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sincerely··on Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024)
Reportedly retatruide doesn’t cause nausea in as many people, but can still cause diarrhea. May still be worth looking into if you’re interested
sincerely··on Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)
I have an AMD thinkpad and get maybe 1/4 the battery life on Linux as I do when I boot inti Windows, did you have to do any tweaking to achieve that?
sincerely··on I'm just having fun
Everywhere I’ve worked, there’s a funny phenomenon where the people just under the real decision makers use formal language, start emails with salutations and sign them, etc. Whereas the actual decision makers send emails like “can u look in2 this? thx”
sincerely··on Backing up Spotify
It's hardly a secret, you can go on r/trackers where people discuss private trackers for every media type
sincerely··on Oliver Sacks put himself into his case studies – what was the cost?
I’ll do you one better, I believed Gladwell wasn’t writing fiction either.
sincerely··on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
Just a data point - I would rather read bad human writing than LLM output
sincerely··on Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
You literally gave an example of a beggar who is being a chooser. It sounds like they very much can be.
sincerely··on Using secondary school maths to demystify AI
The Turing test was passed in the 80s by Eliza it doesnt mean anything
sincerely··on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop
They used to be genuinely great, now they coasting on brand name and simply not being as bad as most laptops. DIY hardware upgrades are no longer possible, the keyboard is no longer a differentiator, and linux battery life is about 1/4 windows running on the same machine.

From what I remember the last time I bought a laptop, they also have a really annoying pricing model where everything is 30% overpriced but are running constant discounts

sincerely··on Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship
About as helpful an answer as “book”
sincerely··on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free'
Making a minor-to-moderate sacrifice of convenience/money so that your actions align with your ideology and beliefs is extremely common human behavior. Organic food. Clothes made in the US instead of a sweatshop. Following a religion's customs e.g. Sabbath.

There are plenty of good reasons to not want to use gen AI (and many stupid ones as well). If someone wants to market their product that way, who cares

sincerely··on PRC elites voice AI-skepticism
Grok goes off the rails in exactly this manner fairly often
sincerely··on iPhone Pocket
in my experience as a tech guy who got into fashion and then after several years went back to not caring: Sneakers are the product category with the least differentiation in value-for-money between the high end (especially designer, but also not-designer-but-still-expensive like common projects) both in terms of aesthetics and quality/durability. You're paying $300 more for a 10% better product. Jeans, outerwear, knits, boots, you can more easily justify that cost
sincerely··on Driver livestreams on TikTok as she apparently hits and kills man in Chicago
I don’t really disagree, but is it meaningfully different than having a conversation while drivng?
sincerely··on Replacement.ai
I kind of get it, but at the same time...isn't "we made a machine to do something that people used to do" basically the entire history of of technology? It feels like somehow we should have figured out how to cope with the "but what about the old jobs" problem
sincerely··on You did no fact checking, and I must scream
The article is addressed to journalists, who have not only the necessary skills but also a professional obligation to provide truthful information
sincerely··on After nine years of grinding, Replit found its market. Can it keep it?
>Rather than becoming defensive, Masad and his team owned the problem. In fact, says Masad, within two days, they rolled out an automatic safety system that separates a user’s “practice” database from their “real” one. The way Masad describes it, it’s a little like having two versions of a website’s filing cabinet — the AI agent can experiment freely in a development database, but the production database, which is the real thing that users interact with, is completely walled off.

I gotta wonder who the median techcrunch reader is if the writer/editor felt it necessary to explain the point of having a staging and prod environment, and with such a pointless analogy. We surely cannot understand what a database is unless we're told it's like a filing cabinet, right?

sincerely··on Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out
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sincerely··on Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
Sounds like a you problem
sincerely··on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU
All of OPs posts in that thread are blatantly Chat GPT output
sincerely··on How well does the money laundering control system work?
The catholic church also helped Nazis escape germany after WWII: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)
sincerely··on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C
>Why dont americans create 16 pound smartwatches?

Because labor is much more expensive in America. This is not a mystery

sincerely··on Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved
This is how every URL shortener on the internet worked used to work
sincerely··on Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?
Aspartame seems to be a newer contender
sincerely··on I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
Thanks for sharing this ChatGPT message with us
sincerely··on Prompting LLMs is not engineering
I think as people get increasingly aware of the nebulous consistency of hosted LLMs, local models will become more valuable
sincerely··on LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary
Magic the Gathering players are intimately familiar with the term :)
sincerely··on All clothing is handmade (2022)
Generally not the worst assumption, but these guys have been around for a decade plus
sincerely··on Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
in NA, SMS is still dominant. Eu+Sa+india use whatsapp, china/japan have their own apps
sincerely··on The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh
This is you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ
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