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Every time I see a post about the TI calculators, I think about how much I dislike their interface, and it's all because I started out on a Casio.

I had a Casio that was multi color, because I thought it was cooler. Display was nice, functionality sucked.

I had a Casio because it was $10 cheaper than the TI. Man I was jealous of the "rich" kids.

It's usually a small amount of waste, and handling gas is very different from distillate.

You'd need to either liquify that gas or collect it to a pipeline in order to make it useful. I remember reading that modern refineries make use of the gases instead of flaring them though I'm not sure how.


If your mind goes to TLS when you read crypto, you surely do live under a rock ... in bliss.

That is understandable, but the issue is the sudden drop in quality and the silent surge in token usage.

It also seems like the warning should be in channel and not on X. If I wanted to find out how broken things are on X, I'd be a Grok user.


That's what I've done for years.

Long pressing is much more pleasant.

I wish Apple would give us a hint rather than requiring us to chance upon this recommendation on HN.


That’s a nice use for AI - pop up hints when it sees you using the long way a few times.

The problem is Apple’s hints keep popping up even after you say no thanks or it’s fine.


These are the creatures we kill with poison and carry experiments on.


Those mice have a sculpture as well[0].

Nobody likes experimenting on animals, but it is use mice or orphans in third world countries. In silico and computational models are just not a good enough analogue for the human body.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mou...


Well it's good to be honest, and so I commend you on that.

So the hierarchy is

- our kids

- "third-world orphans"

- other species

For what it's worth, I'm not denying the benefit we obtain by testing on animals, nor am I suggesting that we live surrounded by rodents that we know to be vectors for multiple diseases that would affect us.

The comment above was merely an observation on the value of life and how little attention we pay to it.

We subject sentient beings to untold amounts of horror every day, and we are completely destroying the balance of life on earth with a system that is entirely devoted to serving humans--individual humans, not humanity.

The statue is not the point. The point is what this little creature did and how we might learn to show mercy and respect to our fellow sentient beings.


Correct. These are the creatures that will ruin your home/barn if infested with them.

Source: recently finished getting rid of a rat infestation in my barn. they also reproduce at a crazy rate. Some poison + getting two barn cats = problem solved.


Rick Roderick on Habermas.

The series "Self Under Siege" is one of my favorite things on YouTube. Highly recommend watching all 8 in order.

https://youtu.be/aXkmmfaZhEg


For the benefit of those like me who haven't heard of Roderick, some further digging leads to this: https://rickroderick.org/max-roderick/

Major, major rabbit hole warning. You think you're about to read something about a philosophy professor, and what you get is an Alice Munro/Larry McMurtry mashup. His son seems to be a pretty amazing writer in his own right.


+1 These are incredible lectures and there's another series from Rick Roderick on the history of western philosophy that I also love: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxPmwaGMOAvsZp9vavFkyxYFZ...


Stealing this brilliant idea. Thank you for sharing!


I wish I could say I came up with it, but it's just a small variation on something I saw here on HN!


For big tasks you can run the plan.md’s TODOs through 5.2 pro and tell it to write out a prompt for xyz model. It’ll usually greatly expand the input. Presumably it knows all the tricks that’ve been written for prompting various models.


That's the first thing that came to mind when I saw this website. The Bay Area is famous for its numerous superfund sites (among many other things, thankfully).


Isn't that literally every modern OS, always, unless you tell it to act differently?


Yes - I didn't mean to imply it was only one of the OSes. Further up the comments people were talking about how memory efficiency is now more important but I was trying to make the point that with compression and virtual memory it still doesn't matter all that much even if memory is double the price.


If running low on memory seems to matter less now than it did a couple of decades ago, I'd rather say that's because fast SSDs make swapping a lot faster. Even though virtual memory and swapping were available even on PCs since Windows 3.x or so, running out of memory could still make multitasking slow as molasses due to thrashing and the lack of memory for disk cache. The performance hit from swapping can be a lot less noticeable now.

Of course compression being now computationally cheap also helps.


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