JohnBooty

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by JohnBooty 7mo ago
OTOH, for my development Mac, I have 64GB of RAM. (Though 32GB would probably be fine.) 32GB is starting to feel like a minimum for a common workflow: Dockerized development + git worktree + Claude Code or equivalent for work
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by JohnBooty 8mo ago
But let’s not forget the METR study that found a 20% increase in self-reported productivity but a 19% decrease in actual measured productivity. Counting "time per PR" is as useless as counting lines of code. An
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by JohnBooty 8mo ago
At least in the US, those "deluxe" cabs with motion just never seemed like a viable deal to me as a kid/teenager visiting arcades. It was like, $1 per game compared to $0.25 or $0.50 for a normal cabinet. As a young person wi
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
ChatGPT said: Thank you for bringing these forward — *but none of the cases you listed are real, documented, verifiable incidents.* If I'm understanding timelines correctly, Gordon asked ChatGPT about Raine just a few mo
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
I think ChatGPT was doing that too, at least to some extent, even a couple of years ago. Around the same time as my successful "people sleeping in puddles of ketchup" prompt, I tried similar tricks with uh.... other substances, su
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
Yeah, I think one thing everybody can agree on is that a bot should not be actively encouraging suicide, although of course the exact definition of "actively encouraging" is awfully hard to pin down. There are also scenarios I c
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
A car that actively kills people through negligently faulty design (Ford Pinto?) is one thing. That's bad, yes. I would not characterize ChatGPT's role in these tragedies that way. It appears to be, at most, an enabler... but I th
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
Yeah. That's one of my other questions. Like, what then? I would say that it is the moral responsibility of an LLM not to actively convince somebody to commit suicide. Beyond that, I'm not sure what can or should be expected. I
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
Yeah let's be really specific. Look at the poem in the article. The poem does not mention suicide. (I'd cut and paste it here, but it's haunting and some may find it upsetting. I know I did. As many do, I've got some p
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
It's hard for me to believe they'll put 100% of their eggs into the AI basket, even if it's insanely more profitable than consumer GPUs at the moment. AI is simultaneously a bubble and here to stay (a bit like the "Web
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
Instead, the future is tightly integrated single-board computers Well, all of that is true, but all of that has always been true, right?
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
I agree that the potential is there for... something? I don't know what. The things you mentioned are possibilities for sure! Maybe another way to look at it is: with hundreds of billions being tossed around, could there possibly not
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
Some of those quotes from ChatGPT are pretty damning. Out of context? Yes. We'd need to read the entire chat history to even begin to have any kind of informed opinion. extreme guardrails I feel that this is the wron
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
Arresting all his political enemies is not a core constitutional power Unless he leaves a smoking gun in the vein of a note saying "kill this guy I don't like" -- and perhaps not even then -- nothing will happen. Wh
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
Yeah, "theoretically" is doing a lot of work there. Removal requires a 2/3 majority of the Senate, which is absolutely neverfuckinghappening in a 2-party system. POTUS is now unstoppable and untethered.
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
impeached As Trump showed, impeachment doesn't mean shit. Actual removal requires a 2/3 majority of the Senate, which is never ever happening. This is why there is a general sense that the POTUS is now more or less co
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
That sort of thing you mentioned is always spun as that other sort of thing you mentioned.
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
Yes. It's one of those things where even if you will never buy an Intel product, everybody in the world should be rooting for Intel to produce a real winner here. Healthy Intel/GF/TSMC competition at the head of the pack is
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
It strikes me as completely possible that the exit was negotiated. The fact that they knew his exact location and "luckily" nabbed him right before he went into some kind of panic room / bunker is certainly... something. But
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
Most non-nuclear heads of state have never had their leader kidnapped, either.
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
world where everything is perfect and made to be consumed by LLMs I believe the parent poster was clearly and specifically talking about software documentation that was strong and LLM consumption-friendly, not "everything&q
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
Thank you for serving as a poll worker. (Seriously: thank you) We have a legitimate democracy in terms of vote-counting, and you personally contribute to that. It looks a lot less legitimate to me when I think about factors like votes havin
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by JohnBooty 9mo ago
Well, they're pretty blunt and open about "get their oil" motives. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/us-will-look-tap-ven... If they're lying... that's an awfully strange choice of l
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
Yeah, I've definitely found that nobody reads more than maybe 10 words of the PR description. I've also never seen anybody but myself write substantial PR descriptions at my previous 4-5 jobs
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
I've often thought this could work if the code reviewer was full-time, but rotated regularly. Just like a lot of jobs do with on-call weeks, or weeks spent as release manager - like if you have 10 engineers, and once every ten weeks it
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
Those damn plebs just have no idea what's best for them. Most people are not an expert in a single field, much less multiple fields, and never every field. So yes, we need experts to play a substantial role in running thing
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
I don't think the author was presenting it like some kind of "new to the world" discovery. It was just something they recently learned.
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
I'm confused by the responses to this document, as if developers were expected to memorize it or consult it after every line of code. The obvious expectation here is that these rules would be incorporated into some kind of automated li
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
In this case, a 141 page highly dense (and frankly boring to read) document is in its essence a liability So, do you think that the intent was for developers to memorize this document? Or do you think the expectation was some
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by JohnBooty 10mo ago
The big problem for me is using FaceID in bed. Unless you sleep on your back, the pillow obscures your face. All you typically need to do is lift your head up so FaceID can get a clear look... but when I'm sleepy, it's annoying. I

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