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Does Paseo work with Claude Code and Codex subscription plans ($200/mo) and not just PAYG API keys?

Incentives are for Losers: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-lo...

Vitamin B12 supplements can be found in a range covering about 4 orders of magnitude. The RDA is 2.4 ug/day and the Costco daily multivitamin provides 6mcg, but here is someone sel…

try: https://ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus/FullText?GAID=18&Doc... It only requires the encryption of the specific age-bracket signals mandated by Section 10 of the bill. What yo…

> In the eternal game of cat and mouse between the goodhearted people trying to fix the incentives and the Goodhart’d people trying to exploit the incentives, I am rooting for the …

I see it plain as day as well FWIW. Not just that section, but most of the headings. The issue I have with it is that I can’t be sure whether a human actually double-checked anythi…

This keeps needing to be pointed out every thread this appears on. Plenty of cables have eMarkers that claim "40Gbps" or whatever speeds, or support 240W PD...but absolutely cannot…

Most of my high-powered lawyer friends would do as much as they could to avoid being on that side of the deposition.

That was a shockingly controlled landing for an unpowered vehicle. Very impressive! > Here you go - drops slightly slower than a brick. The glide ratio of a brick, even if it is in…

That seems pretty reasonable! It's also AGPL licensed and the source code is available on GitHub. 20 minutes with an LLM would likely yield you a nagware-free version if you value …

Running marketing off a separate domain is often a conscious decision because if they start getting blocked for spam, then critical service/operational emails from your actual doma…

YC is definitely pivoting into Defense. Besides 9mothers, there’s a list of 22 defense startups accepted into YC just this year so far: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/indust…

4 rotors is also a much more difficult “controls” problem. Helicopters actually glide reasonably well if their engine cuts off. They’re not super insanely unstable. Quadcopters are…

Why should I put any stock in what some snake oil "AI detector" says?

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I pasted and instantly hit enter on this prompt: "I generated a filter set using REW v5.31.3 using real-world sweep tone measurements from the room I'm listening in . How can I use…

Is there a way around the paywall for this? If not, the submission should probably get flagged.

Is there a way around the paywall for this? If not, the submissions should probably get flagged. archive.today doesn't seem to work on this article. Neither does archive.org

Absolutely. No idea what’s going on with these downvotes.

I got 1419 miles by putting the pin just east of Presidio, TX. The Gulf of Mexico doesn't have many Americans in it on the way out to the Florida Keys. 1,570 miles by pinning the l…

I'd love something like this for the Apple Watch but with local (iPhone) or self-hosted processing using whisper/parakeet/etc.

Fine-tuning is done against a dataset. Distillation is done against a model.

I mean they could just be routing known benchmark questions (which all of SWEBench are) to a full-performance variant.

> buying exercise equipment prescription only Like eyeglasses for near-sighted people. Obviously prescriptions should never be needed for far-sighted people. Only for near-sighted …