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biggoodwolf··on Beware Management Consultants
Also works if you want to derail someone else's plan
biggoodwolf··on Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order
That's just a fine. Cost of business
biggoodwolf··on The bottleneck was never the code
Groups exist
biggoodwolf··on Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer
Logitech mx 1-4. You don't have to marry Apple
biggoodwolf··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
"Stick around to make it better", exclaimed the abusive partner.
biggoodwolf··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
No true scotsman
biggoodwolf··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
Wait till you see the vulnerabilities introduced... Makes you wonder how organic it really is
biggoodwolf··on NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle
if you invest 20 and get 20 then you got 0% profit
biggoodwolf··on A race condition in Aurora RDS
I recall seeing this also happening in CosmosDB. Both auto and manual
biggoodwolf··on Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads
S1 S2 S3 S4 sleep modes and what happened to the most useful of them ;)
biggoodwolf··on Translating natural language to first-order logic for logical fallacy detection
0 in all three cases
biggoodwolf··on Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds
What did the Romans ever do for us?
biggoodwolf··on Learning to Reason with LLMs
GePeTO1 does not make Pinnochio into a real boy.
biggoodwolf··on Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist
You're a brain in a bucket. What is the nature of the bucket is up for debate
biggoodwolf··on DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters
No, many of these building are way under 80% utilization.
biggoodwolf··on DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters
Like Manhattan? They've built a lot, and it's getting cheaper every year
biggoodwolf··on Show HN: Ellipsis – Automated PR reviews and bug fixes
What is the value add vs using an LLM agent?
biggoodwolf··on Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools
I went to the top private school in my country

Cursive handwriting was not optional, same for spelling. Teachers would flunk people and no, there are no repeats at that school. From 200 in kinder, only 70 finished HS

You are on the right side, find people who give a damn about education.

biggoodwolf··on The Perfect Laptop
HP DV2000 keyboard. Unbelievably good by modern standards, better than many older thinkspads
biggoodwolf··on The Ain Dubai, the world’s largest broken Ferris wheel
As opposed to where? At least they're trying, rest of the world has not build meaningfully either in quite a long time. Maybe only China
biggoodwolf··on Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk
Read the parent comment again, even taking the survey at face value:

"EXPERTS DECLARE EXPERTS' FIELD IS MOST IMPORTATN!!!!"

No news, only snooze

biggoodwolf··on Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
And who would do that? Even if technically possible, there is no one willing to do it.
biggoodwolf··on It's weird that people get mocked for changing their minds
It hard for Protestants or crypto-Protestants (i.e. many atheists from Protestant backgrounds) to accept someone changing their minds.
biggoodwolf··on Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida
Similar happens in Spanish, I think just the attempt is valuable in and of itself, if for no other purpose that asking the question, "can we do better?". Otherwise one ends with English and its lowest-common denominator antics
biggoodwolf··on A Swedish startup’s bid to build a green rival to AWS
I have a bridge to sell you... Unfortunately, it is likely those medicines will drive the next wave of chronic disease.
biggoodwolf··on Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally
Absolutely! We've killed 2/3 of the world's wildlife and losing biodiversity NOT through climate change. If anything it is a distraction from very real pollution and habitat destruction.

Your attention is constantly pulled to look at something, but the real problems are going neglected.

biggoodwolf··on Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally
Some argument of this form has been posited since at least the 1970s. 50 years of failed predictions from the Neomalthusians
biggoodwolf··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
This is disappointing, I expected a bit more from OpenAI than to fall for the nerd snipe that is EA.
biggoodwolf··on Vitamin K2 supplements fail to slow calcium buildup in heart
On closer, look it is a randomized trial with 3 hundreds of fat, hypertense patients, most of which are on some kind of drug or platelet treatment. That 70% hypertense bit pointing towards most of them being magnesium deficient to begin with.

The quantities involved are so small that they might as well not have bothered. In Asia, people have consumed +10mg of K2 for extended periods of time. 720 µg MK-7 plus 25 µg vitamin D or matching placebo for 24 months are laughably small. So small one can only wonder if they were trying the homeopathy where they keep diluting some concoction and claim it still has some effect.

Not even getting into the issue of whether D supplements are an adequate replacement from sunlight.

So, yeah, no conclusion...

biggoodwolf··on Vitamin K2 supplements fail to slow calcium buildup in heart
Meh, one of its cofactors is magnesium, unless they controlled for that, this is meaningless.
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