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square_usual

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About square_usual

I like talking to strangers, so feel free to email me. shrikanth at abis dot moe. Also @shrikanthup on x, formerly twitter.

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    Comment #49246879

    Brother I don't know what to tell you. Chick'n, Bac'n, Be'ef etc. are well-known vegan susbtitutes for the pun'd meats. Most of them explicitly say they're vegan on the box. That's…

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    Comment #49212476

    > I think it's pretty reasonable to think that an extreme climate would cause extreme mortality. No, it's not reasonable. They're using the same label, but there's no evidence show…

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    Comment #49039358

    Easy enough to explain: they're benchmaxxing. Fable is intelligent but not benchmaxxed. Opus is less intelligent but benchmaxxed.

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    Comment #49008003

    Huh? I went through the first ten messages in his thread and there's no praise there at all.

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    Comment #49007303

    Photos of the food, at least in the US, started with "immigrant" restaurants. When Thai/Vietnamese/Chinese restaurants started opening up in areas without high concentrations of th…

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    Comment #48951541

    You can't imagine someone getting excited about difficult problems as an engineer? And you can't imagine why there's creativity involved? I don't know, it feels like you can't proc…

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    Comment #48805755

    The higher margin is mostly coming from assembly costs, right? I can't imagine it comes from the actual cost of the battery being so much higher. I hope that once they start pushin…

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    Comment #48805696

    It's not really a small percentage of users. All users will have trouble with the battery - eventually. My DS4s ran out of battery life in about three years of usage; I still have …

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    Comment #48805582

    Yeah, I strongly remember getting Sonnet 3.5 with Aider to boostrap an (albeit basic) project and getting it to work. Especially vivid because I told my roommate at the time about …

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    Comment #48804746

    > How much React code you wrote 6-8 years ago will work perfectly and identically with today’s React toolchain? Today's Elm toolchain is the Elm toolchain of 6 years ago!

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    Comment #48782116

    I'm so happy I have something I can link to that clearly and patiently engages with all the people who concern troll about Wikipedia. It genuinely bothers me how the temperature of…

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    Comment #48778157

    > when Android Auto connects on my phone, it tends to stop me from using the maps app on the phone This is on Google Maps. Nothing about Auto/CarPlay prevents this. Google just cho…

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    Comment #48763609

    I'm skeptical there actually is a difference. I've compared my iPad with the white point, brightness and color filters set for comfort and it's no worse for reading than a Kindle P…

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    Comment #48751647

    Yeah for the first time in a long time I ended up using my entire weekly quota. Usually I go slow but with Fable I actively saw a huge benefit in pushing it and doing much more.

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    Comment #48749951

    If you think so you've only ever worked in a trash org. If my productivity was hurt by things outside my control I'd expect (and have had) managers to fight for me.

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    Comment #48736694

    This is insane reporting. Their own article says the data center buildout happened in 2017. The article they link about it says the same thing. And so rate changes now - in 2026, n…

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    Comment #48724210

    > As a workplace I'm glad we're not a monoculture of 100% like-minded individuals. But if you're tolerant of someone in your workplace that wants to make it a monoculture, and then…

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    Comment #48691050

    Every time I use opus these days I go shut up... you are not fable.. Hard to imagine how just three days with it changed how I saw LLM use.

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    Comment #48687351

    You can use them in the team plan, but not the enteprise plan.

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    Comment #48674384

    No? I live very close to Loudoun county, there's DCs across the road from homes.

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    Comment #48674333

    I'll never forget it. It's always on the back of my phone, so even if I'm in a hurry and run out I can still read a book on the metro.

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    Comment #48674209

    I've read an entire book on the X3 attached to the back of my phone and it hasn't been an issue. Reading horizontally I get close enough to the 80 chars per line ideal that it does…

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    Comment #48561088

    Specifically climate data, which can be used to argue for climate change action.

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    Comment #48544241

    You can make one yourself in ~100 lines of code.

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    Comment #48504955

    To be fair, those are on Frontier, so it's roughly equivalent to Ryanair.