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This is amazing and I love it. I was surprised that the owner said he needed to get a Strava premium account in order to be able to auto-upload the hamster's activities. Not 100% s…

> If all you need to do is replace a potentiometer with electronic control, it may be possible to do that with a vactrol. It's more invasive perhaps, but then we're not dealing wit…

> R-22 was phased out starting in the 1980s, and banned in 2010 (that's in Europe, maybe later in US). The situation with R-22 (better known as "Freon" in the US) seems pretty mess…

It sounds like maybe your moderation is working! I spend most of my time on subreddits related to the city where I live, and tax+financial planning forums.

What's your source for this claim? I've read new, valuable-to- me human-written information on Reddit since 2023, so I very much doubt this is true.

> I think at this point I'm ready to give up on Reddit, most of my questions are already answered by LLM. That's a bizarre and self-sabotaging path to take. Almost all LLMs get a s…

> Logically, gambling is like going to the movies. You expect to pay x currency for y value of entertainment. I don't think gambling is at all like paying a set price for a ticket …

> They're giving everyone their next hit. Yes, 100%. The author seems to be describing, quite lucidly, how he is getting sucked into a gambling-like addiction to these LLMs… althou…

> Gambling addition implies dopamine hits from irregular and uncertain outcomes Your post literally describes your fascination with trying to figure out the pattern of a "random" r…

> it's just insanely irritating to work with a tool that 1) limits its' own use 2) with a random interval. Do you understand how the psychological response to the "random" disappea…

This article reads like a description of gambling-addiction behavior; the author appears to be addicted to using LLMs. He's eagerly awaiting his next hit of dopamine from his favor…

Hmm. I'm curious about which org that was. I spent the slight majority of my time at AWS in RDS.

Even ignoring the political aspects, like the fact that EFF/ACLU don't want to be in this business (as you note)… This system will likely fail in the same way that almost every new…

Which ones?

> Services emit metering values that arent directly tied to prices. Yep. The metering ("Kona") is separated from the billing to such degree that it's basically impossible to find a…

> COEs are such a huge annoyance for teams that they create a strong incentive to be proactive in preventing issues like this from happening. Absolutely not my experience at AWS. A…

This was very much my experience, having worked in two different sub-organizations at AWS, and on several different services, in two different countries. There's just extreme varia…

> > If Anubis were to be even more widely adopted, botnet operators would surely adopt and optimize native code solvers en masse. > Then anubis adopts it itself, increases the amou…

Right, and as I understand it the timing also lines up: these ill-behaved scraper-bot-nets exploded along with GenAI in the last 3-4 years. Still, it seems to me like something doe…

Anubis appears to be a temporarily-useful stopgap that has been cargo culted into prominence and an expectation of permanent usefulness, for reasons I don't fully understand. The c…

As this article points out, it's tremendously unclear who is using residential proxies . The big AI models claim they're not using them. I'm not inclined to "just believe them", bu…

To add to the other comments… At a very abstract level, when you're manufacturing DRAM you need to manufacture a lot of circuit elements that have HIGH capacitance, since a DRAM ce…

My suspicion as well. I don't see any crystal clear evidence for it, but I'm sure looking for it.

Thanks. (4) is the critical piece here.

> I work at ngrok, and this is not how our freemium plan works. Free plans limit based on usage alone, not on machine IDs. Thank you! This is not only good to know as an ngrok user…