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Gruntled old man
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Recovering academic? Computer-science / Engineering with a "tall and thin" academic interest and a "short-and-wide" physique. All the normal things - mountain biking, skiing, hiking, baking & cooking, cats and travel. Dutiful parent and ally.
Did you notice how the case that they highlighted involved a teen with no helmet going slowly while riding on the back & then falling off?

I.e. probably not what you're imagining & clutching pearls about
December 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
What steps has Boulder county taken to reduce the permitting that typically leads to higher costs for solar in the US than incomparable countries? Is it a problem here? That's an opportunity to drop the price for everyone.
Why Rooftop Solar Is So Much Cheaper in Australia Than America
If America wants to decarbonize its electricity sector, it should pay attention to Australia's rooftop solar market.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
And the distinction is important because politicians who want to regulate AI need to know the difference and they need to be able to explain it to citizens.

So much of Internet regulation was complicated because of the tubes versus dump trucks level of abstraction that lawmakers used.
Series of tubes - Wikipedia
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November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Exactly. But Google Translate is "AI" - the deep neural net (DNN) called "transformer". It runs on my phone and is useful AI.

What you're describing is an LLM not AI in general.

If you say that you hate all AI, or all deep learning. You're throwing out the Translate with the LLM.
Attention Is All You Need - Wikipedia
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November 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I would argue it was journalists who didn't understand and didn't differentiate & most of the harm is from VCs

LLMs are the language models that people love to hate.

Google Translate and LLMs use the same underlying technology but I never hear how Translate will melt the ice caps or ruin knowledge
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
People react to the broader context, not just the instant image.

All the people in wheelchairs who replied were not, at that moment, opposed by a robot but they spoke to their experience.
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Trader Joe's has a pretty good raclette. I overbought for Thanksgiving so I had already been planning on making raclette and potatoes for dinner tonight when I saw this post.
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Including the essential pickle family. Also very very good with pickled red onion.

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024...
Quick Pickled Red Onion (Published 2023)
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November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I came here to say the same thing

Easy Salt Potatoes Raclette - The Wine Lover's Kitchen share.google/adQZEgbOq1El...
Easy Salt Potatoes Raclette
People ask what the best potato is for Raclette. Salt potatoes deserve to be high up on that list! A little twist makes a big difference!
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November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This might be the only reason tech-bro VC's would get behind proper bike infrastructure
November 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Wait till you see how people respond if that was a human on a bicycle on the sidewalk and people had to get off the sidewalk to walk in the street.
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Ach, an invitation to Indian Cooking, not introduction.
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My pie is big than ever, yours is bigger.

"The world is not driven by greed; it's driven by envy. The fact that everybody is five times better off than they used to be, they take that for granted. All they think about is somebody else having more now, and it's not fair that he should have it....."
Charlie Munger: The world is not driven by greed; it's driven by envy — Natalia Curonisy
Charlie Munger, the business partner of Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is one of the great minds of the 20th century and is famous for his quote, “All I want to know is where...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
And clearly the racial bias was from the principal who escalated the cancelled alert. What a BS system.

"School officials said the principal notified the school resource officer without knowing the security office had cleared the incident."
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Worse yet, they were going to start deporting afghans & their families.

bsky.app/profile/bran...
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
You forgot voodoo
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM