a similar approach for English-based word games. And yeah that often results in mild disappointment or frustration instead of an "Aha!" moment. Actual puzzle video games fair better for
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
I don't understand this position, do you have direct evidence that Google actively made search worse? Before I'm misunderstood I do want to clarify that IMO, the end user experience for web searching on Google is much worse in 2
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
Haha, I know what you mean! Though in fairness, Wyna Liu isn't beyond throwing in a "mostly works" category from time to time... Wild tangent incoming... One instance that recently bothered me with an NYT puzzle was the cross
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
I've played enough NYT connections that this was immediate for me, at the expense of the promised "Aha!" moment. :D
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
Another +1 comment under it is far more likely to make more people mute the issue if anything. Spamming "google pls fix" just adds to the noise at this point.
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
Would be hard to get in Canada without provincial health cards, if I had to guess.
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
I can believe it, if only based on the times I've heard Danielle Smith speak.
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
Definitely, I don't think official channels recognized aerosolized transmission until way too late, and even when they did it was very low key and non-committal. I'm on team "ball was dropped badly re pandemic policy and comm
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
Right, but if memory serves me correctly droplet based transmission was the prevailing theory for the first few months while the WHO was oscillating like a pendulum on its masking recommendations.
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
There is so much complexity in interactions of systems that is easy to miss. Saying that one can understand a modern CPU by understanding how a transistor works is kinda akin to saying you can understand the operation of a country by unde
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
But you see, the destruction of your house is (protecting) nature. I'm being facetious, and agree with your point. But I'd go further to say protecting nature is too vague a goal so as to not qualify as a reasonable basis to mak
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
I don't think the general hatred of corporate personhood stems from the logical or taxonomic absurdity of it. Rather, I sense it comes from the perceived effects of it, that in their eyes allow corporations to get away without paying t
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
I might be that guy soon. I really don't like Bitwarden's extensions, they have clunky UX, are slow and often don't even respect my settings. Autofill is a crapshoot, especially on Android. And they have performance issues wi
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by whatevertrevor 10mo ago
I don't know about online forums, but all my IRL friends have a lot more balanced takes on AI than this forum. And honestly it extends beyond this forum to the wider internet. Online, the discourse seems extremely polarized: either it&
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
> Oh, the FIRE community. I think you may be confused, I'm not part of the FIRE community. I'm only taking the statement that "doing meaningful things is not financially sensible" to its logical conclusion, not endor
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
> There's so much in life that makes no financial sense that creates meaning. The moment you start having to think sensibly from a financial perspective, is when so many of these things no longer make sense. I get the sentiment, but
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
I am getting better at it, and I am trying. It's the potential framing of this as a character trait worth scoffing at I wanted to push back against. Even though it is a learned skill for a lot of people in practice, and some are genu
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
Yup, when the data breach happens the headlines aren't going to be "Random well meaning researchers caught in data breach exposing user data". They're going to be: "5 million Facebook logins hacked in massive data b
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
That still sounds like assigning blame and a vague call to "change lifestyle", instead of concrete action plans for energy, manufacturing, transportation and agricultural sectors. That is where the bulk of emissions are, not some
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
I do this a lot, sorry. My ADHD brain really wants to take an active part in the conversation or else I'm likely to get distracted by my own thoughts and zone out for the next couple sentences. And then make you repeat them anyway, inf
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
Let me add my third way of doing this in vim: :%s/<CTRL-R><CTRL-W>/replacement/(gcn) As you can guess <CTRL-W> invokes a special register that contains the "word" currently under the curso
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
"It would create panic" is a crutch that causes more destruction than it purportedly prevents. If you treat people like children, they behave like children.
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
There's no one stopping you from engaging in critical thought watching a YouTube video either. And some of the most interesting conversations I've had with my partner about the world and relationships have come after watching a TV
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
> That's true for most mass market crap but that's a low bar because it's all just escapism in a different format. Well one could make the same argument for other sources of media. As far as SNR goes, I think you're o
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
Remove the offending videos from your history, it helps.
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
I already have limited space for long term memory, bash commands are very far down the list of things I'd want to append to my long term storage. I use ctrl-R with a fuzzy matching program, and let my terminal remember it for me. And b
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
To me, it's the opposite. I think the words used are not exactly well-thought-through, but what they seem to want to be saying is they want less bureaucratic overhead, smaller teams responsible for bigger projects and impact. And wanti
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by whatevertrevor 11mo ago
I know, I have one too. It's still energy negative because they're not 100% efficient and you're paying energy to run them in the first place. Still worth it for better air quality.

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