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liquidise
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About liquidise
ben at blinq dot inc
Engineer in beautiful Denver, CO.
https://www.stictionary.com - The free, no ads, offline dictionary.
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This reads like a precision vs recall problem. If I say every model is trained on CSAM, I too will correctly identify 100% of the models that were. Says little about my false posit…
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Comment #48885380
Not OP but my frustrations come from it being impossible to ignore and outright distracting. I've found the same thing showing with Claude-coded/designed front ends that overuse th…
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Comment #48507665
> “Great. So, do you use AI a lot at work?” > “Oh, I can’t! It’s really not reliable enough.” Gell-Mann Amnesia strikes again.
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Comment #48378376
> Buettner himself says he oversaw the blue zones frozen meal initiative This really captures the reality of longevity, at least in US culture. Whether or not blue zones are verifi…
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Comment #48333245
This may be one of the least informative articles i’ve read in a while. Apart from the headline i can’t imagine what compelled it to be shared here.
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Comment #48196296
Left-footed and right-handed. I find my "handedness" follows where the activity is driven from (upper/lower body). Soccer, snowboarding, batting, golfing: lefty Writing, throwing, …
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Comment #48196185
This triggered a rabbit hole search that had me rediscover Packard Bell Navigator[1]. The nostalgia and joy this page brings me is hard to describe. I hope everyone remembers their…
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Comment #47761585
I have an opposite reaction for what I assume are reasons we agree on. Social media has been a transparent race to the bottom for many years. The sooner it is shittified beyond rep…
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Comment #47184122
Thanks for posting this. It should be the link in the OP frankly.
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Comment #47093331
The Gorsuch concurring is quite the read, but wish more Americans internalized its final paragraph (excerpts below). Yes, legislating can be hard and take time. And, yes, it can be…
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Comment #47017512
Unhook[1] has been my go-to for this. Gives full customization over shorts, recommendations, comments, etc. 1a: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom... 1b: …
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Comment #46962970
At a big enough scale, previously large differences are effectively 0. 50k/mo is 600,000/yr vs 360/yr at 30/mo. Thats existential for a 1MM/yr company. Neither register on a balanc…
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Comment #46948517
Your blog layout, particularly on desktop, is brilliant.
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Comment #46722877
Lived in Denver for the last 15 years and own a company. You couldnt pay me to have office space in Denver simply by virtue of i'd rather spend commuting time doing something more …
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Comment #46625872
People making both the "they are a draw on the system" and "they are taking all the jobs" arguments confuse me. You can be anti-immigration, but you should pick one.
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Comment #46455054
“The primary job of software engineers is to make software suck less.” - a university professor i had, 20 years ago. Let’s not romanticize the past because it’s easier to ship (pro…
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Comment #46271544
Yes. You can install firmware updates over usb.
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Comment #46199573
Good news for blue collar workers, tough for investors. The bean-counting dream of LLM's and Robotics remains, but until ChatGPT is placing your order at Mcdonalds drive-thrus and …
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Comment #46189830
SponsorBlock became an instant, install-everywhere extension for me the same way UBO had. I'm amazed how few know of it considering its value and elegance.
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Comment #46100372
"I saw the best minds of my generation..."
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Comment #45973924
I'm not typically sensitive to AI-sounding text but those image captions leave me understanding others' issues with it.
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Comment #45572503
> How is BTC not the exact opposite of gold? If BTC is the exact opposite of gold, it follows that Eth, Ripple, USDC, etc are all more gold-like than BTC. I'd be interested to hear…
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Comment #45570832
Gold fell on Friday and recovered over the weekend. BTC certainly remains a more speculative asset than physical gold, but the comparison is not as unhinged as you make it sound.
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Comment #45479360
Are you familiar with any? I know people who bet on sports for a living and one of their biggest operational challenges is keeping accounts unbanned long enough to make consistent …
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Comment #45452599
I haven't any help to offer, but want to say that this post along with reading your site the other day has shown a level of composure and resiliency that i aspire to. Good luck get…