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Maybe ChatGPT could figure it out?

It seems unfortunate to become so sensitive to frame rate that you can only buy high-end equipment. I wonder how that can be avoided?

It can happen by accident. I assembled a system for my son (for "gaming"), and noticed that the window movement on his monitor was significantly smoother than on the cheaper monitors I'm accustomed to. It was just...nice. So I upgraded the monitor on my desktop too.

>It was just...nice.

In psychedelic tongue: it drips well.

And it's getting so inexpensive (I can easily price many 120Hz systems, barely above $1000)!

How much (approx) was your son's build?


I cannot distinguish between 120Hz and 144Hz.

I avoid any-higher refresh rates, by your own reasoning =P

I still maintain an entire fleet of 30Hz equipment, but my main two machines are each 144Hz (sharing one screen $$). The $600 Mac Mini handles this easily. Obviously the other's nVidia GPU is a different $tory$$$$ == PoE@144Hz so_pretty

My favorite digital reading method, conversely, is probably less than 1Hz (eInk)? But even hundred of pages of text I'll always prefer printouts.


I thought that post was interesting when I read it over a year ago, but the startup seems to have gone dark since then.

They appear to be focusing on Europe, and have raised $11M (or maybe 11M euros, I'm not sure which). There is some favorable buzz in Germany, which makes sense because natural gas has become quite expensive there.

https://www.cleanthinking.de/thermischer-erdspeicher-erdhueg...


They spent the tokens so you don’t have to. This is clearly AI-generated but doesn’t look low-effort, even with heavy AI assistance.

But if you’re sure it’s easy, why not give it a try?



I don't understand. What does FIRE have to do with "elderly"? "Early retirement age" has a specific meaning in law in the US, being 62.

Yes that's true, but if someone were to infer that there are therefore no retired GenXers, they would be wrong.

In the US, there are a lot more rich people than there used to be [1] and they're often driving prices up because they can afford to pay. (Most obviously in real estate.)

[1] https://pages.skybrian.com/2026/us-households-by-income-band...


Sure, but are there any examples of hospitals where lowered costs for transcriptions are significant enough to affect their financial reports? How much of an expense was it in the first place?

On the other hand, contrarianism isn't a shortcut to the truth, either. You still have to investigate.

It seems like some kind of network logging would be useful? Even if you don't catch it, you'd want to know what it did.

Yeah agree.

In other comments I've mused about capturing data to be compared to the secret dataset, I'm sure it'd be possible to hash or something so that the proxy/sandbox doesn't have the data but can check it, or because it's not an agent it can call of to the data store for that.

Then you can just collect sequential blocks of data the agent sends out that match to sequences in the dataset. The longer the matching sequence the heavier it weights it. Single byte matches are almost always incidental, but individually sent bytes over time that line up with a n byte sequence in the source data is sus. And larger sequences of bytes send in one go that line up are immediately sus. If the weight ends up too high the agent is paused/walled off and an investigation called for.


I've toyed with the idea of MITMing all connections and blocking any that I can't decrypt, but too much software has pinned certificates these days. (Too much for me, not in general)

Computer software or mobile?

Both. For example Keybase had certificates pinned so hard that I almost couldn't sign my new device because my existing one didn't have a build with the new certificate, and also didn't run an OS recent enough to install the very latest version. I had to crawl Keybase's CDN to find that they luckily still hosted the version I needed. Immediately uploaded to archive.org.

And you'd never predict which mobile software pins certificates. The most randomest Joe Schmoes of apps will have pinned certificates sometimes. It's like the stupid root/jailbreak detections.


Do you have a source for this? I'm curious about the details.

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