DougN7

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by DougN7 7mo ago
I have similar experiences. It has worked about half the time, but the code has to be pretty simple. I’ve many experiences, where we work on something complicated for an hour, and it is good compiling code, but then an edge case comes to
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by DougN7 7mo ago
I’m too cynical because at this point I can only believe this is to help billionaires and ICE hide their identities/money, or it’s to strip away all privacy (as bills are often named the opposite of their purpose).
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by DougN7 7mo ago
Forcing everyone’s retirement funds to buy (at the artificially high and unsustainable price) is the scandal. Clever ploy to move more money from the plebes to the billionaires.
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by DougN7 7mo ago
Yeah, you’ve shown it’s great to be a billionaire. Slow-clap. What you’re conveniently skirting around is all the little people’s retirement savings being transferred to the billionaires by artificially forcing the price high.
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by DougN7 7mo ago
How do you make sure each human gets only one vote?
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by DougN7 7mo ago
I guess it depends on what you mean by safe. My wife gets a lot of migraines from a lot of foods in the US (less so if she can get organic). When we travel through Europe she can eat anything without triggering a migraine. I’ve read the
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by DougN7 7mo ago
My father-in-law always liked to see an exact number of democrats and republicans in congress, or congress held by one and the senate the other, for exactly this reason. With deadlock they can’t screw things up more. I’m not sure I disag
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by DougN7 7mo ago
So much easier said than done. We have to get our elected representatives to make the change, but it is against their self interest. If this was the only thing people considered when voting _maybe_ it would stand a chance. And honestly,
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by DougN7 7mo ago
Lol. As if a tiny thing like that would stop him. Have you heard about the tariffs? Or starting a war yesterday?
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by DougN7 7mo ago
There is a whole lot of crap out there. But I think the Internet HAS been a game changer in lifting people out of poverty and increasing standards of living. Communication is awesome. And although there is a lot of propaganda (which ther
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by DougN7 8mo ago
Lol - I’m not even sure what that means.
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by DougN7 8mo ago
Maybe I’m too naive but I can never tell when something is written by AI. If it works with next most likely token, doesn’t that mean it has encountered the patterns you’re picking out in lots and lots of text written by humans? Please edu
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by DougN7 8mo ago
Try reading some different news sources. If you don’t trust the other sources in the US try other English language sources in Germany or France, or the BBC, Reuters, etc. You might be surprised what a tiny few will report ICE is out for a
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by DougN7 8mo ago
I’m waiting to find out that experimentations are being done on humans in ICE detention centers. It won’t be all of them of course but it will happen in at least one. The Germans supporting Hitler would never have believed it, but the exa
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by DougN7 8mo ago
That made me laugh :)
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by DougN7 8mo ago
I view it as lazy or uneducated.
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by DougN7 8mo ago
Why is there no cooling necessary?
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by DougN7 8mo ago
I think so too. But because of code quality issues and LLMs not handling the hard edge cases my guess is most of those startups will be unable to scale in any way. Will be interesting to watch.
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by DougN7 9mo ago
MAGA - Make America Grovel to Asia (coming in a few years). Trump is the single best thing that ever happened to China.
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by DougN7 9mo ago
That was an excellent rabbit hole to go down while eating lunch :)
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by DougN7 9mo ago
I wouldn’t call this next-gen SQLite. How can it be when the “QL” of SQLite is “Query Language” and this doesn’t have one? This is an object serialization library.
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by DougN7 9mo ago
I didn’t realize AI could interact with browsers like this already (guess I’m naive). Isn’t this setting up for the scenario where the AI is duped into logging into your bank account and transferring your money away? Not sure I have enou
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by DougN7 9mo ago
Wow, that’s a lot more challenging than it looks. I agree with another commenter that the 3d blocks look confusing - they appear to cover two spaces.
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by DougN7 9mo ago
I was going to skip the article until I read your comment, and wow! You’re totally right - my hard won understanding is there, including things I sort of knew but couldn’t put into words before. Going to share this with my adult kids.
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by DougN7 9mo ago
Thanks for the tip - I’ll take a look
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by DougN7 9mo ago
After a heart procedure my doctor told me to take the 81mg daily for the rest of my life. It’s been about 20 years now, with no side effects that I know of.
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by DougN7 9mo ago
It’s supposed to help reduce clotting, and thus help a bit to prevent a heart attack, at least that’s what I understood from my heart doctor. Generally you’d take the 81mg “baby aspirins” for this, not a full adult dose.
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by DougN7 9mo ago
Why was this downvoted? Seems like the best approach if you have to use the apps a lot?
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by DougN7 9mo ago
I resemble that comment! But seriously, it does really bug me on principle that DropBox should use over half a GB simply because it uses Chromium, even when nothing is visible.
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by DougN7 9mo ago
This can happen sooner than you think too. I asked for what I thought was a simple feature and the AI wrote and rewrote a number of times trying to get it right, and eventually (not making this up) it told me the file was corrupt and could

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