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striking

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About striking

h@robertstolarz.fastmail.com (no ads, please) https://github.com/robstolarz/

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/striking; my proof: https://keybase.io/striking/sigs/QKCbMGAwCajv-YwVw78Vp00WB1YoOhCJyxc_nB-zW3U ]

I speak for the trees, for they have no tongues (unlike any of my employers; be they past, present, or future; for they have legal teams)

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    Fine. But walking is also just kind of nice and unobtrusive for most people. I'd understand if you were replying to someone telling you to do strength training, but I'd argue walki…

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    https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1vgpysh/deepseek_...

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    Comment #49209596

    I don't see him as blaming us regular people. Just liars (which he takes pains to enumerate thoroughly). Of course most of us are just living our lives. But sometimes even us norma…

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    Comment #49189358

    Exposure Notifications is no longer available in Android as of like 2023. https://developers.google.com/android/exposure-notifications

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    Comment #49187855

    If that worries you, you'll be aghast at the fact that Ed's actually been on Bloomberg TV a couple times now.

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    Comment #49186276

    If it weren't for all the supermassive cars rolling around, purchased because they're ostensibly safer in a crash for the person driving them (while markedly decreasing the safety …

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    Comment #49172942

    He was lucky to be managing any money at all, the West Coast smiling upon him did not translate into East Coast excitement: > When this star of San Francisco arrived in New York du…

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    Comment #49160990

    Asking politely is not how we got a 40-hour work week or workers' comp or most other labor standards we take for granted, just historically speaking. I think a positive outcome is …

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    Comment #49159668

    I think this too is a kind of denial. As in, while some are in denial about the usefulness of AI, others are in denial about whose living standards are actually going to be uplifte…

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    Comment #49157667

    95% of farms are "family owned". Large scale family owned farms make up about 4% of all farms but 48% of agricultural output. https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2025…

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    From a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro#Specifications I think the 6502 versions of the beeb didn't have banked RAM so to keep it loadable from tape the limits might…

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    Comment #49111760

    Second chart (it's to the right of the first chart and clicking it to scroll is easier than otherwise)

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    Comment #49041692

    He does have some choice words for you if you're Russian, though: > As to sending me a revert patch — please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be ‘s…

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    Comment #48986997

    The fixed consumption plans are offering several times their worth compared to API pricing with completely free cache reads: https://she-llac.com/claude-limits I look at that and t…

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    Comment #48986760

    I'm arguing we can't trust retail prices because the marginal pricing isn't meaningfully connected to it anyway. But if we have to look at what we think margins might look like, De…

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    Comment #48986390

    Sure, let's have a look... > I highly doubt that Chinese models are cheaper to serve on a marginal cost basis, they just seem cheaper because Anthropic and OpenAI are so supply con…

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    Comment #48973220

    https://archive.is/KPans

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    Comment #48972544

    I've played through the whole of story mode with no more than a few rare world streaming issues and that was a couple years ago. You could give it another shot, I recommend binding…

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    Comment #48952220

    > Movi M10 uppper brace and bolt holder They're cat ears. You can just admit it. We won't judge.

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    Comment #48951848

    It just is what it is. Sometimes you want to write the obvious query without the DB getting in your way, and other times you want to know as soon as possible that you're doing some…

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    Comment #48951282

    > Maybe one day I’ll learn to read a query plan. With SQLite's `.expert` mode you can delay that day a little longer: https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html#index_recommendations_sqlite..…

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    Comment #48941070

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/google-ge...

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