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epylar··on Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
Subsidized Anthropic subscriptions seem to work fine on the oh-my-pi harness, somehow.
epylar··on The irrational hungry judge effect revisited (2023)
Who says surgeons or pilots don't have the same problem?
epylar··on Jqjq: Jq Implementation of Jq
I wonder if it's self-hosting.
epylar··on "Outrageously" priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care
Speaking of the effect in the brain, a rare but real side effect in many people is anxiety to the point where they have to discontinue the med. I wonder why.
epylar··on "Outrageously" priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care
> I don't think its resonable for people to continue taking GLP-1 antagonists all their lives.

But why? Plenty of chronic conditions require chronic medication (e.g. insulin).

epylar··on Visa, Mastercard Agree to Lower Swipe Fees, Settling Long-Running Lawsuit
Even overall demand can go down if prices rise
epylar··on LLM leaderboard focusing on assessing their biases
example form this test corpus?
epylar··on Keycloak SSO with Docker Compose and Nginx
most recent release is 23.0.6
epylar··on What it was like working for Gitlab
If women have even roughly equal access to the same jobs, your point is a good one. If not, it is missing some nuance.
epylar··on What is trauma? The author of "The Body Keeps the Score" explains [video]
If it's a child being yelled at loudly almost every day for many years while growing up, I could see that as trauma.
epylar··on Developmental timing of trauma associated with depressive symptoms in adulthood
As this is psychology, the goal is not always to believe the exact truth, or to dwell on things that have lower probability of happening, as it does not give the individual in question any advantage, it just causes them to become overly afraid and unable to protect themselves.
epylar··on Undergraduates' average IQ has fallen 17 points since 1939. Here's why
Not necessarily. The college student population might vary over time in ways that the general population does not.
epylar··on Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/06/boeing-737-max-9-grounding-a...
epylar··on A chemical signal in human female tears lowers aggression in males
What do you mean by feminist species?
epylar··on Why do programmers need private offices with doors?
Everyone has a different take on story points, but the original idea was for them to record _effort_, not value.. more story points are actually worse. Delivered value is better. So digging a ditch and filling it in would get a bunch of story points but have zero value.

But managers want to look at the numbers they have, which is story points.

epylar··on Google shares sink following reports that some of their AI demo was faked
Well, he's certainly not being held accountable.
epylar··on Gemini AI
Every cultural environment, not just the current one, would demand some sort of alignment.
epylar··on What if mass storage were free? – George Copeland (1980) [pdf]
Python's decimal library does this pretty well. https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html
epylar··on Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger
how about one independent company owns the towers and wholesales bandwidth, and the brand names become resellers/customer service?
epylar··on Visualizing American inflation across eight categories
My ATM is now trying to give out $50s unless I override it. It tries to find the fewest bills using $50s and $20s.
epylar··on Jesus nut
You know, maybe it's OK to sound stupid sometimes. You're likely to learn more if you're more willing to make mistakes.
epylar··on Ozempic linked to stomach paralysis, other gastrointestinal issues: UBC study
Yup, and this is mostly to protect profit for the pharma companies so people don't split doses.
epylar··on Amazon used algorithm to test how much it could raise prices: FTC
An offer to sell at a particular price is equivalent to an order.
epylar··on How a four-day workweek works, from the companies pulling it off
There's probably an optimum number of days to work and the suggestion here isn't that lower is always better, just that 5 is above the optimum amount.
epylar··on How a four-day workweek works, from the companies pulling it off
mkaic isn't saying definitely they would be in a better mood, just that they -think- 3-day weekends would be good for their mental health and mood.
epylar··on Microsoft announces purchase of 315k tonnes of CO2 removal
Where is that power coming from, that they use to get the carbon out of the atmosphere?
epylar··on Britain’s statisticians fix a blunder and find a bigger economy
Just because you think you're better off doesn't mean you're better off though.
epylar··on RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator
It is possible to be involved in something for various reasons, but it does not mean that one should willingly forego a benefit. "In it for the money" implies that the primary motivation is high pay, whereas "not in it for the money" indicates a strong preference for the type of work and a willingness to accept lower pay if market rates were to decrease.
epylar··on Strained housing affordability is a ‘manufactured crisis’ created by bad zoning
The labor cost might come down if there were cheaper housing.
epylar··on Ask vs. Guess Culture
I can think of several examples.

Verbal abuse, childhood bullying, body shaming, cyberbullying, workplace harassment are all abusive and normal and accepted in many cultures.

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