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> To think that people won't pay $60-$80/mo to continue using it is wild to me. I'm fine paying $200 per month. Companies seem to be fine at $2000 per month but I would balk at tha…

> I struggle to imagine thinking that no one does things themselves, for fun. What a nihilistic view. Come on. There are shades here. I guarantee that even your best programmers ar…

You can be safe down to 135F if you give it enough time. https://douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Poultry_and_Eggs In particular, I use 135F for 90 minutes (75 minimum recommended…

I have one of the Combustion thermometers, and I like it. I used it more than I expected. In particular, I use it for roasting chicken and for sous vide things more than anything e…

Well, it is always possible that OpenAI and Anthropic have some secret sauce that they are hiding that nobody knows about. However, the pricing of tokens on places like HuggingFace…

Functional is all about reification . You take a set of things in, you apply/map/collect/fold/whatever, you eject a set of things out. That is 100% functional--every time you suppl…

> $200 in rent every month into the large model providers We all know that is hugely subsidized, and I guarantee that OpenAI and Anthropic are looking to enshittify that ASAP. The …

> UI is also very much not functional, I disagree, and I believe that the complete stagnation of GUIs is due to ignoring this. There is no good reason why a GUI system isn't: Descr…

> For reasons unknown to me, instead of using the word with the meaning they probably are trying to convey, they rather use vague analogies or metaphors. First, most native English…

The problem is that there are two different costs associated with running an electrical grid. The first one is a variable usage cost tied to generation and is what everybody thinks…

> Yet in most locales it's illegal to disconnect from the grid. That's kind of ... required? Otherwise you have a bunch of people who are off the grid until the sun doesn't shine f…

Those are two different and separate arguments. "We shouldn't be growing anything out there." is an argument that the agribusinesses don't want to have. "We shouldn't be growing al…

Please reread my statement: > the alfalfa is a soil restorer So, yes, the agribusinesses WILL grow that alfalfa even if they can't sell it. Now, you can factually dispute me since …

I'm all about stomping on the agribusiness water usage and think that whole swathes of agribusiness in CA should get shut down. However, as I understand it, the alfalfa is a soil r…

I feel like people give Ron Gilbert way too much credit. His writing seems just mediocre at best. One big problem is that Ron Gilbert can't write an ending for crap. A meta-ending …

Maybe RedHat should contract this guy to finally get pointer warp implemented for Wayland everywhere it needs to be.

The "solution" is to shoot CGNAT and to finally force the ISPs to adopt IPv6 so everybody can drop the addresses of a detected residential proxy into a ban list. Continuing to allo…

> Is an utterly irrelevant comparison. For physical thing we have engineering, and the practical application of the trades and craft, trial and error. > > For modern medicine, we'r…

Yeah, I really wish all the people whining about Codeberg would give us all pointers to free alternatives that don't have these restrictions. And, if those alternatives don't exist…

> They're giving everyone their next hit. More like trying to prevent people from moving off of them. The only people that these companies are really trying to limit are the tokenm…

> Many Claude Code power users don’t really use IDEs anymore This is something we of the HN bubble take for granted. Most of us know how to type quickly and use editors and use mac…

My thought was because most cheap, small dehumidifiers are janky crap that almost always result in unhealthy gunk everywhere? I can certainly see that Miami would have no issue wit…

> Ask yourself: in what year did it become difficult to ask questions on Stack Overflow? 2014? 2016? 2018? 2020? The year that Google made "open source contribution" a checkbox on …

> i have a chinese robot from 3i that fills its mop water tank from humidity in the air. Okay, I definitely want a link for that one. That's either the most awesome hack or the big…