BeetleB

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by BeetleB 5d ago
I need it for running in standalone scripts. How do I get a skill to work there? I mean, I guess I can have my script call pi and offload it to that, but I just want everything contained in one script.
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by BeetleB 5d ago
OK - I guess I'll ask here. As there have been a lot of Jev related submissions, can someone point me to a simple guide on how I can use it? For example, say I have a script/workflow where I use OpenRouter for LLM calls, and at so
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by BeetleB 5d ago
I wonder how often this is the case. The one time I read the fine print when signing up for a service, it said that I had the right to disagree with the choice of arbiter, and get some national organization to pick a different arbiter indep
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by BeetleB 5d ago
I believe what he's referring to is the cost of the legal system. Lawyers cost money, and if the other party has a lot more money, they can play all kinds of tactics to keep the case going (filing pointless motions, drowning your lawye
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by BeetleB 6d ago
My problem with shell scripting is I've learned it many times, and forgotten it an equal number of times. Thank God for LLMs.
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by BeetleB 8d ago
Let's see if it (or crossbreeds) can be tamed. This particular one was actually being kept in a house because someone confused it for a "pretty housecat". After a while, the owner realized it didn't want to be tamed and
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by BeetleB 8d ago
The $10M wasn't because they'd think they'd lose. It was to silence them. It was contingent on them not speaking about it.
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by BeetleB 8d ago
A discussion came up on HN recently related to forced arbitration. This is one example where the company actually lost. I suspect that had it gone through the regular courts, Uber would have won.
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Uber ordered to pay $40M for woman killed after driver left her on highway(bbc.com)
9 points by BeetleB 8d ago|4 comments
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by BeetleB 8d ago
The version where it's legal to own books...?
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by BeetleB 8d ago
At work, I simply don't allow LLMs to make commits. :-)
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by BeetleB 8d ago
They have no more right to destroy cultural artifacts than you do. It's a red herring, as no one has demonstrated a single loss of a cultural artifact. What was destroyed, that satisfies: 1. You cannot obtain elsewhere 2. That anyone c
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by BeetleB 8d ago
> it's not a "can" argument, it's a "should" argument. When you take a pitchfork against all the libraries out there who either refuse donations, or destroy the donated books, then we'll talk. As plenty
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by BeetleB 8d ago
Most of these things are bad. None of them is robbery, though. Some are of questionable legality, but most are not. People need to face reality. The old Internet was fragile and couldn't have lasted long. It was dying slowly due to clo
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by BeetleB 8d ago
They legally bought the books they are destroying. I have every right to burn all the books I possess. And so should they.
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by BeetleB 8d ago
You do realize that Anthropic was founded by OpenAI employees because they had ethical concerns about OpenAI, right?
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by BeetleB 8d ago
Selection bias. Cars that were not treated for salt, and didn't die, didn't end up in the junkyard for stories to be told. My first car spent its first 15 years in the Midwest. No garage. Very irregular car washes (perhaps once a
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by BeetleB 8d ago
I'd wager 80-90% of regular HN visitors haven't either.
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by BeetleB 8d ago
> What I’m trying to say is that what they’re suggesting doesn’t seem completely insane so the retort “You’re the groupthink” becomes an unfalsifiable statement thrown at anybody who’s “anti-AI” instead of engaging with their arguments.
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by BeetleB 8d ago
Not disagreeing with you. That's exactly what my mechanic saw as well which is why he warned me. But it really didn't make a difference to the longevity of the car. Sure, occasionally a repair was a tad more expensive, but that&#x
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by BeetleB 8d ago
> deal is such a strange angle when you can just start from zero, look at what's known to be happening right now, and draw a very straight line to catastrophe. As someone trained in the sciences and engineering, "drawing a stra
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by BeetleB 8d ago
You are the entity he is referring to when he speaks of "groupthink".
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by BeetleB 8d ago
> It would be like never having heard of Y Combinator or Richard Stallman. I work in the tech sector. At one big company I worked for several years, 90% of the times I've mentioned Y Combinator to a colleague, I've had to expla
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by BeetleB 8d ago
When my water heating was electric, switching to a dishwasher consistently led to lower electric bills compared to a year prior (confirmed for 12 whole months). You save water and electricity.
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by BeetleB 8d ago
Oh actually, yes - that comes up once in a while as well.
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by BeetleB 8d ago
I probably left when CmdrTaco left.
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by BeetleB 8d ago
When I bought my 8 year old car, it was from the Midwest and the mechanic I asked to check it out said "Don't buy - it's got a good amount of rust because of the salt they use". I asked whether it means the car is less s
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by BeetleB 9d ago
I rarely wash as well. But we're in a minority in US society.
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by BeetleB 9d ago
I'll make a confession: These days I find Slashdot to be much better curated than HN. Pretty much every day I find something worthwhile on Slashdot. I can't say the same for HN. Ironic given that I left Slashdot for HN so many y
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by BeetleB 9d ago
> My kids took “their” things with them when they became autonomous adults No room for that in college dorms. I would wait until they graduate and have jobs.

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