ModernMech

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by ModernMech 27d ago
I don't really like Astra either. It doesn't seem noticeably better than Sol, and it uses more tokens. Some people said ultimately it's cheaper because it can solve problems faster but I haven't really noticed that. The
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by ModernMech 27d ago
yes but the tweets don't really address why the field needs to be protected instead of adapting and evolving. And to reply to the sibling since I hit my comment limit and I'm going to probably forget about this conversation until
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by ModernMech 27d ago
If math is solved then move to an area that’s not. Why do fields need “protecting” from ai?
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by ModernMech 27d ago
lol as if this administration is concerned about or following laws.
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by ModernMech 27d ago
Yes, at the end of this administration Trump will have destroyed the standing of the US so much he'll have solved all our problems by making this country such a shithole no one will want to invest or live here. Immigration problem sol
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by ModernMech 27d ago
Amazing how eager they were to do this, and not a week later he's talking about renaming the Strait of Hormuz, New Mexico, and claimed to own the Moon. I wonder if he renames the Moon to Trump, will Google rename Google Moon to Google
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by ModernMech 28d ago
A round trip cross country plane ride for one passenger is equivalent to about 500k - 1 million image generations. So all one has to do to offset their lifetime usage of image generators is forego one vacation. And this of course is only fo
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by ModernMech 28d ago
> YC isn't taxing you It's a different kind of tax. The VC model is to get you addicted to a service and then jack up prices as soon as they've squeezed out other competition. You can't opt out of that game when AirBn
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by ModernMech 28d ago
Pretty much every incubator I've seen has an open application process.
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by ModernMech 28d ago
We're not talking about the government and authorities, we're talking about Facebook. The government showing people information that makes them anxious and depressed isn't the same as a for-profit entity intentionally tailori
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by ModernMech 28d ago
Democracy does not imply that people should be allowed intentionally make people depressed and anxious for profit. There's no reason that must be allowed for a healthy democracy to work.
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by ModernMech 28d ago
I'm not really talking about formal education here. > This means, at minimum, accepting the presence of anything the relevant government authority deems legal. All that means if you have enough money you can put whatever death machi
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by ModernMech 28d ago
> the ones that are committing terrorist attacks They said Good and Pretti were domestic terrorists, they were summarily executed, so not really the line you think you're drawing. NSPM-7 makes "politically motivated trespass an
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by ModernMech 28d ago
The dangerous you're talking about have been around for a long time, have been depicted in many forms over decades in all kinds of popular media media, have actually impacted people which has birthed reforms and new safety measures, an
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by ModernMech 28d ago
Consent. We've consented to people learning to drive. Everyone is aware of those risks and they act accordingly. Often, to make other drivers aware of the driver's learning status, it's customary to affix a sticker to the car
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by ModernMech 28d ago
> You are beta testing fsd even if you don’t want to be. Exactly, that's precisely the wrong way to do ethical, responsible engineering. It's one thing to put your own life in the hands of a beta test, but it's another to
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by ModernMech 28d ago
Will be talking about this in my robotics class. Here's my current indictment of FSD, hasn't been updated in a year but I'll add this one to the list: 2016 - Self-Driving Tesla Was Involved in Fatal Crash, U.S. Says - https:
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by ModernMech 29d ago
None of that addresses whether Facebook is intentionally trying to sow discord and make people depressed and anxious for profit.
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by ModernMech 29d ago
That price is paid by us, not Zuck and his shareholders, so it was at no cost to him. Such is the problem with capitalism. Actually the rise of fascism has been great for Zuck and his shareholders, they'd like to see more of it.
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by ModernMech 29d ago
> People get by with the existing programming languages and models, that seems to be fine. People like what they like, and they have trouble with anything other than imperative structured programming. It’s been a pain over the last decad
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by ModernMech 29d ago
Ya'll don't realize what the actual plan was. It wasn't to use the mob to overthrow the government, it was to use the mob to delay the certification of the vote. Which they did, but it wasn't for long enough. They were g
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by ModernMech 29d ago
The only people capable of overthrowing the government like that are white conservatives. Anyone else would have been gunned down on the approach.
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by ModernMech 29d ago
I wrote a programming language because I wanted to express the way my brain works and to help people understand the way certain people think about the world. Art or craft?
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by ModernMech 29d ago
Yes you are you left out the rest of the sentence: > … and an actual terrorist organization. A group is not “an actual terrorist organization”. You’re trying to say all groups committing a crime against the government are actual terroris
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by ModernMech 29d ago
Jan 6 was an attempt to convince the American public that the 2020 election was stolen, and to keep Trump in power. Today, more people believe the 2020 election was stolen than on January 7th, Trump is in power despite causing an insurrecti
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by ModernMech 29d ago
Yes, Silicon Valley became Wall Street and that basically ruined it completely. Soon as the term brogrammer was coined it was over.
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by ModernMech 29d ago
I think a discussion about programming being an art is incomplete without bringing into scope live coding, where you write code that produces music in front of an audience; Processing, a programming language for artists; and literate progra
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by ModernMech 1mo ago
Writing can be thinking. There's a huge presumption that if someone is banging away on a keyboard they're doing work because you can hear and see them doing stuff. But that's the whole plot of The Shining -- Jack despite al
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by ModernMech 1mo ago
Babies being born into slavery served the slave system just as much as grown men slaving in a field. Slave was a legal status in a system, not a job title. A baby born into slavery is a real slave, not a fake slave. Either George, who e
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by ModernMech 1mo ago
There’s a trap here though: the LLMs if you let them will spend all their time maintaining that test suite, they can become quite rigid in the way they design them. So it’ll write some code, break a test, which breaks a contract so then it

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