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It's not the case in many other places in the world. The ratio of cost for cooking vs. eating out is uniquely high in the US. It's not an iron law, it's downstream of a hundred thi…

"But the hardest lesson wasn't about database design. It was discovering that the real bottleneck wasn’t what we were observing and measuring."

Reminds me of Singapore. Neutral country, has conscription, every home has a bomb shelter.

I worked at Milo and Wenig always seemed like an empty suit. Had much better experiences with Donahoe who helped us with the homepage revamp (I was on that team). One thing I learn…

There's not much money to be made by doing quality news, but plenty to be made in click bait crap news. And if you're a billionaire there's a lot of intangible value in owning news…

The answer to every question like this in the US is "because the wrong people would benefit". In the past (and still today but less so), that literally meant black people. Now it m…

Yep one thing I did as part of going off tirzepatide was go immediately on a high fiber and fermented foods diet. It has helped a lot actually. It's quite hard to maintain over tim…

Thanks for sharing, it makes sense. Even before taking Tirzepatide I have had issues my whole life with greasy / fatty stool, and now that I've had reason to research the gall blad…

Tirzepatide at 1mg/week reduced my muscle soreness. I felt less depressed but this might just have been situational because I've been plagued by bad soreness after working out for …

I still challenge it. After 3 years an H100 has not depreciated to zero, not even close. Even if you want to replace it, it has considerable residual value.

Yeah not bad, though UV index of 3 is pretty comically low. Here in Manila it's basically full cloud conditions. I'd be interested to know a curve, i.e. at UV index 8, 3 minutes ex…

Are there any open models focused on LPR (license plate recognition)? I have found some old ones but curious if there are new ones being developed like this OCR model. I may even t…

Thousands of words and no mention of the obvious thing - testing whether sun exposure is beneficial or harmful. The article opens with the observation that southern states had lowe…

I don't see why 3 years is the right number there. I'm using a 10 year old model GPU to generate tokens locally, and given the bottlenecks, a commercial model focused on RAM and tr…

It's not even that hard to make AI output images that don't look like AI slop either, just have to use some "in the style of" or "as if it was taken with a film camera" types of mo…

Yes, many cases of people calling the police with actual tracker data showing exactly where their stolen property is, and the response being to get laughed at and told it's not a p…

Elon Musk happened. Zuckerberg happened (yes, before the current bro transformation, we had The Social Network showing us). Elon probably most of all, he was the one who took fring…

We recently had some behavior issues with our kids - they didn't want to do activities outside the house, they hated reading, they hated anything that required even the slightest d…

Big relief for me. As a passive investor, I want the indices to follow the same passive strategy they always have, and specifically not make exceptions for specific companies like …

My son is in 4th grade (nominally anyway, we homeschool so it doesn't really matter). He takes the MAP test periodically, which scores on a single scale for all grades. You can loo…

I mean, once it's a desktop, watts are pretty cheap, so it's a bit strange to optimize on that factor for the desktop form factor. For laptops it makes a ton of sense.

Feels like this should be some kind of anti-competitive violation even if it's not actually. Probably moot under this admin but still. It's like saying you can't use windows to dev…

Hate to break it to you but the Mormon belt extends well up into Idaho (probably all the way to Montana on the East side) and down into Arizona, and diffuses out quite far from the…

I don't know that local control is an unalloyed good. The interstate highway system would never have been built if we followed this as a principle, for example. For another example…

Even being social engineering, the design of the plugin system allowing this means the platform is completely unusable as a sharing tool. It's good to know but to me this is not "I…