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My thriftiness manifests most evidently in my refusal to throw away something I paid for, but wound up not liking. Most often, this is the result of me trying a brand or variety of some comestible which I'm unfamiliar with. 12 dollar bag of fancy-seeming Ethiopian coffee winds up being undrinkably bitter? Four dollar box of organic oatmeal cooks up like paste? Instead of pitching or composting them, I will buy different versions of these products (brands which I know I like), and then spend weeks or months cutting small amounts of the bad stuff in with larger portions of the good. This is a giant pain in the ass, but I do it anyway because I hate wasting food -- apparently more than I hate wasting time.

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API that auto-routes to the cheapest AI provider (OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini)

https://tokensaver.org/

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In two recent public speaking engagements, I made a comparison between the obesity epidemic in various pockets of the globe and AI. Several people came up afterwards and said that was the best analogy they'd heard, so maybe it's worth repeating here. Also, I feel like this one will hold up a while.

What I said was some recent CDC figures show that something like 55 percent of the average American diet comes from processed or highly processed "foods," and the numbers are even higher for kids. In a similar way, so much of what AI produces is akin to highly processed data: Its myriad origins are murky at best, you often don't feel great after using it a while, and if you are exposed to it too much it might just freaking kill you.

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@briankrebs +1🧐
Speaking of , study after study have linked the plight of islanders to their "imported" diet of processed western "food": "In many parts of the Pacific, unhealthy is , , & pushed heavily through . Healthy food, on the other hand, may be increasingly difficult to get & more in the face of droughts, floods & rising seas caused by "
👉Slop from is also convenient & promoted!🤦‍♂️
https://www.who.int/westernpacific/about/how-we-work/pacific-support/news/detail/04-03-2024-study-finds-pacific-accounts-for-9-of-the-10-most-obese-countries-in-the-world

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So turns out, engines are even more subject to psychological than human beings are.

Why is this a big deal? Well, for one thing, a lot of big are turning to AI as a (if often wrong) replacement for the discernment of workers.

For another, no one human has access to the whole range of human knowledge, exploitable by a few simple psychological tricks. But AI engines do.

https://youtube.com/shorts/yTUwU4odWE4?si=eyCbmK7uFsQioNKh

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Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes thats 10x cheaper

https://github.com/czhu12/canine

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@Otis_Scops@kolektiva.social avatar Otis_Scops , to random

👍 I just learned something new on the internet.

The way clothes are repaired here in our house has a name, it's called

Sashiko, it is the Japanese art of visible mending.

Just that you know it, and you can be hip as well by using a Japanese word when you show your repaired trousers. 😂

Photo of a person seen on the back. The person is wearing repaired jeans. Various patches are applied and no effort is taken to make the repairs invisible, on the contrary various other-coloured patches are used besides yarn of a totally different colour.

Photo of a person seen on the back. The person is wearing repaired jeans. Various patches are applied and no effort is taken to make the repairs invisible, on the contrary various other-coloured patches are used besides yarn of a totally different colour.
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