QuercusMax

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by QuercusMax 1mo ago
Do you have another earth or two in your back pocket? I'm not saying degrowth is the answer, but continual growth is just not feasible.
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by QuercusMax 1mo ago
The fanciness is mostly decorations, which can cost a huge amount but don't have to, especially if you buy secondhand.
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by QuercusMax 1mo ago
Also good preparation for when they live on their own and may not have as nice a place as you've provided for them as kids.
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by QuercusMax 1mo ago
Do we have an idea of when the physical capability for vocal language originated? Other great apes have all kinds of vocalizations they can produce, and you don't need THAT many different sounds to support language.
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by QuercusMax 1mo ago
Crystal Caves! I've been trying to remember the name of that game for ages! I never bought the full version but played the shareware endlessly...
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by QuercusMax 1mo ago
I've been reading Wengrow and Graeber's "The Dawn of Everything", and one of the main points they've made so far is that once modern humans became recognizable as such, we were doing all the human-type things we do
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by QuercusMax 1mo ago
Not really much different than many of our close mammalian relatives, like beavers (rodents and primates are very closely related). The more interesting thing is the use of "exoskeleton" type tools like excavators , automobiles, o
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Private education for the wealthy is a cancer on society - having even rich kids go to the same schools as everyone else is an equalizing effect. I don't see how capitalism help this at all, in fact it seems to make it much worse .
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Wasn't the only company I heard from after that long a time. I assume their hiring process was just very broken and slow. Even Google in 2015 took their sweet time getting back to me after my interviews. At one point the recruiter told
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
I took a paper coding test in 2004 when I was job hunting. It was pretty hilarious to me, really, since it was so incredibly easy (multiple choice data-structures type questions) for anybody who had any skills at all. They finally offered m
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Prior to LLMs I never considered that I might have to make a resource-usage decision between hiring Star Trek's Data vs. his stupider brother B4... https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/B-4
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
I remember watching a video (something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo , but probably not that exact one) where they did the analysis and determined that Mexican cane-sugar coke contains the exact same propo
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
I'm 43 and do mostly stretchy band exercises for upper body workouts to help my neck, shoulder, and arms where I have chronic pain. Takes up very little space, I can do 5-10 minutes throughout the day, and 20 minutes after doing a few
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
The stuff which causes you to have diarrhea that gets on the news is caused by the contents of the digestive tract being spread over your meat. Whether it's technically fecal matter or not doesn't really matter if it's stuff
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
This is like saying that playing guitar while sitting in a chair is cheating, because a proper display of skill is playing while riding a unicycle. It might be more impressive , but I don't see how reverse sear is cheating.
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
"bacteria can travel to the surface of the muscles during the butchering process" This way undersells what's actually happening: fecal matter from the intestines gets onto your meat. This shouldn't happen with proper p
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
I've gotten into a situation multiple times where an LLM (usually a low-end free model) will write a whole bunch of code and then be unable to make any more correct changes to it because it can't hold enough context. Super easy to
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
I started developing webapps back in the late 90s when I was in high school using Perl, and I've worked with tons of technologies up till around 2014 or so when I shifted into almost pure backend work and lost touch with modern fronten
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
For sure. On a personal coding project I said "I'm a professional software engineer, and while this is a hobby project I'm not just vibe-coding and want to build reliable software" and the agent suddenly started sugges
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Heat can't be converted losslessly to useful energy, but converting to heat to other forms of energy is extremely common. What do you think a steam turbine, boiler, internal combustion engine, etc. do ?
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
The word you're looking for is "authoritarianism". The current regime loves fascism, which is a much better fit for what's happening. Russians and Germans were authoritarian before and after communism and Nazism. That di
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
It's actually quoting South Park
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Or even just compilers / assemblers. They'll find all kinds of errors humans routinely overlook!
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Or they could just explain in the ticket why it's important instead of trying to trick an AI? AIs and humans will both read your explanation of why we should care and use that to prioritize. If you have to lie to get your tickets fix
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
This was my experience with some of the stupider models, but I haven't had Claude do this type of thing since I started using it for work about 6mo ago. Claude will do some boneheaded things for sure, but it's pretty good about wr
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
How does the cursor harness help here compared to something more basic like pi coder? I'm talking specifics.
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
Also skills can often include helper scripts or other binaries which the agent can use to do things it couldn't otherwise.
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
If you want to properly isolate things, use containers. That's not what worktrees are for.
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
That's the one!
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by QuercusMax 2mo ago
We've already seen that it's possible to trick models into seeing user input as their own "thinking" if you make it sound like what the model writes. While it may appear that it's looking at the tags on the input,

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