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I give my best reviews to dekton.

Torture it however much you want - heat (dish straight from the oven at 240C), acid, oil, scratching, etc. it resists all.

Only thing: use 2cm thick, thinner 1.2cm could crack if you drop a pan onto it.

You don’t need Twitter app on your phone, web works seamlessly.

by "zero knowledge" you of course mean "the government can shadowban you without your knowledge" ?

Edit: non-snarky response: what's the default "fall-back" if government's signature is missing? IMO any option ("tracking/no tracking/invalid request") will be exploitable in bad ways.

I'm arguing against a ban.

There's no way to implement this without (1) usage-based profiling (what's being banned in the first place) or (2) ID verification.

I'm against both of those.

For me, the only acceptable solutions are: (1) ban all profiling-based ads (2) require respecting DO_NOT_TRACK (so that people/minors/their parents can individually decide what to do, but websites are then legally forced to respect that)

> Many of our institutions and cultural practices have evolved around human beings, not ruthless paperclip maximizers.

You just think that because you don’t know how the drug discovery process works.

There’s a step called “lead optimization” where human chemists literally add atoms to drug-like molecules (“lead”) and tests its various properties (toxicity, potency, permeability, …) and iterate until they find a molecule with desired properties (literally “hill-climbing”).

The whole idea of drug trials is to validate those properties in actual humans, in a way that makes it very hard for pharma companies to game the process.

> - We just changed our PM

non-democratically. there was no election. the ruling party simply made a decision itself. Just like in China.

I don't get this. It's not like the models are running on their own GPUs.

So if you're running open models on AWS GPUs, you might as well run Claude (which AWS supports, and doesn't share any data with Anthropic).

Same with Azure/OpenAI.

Indeed. TBH if I was running a Google- or even OpenAI-scale company (3000+ devices) I'd probably invest into creating a useful Linux distribution and hardware configuration myself (at that scale, it could maybe start to make sense).

Because Mac laptops are lightyears ahead of any other hardware.

Build quality (aluminum), charging (magsafe), screen resolution, battery life, noise (or lack thereof), trackpad…

It’s like other vendors aren’t even trying.

Also the OS mostly “just works”, just last week my Linux laptop disabled NVIDIA GPU (and almost bricked itself?? Not sure, had to fix apt) during automated updates

Does it actually work?

In a past job, they tried to implement a similar thing on much lower scale with bidirectional database migrations.

Fortunately, they were mostly ran in one direction.

Harry Potter copyright is still being heavily utilized (milked?) 30 years after the first book's release.

Pretty much everything the EU does, is inconveniencing most of its population, often in the name of "climate change" (while not actually making any impact).

Positives: no mobile roaming charges

Negatives:

- less efficient home appliances (dishwasher, washing machine, drier)

- cookie law

- car annoyances (e.g. "beep if over the speed limit")

- paper straws

- attached bottle caps

- LED lights

- expensive electricity (a lot of this is caused by individual countries, but probably also the EU plays a role, e.g. by not classifying nuclear as "green" / "renewable" and banning Russian gas)

Why would people use Fish instead of e.g. ElevenLabs? (I was a heavy TTS user in previous job, but we generally went with one of the "major" providers (11labs, PlayHT when they were still around), not any of the "new players".)

You make it sound like a conspiracy theory but it's just rational behaviour.

Large amount of leverage / shorting / concentrated bets in a single stock => increase probability of large swings in that stock's price => bigger risk of sudden market moves => bigger risk to market makers => market makers limit their exposure.

Or you could just stop spying on people.

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