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aardvarkr

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About aardvarkr

Physicist, computer & electronics enthusiast, musician. Gadgeteer.

Passionate about understanding how things work, and making things work. Hoping to learn about tools and techniques that will make my work more productive / fun.

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    Released October 2022? That’s a very human piece of art even if the images may have been generated by an algorithm

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    Comment #48817688

    Amazing, I love learning about knots! Is there a better shoelace knot? Not faster, but better

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    Comment #48794139

    Residential real estate appraisals are done by under employed real estate agents. They’ll always find a way to justify the number that you paid, like during Covid when I bid $200k …

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    Comment #48732893

    Is any of that capable of replacing google and apple on mobile?

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    Comment #48727261

    They both feed off of hype. The people posting about crypto are not the same people gpu mining crypto so I wouldn’t chalk it up to the same hardware

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    Comment #48062334

    If stranger things ended with everyone dead and no happy ending then sure but no, everything is fair and the heroes always win. Horror has always been mainstream fyi, it’s not a re…

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    Comment #47868155

    Sounds like you just want a car from the year 2000.

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    Comment #47538680

    That’s fine. They can choose to use whatever model their political hearts desire. the supply chain risk designation means EVERYONE who works with the government isn’t allowed to us…

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    Comment #47360486

    Survivorship bias and the corporate finance world of today is completely unrecognizable from the world of Google and Apple. Just look at the resulting performance of the SPAC craze…

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    Comment #47257132

    It’s a $200M contract. That’s not nothing but it’s definitely not such a huge sum for these companies at their scale when they’re spending billions on infrastructure. I’m sure anth…

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    Comment #47257106

    I don’t care who is in the whitehouse. Snowden revealed the crimes of the NSA in 2013 when Obama was president. They’re all going to want to use AI for mass surveillance

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    Comment #47257072

    I hate this so much. The nsa’s spying on everyone in 2010 was “legal” and I can only imagine how much worse it is now with AI to follow your digital footprint around everywhere. To…

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    Comment #47257045

    Capture the student market 100%. I’d buy one for my kids tomorrow. These machines are made with an iPhone chip so they’re going to be great at browsing the web and studying. I woul…

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    Comment #47241930

    It’s more a factor of how they structure the desired output. They follow a template instead of trying to come up with something on the fly

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    Comment #47241887

    Ugh I have actually started hating Gemini for this specifically.

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    Comment #47225378

    They look like any other pair of sunglasses. No piece of glass over one eye reminding everyone you meet that you’re wearing a camera. They’re incredibly stealthy

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    Comment #47203017

    This is the same government caught spying on its citizens by Snowden so I don’t trust them at all.

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    Comment #47094368

    Huh? In what world was the tariff on sand 2000%?

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    Comment #47094348

    The feds are the ones that control import duties, not the states. The courts will decide two years from now what to do.

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    Comment #46603889

    No, you can think of them more like unarmed artillery shells. Can you walk down the street to buy some artillery munitions? Even if they were considered arms for the purpose of 2a …

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    Comment #46283603

    If you read one book a quarter then yeah it’s not for you. If you read one book a week you can queue up fifty good books and wait for that one to come available at some point in th…

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    Comment #45988563

    So what makes a bitcoin worth $100k if it’s such a shit currency?

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    Comment #45639617

    Medical tourism is a huge industry. A 3 month supply costs more than $3k in the USA. A flight to Canada costs $300 and takes a few hours of your time. I’d definitely do it if I was…

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    Comment #45639580

    Generics are so cheap and easy to make that they can reasonably justify that it will save the government money by making the population healthier. Just think about how much less he…