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idiotsecant

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About idiotsecant

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    Comment #49251814

    There are definitely a ton of PE electrical engineers. The power industry - transmission, generation, distribution, is rife with them.

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    Comment #49248780

    Yes, I think so, inevitably. For the same reason that Bitcoin mining silicon manufacturers stopped selling the latest greatest hardware to the public. The best way to do this is to…

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    Comment #49247813

    Ah, the edit was fast enough not to leave a mark, leaving a conversation fragment that made me think OP was being weird about a gun related phrase or something

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    Comment #49247795

    the prison time might be the best part of reading through 180k meeting transcripts

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    Comment #49243240

    https://claude.ai/share/3cbfd4fe-a386-4528-94ba-238782b7e925 This seems easily falsifiable

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    Comment #49243074

    Is this still active? I wouldn't mind spying on some meeting notes. Sounds fun.

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    Comment #49242239

    Common phrase.

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    Comment #49220482

    Ok great, but you didn't answer the central question. How would you detect earth civilization from interstellar distances?

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    Comment #49211903

    How do we know nobody is colonizing every system we can see? How would you detect if earth was colonized?

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    Comment #49211866

    The very early universe was quite dense, compared to today. Getting enough stuff in the same place to form an event horizon was relatively easier.

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    Comment #49209980

    If we bet on where fires will occur and I have empty pockets and a book of matches that's a little different than options trading. As with most terrible behaviors when a few people…

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    Comment #49209936

    This is exactly the sort of bad incentives that lead to things like deliberately throwing drug trials. Very small amounts of money make people do horrible things every day, by what…

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    Comment #49195619

    People just want to press a button and see videos or their bank balances or whatever. They don't care about architecture.

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    Comment #49150023

    Parent is asserting that this in a generic title for film music. While others might have, That's not the way the artist used it. He used it like a proper noun specific to that comp…

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    Comment #49129350

    I don't think 1984 dune was successful culturally or financially. Definitely a different beast from the recent attempt, which has been wildly popular.

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    Comment #49127515

    I feel like once they make a mega successful movie of a book we can stop doing the secret handshake.

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    Comment #49119882

    Sometimes I forget what a bubble HN really is.

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    Comment #49109282

    'Google will build the walls on their garden two bricks higher by end of year'

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    Comment #49109249

    Luckily we have the enlightened centrists to descend from their clouds to say nothing at all

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    Comment #49096712

    CNN is increasingly sensationalist junk. I've started just reading AP for what I might read CNN for

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    Comment #49096668

    Constraints are where cool things are found

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    Comment #49096638

    There is a specific composition from 1958 that miles davis called Générique. It was composed for elevator to the gallows.

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    Comment #49096581

    LLMs should be viewed with the same terror as a reckless toddler who knows some bash syntax. Deeply embedding them into important and privileged systems will be the end of us.

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    Comment #49086813

    haha who is cooking on 5kv?