Incipient

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by Incipient 6d ago
Not disagreeing with you, but also two wrongs don't make a right. Just because someone else, or someone does 'thing A' that's disagreeable, doesn't mean doing 'thing B' becomes fine.
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by Incipient 6d ago
Yeah we have too much urban sprawl, and too few people, to justify widespread public transport to eliminate the need for a household car (in Australia).
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by Incipient 6d ago
I don't think tbis quite holds - money being spent on domestically produced vehicles should be going to working families, so the money stays and is spent again in the country. Now if most of that money just goes to the mega rich, then
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by Incipient 14d ago
I'm using fable and opus about 25%75/% respectively. I have a 3 step process - discuss a topic and create a review, convert the review to a task file and update the design docs, then finally implement the task file in code. Normal
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by Incipient 18d ago
I'm not sure if agents are better or worse than humans at refactoring. When they get it right, it works well - full context covered, full business logic recreated completely. When they fail, they fail fairly hard. They miss some functi
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by Incipient 18d ago
This is the only POSSIBLE rational argument for this approach. 4x price, on 1/2 the customer base is still 2x revenue with less customers to deal with. They want to keep the Big Corp clients that are happy to pay. Now if it actually wo
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by Incipient 19d ago
I feel like humanoid robots, that can replace a worker, is genuinely going to be like the weird guaranteed income you get in those idle games. Spend $10) to increase your income by $10/tick. Buy 100 and increase it by $1000/tick!
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by Incipient 19d ago
People would provide significantly more global benefit for their cause, compared to their individual contribution, by not putting people off their cause wholesale. Just an observation I have found recently.
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by Incipient 19d ago
Having a core system be entirely dependent on a foreign entity seems silly when there is a very viable alternative (which also saves a lot on licensing). I say VIABLE not equivalent. Linux is a lot rougher, and the change management process
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by Incipient 19d ago
That's always a possibility, and I'm sure it has happened a lot. I would suspect with the size of liquid it's more likely it was an exploit, but either way I don't think we'll ever know!
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by Incipient 19d ago
I'd say their description is fair. We don't have a word for vegan+fish. Pescetarianism includes eggs, milk, etc. So they're precisely vegan, with fish.
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by Incipient 28d ago
We deal with mostly business data, doing migrations. | often works out to be a nice, non-conflicting delimiter.
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by Incipient 29d ago
This is why in a free/profit driven market you *absolutely* need strong regulation. A companies mandate isn't to make the world a better place. It's to make money. The government's job is there to make the world a better
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by Incipient 1mo ago
Gas HAS to be used as a backup for renewables today (or at least in places without good pumped hydro?). Enough batteries to supply an entire grid for a day or two is just out of reach today. At least in Australia, I'm not sure how the
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by Incipient 1mo ago
AI is definitely eating jobs as no one would disagree with, I guess the question is more at what point does it go from low, medium, high, or apocalyptic job loss?
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by Incipient 1mo ago
I don't think anyone can argue using AI to do work (rather than say using it to ask you questions or something) makes you better at the details of whatever it is that it's helping you do - maths, history, code, etc. I think the on
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by Incipient 1mo ago
To be fair, some of the democratic options were fairly rubbish too (from a non-US person/perspective). I'd still have preferred you didn't pick a president that'd make my commute more expensive, and drive power/infl
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by Incipient 1mo ago
I am not an AI evangelist by any means, but it does serve a purpose when used correctly. I feel like if you asked any half-intelligent AI "please review these notes and flag points we should review for correctness, or check with the pa
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by Incipient 1mo ago
Two things I've figured out with pretty good certainty 1) on an existing codebase/hand written, even fable absolutely will "make a mess" if you do large changes at once, or don't check the output. 2) with detailed,
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by Incipient 1mo ago
Correlation does not mean causation! ...but it can. Unfortunately something like this with a huge number of independent variables, it's hard to know.
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by Incipient 1mo ago
I actually really enjoyed the game on day 1! Unfortunately, even with all the updates - they never fixed my main gripe - each planet is just lifeless, and it's basically the same few square kilometres copy and pasted over the whole pla
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by Incipient 1mo ago
My experience with opus/fable is somewhat different - they CAN reject something, but it has to be phrased very deliberately. It's a bit annoying honestly. I'm always very careful to be incredibly neutral on the direction of a
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by Incipient 2mo ago
To the EU - we need a new global leader. Please get your act together and step up.
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by Incipient 2mo ago
I realise it's mostly a synonym, however for a bit more completeness, can we say MISUSING the word seam? (as well as load bearing). Calling pretty much every shared function a seam, and every "if thing.staus == 'closed'&
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by Incipient 2mo ago
The role exists because if you and I both know AI is heading towards being a commodity (thanks China!) then openai absolutely knows it too, and they're planning HARD to avoid this existential threat.
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by Incipient 2mo ago
Does $1 on home solar take away $1 from utility solar? Probably not. Does it take away more than $0.00? Definitely. Who knows if it takes away an amount that actually matters - however in the short term at least it absolutely makes things b
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by Incipient 2mo ago
I don't think the fundamental premise is much of an issue - it's what a (mostly) free market is meant to do. Someone sells a chair for $100, someone else believes they can sell it for $80, so they do. There are two main complicati
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by Incipient 2mo ago
But selective subsidising still doesn't really help that. Subsidise household rooftop solar, home batteries, EVs and a whole host of other ways that directly benefit the more average person.
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by Incipient 2mo ago
I fully understand why power generation is subsidised - however honesty I feel if the govt is subsidising it, they should get a cut of the profits too. I also believe in a free market, and power should be subsidised equally per MW (MWh mayb
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by Incipient 2mo ago
Honestly out of all the crazy things this chap has done, limiting "birthright tourism" really doesn't seem bad.

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