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Tangentially speaking what are the downsides to running graphene?

The things I've found:

- RCS doesn't work at all on non-Owner accounts, switching to the owner account is necessary to receive them (I use a secondary account for my "main" account, the owner is left empty except for a Google Fi associated account)

- Immediate auto-update can cause phone to turn off and not turn on overnight (you can change the setting)

- Google Wallet won't work for payments (in Europe you can instead use Curve)

- The default AOSP app selection is in general worse than the Google provided ones (you can install them, after installing Google Play Services, which is sandboxed)

- Getting Google Fi to work required some fiddling initially, pretty sure it was because of my use of the non-Owner account

- Some banking apps will refuse to work (mine work fine)

- You can get Android Auto working, but by default so many things are sandboxed that applications and TTS won't show up unless you spend the time enabling permissions

Overall I am happy with it. It does feel a bit less polished than stock Android (because of the interaction of apps and more strict sandboxing), but for most people who don't care about Google Wallet and are ok installing Play Services and any necessary Google apps, the experience feels pretty much like a de-Gemini'd/de-bloated Android.


A few apps won't work.

It's not as customizable as Samsung for instance.

It only runs on Pixel phones (next year hopefully some Motorola phones).


What’s happening at the electron level that makes them do this? Anyone know?

If I recall correctly, electrolytic capacitors have to get "burned in" during manufacturing to make them work.

A current is passed through the capacitor and a thin film of oxide is built up in one of the terminals, according to the polarity. This is why electrolytic caps have polarity, if you use them with their polarity inverted, you flake off that oxide layer and thus short them out.

A free running current in that electrolyte boils it off, and you get an exploding cap


Everything is ultimately valued by memes.

money is just an idea that spreads (a meme).

What’s exciting though is that this administration recently signed an executive order directing the agency to speed up the development and approval process for psychedelics.

> this administration recently signed an executive order directing the agency to speed up the development and approval process for psychedelics

Can’t the President directly unschedule it?


No, because Congress proscribed an extremely convoluted process for this specific thing

So skipping it is a nuclear option that will not survive the courts


Yup. Not sure which particular stopped-clock struck right within the generally anti-science MAHA movement but I think everybody is happy to take the win.

that feeling of a clock striking right is actually a momentary glint of light pouring through a crack in the cold stone shell that has become encrusted around the hearts of those soaking too often in the type of extreme rhetorical panic which broods a curated and embedded fear similar to the kind that makes children afraid of the bogey man, they feel safer to stay hidden with the fear than to venture out enough to discover it was just a chimney sweep on the distant rooftop and everything is fine outside after all where they soon discover some great adventure or purpose in the richness of the world

Burma Shave

> MAHA

Make America Hallucinogenic Again?


*Happy Again.

Ironically enough, the psychedelic field sort of defies some scientific analysis, so could be construed as "anti-science". I've seen some commentary that it's difficult to test. As an example, you can't really do a double blind study with a placebo because it's obvious to everybody who got the drug.

The same could be said for a lot of drugs that have strong side effects, just one difference here is the main "side effects" are something some people consider fun. Though you could still do double-blind for comparing the effectiveness of different psychedelics, e.g comparing LSD to Psilocybin.

Niacin works well as an 'active placebo'.

I’ve seen studies use methylphenidate as well for the “control” group. Relatively harmless, will have some effects and side effects on naive subjects.

Double blind studies became a requirement in order to protect the people from the greed of pharmaceutica companies and their natural desire to cut corners in research.

just because it's not double blind doesn't mean it's not science though.

like idk, how do you do double blind studies of astronomical phenomena?


Yeah I know. I'm pulling that out as an example.

It's also true that people in the psychedelic world talk about non-reproducible aspects of the trip quite a bit. "Set and setting" and so forth.


> just because it's not double blind doesn't mean it's not science though.

Shhh, non-scientists don't know that.


They only did it because it lets them beat the "big pharma is stealing from you (not us)" drum.

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Do persons not birth?

Because Trump is in bad need of this shit?

"oh wow, look at my tiny hands, so tiny, hands"

What is that? I can’t seem to figure out what the use case is vs buying off the shelf?

I think it’s a great project but the communication isn’t clear to me.


https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox

I'm not sure exactly why you would buy through them vs rolling your own if you could afford the equivalent hardware.

I'm a firm supporter of local inference though so good on them for doing something


Lol I get nervous when I see a list of products with full specs but no prices

They have prices. Click on the links in the shipping row.

And..... I was right to be nervous

I’d guess even the index in pi for my phone number would be more digits than the phone number.

So not really a compression scheme.


I’m a dumb question asker and I’m not happy about the guardrails.

Would you believe I’ve asked 20 questions and haven’t talked to fable yet? Every single thing gets rerouted to 4.8.


some static words in AGENTS.md trigger it as well as some mcp servers.

Even using incognito on the web page keeps refusing.

I find it interesting how many people act like inflation doesn’t exist especially with salaries.

If you made 100k in say 2000 the equivalent would be 200k today. If you go by median house price your salary should have doubled since 2015!


Most employers in the US don’t realize this and act like cost of living adjustments are major rewards if they do them at all.

Are they don’t anything useful with AI? I would have figured it could help their operations.

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