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pvarangot

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About pvarangot

I'm Pedro Varangot. I live in San Francisco and work on embedded software, worked on an earth imaging space startup, information security research, phones, self driving car ECUs and ebikes.

Drop me e-mail in: pedrov at gmail

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    Comment #42332363

    That's also not how pricing works, it's about perceived incremental increases in how useful it is (marginal utility), not about the actual more money you make.

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    Comment #41999015

    It's because it's probably trained with "professional audio", ads, movies, audiobooks, and not "normal people talking". Like the effect when diffusion was mostly trained with stock…

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    Comment #41815140

    The Chinese supermarkets all had it, I moved out on 2018 and I think they had it in the Jumbo in Palermo in the section where they had some Peruvian stuff on the back of the store.…

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    Comment #41815110

    Cocaine in the U.S. is at least 5/10% anfetamines tho, so it's probably worse.

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    Comment #41793538

    I used to drink coca tea a lot when I lived in Argentina where you get it in the supermarket. It's around on par of nicotine as an appetite suppressant for me, as a stimulant I fee…

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    Comment #41505230

    I think what they mean (not OP here so just chiming in to to try interpret and answer your question) is that you don't know what you are talking about.

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    Comment #41239513

    It's good for privacy so media companies probably don't want you to know it exists.

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    Comment #41122917

    I mean, not with that attitude

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    Comment #41012016

    I mean, those are the best parties

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    Comment #40302232

    Same, I got a pack of cigarettes ready to read the apologist comments.

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    Comment #39923777

    Reddit is a problem only on the popular frontpage subs for people with just-reading or no accounts. If you make an account and read certain subs their algorithm will recommend you …

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    Comment #39818518

    [flagged]

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    Comment #39644623

    Also I think the "we are all Google" borg/hivemind thing plays a part, other companies like Amazon or Apple are organized more like a lot of smaller companies so when people join t…

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    Comment #39634287

    Yeah I thought it was a scam. To be fair some of the most ridiculous things they announced when they put up the website, like the IMAX camera with a sensor that would basically tak…

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    Comment #39556428

    Besides what everyone else told you make sure you are making at least 250k/y

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    Comment #39043623

    They'll have to if they don't want to be fooled. The problem is that people want to be fooled, not the fooling machine. If LLMs are better at educating than at fooling it'll be ok,…

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    Comment #38976247

    That's your 15 Pro at 100% compute, anything that makes it go to 100% compute for the same amount of time will make it as hot.

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    Comment #38157991

    No they can't give an example because it's a safe space

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    Comment #38157942

    Kant goes so extensively about this that it's not even funny to have to mention it on an HN thread. No the blogpost doesn't cover it in the same way it being like 3000% or more con…

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    Comment #38032538

    It's also not clear if it's good for most of us in the U.S. so yeah I get you

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    Comment #37618268

    "guaranteed to work for many years" if you don't need them calibrated I guess. Also like I'm not sure? A lot of the discrete component and analog stuff on the old models is way mor…

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    Comment #37165522

    So first context: I'm not OP, and as a matter of record the Ghost Ship fire was not caused by a fridge compressor. Electrical appliance is the most likely cause but the ATF investi…

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    Comment #37165287

    I think programming language standards committees are not an unlikely venue for hot conflict, quite the opposite if you talk just about conflict without the word "hot". I don't hav…

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    Comment #36620964

    Are you implying you should be able to shoot at someone just because they are at your house or something?

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    Comment #36611764

    In California you can record without consent if you have reasons to suspect a crime is going to be committed. It's not the most straightforward thing to get away with and you shoul…