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by Calavar 6mo ago
It's interesting how variable people's experiences seem to be. Personally, I tend to get crap quality code out of Claude. Very branchy. Very un-DRY. Consistently fails to understand the conventions of my codebase (e.g. keeps hallu
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by Calavar 6mo ago
It's really hard to cry victim about others misrepresenting Trump's motives for the Iran war as oil, oil, oil when the US did in fact launch a military attack on a country - within the last six months - where the subsequent negoti
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by Calavar 6mo ago
> we're seeing an explosion of brand-new high-polish OSS apps this year Do you mind sharing a few examples?
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by Calavar 6mo ago
It's not an insightful statement right now, but it was at the peak of cloud hype ca. 2010, when "the cloud" often used in a metaphorical sense. You'd hear things like "it's scalable because it's in the cl
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by Calavar 7mo ago
I still don't understand why Theil and Karp decided to name their surveillance tech company after a device that is best known for being used by an evil dark lord to decieve and corrupt. It's like the Mitchell and Webb skit "a
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by Calavar 7mo ago
This is a good point. It is not humanly possible to verify every claim you read from every source. Ideally, you should independently verify claims that appear to be particularly consequential or particularly questionable on the surface. But
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by Calavar 7mo ago
> If they couldn't do anything that gave an appearance of a conflict This time I won't say maybe - that's a straw man. I never said Cantor shouldn't be able to do anything that even gives the appearance of a confl
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by Calavar 7mo ago
> In this case, the idea that Cantor can't do something because the former head is now in a government job is crazy. No one "in the business" thinks Cantor is suddenly hobbled. That's not the idea, and it almost seems
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by Calavar 7mo ago
It looks like a screenshot from the Claude desktop app, so I don't think the author is trying to disguise the AI origin of the marerial
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by Calavar 7mo ago
I know you qualified your assertion of three patients an hour with general practice, but there are plenty of specialty practices where six patients an hour is common. Dermatology and ophthalmology clinics often run at that pace (at least in
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by Calavar 8mo ago
The average American says US healthcare spending, which is 3x to 20x that of other OECD countries on a per capita basis, is way too high. The average American also thinks they should be provided testing and procedures that their insurance d
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by Calavar 8mo ago
I agree that not all nudity is porn - nudity is porn if the primary intent of that nudity is sexual gratification. When the nudity in question was a Playboy magazine centerfold, the primary intent is fairly obvious.
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by Calavar 8mo ago
It could once upon a time: https://www.bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html It can't do that today though. Linux uses C11 features and also many GCC extensions that tcc doesn't implement.
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by Calavar 8mo ago
I'm not sure I'd call agents an army of juniors. More like a high school summer intern who has infinite time to do deep dives into StackOverflow but doesn't have nearly enough programming experience yet to have developed a &
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by Calavar 8mo ago
Claude already knows who the characters Frodo, Sam, and Gollum are, what their respective character traits are, and how they interacted with each other. This isn't the same as writing something new.
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by Calavar 8mo ago
I think that's overstating it. JustHTML is a success in large part because it's a problem that can be solved with 4 digit LOC. The whole codebase can sit in an LLM's context at once. Do LLMs scale beyond that? I would classif
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by Calavar 8mo ago
Sure, maybe it's tricky to coerce an LLM into spitting out a near verbatim copy of prior data, but that's orthoginal to whether or not the data to create a near verbatim copy exists in the model weights.
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by Calavar 8mo ago
The classical definition of a clean room implementation is something that's made by looking at the output of a prior implementation but not at the source. I agree that having a reference compiler available is a huge caveat though. Even
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by Calavar 8mo ago
Sure, you can swap a USD tethered stablecoin to another currency. You can also do that with USD itself. What is the value add of injecting an extra step by first converting your USD to stablecoin?
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by Calavar 8mo ago
As a physician, I can give further insight. The blood pressure medication the commenter is referring to is almost certainly a beta blocker. The effect on blood sugar levels is generally modest [1]. (It is rare to advise someone with diabet
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by Calavar 8mo ago
I thought most of the major AI programming tools were already doing this. Isn't this what subagents are in Claude code?
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by Calavar 8mo ago
Talk about market cap, especially meme stock maket cap, reminds me of that old XKCD comic on extrapolation. Market cap is what you get when you extrapolate the fair market value for the 1% of a company's shares currently on the market
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by Calavar 8mo ago
Reza Pahlavi has also had recent interviews with CBS [1], the Economist [2], and CNN [3] (all within the last 30 days). So how is the existence of Reza Pahlavi interviews on Fox evidence that conservative media is covering this issue more
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by Calavar 8mo ago
This is a straw man in my opinion. But regardless of that, your theory doesn't explain why conservative media isn't really covering this either - The Iran protests haven't exactly been front page material on Fox News or OAN o
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by Calavar 8mo ago
Isn't a lack of comments the opposite of the problem you were previously claiming?
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by Calavar 8mo ago
> All comments, complaints, corrections, and retraction requests? Unmoderated? Einstein articles will be full of comments explaining why he is wrong, from racist to people that can spell Minkowski to save their lives. In /newest the
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by Calavar 9mo ago
I don't think any oil execs are interested in this, just like they weren't interested in investing in Venezuela after Maduro's ouster (at least if you believe the Financial Times). Rather these invasions appear to be the pet
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by Calavar 9mo ago
> Lax is completely open source and uses the MIT license. I see that there is an MIT license file in the repo, but the readme in the repo still says there is no license and redistribution in source or binary form is explicitly forbidden.
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by Calavar 9mo ago
Danluu has a great piece on why Ballmer was better than people gave him credit for: https://danluu.com/ballmer/
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by Calavar 9mo ago
The linked reddit post appears to be about Australia

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