zhivota

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by zhivota 5d ago
Haha I can do it, it was a fun trick in school days to freak people out.
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by zhivota 5d ago
For me I describe it more as trying to open your jaw with the muscles near your ear, while holding the jaw in place with the main jaw muscles. Like an isometric hold. I actually didn't know I could do it until now, I could always get t
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by zhivota 5d ago
Ah, so it's not faster than c, it's faster than light's speed inside the medium. This makes a lot more sense.
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by zhivota 5d ago
My apologies, I thought it was obvious that if you saved 90% of your salary, you would, in fact, then invest it.
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by zhivota 5d ago
I'd say this should push Americans towards smaller, more fuel efficient cars and EVs, but I know better. The American consumer seems immune to price pressure.
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by zhivota 6d ago
Nope. Before the kids we had an incredible savings rate. Sometimes around 80-90%. Now our spending is much higher but the growth of our investments over the last 10 years has been incredible and outpaced that by a large margin. For a while
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by zhivota 6d ago
2 kids.
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by zhivota 6d ago
There is a good amount of variability in weather, there is a rainy season, but solar irradiance is mostly the same and strong here overall. So a big array and a big battery can see you through everything but the worst string of rainy days,
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by zhivota 6d ago
Philippines is seeing an incredible explosion in solar power, but none of this kind of thing. Instead it's driven by a gray market - equipment is imported, mostly without paying proper duties and taxes, installers are unlicensed, insta
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by zhivota 6d ago
Hah this is very true, though I'd argue the real Raptor with a snorkel is the gaming PC. I'm typing this on one right now and I mostly play Factorio which could run on any old potato, so yeah I'm that guy. The MBP is probab
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by zhivota 7d ago
Spend less money, save more money, then retire. I'm retired at 42 and I hardly had a top shelf career, middle of the pack at best. Even if you're starting at zero you can do it in 10 years very easily, 5 if you haven't spen
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by zhivota 7d ago
There's an optimistic future where Medicare becomes so much more efficient it becomes politically obvious to expand it because it's outperforming the mess that is private sector healthcare. With AI I could actually see this being
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by zhivota 7d ago
> even just like 3-5 actual cities per planet would be a start This often takes me out of immersion in reading sci fi books. Every planet has one culture, one ruler, one major city. I know it's usually just a convenience but has the
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by zhivota 8d ago
I think for most people there is a big gulf between information posted to social and their entire email inbox, their credit card details, passwords, etc. For this kind of tool to be useful it basically has to be able to impersonate you digi
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by zhivota 9d ago
Jellyfin works great for me. My only gripe is logging around library scanning being pretty difficult to interpret. I'd love to add a dedicated scanner log that focuses only on logs relating to scanning, which for me tends to be the tro
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by zhivota 10d ago
I think it's a good idea but in this space, that's probably a smell. I met my wife there, been married 15 years now. 97% match, we've basically never had a big argument.
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by zhivota 12d ago
These articles make me wonder, are we driving ourselves into a local maximum of progress? If people move to React because agents know React, will the next better framework ever get traction? Extrapolate this thought to more than just front
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by zhivota 16d ago
I hope that with LLMs we'll see a lot faster identification of these anomalies. Imagine that this guy taught at MIT and has his own lab at Duke, basically more than 20 years of taking up some of the most prestigious positions in his f
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by zhivota 16d ago
I love it as a browser. The startup screen shocks me every now and then, pimping some crypto shit or another, but other than that, it's good.
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by zhivota 16d ago
You can try Brave, it's Chromium under the hood so it's usually accepted and has built in ad blocking, and a one click way to turn it off for a specific site if you have an issue.
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by zhivota 18d ago
He would have written a shorter post, but he didn't have the time.
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by zhivota 18d ago
I agree, my experience working in large organizations is that there is a ton of bloat everywhere you look. I also think it would be good for the industry, too many really talented people are tied up in these super high paying jobs at the to
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by zhivota 20d ago
I'd certainly use Gemini API a lot more if I could figure out how to give them money and they give me tokens. The whole tier nonsense is just insane hoop jumping compared to their competition.
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by zhivota 21d ago
A little sad that it's often posting screenshots of X posts there. At least the screenshot has alt text, but if you're doing alt text, why a screenshot in the first place?
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by zhivota 23d ago
It simultaneously is and isn't. It's overfunded on things that don't matter for the problem at hand - traffic enforcement using full fledged officers in expensive vehicles, militarized SWAT teams, regulations requiring huge
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by zhivota 23d ago
The thing there that the West has not been able to accept to achieve this is the surveillance state. Just look at Flock. I'm not sure anyone has really cracked how to get it done without that part, though certainly tweaking the spendi
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by zhivota 23d ago
The interesting thing to me is, despite it being hard to imagine today, back then this was actually a strange thing, and did actually serve as a demonstration of American freedom of expression. Hard to imagine today because this kind of wei
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by zhivota 26d ago
I'd argue it's still a product issue, one that will eventually be solved. The reason a payment is too much friction today is because it's surrounded by a raft of cruft: is there an extra "processing fee", am I signi
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by zhivota 1mo ago
They could but then their valuation is no longer justifiable, which breaks a lot of things downstream (loans being the biggie). They'd rather lose money than start making money in a non defensible way.
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by zhivota 1mo ago
Yeah that sucks, as far as I found NYC is unique in having this truly merit based top end to their system (would love to hear of others if they exist). We have a tentative plan to move there if my kids need it. Most other places water it do

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