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  1. slices parent
    which was true
  2. slices parent
    David Sacks might be interested to know his title is now "Zar".
  3. slices parent
    It never ceases to amaze me how google search _used_ to work great for stuff like this. You could just type "tbray {obscure term on a blog entry from 10 years ago}" and bam, instant result.

    I guess google generates more ad revenue with users forlornly paging through search results, hoping against hope that what they're looking for is there somewhere...

  4. slices parent
    I thought they were talking about League of Legends players, whoops
  5. slices parent
    I've never been a huge user of either, but my worst Uber ride was much better than my best taxi ride.
  6. slices parent
    ideally, science would be the best available information on "is". When the science is i.e. funded by a tobacco company and regarding the safety of tobacco, we should be skeptical. How much of current science falls in a similar class?
  7. slices parent
    how many public health officials acted with awareness of the prevention paradox during covid?
  8. slices parent
    if your cheap Chinese EV starts on fire and burns down your house, it might not have been such a good deal
  9. slices parent
    true. I wasted over a year waiting to get a base model Toyota Sienna, and eventually realized they might as well not exist.
  10. slices parent
    Since 90% of my car trips are under 30 minutes, yes that would be worthwhile.

    The other 10% are beyond any practical battery range, so a BEV isn't an option.

  11. slices parent
    living in a major US city in 2012, we had ancient DSL
  12. slices parent
    a guy with a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, who then worked for years at MIT, isn't an intellectual?
  13. slices parent
    "private", but the Australian government can access freely.
  14. slices parent
    Very similar experience, it was cool seeing & hearing a whale up close, but man that must be annoying for the whale.
  15. slices parent
    no, Heroku is fine, as long as you have a basic understanding. If your service becomes a runaway hit, your heroku bill may get big, I assume that's what OP is referring to.
  16. slices parent
    shorter version: Cochrane Review on efficacy of masking vs. respiratory disease
  17. slices parent
    the recipients have bigger problems than PFAS, so it is a win-win deal
  18. slices parent
    yes. just used Cody to get me on the right path with an obscure postgresql JSON query, it easily saved me an hour of fiddling around.
  19. slices parent
    take a look at recent posts from https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__ re: the state of AMD for AI work
  21. slices parent
    yes, but which one of thouse thousand, how long would it take to learn how to use it, etc. Still less friction in just asking ChatGPT to do this via the same interface you ask it to do a bunch of other stuff.
  22. slices parent
    Supporting anecdote: I built a PC a few years ago, and first tried multiple AMD cards. All of them worked fine while using the default windows drivers, but as soon as I installed AMD's drivers, they stopped working. Spent weeks troubleshooting, no luck.

    Gave up, bought an Nvidia card, zero problems.

  23. slices parent
    aren't they still in Oz, with its govt mandated backdoors?
  24. slices parent
    Did my first lemons race in 2023, it was amazing.

    Some great things about lemons:

    - you need a team, so instead of having to figure out all the stuff yourself (the race car, getting the car to the track, etc.) you'll have motivated people to help you

    - because the goal is to still be running at the end of the 2nd day, drivers mostly look out for one another on track

    - other teams are super helpful to newbs. Our neighbor in the pits welded up a spot on our cage, we ended up borrowing tools and safety equipment from 3-4 different teams, and we got lots of quality advice

    - the rules and culture of the series help keep costs down as much as seems possible

  25. slices parent
    yes, for sure. Used lemons cars needing some work come up regularly for $3-6k. Watch https://forums.24hoursoflemons.com/viewforum.php?id=12
  26. slices parent
    for many autox runs, look for a test & tune day, not a competition event
  27. slices parent
    roman empire
  28. slices parent
    just transitioned a client off mailgun due to repeated deliverability issues caused by other mailgun customers on a shared IP. The client doesn't have enough email volume to justify a dedicated IP, so there didn't seem to be anything else we could do while sticking with mailgun.

    wouldn't you know it, we transferred them to postmark...

  29. slices parent
    this seems like another example of "tech" being used to mean "delivering online ads"

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