IceHegel

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by IceHegel 1y ago
Biggest dev QoL improvement for me since TypeScript has been going all in on uv. I switched everything over and haven’t looked back. It’s everything I hoped poetry would be, but 10x less flakey.
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by IceHegel 1y ago
This is obviously correct. Nuclear weapons = sovereignty. UN recognition is a piece of paper. 9 countries exist. So much for self-determination.
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Any reasonable understanding of the term "war" obviously includes bombing a country's strategic military sites. Today Congressmen's main job is soliciting bribes. I expect they want their name on as few pieces of paper c
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by IceHegel 1y ago
I voted for Trump. I'd support his impeachment now. He has betrayed his core by letting Israel suck our country into another Middle Eastern conflict, after promising to do the opposite.
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by IceHegel 1y ago
NASA has become the DMV for space. It's not the NASA of Wernher von Braun anymore. That's what we should be going for.
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by IceHegel 1y ago
All I know is that if the government is trying to ban it, the tech probably works.
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by IceHegel 1y ago
My two biggest complaints with Claude 3.7 were: 1. It tended to produce very overcomplicated and high line count solutions, even compared to 3.5. 2. It didn't follow instructions code style very well. For example, the instruction to no
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Interesting, why do you say quoting Yarvin is a sign of fanaticism?
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by IceHegel 1y ago
I would push on how well GDP measures "economic might". If I were to tell you a country over five years grew its GDP 5% in 1900, that would mean houses and roads and factories and mines and a whole range of things were built. In 2
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Agreed, and this is a somewhat recent phenomenon (see wtf happened in 1971) For example, we have 100+ drone startups in the United States. But our overall drone production capacity (hammers in Civ) hasn't actually increased. We just ha
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Source?
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by IceHegel 1y ago
I think one of the biggest problems in the United States is the misallocation of ambitious people. The highly educated and ambitious people see finance, government, tech, and corporate executive tracks, as the way to convert their energies
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Yeah, it's pretty clear that Democrats (as they are) are getting fed into the woodchipper. They became too petty and no longer served their purpose as the political party of the ruling class, oligarchy turned. Hell of a way to go out t
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Curtis Yarvin has a riff that goes something like this: Liberal Wikipedia, Communist Wikipedia, and Fascist Wikipedia will all actually agree on the vast majority of topics: Physics, botany, the solar system, chemistry, math, statistics etc
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Time will tell.
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by IceHegel 2y ago
My prompt is: "Let's play chess. Show me the board each time." Which gives something like: a b c d e f g h 8 | r n b q k b n r | 8 7 | p p p p . . p p | 7 6 | . . . . . . . . | 6 5 | . . . . . . . . | 5 4 |
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by IceHegel 2y ago
I was playing around with having this model plot orbital trajectories and it was seriously impressive. Other top-tier models would struggle to get functional simulations working. Gemini 2.5 was able to do it after three or four turns in Cur
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by IceHegel 2y ago
You get an A on your paper, but your country is broken forever.
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by IceHegel 2y ago
El Salvador showed you the way. Mexico is 5 years from lasting peace if the appropriate measures are taken.
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by IceHegel 2y ago
they actually implemented a decent amount of the HTTP stuff in rust. if you look at the docs
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by IceHegel 2y ago
Feels like we’re getting all the downsides of Jobs’ Apple without the upsides. They aren’t innovating inside the walled garden anymore. Privacy is a real issue and Tim Cook deserves credit for his stance, but if apple gave devs good apis se
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by IceHegel 2y ago
im a young middle class programmer. I own a tesla and like Elon. I don’t own the stock. I have $8k in a 401k. (rm reddit content)
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by IceHegel 2y ago
> Also Federal Reserve is not part of the US Government. Well, they seem to get along pretty well in any case :). They changed the m1 definition in the middle of the largest m1 increase in history. It messed up all the graphs and you cou
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by IceHegel 2y ago
That exactly supports what I was saying. The definition change was a bureaucratic immune response, allowing plausible deniability around unfavorable comparisons. If an everyman were to look at FRED and see an M1 hockey stick, he may reasona
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by IceHegel 2y ago
In the middle of Covid, the Federal Reserve changed the definition of M2 money supply at the exact moment of the largest increase in the money supply to date for unknown reasons. It made all comparisons between pre- and post-change numbers
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by IceHegel 2y ago
i own a tesla and range is very annoying, though some of the comments here are a bit sensationalist. for me, fsd more than makes up for it. if i had to buy a car today, i'd have to get another tesla because there's no alternative
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by IceHegel 2y ago
Through all history state security has been a thing. The Stasi and KGB are transparently state security forces to the West, but the CIA and MI5/6 are... what exactly? The primary purpose of these agencies, despite what has been written
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by IceHegel 2y ago
I'm sympathetic to the J.D. Vance angle, which is that European governments are increasingly scared of their own people. This is not doing a lot to change my mind.
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by IceHegel 2y ago
I’m 24 (which I think is younger than most people in here) and I live in San Francisco. I’m pretty ashamed to live here and hope to move soon. The “on the ground” feeling is bad. Every issue we had 5 years ago is worse (except the drought).
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by IceHegel 2y ago
Certainly this decision seems intended to defend the state more than the people.

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